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month there in September, 1906,
while he was suffering from bronchitis.
The hospital authorities were agree
ably surprised that he had left prop
erty to the institution.
Church for Negro charlottesville
colored Catholics of New York now
have another church for their exclu-
sive use, as Cardinal Farley has
placed the Church of ST. Mark the
Evangelist, 81 and So West One Hun
dred and Thirty-eighth Street, under
the care of the Fathers of the Holy
Ghost, who will devote all their at
colored people of Harlem. In addi-
ton to the new church, the Harlem
Colored Catholics will also have a
school which will be established
through the munificence of Mother
Katherine Drexel, founder of the Sis
tiers of the Blessed Sacrament for In
dams and Colored People.
Argentine PiIgrimage.-TheA rgen-
tine papers give long descriptions of
an Irish pilgrimage to the National
Sanctuary of Our Blessed Lady of
Lujan. 1.-THE Catholics born in Ire
land or descendants of Irish families
established in the Argentine organized
the demonstration, in which the
ardent Irish Faith shone respondent
in the midst of the ardent Faith of
the Spanish race. The pilgrims num-
bered over thirteen thousand. Their
enthusiasm was great, and their re-
ligious ferVor warm and deVout. On
the way they sang the national hymns
of Green Erin. From all parts of the
Argentine the Irish journeyed to meet
and kneel at the statue of the Virgin
del Plata"
Church's Growth in Indianapolis
Indianapolis, with population of
nearly quarter of a million souls,
illustrates very fairly the growth of
Catholicity in the past half century in
the Middle West. At the outbreak of
hostilities in the Civil War, with about
$4,000 population, there were two
small congregations-one English, st.
Johns, and one German, st. Mary's-
in all perhaps 500 families and $780,
900 property. Now there are II par
ishes, nearly all of them less than ten
years old; 5000 or 10000 families and
10000 souls. The property will ag-
gregate s8,000,000 to $10,OO0,OOO, in
Guiding nearly dozen properties &C.
quired within five years. OF these the
most important are the new Cathedral
and St. Agnes Academy, worth about
100000; the new st. Vincent's Hos
pital, approaching completion on the
most beautiful site on Fall Creek, cost
ing about s1,OO0,OOO, and st. Mary's
new church, costing nearly $25O,O0O.
The growth of the Catholic population
has been about three times as great
as that of the city.
ParochiaI School Pupils Make Rec
ord.-Another record for the efficiency
of parochial schools was made few
weeks ago at Reading, Pa, by the pu-
pills of st. Peter parish. Thirteen pu-
pills who had completed the eighth
grade took the examination for en-
trance into the public high school, and
all passed with very high averages, the
class average being S7.6. Miss Fran
els Kase attained a general average
of 96.4, the highest mark ever placed
to the credit of a local pupil. Under
the system of marking the highest
general average obtainable is SO. The
school is in charge of the Sisters OF
the Immaculate Heart.
Mexican Cathedral Split in Twain
The earthquake that shook the city
of Guadalajara, Mexico, to its founda
tions in July, destroying large mum
Der of buildings and rendering sew
eral thousands homeless, came as a
climax to a series of seismic disturb.
ances covering a period of more than
five weeks. Ninety distinct shocks
were felt within that time. An ignor.
ant peon living few miles from
Guadalajara predicted every earth
quake with startling accuracy and
the masses hail him as a prophet
The beautiful Cathedral. built more
than a century ago, was split in two
as we'll as the municipal palace.