The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-10-19

number all the other Christians of
India put together, and this, despite
the prestige of the Anglican Church,
and the unlimited funds at the dispos-
al of Protestant missions.
After deducting the Europeans and
Eurassians, we find the total number
Indian Christians as follows during
the past thirty years: 1881, 1,506,098
1891, 2,036,17S; 1901, 2,664.313; 1911,
3,574,77O.
The rate of increase can best be
realized by the fact that the number
of Indian Christians, excluding EurOp-
cans and Erusians, in proportion to
the entire Indian population, was one
in 143 in 1891; one in Ill in 1901;
one in Sc in 1911; and this notwith-
standing the increase in the total pop
ulation of India from 287.314,671 in
1891 to 315,132,537 in 1911.
Jubilee of Bishop HedIey. - The
Bishop of Newport, the Right Rev. ].
C. Hedley, o. S. B., who entered the
English Benedictine Order in 1854,
and was ordained in 1862, eliminates
the celebration of his golden jubilee
October 10. The celebrations were
solemnly inaugurated on the first Sun
day in October, when His Lordship
the Bishop officiated at the solemn
High Mass in st. Peters, Roath. Car
dinal Bourne preached the sermon.
is hoped will prove an important CEN
ter of Catholic thought and activity
has been just opened in Glasgow, in
the form of the Glasgow Catholic In
stitute.
Priests for the Catholic Press
Among the obligations taken by
priests who join the Sacerdotal
League, PRO Ecclesia ct Pontifice,"
lately begun in France for the pur-
pose of promoting a more perfect de-
votion to the Holy See, is this: To
procure each year as many new sub
scriptions as possible to papers that
are truly Catholic.
Australian Catholic Federation
The Catholic Federation of Australia
is making remarkable progress. 1t
now represents over a million OF
Catholics.
Jubilee in Gilbert Islands.-Next
year, in the Gilbert Islands, will be
celebrated the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of the foundation of the Catho-
lie mission there. On the 10th of
May, 1888, the first missionaries took
charge of these islands in the name
of the Vicar of Christ. There were
then only two priests and Brother.
Today there are 81 missionaries and
they count $4,000 Catholics in their
field of labor.
French Priest Honored.-The well
known French General Duchesne, a
brilliant soldier, obtained the medal
of 1870 for the venerable Canon Sail
quet of Chateauroux who is now past
eighty years. The general himself
pinned upon the breast of the aged
army chaplain the decoration which
was never better deserved. Canon
Saliquet who had already given proofs
of his devotion to his charges through
the terrible cholera epidemic of 1854,
lived for six months of the Franco
German campaign in the midst of
troops decimated by the black small
pox. He lavished every care upon
them and administered the last Sac
rament to six hundred who expired
before his eyes. His escape from
the two fearful epidemics through
which he had passed, was regarded
as little less than miraculous.
An English-Irish Dictionary. Mr..
T. O'Neil Lane, of Tournafu11a, Coun-
ty Limerick, Ireland, is engaged in
the arduous task of publishing an
English-Irish dictionary The work
is a monumental one, requiring wide
and extensive research. The author
has the endorsement and encourage
ment of all interested in the Irish Ian
guage, it's revival and preservation,
and advance subscriptions are being
made to assist him in getting out the
volume It is estimated that the book
will run between fifteen and sixteen
hundred pages, and will cost to pub
lish about $4,000.
The present book will be an elab-
Grafton Of an English-Irish dictionary
published by Mr.. Lane in 1904.