The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-30

communions, and 1914 marriages"
Swedish Catholic Writer.-Since the
death of Stringberg, the greatest of
living Swedish writer's, Ola Hanson,
is a Catholic. His Norwegian wife,
Laura Marholm Hanson, is herself a
graceful writer and a fellow-traveler
| with her husband to Rome.
Mass after Three centuries.-For
the first time in $50 years Mass was
offered publicly, on September 80, in
| PenWortham, near Preston, Lancas-
hire, England, a district celebrated
in pre-Reformation days for it's large
and beautiful priory. A new church,
under the patronage of st. Mary
Magdalena, had been built there and
it was blessed on the above date by
the Rev. Father Wright, S. j., after
which the Mass was celebrated by the
Archbishop of Liverpool.
Church Militant in France.-Thou-
sands of people lined the streets along
which the new Bishop of Mans, France,
entered his episcopal city. They
threw flowers before him and loudly
cheered him. The Mayor of the city
had forbidden a professional recep-
ton.
Learning Gregoran Chant. In
Rome, the Superior School of Sacred
Music, founded by the St. Cecilia AS
sociation is doing we'll. It affords the
clergy an opportunity of perfecting
themselves in the G%regorian. Plus x.
approved the School last year.
German Emperor Honors Priest
Mgr. Lentzen, Archpriest of the Ca
thedral of Cologne, has just celebrated
his diamond jubilee of Ordination.
Emperor William conferred upon him
the Order of the Red Eagle of the
Third Glass.
John Redmond.-John Redmond will
in a few weeks attain his majority"
as Parliamentary representative of
the City of Waterford, for which he
was first returned in 1891.
Punishment, the religious congrega-
phans, 210,O sick and aged, $4,000
reformed persons, 10000 blind and in
sane, and 100000 persons in need of
general help.
New Method in Preaching.-I In
Paris, Father Sabeau of the Church
of st. John the Evangelist on the
Montmartre, preaching the mysteries
of the Holy Rosary and the Incarna-
ton, before crowded churches, i'm
presses his instructions by illustrating
them with colored magic lantern
views thrown on a curtain before the
altar.
Peril of the Holy sepuIchre. "A
Cabinet Minister of Turkey is report
ed by James F. ]. Archibald, the au
thor and war-correspondent, as saying
that, in the event of "a holy war; one
of the first atrocities in such war
would be the destruction of the Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Priest an Inventor.-An Irish priest
of Cork, Ireland, has invented a de-
vice for keeping windows in railway
and other coaches open.
BasiIica of Constantine.-The Basil
lea of Constantine the Great, in Rome,
commemorative of his victory over
Maxentius sixteen centuries ago, will
be $50 feet long by 100 wide, it's archi.
lecture will be similar to that of San
Lorenzo, outside the walls of Rome.
Request to Parish Schooi.-The late
Very Rev. Hugh Magorrian, Bally-
philip, Portaferry, Ireland, by his will,
left $500 towards the building of the
new schools which he was having
erected in Portaferry. The rest OF
his estate to be applied to charitable
objects.
Hollands Catholic Press.-Holland
with a Catholic population of two mil
lion, has one hundred and five Catho
lie newspapers, and among them sew
eral dailies which circulate ove the
whole country.