The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-09-21
EUROPEAN NEWS.

Our Lady's Procession in B%ouIogne.
grand procession of the Festi-
val of the Assumption in honour of
Our Lady of Boulogne, which for local
political reasons has not taken place
outside the Cathedral precincts since
August, 1903, was resumed this year.
1t was held on Sunday afternoon, Au-
gust rs, when all the parishes OF Boul-
ogne joined in the cortege through the
streets of the city. The procession
presided over by Monseigneur
Lobbedey, Bishop of Arras, Boulogne
and St. Omer.
The Peoples Kitchen of VIENNA
Among the Catholic organizations of
Vienna one of the most useful is the
Volkskuchverein Peoples Kitchen
Association). 1t has a number of
popular restaurants in the city at
which cheap meals r provided for
the workers and free food is sent out
to the poor. The association, in view
of the great numbers of working men
and peasants coming to Vienna for the
Congress, offered the organizing COM
mittee to supply during the five days,
September 1916, three meals a day to
5000 people at the nominal cost of SO
heller, or about eightpence per day.
The offer was accepted and the asso-
citation also arranged to provide lodg-
ing for many thousands of poor pill
grims free of cost or at nominal rates
in improvised barracks in many of the
public buildings.
Greek Schismatics Return.-A cor
respondent of PUnivers of Paris writ
ing from Beirut, under date of July
goth, records that in the Catholic did,
cese of Tripoli de Syria, five hundred
Greek Schismatics with an exarch at
their head, asked for admission into
the Catholic Church, and after an
examination by Bishop Doumani, were
received. Other conversions, it is
said, will follow. The diocese of Bishop
Doumani, although of recent founda-
ton, already contains more than two
thousand of the faithful, all of whom
have come back to the Catholic
Church from the Schismatic church.
Requests to Catholic charities.-A
fortune of e38,457, left by Miss
Catherine Clarke, of Rathmines,
County Dublin, who died in April, has,
with the exception of $500 each to
four executors, been entirely be-
queathed for charitable purposes,
mainly to Catholic institutions. There
are seven legacies of $1,000 each,
twenty-eight of $500, and a number
of smaller amounts.
New Catholic NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Katschthaler, Archbishop of Salisbury,
Austria, is organizing a movement for
the establishment of a Catholic uni
versity in his cathedral city. A meet
ing for this purpose will be held in
Salisbury on September Is.
Belgian Sisterhood in Philippines
The Catholic Order Of Belgian Sisters
is made up of prominent women of
Belgium. The Mother Superior is a
lady of high rank. This order is now
specially at work in the Philippine
Islands, where the Sisters are support
ing over 700 orphans, and paying over
1000 girls for their work in lace
making.
To Unite the orientaIs.-The latest
notable to ~consecrate his life to labor
for the union of the churches of
the East is Professor Arthur Tambon,
of the medical faculty of the Univer-
sity of Beyrouth, Palestine. A long
period of residence in the East and
familiarity with the various tongues,
religious ideas and prejudices of the
peoples have convinced this scholar
that his life might be given with profit
to the apostolate of unity. In order to
get into closer touch with those
among whom his mission will lie the
good Frenchman has, by permission of
Plus X, embraced the rite of the
Greek Catholics in communion with
the Holy See, and has been ordained
a priest by the Greek Catholic Bishop
of Tripoli, Syria, Mgr. Joseph Dou-
mani.
Ancient City Discovered.-A mys.
terious and beautiful city built by an
unknown race in the most ancient and
shadowy period of human history has
been partly uncovered on the shore OF
the River Tigris in the Syria-Mesopo-
tamia region of Turkey in Asia by
German archaeologists under the
direction of DR.. Andrae. The remains
of this wonderful place were found
buried deep under the long hidden and
forgotten city of Assur, the first
capital of the powerful kingdom OF
Assyria.
Christianity in Japan.-In 1872
there was no organized Protestant