The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-03-30
EUROPEAN NEWS.


Life of Blessed Battisto varani.-
OF all the daughters of st. Glare there
is scarcely one who surpasses in inter
est the Blessed Battista Varani, whose
canonisation, it is hoped, will shortly
take place. Her spiritual instructions
and other writings have been for the
first time translated into English and
will appear as an appendix to her life,
which is to be published during the
present year.
Lay-Brother to be Canonized.-In
the famous cemetery of Campo San
to at Genoa, there is modest tomb,
which for four years held the mortal
remains of Capuchin lay-brother,
who, in the terrible cholera visitation
of the early sixties, devoted himself so
assiduously to succoring the plague
stricken and burying the dead that the
people named him II e-Santo-the
Holy Father. This was the Venerable
Brother Francis of Camporosso. At
length he himself fell victim to the
dread epidemic. In 1870 the ecclesias-
teal authorities had his body trans
ferred to the Capuchin Church of the
Immaculate Conception. The process
of his cannonisation is now in pro-
gress. 49,.
Death of Sir Francis cruise.-Medi-
cal science, literature, and art, have
sustained a great loss through the
death of Sir Francis Cruise, which
took place recently at his residence
in Merrion-square, Dublin, at the age
of seventy-seven. For fully half
| century he was a prominent figure in
the life of Dublin. He was educated
at Belvidere College, from which he
passed to Clongowes and thence to
Dublin University, where he graduated
in arts and medicine, and in the
course of few years he became one
of the most famous physicians in Dub
lin. In the midst of a busy profess
sional life he devoted much of his time
to literature. His deep research in
| connection with the Imitation of
Christ" earned for him the esteem of
many distinguished ecclesiastics and
learned laymen. In 1905 the Holy
Father conferred upon Sir Francis the
decoration of a knight of st. Greg
ory, of which he was prouder than of
any other of the many distinctions
conferred upon him. The son of Rich
ard Cruise, of Rahood, Co. Meath, he
was the lineal descendant of Sir Maur-
ice Cruise, who settled in ireland in
the twelfth century, receiving large
grants of land. The family, whose
motto is "Crux contra Maligna," suf-
fered much for the Faith. One of
the streets at Kempen, near Dussel-
dorf, is named after the deceased ow-
ing to his labours in honour of Thorn
as a Kempis. Of music Sir Francis
had a profound knowledge.
Archdiocese of Bari.-The Archdio-
cese of Bari in Southern Italy contains
over 100000 Catholics, 26O churches,
$50 secular priests and 80 schools It's
first Bishop was Gervasius in BAT.
Assistant-GeneraI, De La Sale Or.
der.-Brother Thomas, who has been
appointed Assistant Brother-General of
the De La Sale Order, is son of the
late Sir Robert Kane, and brother
of Rev. Father Kane, S. J.
Lady WarWick's Mother.-The COM
ing to this country, on lecture tour,
of the Countess of Warwick reminds
us that her mother, the Dowager Coun-
tess of Rosslyn, is convert of Father
Vaughan's.
Cathedral Chapter of ossory.-Docu-
ments have reached the Most Rev. DR..
Brownrigg, Bishop of Ossory, from
Rome appointing Very Rev. Michael
Barry, Ballyracket, and Very Rev.
Tobias Walsh, Priesthood, to the dig
mites respectively of Dean and Treas
urer in the Cathedral Diocesan Chan
ter of Ossory
Anniversary of Cologne Convent
In Cologne recently was celebrated the
600th anniversary of the founding of
the st. Elizabeth Convent of the Gel
lite nuns. They are also called the
, Alexian nuns. They nurse the sick