The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-02-03

1145 to 1859, who was venerated as a
saint in the Middle Ages. These
sepulchres are now shown to have
been wonderfully spared during the
devastation wrought by the Bernese
when they endeavored to impose the
Reformation upon the city.
Professor Windie, K. c. NJ. c.
Professor Windle, the newly-created
knight Commander of the Order of ST.
Michael and st. George, is President OF
University College, Cork, and is also
Professor of Archaeology He was
born in 1858, son Of Rev. S. A. Win
die, Vicar of Market Rasen, Lincoln
shire. DR.. Windle was educated at
Kingstown and Repton Schools and at
Dublin University, where he had a dis
tingufshed course. He was Dean of
the Medical Faculty of Birmingham
University, where he held the Chair
of Anatomy and Anthropology. In 1888
he became a Catholic. He is knight
of st. Gregory the Great, Commits
sioner under the Irish Universities
Act of 1898, and member of the Sen
ate of the National University. He is
also commissioner of intermediate
Education, and a member of the Gen.
eral Council of Medical Education
His publications, which are numerous,
cover a wide field, literary, historical
and scientific.
Franciscan Province Gives Two
GeneraIs.-The Franciscan province
of st. Elizabeth, which has headquar-
tiers in Fulda, where is located the
tomb of st. Boniface, has the honor of
supplying two generals in succession
to the Franciscan order. The first
was Father Aloysius Aauer, who died
in Gorheim, while on a trip to Ger
many for the benefit of his health. His
successor, Archbishop Schiller, who
was born in Ligmaringen, now resides
in the same province. '..
Foreign Missionary Seminary.-The
dean of all the missionary colleges is
that at Paris, the Paris Seminary for
Foreign Missions, or Societe des Mis-
sions Etrangeres, established in 1873
by Bishop Pallu and de la Motte-Lam-
bert, with the object of spreading the
faith among heather nations, special
attention being paid to the formation
of native clergy. Suppressed by Ma
poleon in 1909, the seminary was re-
opened after his fall, and has contin-
ued to grow and prosper Seventy
seven of it's alumni have died a mar
tyr's death, and nine of these have
been beatified. The Society has mis-
sions in India, Singapore, Cochin Chi
ma, Tong King, eleven vicariates in
China, four in Japan, one in Corea. It
has at least 81 bishops, 1870 mission
aries, 1888 native priests, As seminaries
with 1880 students. In the various
missions the Catholics amounted to
/ 1,457,786, in 1900.
The Mill Hill Seminary.-St. JOS
eph's Foreign Mission Society, Mill
Hill, was founded by Herbert Cardinal
Vaughan in 1866 to propagate the
faith among unevangelized races be-
yond Europe. 1t has become the chief
British organization for foreign mis-
sions.s It's mission fields are the Arch
diocese of Madras, the Prefecture of
LaBuan and North Borneo, the Pre-
lecture of Kafristan and Kashmir in
Northern India, the Maori Mission in
Auckland, New Zealand, the Vicariate
of the Upper Nile, missions in the
Congo Free State and in the Philip
pine Islands. At present the Society
numbers $50 priests, of whom 1877 are
working in the missions. In 1909 the
Fathers baptized over 10000 souls in
the various missions. Their most
1ourishing mission is in Uganda, in
which there are about 100000 Catho-
lies. st. Joseph's Society maintains,
in addition to the college at Mill hill,
a preparatory college at Freshfield,
near Liverpool, and colleges at Rozen-
dali in Holland, and Brixen in the
| Tyrol.
Archbishop, schuler's Residence
The Most. Rev. Archbishop Denis
Schiller, former Franciscan General,
who received episcopal conservation
in Rome in November, is residing at
present in the Franciscan monastery
at Gorheim, Hohenzollern, Ligmarin-
gen, which is in the confines of the
Archdiocese of Freiburg. Archbishop
Schiller has been invited by the Arch
bishop of Freiburg to assist him in the
work of his large diocese, which con-
tains upwards of million Catholics.
He had received similar invitation
from Cardinal Fischer, Archbishop of
Cologne, who has almost 100000
Catholics under his jurisdiction.
Committee for Reform OF the Brew
iary.-The members of the Commits
sion which His Holiness has nominal
ed to study the reform of the Breviary
includes Mgr. La Fontains, Secretary
of the Sacred Congregation of Rites,
President of the Commission; Mgr.
Piacenza, Protonotary of the same