The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-03-23
EUROPEAN NEWS.

EUROPEAN NEWS.
President of Roman Academy.-Mgr
Zoughi has been appointed by his
Holiness president of the Academy of
Noble Ecclesiastics.
New Cardinal Protector.-The Holy
Father, through the Secretary of
State, has ben pleased to appoint Car
dinal William Van Rossum, Protector
of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy,
at Tiblung, in Holland.
Golden Jubilee of German Bishop
In August of this year, four Ger
man Bishops will celebrate the golden
jubilee of their ordination; the suf-
fragan of Freiburg, the Bishops of
Wurzburg and of Strasburg, and the
Prince-Bishop of Breslau.
Population Of Rome Increases.-The
population of Rome has increased in
forty years from about 100000 to
about 100000.
Growth of Benedictine Order-Dur-
ing the last five years the great Bene-
dictine Order has increased by 987
members. In the year ending Jan
uary 1, 1911, the order counted 1853
monasteries, 3,444 priests, 704 c1erics,
1886 lay brothers, 651 novices, max
ing a total of 6,845.
! Requests for Catholic Literature
The will of Don Jose Bully, veal
thy Spanish gentlemen, give $4,000
pesetas (about $4O,OOO) to various
Catholic newspapers, 100000 pesetas
for the distribution of good literature,
100000 pesetas to the Conferences of
St. Vincent de Paul, and 5000 pesetas
for workmen's club and institutions
of benevolence and other consider
able amounts for various works of
mercy. 4"
Converts in China Last year in
China proper there we're 100000 new
converts, and now about 100000 are
under instruction for baptism. The
total Catholic population of China is
about 100000. There is Trappist
monastery in China, of which all the
inmates are Chinese "
Recalls Thirteenth Century Bishop.
The canopy of the monument of
Bishop Ethelmar, who died in Paris
in $780, as also leaden casket con.
tanning his heart, were discovered in
Winchester Cathedral, England.
Paisley Abbey to be Restored.-J
Stewart Clark of Dundas Castle
Scotland, has given $4,000 for the
restoration of the ruined choir OF
Paisley Abbey. Paisley Abbey was
founded in 1463 as a Cluniac monas
terry by Walter Fitzalan, first high
steward of Scotland, the ancestor Of
the Scottish royal family Of Stuart.
Foreign Missionary Society.-The
Paris Foreign Missionary Society has
about 1,400 members working On the
Asiatic missions. There are also about
$50 native priests taking care of these
same missions, while there are 2,20(
seminarians studying for the priest
hood. This society has 232 1000, 900 OF
ipagans to evangelize, while all the
Christians in these missions number
about 100000. The number o.
priests obtained from among these
Christians shows a splendid average
: of vocations, indeed.
Fail Of "Moore's Tree."-The ia
nous tree in the Vale of Avoca, under
which it is said Thomas Moore com
posed his famous poem, 1.-THE Meet
ing Of the Waters" fell some tim,
ago. For some years it had beer
protected by barbed wire from sou
: venir hunters, who clipped off it.
bark and thus fastened it's decay.
Aged Aristocrat Sings for Cardinal
Sir Charles Santley, who is in hi
: seventy-eighth year, sang at the re
: cent annual dinner of the Catholi
! Association at the Hotel Cecil, Lon
, don, under the presidency of Cardina
9 Bourne.
Priest-Author Dead.-The death 1
announced by Rotterdam of the Jes
!. uit Father Van der Hagen. He wa
> author OF several apologetical book
r let's, some OF which have been trans
i lated into English. His Where i