The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-08-31
AMERICAN NEWS.

To Aid INDECENT Students.-Father
Kasel, Rector of Pho Mono College, Mil
waukee, Wis, announces that the re-
cent convention of the Catholic
Teachers Society at St. Francis,
special organization was formed for
the purpose of aiding INDECENT students
to prepare for teachers and organists,
and of promoting the cause of the
Catholic lay teacher generally. Only
few weeks more, and this society
will be fully organized and it will,
literally assist poor young men who
wish to prepare themselves for the
teaching profession, thus increasing
the deplorably small number of male
teachers in our Catholic schools.
Twin Brothers Ordained.-An inter,
esting ceremony took place in the
Church of the st. Enfant Jesus, Mon
treal, Can. on July g., when twin
brothers, Messrs. Ernest and Uric
Perrier, both young men of the parish,
were ordained to the holy priesthood
by Bishop Linneborn, D. D., G. S. c.,
of Dacca, Province of Bengal, India.
The two priests are members of the
Holy Cross Congregation, the principal
house of which is situated at Notre
Dame University, Indiana.
Request for New Church.-The will
of the late Mary A. Cookery, of Chi
cago, has been admitted to probate by
John w. Rainey, assistant to Probate
Judge Cutting. The estate is valued
at nearly 100000. Mrs. Cookery in
her will gives $4,000 to the Corpus
Christi Church, Chicago, to be used for
building new church.
Mother of Priests Takes. Vows
After rearing family of ten children,
four of whom will be ordained priests
in the Jesuit Order, Mrs. Sarah Scott,
of Springfield, Mo-, recently took her
final vows as nun in the Order of the
Visitation. She will be known as
Sister Mary Ignatia. Mrs. SCOTS hus-
band died several years ago. Three of
her sons already are protested schol-
astics in the Jesuit Order. A fourth
son, who has cared for Mrs. Scott, will
shortly begin his novitiate as a can
didate for the priesthood with the
Jesuits, now that his mother has en-
tered the religious life. The vows
were administered by Very Rev. J. J.
Lily. Two of Mrs. Scott's sons were
present.
i~k& IS
Ryan of Philadelphia, noted for his
benefactions to the Church, has re-
ceived the Pontifical decoration of
knight of the Grand Cross of St..
Gregory the Great. Some time ago
Mr.. Ryan gave $4,000 to Cardinal Glib
bons to establish the James J. and
Hannah Cusack Ryan chair of the Old
Testament in the Catholic University
of America at Washington.
New Canadian Church.-The corner
stone of the Catholic church at St..
Teresa's, P. E. l., Canada, was laid
recently by Archbishop Mccarthy, of
Halifax. High Mass was sung by Rev.
DR.. Morrison, Bishop-Elect of Anti
gonish, NJ S., who also preached. A
large gathering was present, together
with a great number of visiting clergy
men. In the morning the Sacrament
of Confirmation was administered by
the Archbishop. The church, when
completed, will. be a large wooden
structure of much beauty.
Charitable Bequests.-By the will of
Bartholomew Shea, of Philadelphia,
trusts in the sum of $4,000 each are
created for the maintenance of free
beds, each to be known as the Bar
tholomew Shea Free Bed" in st.
Agnes Hospital, the Institution for
Consumptives at White Haven. Pa. !;
st. Joseph's Hospital, Pennsylvania
Hospital, Jefferson College Hospital.
Other requests include $4,000 each to
the Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo,
st. AIMS Widows Asylum, conducted
by the Sisters of st. Joseph; the Sis
tiers of St. Francis at Glen Riddle,
Delaware county, for charities under
their care; the income from $4,000 to
the Society of st. Vincent de Paul of
st. Malachy's Church, and the same
sum for the Society of st. Vincent de
Paul at Mallow, Ireland.
American Sees Numerous.-But one
hierarchy in the world is larger than
that of the United States-Italy, which
has 274 Dioceses. In the United States
there are SO Sees. France comes next
with "a.
Brooklyn High School Gift.-Plans
for Catholic high school in Brooklyn,
the gift of the late Rosine M. Parmen-
tier, were filed by Architect F. j.
Helmle with the Building Bureau re
Gently. When completed it will be un,
der the supervision of the Sisters OF
st. Joseph, whose Motherhouse is at