The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-07-27
AMERICAN NEWS.

woman Gives SChooI SltS.-MrS.
John Butler of Columbia, Mo-, has
given to the Sacred Heart Church a
site for a parochial school. The
property is just across from Stephens
College,. 1t is valued at $4,000. A
ten-room building now on the grounds
will furnish temporary quarters. In
structors will be secured from Cath
Ole schools in st. Louis.
Blackwell Island ChapeI.-The dedi-
cation of the beautiful little chapel
which has recently been erected for
the consumptive patients on Black
wells Island, New York, will not be
dedicated until the autumn. The
ladies on the island have given a
beautiful altar in honor of Our Lady;
the male residents have presented a
Sacred Heart altar. A lady in the
city is giving the Sanctuary as a
memorial. ~Several widows have al
ready been given. When finished the
little chapel will be very beautiful, a
credit to the charity which built it
and joy forever to the poor afflicted
ones.
Educational Work in Porto Rico.
Sister Mary Vincent and Sister
Mary Joseph, of the Sisters of Char
ity, have returned to New Orleans,
from Porto Rico, after seven years
spent in educational work on the is
land They report the schools to be
in a fourishing condition, 1900 chill
dren attending the one under their
control. On the Feast of the Sacred
Heart five hundred children received
Holy Communion.
Venerable Margaret Bourgeoys.-
The Congregation of Rites lately con
sidered the validity of the apostolic
process erected in the Curia of Mon
treal, Canada, or an asserted miracle
of the Venerable Servant of God Mar
garet Bourgeois, foundress of the
Sisters of Notre Dame in Montreal.
A ParochaI Summer SchooI.-The
Rev. John L. Belford, rector of the
Church of the Nativity, Brooklyn, N
Y, has instituted a summer school
in the school attached to the Church
instead of closing it as heretofore
The sessions consist of little study
some prayer, and lot of play. The
school rooms are we'll ventilated, anC
are a relief to many children from
their close homes and the sultrJ
streets.
Ambassador kerens Sells Holdings
Richard C. Kerens, American ambas
sador to .Austria-Hungary, has solo
his holdings in the German-America1
Press Association, which publishes the
st. Louis Times, to Edward L. Pre-
torius, who said Mr.. Kerens' stock was
valued approximately at 100000
Diplomatic duties keep Mr.. Keren'
from St. Louis.
Pope Honors Layman.-It has JUS
been learned that Mr.. Edward
Papin, of St. Louis, has been ap
pointed Chamberlain of the Cap AM
Sword by Pope Plus X, which makes
him a member of the Papal Court
This high office carries with it thu
privilege of attending in official uni
form the functions of state at tn
Vatican and assisting the Pope in re
ceiving on such occasions.
New Diocese For Southern Missouri
According to reports from Spring
field, Mo-, plans are being pushed TO
the formation of new Catholic Die
cese for Southern Missouri. IN
boundaries will include thirty cour
ties, containing an area of 1000
square miles. This territory is nov
under the rule of Bishop Lillis Q
Kansas City.
Transfer RaphaeI's Madonna
Raphael's painting, "The Madonna G
St. Anthony of Padua," which J. T
Morgan purchased in Paris ten year
ago for 100000, has just been trans
ferred from the National Caller!
London, to the Metropolitan Museu1
of Arts in New York. The pictur
was included in the eleventh col
signment of Morgan art objects, whic
arrived recently on the liner Olympic
Cathedral College of New York.
The Cathedral College, New York,
said to be the largest Preparation
Seminary in the world, surprising
number of students the Petit Sem
nary of Paris by one hundred.
An Appropriate Monument.-A tho
sand pound shell recovered from II
battleship Maine and planted on
granite base was unveiled in Coron
L. l., on the Fourth of July as mon
ment to Hugo Kruse, sailor from th;
place who lost his life when tt
Maine was blown up in Havana ha
Dor. The shell was received fro