The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-06-15

at G182,152, requested his brother, in
his will, to see that the following
legacies are paid: $4,000 to the Sow
/ ereign Pontiff for Peters Pence;
$4,000 for charitable institutions,
churches, converts, schools, and hos
pitfalls; $4,000 for the foundation of
perpetual Masses.
Recent Growth of the Church.
Since the beginning of the Pontificate
of Pope Plus X fifteen Archdiocese
have been erected throughout the
world, and twenty-seven Vicariates
Apostolic.
Death of Distinguished Russian
CathoIic.-The funeral took place at
Teignmouth recently of Frau Clara
Won Dieckhoff, who died at Devon
House, Teignmouth. A Requiem Mass
was celebrated in the Church of Our
Lady and St. Patrick by her son, the
Rev. H. Cyril Won Dieckhoff, of Fort
Augustus Abbey, Scotland. The inter-
ment followed in the Catholic portion
of the Teignmouth Cemetery. De-
ceased was the widow of the late
Herr Won Dieckhoff, who was Luth-
eran minister at Moscow for some
fifty years, and was the daughter of
a Berlin judge whose father held office
under the Prussian Government. Her
grandfather married niece of Goethe,
the poet. Deceased embraced the
Catholic faith over thirty years ago.
Besides her son, the Benedictine, she
leaves daughter at Riga, Russia.
| The Vatican Bounds Extended
The papal states, reduced since 1870
to palace and garden, have recent
ly been increased, and the privilege of
extra-territoriality enjoyed by the
behind st. Peters, bordering the
southern side of the Vatican gardens,
the Zecca, Or Mint Although this
building formed part of the so-called
Apostolic palaces it was occupied by
the Italians in 1870 on the ground
that the Pope no longer had the right
to coin money. Some years ago it was
decided to build new mint, and the
Pope instructed one of the Vatican
bankers to open negotiations for the
purchase of the building which the
Italian government was on the point
of vacating. Out of Difference to the
Pope only nominal price was asked
and thus the Pope re-acquired the
property which is now included with
in the limits of the Vatican. The
building will be used as a barracks
for the Swiss guards.
National Catholic Congress.-The
Third National Catholic Congress of
England will be held in Norwich on
Friday, Saturday., Sundays and Mon
day, the End, 3rd, 4th, and 5th of ALL
gust next. The arrangements for the
great event are already we'll advanced.
His Eminence the Cardinal Bourne
! of Westminster will preside over the
Congress and will be supported by the
Bishops of England and Wales.
Site of Catholic University Of Japan.
The first step has been taken to-
ward the building of a Catholic Uni
versity in Japan. A plot of ground
has been bought in Tokyo by the
: Jesuit Fathers who are to have charge
of his Institute of higher learning.
Site of Garden of Eden.-According
to the new Biblical theories of Sir
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original site of the Garden of Eden
may be located at Hawlah lovely
and fiourishing oasis in the delta OF
the Euphrates, one hundred miles from
/ Bagdad.
l Chapel for Native Christians.-The
Very Rev. F. M. Hervey, Mandalay
+ India, in charge of the Tamil Mission
is now engaged in building new
chapel for the benefit of native Chris
tians residing in one of the suburbs
= of the Golden City"
Requests for Dublin Charities-Tht
L late Mr. John Mulligan, director O
the Hibernian Bank, Dublin, who diet
= March 3, leaving a personal estatt
4 amounting to 100000, bequeathet
|. nearly all his property to Dublin char
Il tiles of which through life he was I
generous supporter.
Golden Jubilee of College Profes
sor.-At Blackjack College, Dublin
o the golden jubilee of Rev. J. M. Eben
" recht, C. S. Sp., has just been cele
q brated in very solemn manner. A
. the period of Father Ebenrecht's al
, rival in Ireland the buildings Of Black
rock were very small indeed, blu
gradually they increased, develope
and extended, until within few year
&c of his golden jubilee they reached
'e under his guidance, supervision an
l,;Il