The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-03-16

Irish National Fund, has received from
Mr. N. O'Donnell, M. D., President of
the United Irish League, Victoria, Aus
tralia, draft for $4,000, with a
letter in Irish, as contribution
to the Irish Parliamentary Fund.
Catholic Marquis Establishes Fac
tory.-The Marquis and Marchioness
of Butte have established small manu-
factory at Corstorphine, near Edin-
burgh, for the production of tapestry
and lace. The mandatory is intend
ed in the first instance to produce
tapestry for Lord Butes own resi-
dence.
S, Pope 6lesses Charitable Irish Lad
les.-Religion In Ireland owes much to
the Misses Hamill, two Belfast ladies,
whose generosity equipped the Church
of st. Theresa, Hannahstown, with it's
altar-plate, furniture, presbytery and
school, and has built the convent
chapel of st. Anthony, Crumlin Road,
and enriched the Dominican Convent
at Kingston with splendid mon
STRANGE of beautiful workmanship.
Recently the donors received an auto
graph letter from the Holy Father
expressing his appreciation of their
generosity, and imparting to them his
Apostolic Blessing.
Ex-king Mataafa Dead.-From Mel
bourne, Australia, on February IA
comes the news of the death at Levu-
ka, Fiji Islands, of Mataafa, ex-king
of Samoa, who maintained resistance
against the treaty powers in 1898.
Mataafa was the friend of Robert
Louis Stevenson, and was a devout
Catholic. That his memory may live
he asked the government to erect a
| fitting mausoleum, and until quite re-
Gently he took pleasure in observing
it's progress towards completion.
Spanish Catholics and the Faith
The. Holy Father, in letter to Car
dinal Aguerre, Archbishop Of Toledo,
says it is to be desired that the Span
ish Catholics should endeavour to de-
fend the faith of their fathers with
earnestness and all their strength in
order to prevent calamities and mis-
fortunes happening to the Church in
that country.
The Vatican Numismatic Collection.
-Chevalier Camille Serafin, director
of the Vatican numismatic cabinet, has
presented to the Holy Father the
second volume on the coins and Pom
lection, in which there is list of six
thousand coins stamped in the period
from Pope Gregory XIII to Pope In
nocent XII. The third volume will be
published next year. The Vatican COL
lection is much priced by numismat-
lists all over the world.
Classical Association of Ireland
The Rev. Professor Henry Brown, S.
j., has been elected President of the
Classical Association of Ireland. DR..
w. J. M. Starkie and Count Plunkett
are Vice-Presidents of this body, which
has already done so much for classical
studies.
Apostolic Delegate Consecrated.-
Mgr. Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate to
the United States, was consecrated
Bishop in Rome on the second Sunday
of Lent by the Cardinal Secretary of
State.
Aehrenthal, the Austro-Hungarian
Foreign Minister, died recently. The
Emperor Francis Joseph had previous
ly conferred on his dying Minister
the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint
Stephen, and, in graciously-worded
Imperial Rescript, complying with the
Counts dying wish, had accepted his
resignation. The Holy Father and
Cardinal Merry del Val on receiving
the news of the Counts death sent
expressions of profound regret and
sympathy to the Emperor of Austria.
Count Berchtold, himself a former
Ambassador in St. Petersburg, has
been appointed Count Aehrenthal's
successor.
| Body of st. Benedict.-After one
thousand and seventy years. the sac
red body of the great st. Benedict,
Abbot, lies enshrined in an Italian
abbey-church, in a marble sarcopha-
gus with glass front, disclosing the
1 Saint in his abbatial robes. And his
great Order has continued unbroken
ever since.
French Presidents Wife a Good
catholic.-Mme. Fallieres, the French
presidents wife, comes from the lower
middle class of the south, descended
from generations of women honest
and modest, whose existence has been
centered in the home, in keeping it in
order, overlooking the servants and
living close to the children. Educated
in the convent and preserving through