The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-07-06

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therapeutic and electric, without sue
cess, her case has aroused much in
terest in the neighborhood of her
home, and she is visited by many per-
sons of all beliefs, to all of whom she
recounts enthusiastically the wonders
of Lourdes.
Basilica of st. Mark.-The Basilica
of San Mark, in Venice, was erected by
Pope st. Mark in the year 377 and in
honor of the Evangelist st. Mark
Under it's high altar reposes the sacred
body of the Evangelist. Since then,
nearly Is centuries ago, Mass has been
said on that altar and in that great
Church.
A distinguished Catholic Education
alist.-Rev. Brother Thomas, for over
twenty years Superior of the De la
Sale Training College, Waterford,
Ireland, sailed recently for America,
where he has been appointed assistant
general of his Order. While in Water
ford Brother Thomas worked earnestly
and successfully in the cause of Cath
Ole education, to which he has de-
voted his life. He erected the mag
niflcent Training College which has
turned out so many splendid teachers
Brother Thomas is a son of the late
Sir Robert Kane, President of the
Queens College, Cork, author of a
standard work on the industrial re-
sources of Ireland, and a brother of
Admiral Kane, of Calliope fame, who
saved his ship in the hurricane at
Samoa in 1899 when SO many vessels
of other nations were wrecked in the
pitiless storm and their crews
! drowned.
Second Centenary of Plus V.-The
second centenary of the canonization
of Pope st. Plus ", the great
Dominican-Lepanto Pope was grandly
celebrated recently in the Basilica of
St. Mary Major, Rome. On it's Papal
Altar, by special permission of the
Pope, Cardinal Vincent Vannutelli
celebrated Pontifical Mass.
Missionaries At School of Medicine.
There is in Bruxelles a school for
Tropical Medicine, the purpose of
which is to give a special training to
physicians who intend to exercise
their profession in the Congo. The
course of lectures was attended this
year by thirteen missionaries who are
preparing to set out for Central Africa.
All obtained their diploma at the end
of the session, and will be able to give
medical as we'll as spiritual attend
ance to the people entrusted to their
care. Of these thirteen missionaries,
are Capuchins, 2 Dominicans, one
is a Holy Ghost Father, are White
Fathers, and 8 are members of the
Belgian Foreign Missionary Society.
Association of the Holy Childhood
The Association of the Holy Child
hood has issued it's annual report, and
it shows that from May 1st, 1911, to
April Goth, 1912, $26,145.1 have been
collected in the United States for the
appropriate object of said Society, the
redemption of pagan children.
Missions of Picpus Fathers.-The
Very Rev. F1orian Prat has been
elected Superior General of the Picpus
Fathers, in succession to the late
Father Bousquet who died last Septem-
Der. The numerous islands of the
Pacific Ocean are the special mission
airy field of the Picpus Fathers. They
are in charge of the mission of Hawaii.
Bishop Fallize Decorated by King
Haakon.-Bishop Fallize, Vicar Apos-
tolic of Norway, recently celebrated
his Episcopal Silver Jubilee, and on
that occasion received from King
Haakon the Cross of Commander of
the Order of st. Olaf.
Vicar Apostolic conseerated. On
June 9Th, Mgr. J. Moury, L. AT. M,
recently appointed Vicar Apostolic of
Ivory Coast, received the Episcopal
conservation in the chapel of the Afri-
can Missions at Lyons.
Irish Abbess Dead.-The death of
the Mother Abbess of the Convent of
the Poor Clares, Drumshambo, Coun-
ty Leitrim, Ireland, is announced.
Abbess, who was Miss Marion Graf
tan, was maternal aunt to Sir Thomas
Grattan Esmonde, M. P. She was
seventy-two years of age.
Native Catholic chinese.-Monsig-
nor Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate to
the United States, estimates that
there are now about 100000 Roman
Catholic natives in China.
Australian Bishop Dead.-News has
reached Rome of the death of Bishop
Corbett, of Sale, Australia. He was
born in Limerick in 1884, appointed
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