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

Society to Visit RospitaIs.-London
has Catholic Society" for visiting
the hospitals. 1t reports having visit
ed 80 hospitals and about 1000 cases
therein, and nearly 1000 patients in
their homes.
Cardinaiatial Jubiiees. - On March
IA, Cardinals Rampolla and Serafino
Vannutelli, celebrated the twenty
fifth anniversary of their elevation to
the sacred purple. The friends of Car
dinal Rampolla had expressed the
wish to celebrate the silver jubilee of
his Cardinalate; but he declared
his intention of passing over the ami
versary in silence.
Old Chinese Catholic Catechism.-
There was found about a year ago in
the library of the Imperial University
of Toxic, Japan, a Catholic catechism
in Chinese language printed almost
300 years ago.
The Oldest Priest of Asia.-The old
DesGodins, born in Verdun in 1926,
ordained in 1850, who left for the mis-
sions in Asia in 1855. He is at present
at PADDING in Thibet.
Union of First Communicants.-In
a Motu Proprio His Holiness Plus x.
provides for the establishment of a
Union of First Communicates in
Rome, and then in the whole Catholic
world.
Bishop Goes to Prison.-The suffra-
gan Bishop of Warsaw, Poland, has
been condemned by the Russian Gov
eminent to a year and four months
Incarceration in a fortress for having
declared a marriage celebrated by a
minister of the Mariavita sect null.
Life of Labouchere.-Thel life of the
late Henry Labouchere will, we learn
from the London Tablet, be under
taken by his Catholic nephew, Agar
Labouchere Thorold, son of the late
DR.. Thorold, Bishop of Oxford.
The Late Archbishop Sogaro.-It is
characteristic of the nominations
made during the present Pontificate
that the late Archbishop Sogaro, Presi-
dent of the Papal Academy of Noble
Ecclesiastics in Rome, came from a
poor and obscure family.
CatecheticaI Teaching Restored
Catechism has been restored to the
schools of Venice by an appeal to the
courts, after the municipal authorities
had banished it for over year.
Cathedral of Strassburg.-The deep
foundation, on oak piles sunk nearly
} seven hundred years ago in subter-
ranean water, of the magnificent
tower of the Cathedral of Strassburg,
is giving away. Great mechanical skill
at enormous cost will be required to
replace the foundation with new piles.
The tower, surmounted with it's 249
feet high lacelike tower, is 465 feet
high. It is assembled all the way by
winding stairway. Next to the two
, spires of the Cologne Cathedral, which
: are each SIP feet, it is the highest in
: Europe. One ascends by $50 stone
, steps to the platform of the tower
from which rises it's spire.
, Lenten Preachers for Rome.-Some
of the most renowned pulpit orators in
Europe have come to Rome to preach
in the Italian and foreign churches in
J which Lenten course of sermons is
given each year. Amongst these
churches are included St. Peters, St
John Lateran's-the Pope's Cathedral
church-St. Mary Majors, the Gesu
r S. Luigi del Francesi for the French
S. Maria DELI Anima for the Germans
and San Silvestro in Capite for the
English-speaking Catholics. The Very
Rev. DR.. Keane, o. p, of Tallaght
Dublin, has accepted the invitation to
: preach the series in s. Silvestro. He
| will deliver two sermons each week
{ during the season of Lent.
confraternities in ceylon.-Father
Francis, native priest of Ceylon
writes that he has three confraternit
J, les, one of the Sacred Heart, one OF
: Mt. Carmel, and one Of the Holy Ro
sary. When the receptive feast DAYS
come around, the enthusiasm is very
marked.
+ The New Psalter.-The Sacred Con
! gregation of Rites declares Bishops
l have not the faculty of permitting pub
3 fishers of their dioceses to print cop
) les Of the Psalter as newly arranged
. Contribution from AustraiIa.-The
! Most Rev. DIR. oDonnell. Bishop oil
Raphoe, one of the trustees OF the