The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-07-19
OLD WORLD NEWS.


EpiscopaIian Chaplain a Convert
Rev. Alexander Thompson Grant, for.
mer Episcopalian chaplain at Wemyss
Castle, Fife, England, was received
into the Church at Dunbar, England,
by Father Long.
Two English PiIgrimages.-Th
British Catholic Association announces
two Pilgrimages to Lourdes during
1913. The first, specially arranged for
teachers and others, will leave Lon
don, under the leadership of the
Bishop of Northampton, on Tuesday,
July 10Th, the National Pilgrimage
leaving on Thursday, September 25th.
The route will be via Folkestone and
Boulogne, and six days will be spent
in Lourdes.
Duchess Makes Many Bequests.-By
the will of the Dowager Duchess of
Newcastle several Catholic charities
benefit by small sums. Of her estate
So 900 is left to the Crusade of Rescue,
to which she contributed $1,000 per
annum during her life. The Church of
the English Martyrs, Whitechapel, re-
ceives $1,000, and the Church of st.
John, Retford, the Catholic Prisoners
Aid Society, and the Convent of the
Immaculate Conception, Woodford, re-
ceives $500 each. She also leaves
81 900 to the Church of St. Thomas,
which was built at Woodford
Progress Of Home Rule 8iII.-The
Irish Home Rule Bill was passed on
it's third reading on the second passage
in the House of Commons July by
vote of 352 to 243 This majority of
100 is an advance of eight votes over
that obtained at the second reading.
Jubilee of Australian Archbishop
The Archbishop of Adelaide, Most Rev.
DR.. John O'Reilly, has celebrated his
golden jubilee. His labors in the do
cese include notable journalistic ex-
periences as editor of the West
Australian Record, of which he is said
to have even set the type himself.
| requests to Priests.-Two Catholic
priests of the Archdiocese Of West
minister, England, benefit under the
recent will of DR.. O'Meara, who left
$4,000 to Father O'Connor of North
Hyde, and $1,000 to the rector of the
Jesuit Church at Stamford Hill.
Pictures Sold for Mission.-The
recent sale of the collection of pictures
of the Reverend ]. O'Connor, of
Heckmondwike Diocese of Leeds, Eng
land, with the object of raising funds
! on behalf of the proposed new church,
realized nearly $5,OO000. There were
106 pictures offered, and the highest
price was $3.50, which was paid for a
painting by J. w. Buxton Knight,
''Rain Passing Over"
Request of Catholic Merchant.-Mr.
Jas A. Doughan, J. P, of Liverpool,
left $4,000 to the Right Rev. Thos.
Whiteside, or other, the Catholic Arch
bishop of Liverpool, for the erection
of night refuge for poor women.
Decline in ScotIand's Sects.-The
various reports of the three Kinks of
Scotland are out. In the Established
Church there is a serious decline in
several important branches. Contri-
buttons and seat rents are down by
nearly $4,000 The number Of COM
municants on the roll for 1912 was
713,849, being 1,066 less than the
number for 1911; baptisms are also
1,208 fewer. There is also ga dearth
of probationers," that is, divinity
students. In no fewer than SO
presbyteries out of "a there is not
one resident probationer, while only
one is a preacher in Gaelic. In the
report of the United Free Church we
are informed that ''the number on the
rolls of the probationers has fallen
since the Assembly of 1901 from 225
to n at this Assembly, and in another
three years the number of probationers
will be practically exhausted
Ancient Relic at HoIyWeII.-The
Bishop of Manevia, DR.. Mostyn, has
presented st. Winefride's Church, at
; Ho1ywell, Ireland, a reliquary, set in
; rubies, containing bone of st. Wine
fride. The relic belonged to the Powys
family on the dissolution of the
monasteries by Henry VIII.
, Irish Artists in London.-The many
Irish artists in London are forming a
club to keep themselves in touch with
one another and with the Royal Hi.
bernian Society.
Homes in Catholic Belgium.-Some
: what over twenty years ago the Cath
olic Government of Belgium of the day
passed law to encourage and facili
tate the erection of workmen's dwell.
ings, the Post Office Savings Bank
!. being authorized to advance the neces
sary funds. Since that law came into
operation the Bank has furnished nc
Hess a sum than 100000 900 francs to
societies created for the purpose OF
promoting the construction of such
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