The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-10-11
OLD WORLD NEWS.

| A Royal ConVert.-Princes Beatrice
of Coburg has embraced the Catholic
Faith, and is in Madrid preparing for
her baptism, which will take place this
month, some time after the return
of the Spanish Court to the capital.
The royal convert is the wife Of AL
fonso of Orleans, son of the Infanta
Eulalia. The ceremony of baptism will
take place in the crypt of the Church
of Notre Dame de PAlmadeus. The
Pope will send special Nuncio to ad-
minister the sacrament, and the cere-
mony will be invested with great
solemnity, and will be the subject of a
public celebration afterwards.
Memorial of Eucharistic Congress.
In presence of the Emperor of Austria,
Count Berchtold, Foreign Minister,
and many other distinguished per-
sons, Archbishop Piffl, of Vienna,
blessed on a recent Sunday the site
for a church commemorative of the
Eucharistic Congress. The Archdio-
cese of Vienna has 100000 Catholics
and 1896 priests.
Expulsion of Marists from TouIon.-
| The Marist Fathers of Toulon, who
for fifty years have maintained a
school preparing boys for the French
Navy, have been expelled from their
buildings. When summoned the Con-
cierge refused to open the doors and
the police had to force an entrance.
The Commissary of Police then put
on his official sash and, tapping each
of the Fathers on the shoulder, or
dered him to leave the house.
Poor Clare Nun may be Canonized.-
| The canonization of the Poor Glare
nun, the Blessed Margaret of Lor-
raine, who, in the world was Duchess
of Alencon, will probably soon be de-
termined upon by the Sacred Congre-
cation of Rites. This Princess found
ed several converts.
Pope Condemns Bergson's phiIoso-
phies.-The Pope has published con-
demnation of the philosophy of Henri
Bergson, as outlined in his book Gre
alive Evolution" His Holiness says:
I'm the presence of the false theo-
ries of this new Bergsonian philoso-
ply, which seeks to shatter grand
fundamental principles and truths, it
is necessary to unmask the poisonous
error of philosophic modernism. 1t
is the more destructive because it is
sugar-coated, subtle, and seductive in
nature"
Jubilee Celebration in London.-On
Rosary Sunday all the Bishops of
England and Wales commemorated
and celebrated the Peace of Constan-
tine in the Westminster Cathedral,
London.
Cures Among Irish Pilgrims at
Lourdes.-In the recent Irish pilgrim
age to Lourdes, the cure of young
girl, Grace Maloney of Kilaloe, suffer
ings for nine years from tubercular
disease of the knee, has been authent-
icated. Cures are also reported of two
crippled children from Belfast.
Passion Play Popular.-The Passion
Play will be performed this year at
five different places in the German
speaking countries at Fri, Brixlegg,
StiIldorf, Selzach and Radigund; also
another in Slovak-tongue in Tyrnau,
Hungary.
Valuable Painting Found.-Tn the
gallery of the old church of s. Maria
del Soccorso at Livorno there has
been discovered an Assumption of the
Virgin by Andrea del Sarto. Profess
sor Calza, the government representa-
tive, estimates the value of the pic
ture at $4,000. 1t is much damaged
from damp, as it had been lying in
the gallery of the church for sixty
years.
Family Converted by little Flower
of Jesus."-An English family in Cey-
lon have recently become converts to
the Catholic faith as a result OF the
miraculous recovery of one of the
children through the intercession of
the Little Flower of Jesus" Sister
Theresa.
Orange DlspIay.-on September
18th force of 1000 orangemen
carrying dummy rifles passed in
parade through Belfast and were re-
viewed by Carson. The demonstra-
ton is not viewed seriously by the
Nationalist.
Missionary Priest stricken.-A
Young Breton missionary, Father
Henry Poupon, c. s. s., has fallen a
victim to his jealous ministrations
among the sufferers from sleeping
sickness in equatorial Africa. At the
age Of twenty-seven, after only ten
months Of apostolic labor, he was car