The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25

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Centenary of Christian Liberty
Some days before the opening of the
Malta Eucharistic Congress the Holy
Father will hold a great Papal chap
ter at st. Peters in commemoration
of the sixteenth centenary of Chris
tian Liberty. Many of those about to
take part in the congress will thus
be enabled to be present at the func-
ton in st. Peters.
Plans for Eucharistic Congress-
A preparatory meeting of the Com
mittee of the Malta Eucharistic Con-
| gress was recently held. 1t was de-
termined that the Congress shall con-
tinue four days. four speakers will
address the general meeting each day.
Special sessions of the different Sec
lions will be held; each section will
have Church assigned it. Three
special sections will be organized, one
for youth, one for the clergy and one
for women.
Late Bishops JubiIee.-The Right
Reverend Bishop Dominic Will, of
Limburg, Nassau, Germany, had just
celebrated his golden jubilee as a
Sistercian monk, when he died two
weeks ago. He was, prior to his ap-
pointment to the see of Limburg, Alb
bot of Marienstadt, near the Rhine.
He was known as the author of many
excellent works. He was consecrated
in 1898. The diocese of Limburg is a
large and important one. 1t has about
414,0OO Catholics, 21O parishes and
many educational and religious insti-
buttons. It's chief city is the Roth
child city of Frankfort on the Main
one of the wealthiest in Europe.
Nero's "GoIden House" Found
Archaeologists are reported as having
unearthed in Rome the house inhab-
tied by Tiberius and Julia, daughter
of Augustus and, later, the Golden
House of Nero" erected after the
burning of Rome in A. D. "a.
Lost Masterpiece Found.-Intelli-
that rRaphaeps masterpiece, ''La Don
ma Della Querica," lost for century,
was discovered in a chapel on the
property of an Italian nobleman, Count
Vatielle, and was brought to London.
4 Holy Father Pleads for PALESTINE
A press cablegram from Rome states
that Pope Plus x has sent a message
to the ambassadorial conferees of the
great powers in London requesting
them to exert their influence in behalf
of Palestine in the Turkish-Balkan
peace negotiations. He asks that the
Holy Land either be wrested from
Turkish control or that the powers
undertake to guarantee the permanent
=, sanctity of the holy places there and
the protection of Christian pilgrims.
!. If Palestine is not taken from Turkish
: control the ambassadors may recon-
mend that an international patrol OF
soldiers be stationed in the Holy
: Land for the protection of pilgrims.
Tomb of Plus TX Honored.-A pill
, grimage to the tomb of the servant
of God Plus TX, is being organized as
a reparation for the insults against
his memory recently perpetrated by
: the anti-clericals of his native town
f Senigallia.
}, German Workmen Visit Pope.-On
! Monday morning, January 6, a group
+ of hundred and fifty members of the
Society of Artisans of Germany were
J. received in special audience by the
Pope, who delivered to them kind
: and fatherly address, concluding his
Z remarks in the German language
/ which greatly pleased the visitors.
S Jesuit Status in Germany.-The
y German Bundesrath has reached de
e cision regarding the enforcing of the
t. anti-Jesuit laws which in effect holds
e that Bavaria's recent course was
5 illegal. BY the Bundesrath's ruling
" the Jesuits will be permitted to holC
C family Masses in the home, administer
4 Extreme Unction, deliver scientific
e addresses, which, however, must mo-
n touch on religion.
e Able Tissier, Bshop.-The Hol!
it Father has appointed the Vicar-Gen
eral of the Diocese of Chartres, the
Able Tissier, to the See of Cha1ons
l. sur Marine, in succession to Mgr
If SEWN, who was promoted to the Archi
4 episcopal See of Lyons.
e. Persecution and Honors Mingled
If At Passy, a suburb of Paris, friends
it and pupils recently said farewell tt
it the Brothers of the Christian Schools
J. who had kept school there for fit.
i years. This golden jubilee coincidet
IS with the closing of the school by thu
5. Government. On the same day twC
a. aged Brothers there received thu
s. medal for devotion during the war o
1t 1870. One of them, an Octogenerian
had known the first days of the schoo
at the destruction of which he wa
'e thus present.
r Academy's Award to 5ishop.-Th,
Iel French Academy of Moral am
81 Political Sciences has just awarde,