The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-18


will, this year, commemorate the COM
pleted publication of the American
Catholic Encyclopedia If true, and
we doubt it not. it will be a supreme
testimonial of the worth of that work. |
Cardinal FaIconio Named Protector.
Cardinal Falconio has been ap-
pointed by the Pope Protector of the
Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate
Word, of Galveston, Texas, as we'll
as of the Institute of Hermanas de la |
Cruz, of Seville, Spain.
Martyred Priest in China.-A Chi |
nese priest, Father Peter Tong, of the |
Chensi Mission, was recently MUIR
dered, thirty parishes were destroyed, |
and five thousand Christians were
plundered.
Irish Ecclesiastical Record.-The
Rev. Patrick A. insolvency, M. A., of |
Maynooth College, has been appointed |
editor of the Irish Ecclesiastical Rec |
ord in place of the Very Rev. Canon |
Hogan, D. D., who was recently placed
at the head of the college, succeeding
the Most Rev. DR.. ManRix
Vicar General of Portsmouth Dead
Monsignor Thomas Canon Luck, Pro-
tonotary Apostolic, and the Vicar Gen
eral of the Diocese of Portsmouth, |
England, died recently. Two brothers
of Monsignor Luck became Benedic-
tines, one of them eventually occupy
ing the See of Auckland New Zea-
land, and both of his sisters became
franciscan nuns. Yet, strange to say,
his father was convert of only three
years standing at the late Vicar Cen
erals birth. His mother remained a
Protestant till her death. The Right
Rev. Canon John Watson, of ST.
Mary's, Gosport, has been appointed
Vicar General of the Portsmouth Do
cese in succession to the late Mon
signor Luck.
Emperor's Gift to Archbishop.-Em-
peror William has presented the for
mer Bishop of Muenster, in West
! phalia, and now Archbishop of Co.
logne, DR.. Won Hartmann, an heroic
stained-glass Munich-made window,
over 25x18 feet in size, for the Muen-
ster Cathedral, representing Charlie
magne receiving in camp at Pader-
born in the year 7S9, and in the pres
ence of Pope Leo III, ST. Ludger, the
patron of the Diocese of Muenster.
Temperance in ireland Growing
Very Rev. Father Murphy, Provincial
of the Fathers of the Holy Ghost,
Blackjack, presided at the twelfth an
nual meeting of the Pioneer Total
Abstinence Movement recently. Rev.
| Father Cullen, S. j., president,
addressed the assembly, and said that
there were now about $50, 900 members
of the association. Nearly one-third
of the young priests in Ireland we're
total abstainers, and their number was
increasing every year. There were
branches established in almost all the
leading colleges and converts in the
country, and in every center they had
a working council. He expressed the
hope that in the brighter day that was
/
Irish Parliament measure of local
option which would give the majority
of the ratepayers of any district the
right of determining the number of
drink licenses required for the COM
munity.
Catholic University in Philippines
The University of st. Thomas, Manila,
| founded by the Dominicans in 1911,
has eighty-one professors and over one
thousand students
Prince Rescued at ST. Bernardo
press despatch from Geneva, December
| 20, says that the story of how Crown
Prince Alexander of Servia was res
cued from death in the Alpine SHOWS
last winter while training himself for
army service has just been made
known by the Abbot of the st. Bernard
monastery. The monks and the dogs
were on watch in the st. Bernard
Pass, as is usual on stormy nights,
when one of the dogs discovered two
men half buried in the snow. The men
were taken to the monastery, and
when restored to consciousness they
| told the monks they were Prince Alex
ander and his adjutant, Servian cap
tain. The prince said that, expecting
early service in the field, he had de-
sired to harden his body by exposure
and had therefore undertaken climbing
| excursions in the Alps.
j a.
i Pope Advises Diplomats.-On Satur-
day last Pope Plus accorded the GUS
tomary audience to the members of
the diplomatic corps accredited to the
Holy See. After the formalities Of the
visit Pope Plus informed them that
he had one recommendation to make
to them in their capacity as diplomats.
cat the present moment" he said, the
whole world is filled with deep anxiety
as to the mutual relations of the great
European powers, and all thoughts are
fixed upon those in whose hands lies
the terrible responsibility of settling
the supreme question of peace or war. I"
These words of the Holy Father gave
an unusual turn to what is usually only
, formal ceremony. Later the diplo-
mats paid visit to Cardinal Merry del
Val.
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