The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-30

St. Francis Senninary.-ReV. George
C. Eilers has been appointed professor
of English and Homiletics in st. Fran
els Seminary, Milwaukee.
Dedication of Iowa coIIege.-The
new Trinity College at Leeds, Iowa,
will be dedicated September 1, the
exercises to be held in the afternoon.
Archbishop Keane of Dubuque will be
the speaker, and the Bishop of Sioux
City will oficiate.
A Rubens Found in Chicago Ru-
bens, one of the most deliberately
painted and perfectly executed can
vases ever painted by the great Dutch
color master, has been found hidden
in an obscure corner of Chicago. 1t is
one of the most valuable, if not the
most valuable, painting in Chicago, it's
worth being placed at $4,000. The
painting, prior to it's removal to a
studio on Michigan Avenue, where it is
now in process of restoration, hung in
the old family home of Judge Sidney
G. Eastman, of Kenilworth, where it
was discovered by Frenchman.
Governor Opened Irish Feis.-The
Chicago Irish Feis was held before an
audience of 10000 people. Governor
Dunno presided and delivered the
opening address.
MiIwaukee's Church Property
Church property in Milwaukee exempt
from taxation represents valuation
of $13,6S3,460, of which nearly one
half, $6,822, 25O, is Catholic property.
Maronites in ST. LouIs.-The Syrian
Maronites are organizing another con-
gregation in st. Louis, Mo.
Texas Free Catholic Schools.--Bish-
op Gallagher of Galveston, Texas, says
he has diocesan regulation requiring
that all parish schools to be estab-
lished in future be free, and hopes that
those already established will soon
come under the requirement.
Americans for Foreign Missions
The Society of the Divine Word will
send to China, Japan and Africa a
number of recently ordained young
priests. At present the order has 600
priests and 500 lay brothers working
among the Chinese, Japanese, Fill
pinos, Papuans, Malayans, Negroes of
Africa and of the United States, and
Indians of South America. The two
seminaries of the Society in this
country are st. Mary's Mission House,
at Techny, ILL.,, and Sacred Heart Mis-
sion House. at Girard, Pa.
American Eucharistic congress.-A
Eucharistic Congress will be held in
Bogota, Colombia, next month. BY
indult, the clergy at the Congress will
be allowed to say Mass one hour after
midnight.
"TraiI Of the Padres" The Weekly |
Journal-Miner of Prescott, Arizona,
contained report recently of a meet
ing of the National Highway Associa-
ton, at which a suggestion made by
Father Vabre of Flagstaff, Ariz., was
heartily approved, namely, that the
road west of Santa Fee be known as
the "Trail of the Padres" This name
was suggested to commemorate the
fact that the southwestern country, |
practically along the route chosen,
was travelled by the Spanish Padres, a
century and more before the Santa Fe
trail was known.
Our Austrian Ambassador Honored.
The Sovereign Pontiff has decorated
the new Ambassador of the United
States to Austria, Frederick Court |
land Penfield, with the Grand Cross
of St. Gregory the Great.
South American University.-The
University of Santiago, Chile, a free
Catholic university, opened in 1889,
is not yet complete in all faculties.
1t has property valued at one million
dollars. Attending it's courses of law,
mathematics, agriculture, engineering,
etc., are about 700 students and it has
a staff of over SO professors. It's in
stitution of Humanities has attendance
of over 400, with A professors. It's
library numbers over 10000 volumes.
The Church in canada.-In Canada
and Newfoundland there are this year
thirty-nine dioceses and Vicariates,
attending to a Catholic population of
not quite three million souls.
A FlourishIng Catholic cIub.-The
Catholic Club of New York numbers
1900 members and has a library of
10000 volumes.
Anglican Clergyman Convert The
Newfoundland correspondent of the
Catholic Record" states that recently |
the Rev. Mr.. Dali. Anglican clergyman
at st. Anthony. in that province, sew
cred his connection with that Church.
His intention is said to be to study for |
the Catholic priesthood st. Anthony |
is about three hundred miles north |
east of st. Johns, on the Newfound-
land seacoast, and is the headquarters
of the GrenfelI mission.
Philadelphia Residence for Convent.
The handsome double residence