The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-23

Iowa Pastor Plans Buildings.-Rev.
]. M. Wolfe, pastor of Maquoketa, is
planning the erection of a church and
parochial residence to cost in the
neighborhood of 100000,
Investiture of Mgr. GarIand.-The
formal investiture of Very Rev. ].
]. Garland, pastor of st. John the
Evangelist Church, Independence,
Iowa, will take place August 9th at
the Immaculate Conception Church at
Charles City, where Father Garland
was formerly pastor.
Meeting of Catholic Students.-The
Association of Catholic Students So
cieties of America will be held in Iowa
City on November 13, Ia and Is, and
plans for the entertainment of dele
gates have already been outlined by
the committees. The convention will
be entertained by the Newman and G.
F. u. societies, the organizations of
Catholic students in the University of
Iowa.
Passionist Monastery, Kansas.-The
new monastery of the Passionist Faith
ers at st. Paul, Kansas, is fast near
ing completion and it is expected that
the date for its conservation will be
set in the very near future by the Rt.
Rev. Bishop Hennessy, of Wichita,
Kansas, in whose diocese the monas-
terry is located.
ParochiaI Buildings in Vancouver
The city of Vancouver, B. c., has
granted a permit to proceed with the
erection of the costly schools and halls
on Haro Street for the congregation Of
the Church of Our Lady of the Holy
Rosary. The buildings will cost above
100000. Excavation work has been
completed at a cost of $4,000, and
work will shortly be started on the
basement.
Cures at ST. Anne's, Chicago.-Sev-
eral remarkable cures are reported as
having taken place on the feast of ST.
Anne, July rs, at the close of the no
vena made at her shrine in Chicago.
The one that attracted most attention
was the instantaneous cure of Miss
Charlotte Gorney, 1901 Superior ave-
nue., South Chicago. She had not
walked for seven years, it is said, and
had been pronounced incurable by her
physician; but while drinking water in
which the relic of St. Anne had been
immersed suddenly exclaimed, Il can
walk" and suiting the action to the
word, she walked out of the church,
leaving her crutches at the shrine.
Kansas Retreats for Laymen.-That
the movement of the retreats for lay
men is taking root in the Middle West
is evident from the increased attend
ance and interest manifested in each
of the retreats given at st. Mary's
College, st. Mary's, Kan, since the
year 1909. The attendance has in
creased from 81 in 1909 to 294 in
1912, an increase of almost 900 per
cent. The last retreat this year ended
Monday, August Is.
Landscape" Prize to Catholic Pu-
pil.-At the recent Provincial fair,
Winnipeg, Ida Bennett won first prize
for landscape painting on colors. Ida
received her instruction from the Sis
tiers of the Sacred Heart Academy.
These devoted sisters have always
proved to be excellent teachers.
Requests to Archbishop Upheld
Circuit Judge Rassieur of st. Louis,
handed down a decision recently, up
holding certain provisions in the will
of Mrs. Anna Lawrence Hamilton
Bailey, who bequeathed part of her
100000 estate to Archbishop Glennon.
Relatives not mentioned in the docu-
ment raised the point that the be-
quests to the Archbishop were void.
Educators Tribute to Church.-In
the closing lecture at the summer ses-
sion of the University of Colorado,
early this month, DR.. Melanchthon F.
Libby, in a lecture on Raphael, spoke
of the dignity, and the force of char
acter in some of the popes whose por-
traits were painted by Raphael, and
he called the attention of his auditors
to their high qualities as depicted on
the canvas of the master. But it was
while showing slides of some of Ra-
phaeps Madonnas that DR.. Libby spoke
the Church. Catholicism, he said, had
preserved to the modern world all that
is digni1ed in ceremonial, all that is
decent and high in life.
Catholic Nation Accepts Peace
Although twenty-four other nations
have accepted Secretary Bryan's peace
plan in principle, and have offered to
enter into further negotiations regard
ing it, the little Central American re
public of Salvador is the first to accept
the proposal definitely on the basis of
Secretary Bryan's amplification of the
original statement of the peace pro-
posal made by President Wilson.
PauIists In Toronto.-Archbishop
Mcneil of Toronto, Canada, has re
Quested the Paulist Fathers to come
to the City of Toronto, first to
take charge of the Catholic students
at the University of Toronto, and sec
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