The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-10-18

berta" declaration Of fidelity to the
Catholic Church and Of sorrow for his
past life.
TWO Catholic Issues.-In the Catho-
lie world two important things are
pending: Home Rule in Ireland, and
the repeal of the anti-Jesuit Law in
Germany.
French Religious Return Thirty
nuns have just recently, with permits
sion of the French Council of State,
returned to the Convent of ST. Peter,
situated at a short distance from
Cherbourg. These are Augustinians,
long ago banished from their cloister|
by the law against the teaching or
ders.
Priest-SchoIar Commemorative
Belgium has just been celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the inau-
guration of the mausoleum of Father
de Bo, one of Belgium's most cele-
brated priest-scholars, born at Verdey
in 1886. Solemn Masses, fetes, ban
quests and addresses signalized it.
Eight hundred voices sang one of his
cantatas.
Great CathedraIs of WorId.-A Ro-
man journal gives list of the great
churches of the world. The estimate
allows four persons to every square
yard of space available. Milan
Cathedral stands at the head, with
capacity for $4,000; st. Peters hold
$4,000; st. Pauls, $4,000. The ca
pacity of San Petronio, Bologna, the
Florence Cathedral and the Antwerp
Cathedral is about $4,000 each; that
of st. Sophia, Constantinople, is 3D.
900; that of ST. John Lateran, Rome,
about the same (22.OO0); that of
Notre Dame, Paris, $1,000. These are
the nine great churches of the world.
The Pisa Cathedral comes tenth with
a capacity of $4,000. The Cathedral
of the City of Mexico and that of
Notre Dame in Montreal are the larg-
est two churches in North America,
though they belong to the second
class, with st. Stephens, Vienna (12,-
O00), and st. Dominic's, Bologna (12,-
300).
Troops Guard cardinaI.-At Marino,
a town thirteen miles from Rome,
Italy, Catholic convention was held
Sunday, October 5, at which Cardinal
Agliardi presided and represented
Pope Plus x. The holding of the
convention, which is an annual event,
stirred up the anti-clericals, who plan
ned a monster meeting for the same
day. Their meeting was prohibited
by the government, however, and
troops we're sent to aid the police in
enforcing the prohibition and main
tanning order Cardinal Agliardi, al
though he had not requested it, was
escorted by mounted carbineers and
fifty detectives on bicycles to and
from the church where the convention
was opened with a Solemn High
Mass.
Priest, Victim OF Socialists, Dies
Father Louis Colldecarera has just
passed to his reward at the age of
twenty eight years. This priest, who
at the time of the Barcelona horror
was only twenty-four, succeeded in.
escaping from the burning College of
St. Anthony, fired at the instigation
of Ferrer, and sought refuge in the
town of Granollers. But there he
was seized by crowd of Ferrerites,
who, recognizing he was a priest,
dragged him about the town for a
whole day, striking, kicking and in
sulting him. At night they threw the
insensible body of their victim into
pit, and passed to other orgies.
From this he was rescued by a rela-
tive who had followed him afar, and
who concealed and tenderly cared for
him. But the horror through which
this poor young priest had passed
made of him living agony. For four
years he has suffered terribly from
heart affections and epilepsy, the re
suit of his treatment on that awful
day, and now at last, in what should
have been the flower of his young
manhood, death has come to release
him.
Spanish chapIains Ranks as Off
cers.-The Catholic chaplains of the
Spanish Army have the rank of Off
GERS. Their uniform is black with
violet bands, ornaments and plumes.
A cross embroidered in gold, with
laurel branches, replaces the number
of their regiments. and they wear
swords.
PontificaI Seminary at Assisi-As-
sisi, in Italy, made renowned by st.
Francis, some of whose buildings date
from the Romans before Christ, has
now one of the greatest seminaries in
Italy. It is the Pontif1cal one of Plus
x and has under it fourteen dioceses.
Auqustinians Elect GeneraI.-A
chapter of the Order of st. Augustine
held at Rome elected Spaniard, the
Very Rev. Thomas Rodriguez, General
of the order. Four assistants were
also elected.
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