The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-07-18

Paul, June %, 20, at the Vespers
The singing of this magnificent hymn
in st. Peters at the Tomb of the Apos
ties, ushers in the summer vacation
of official, ecclesiastical Rome.
Honor for Irish Nun In India.-At
Loreto Convent, Assam, India, Mother
Mary Mechtilda, superioress, was
decorated short time ago by Sir
Archdale Earle, Chief Commissioner
Of Assam, with the Kaiser-in-Hind
gold medal awarded by the King
Emperor for public service in India.
Mother Mechtilda sailed From Ireland
for India fifty years ago.
Veteran of Pope's Army Dead
Michael Theobald Cream, we'll
known member of the Irish Bar, died
recently at Chelsea, London, England,
at the age of seventy-five. Mr. Cream
served in 1860 as an officer in the
Irish Brigade of the Papal army I'M
der General de Lamoriciere, and was
wounded at Spoleto. He was deco
rated for valor in the defense of that
fortress by Pope Plus TX with the
Order of the Knighthood of the Grand
Order of Plus TX. He was called to
the Irish Bar in 1868.
Silver Jubilee of Twenty-Five Priests,
A unique event occurred last
month in the diocese of Munster,
Westphalia. The Right Rev. Bishop
Paggenburg and twenty-five of his
priests celebrated on that day the
twenty-fifth anniversary of their or
dination to the priesthood. They all
spent the day at Kevelaer, where the
Bishop was giving Confirmation and
where there is famous shrine OF
Our Lady.
New Irish Judge of AppeaI.-The
Acknowledgement for Ireland, Right
Hon. J. F. Moriarty, has been appoint
ed Lord Justice of Appeal in the
Irish High Courts. The new Lore
Justice of Appeal is a native of Nal
low, County Cork, where his father
was a solicitor enjoying an extensive
practice. He was educated at Stony
hurst and Trinity College, and admit
ted to the Irish Bar in 1877. He tool
silk in 1904. For many years he
has held a leading place at the Irisl
Bar. He was appointed third Ser
geant in 1908, and first Sergeant {
year later. Last year he became So
Iicitor-General for Ireland, following
the promotion of Mr.. Justice Melon!
to the post of Acknowledgement
Later in the year, Justice Melon!
went to the Bench, and the vacan
Attorney-G eneralship fell to Mr.
Moriarty.
Bodies Of Martyrs Preserved il
Church in Rome.-The Church o
ST. Sebastian, on spur of the Coeli
an Hill, Rome, dates from the fiftl
century. 1t was burned down b!
Robert Guiscard in 1884, and rebuilt
in much smaller proportions b,
Paschal II. in 1112. Under the alta
of st. Sebastian staircase goes dow
to a subterranean chapel, where thu
relics of the titular Saints and TIL
head of st. Sebastian are kept. Thu
four martys, to whom the church il
| dedicated, were put to death by Die
cletian for refusing to worship al
idol of Aesculapius; their names have
remained unknown and they hav,
been wrongfully COMPOUNDED with fou
Saints buried in Albano (Sts. Sever
us, Severianus, Carpophorus and Vic
torinus). Amongst the relics pre-
served here are the bodies of man.
martyrs of the earliest period o
| Christianity.
An Irish PIedge.-The movement
against evil reading in Ireland ha
crystallized, in a pledge which is be
ing administered in many parishes t.
the laity The form of this pledg'
is as follows: 81 promise, as a mem
| Der of this parish, not to read, dis
tribute or jim any way give counter
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magazines, or any form of literature
that is Objectionable because of it
hostility to my faith, or to the loft
purity inculcated by the gospel o
Christ. And | furthermore promise
| to withdraw my custom from thos
dealers who for the sake of filth,
lucre, continue to sell those paper
and periodicals which the voice O
Catholic Ireland condemns as mer
ace to the purity and peril to tlr
faith of her people"
Dublin Night Shelter for Homeless
I'm Dublin, Ireland, there is a Ere
Night Shelter for Homeless Catholi
Men, doing great good. The initis
tive is due to the Archbishop. SO ia
it reports $4,000 admissions compris
ing 1000 separate individuals an
$4,000 meals were supplied.
Anniversary of MarseiIIes Shrine
The seven-hundreth anniversary @
the Shrine of Notre Dame de la Garde
at Marseilles, France, will be celC
brated this month.
Five Hundred Converts in TweIv
Notwithstanding the last twelv
months five hundred converts hav
been received into the Church in tn
archdiocese of Westminster alone.
Against Unhealthy Literature