The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-09-26


scripts dealing with the lives of the
saints, was removed from Louvain to
another place, which, however, is at
present within the theatre of war.
The Local Saint of Lieee.-The
| local saint of Liege is the Blessed
Eve, the friend of the Blessed
Juliana of Corpus Christi fame. Eve
died as long ago as 1866, and was
solemnly beatified by Leo XIII on
May l, 1902. There is very beauti-
full collect bearing on the Blessed
Sacrament for her feast on June IS,
in the Roman Missal for the diocese
of Liege.
Songs of the Nations.-The French
have their Marseillaise, the Germans
their "Wacht am Rhein," the Austri-
ans their "Gott erhalte Franz den
Kaiser" composed by Haydn: the
Servians their "Ustaj, ustai, Srbine;;"
the Russians, their "Boje Tsarika
Khrau;" the English, their God Save
the King"
Ruben's Masterpiece Saved.-One
of Ruben's famous masterpieces,
which had long hung in the Church
Iof Notre Dame at Malines, Belgium,
and which was thought to be in dan
ger of destruction by the German
shells, was saved by M. Demont, the
steward of the Royal Museum at Ant
werp. M. Demont, on learning that
the Germans were bombarding Ma
lines, rushed from Antwerp in motor
car and at great personal risk brought
ing through the German lines at va
rious points The painting was given
into the custody of King Albert.
French Priests in the Wharf.-The
exact number of French priests in the
fighting line is not as yet known, but
it may be placed between $4,000 and
10000, or about two-fifths of the
whole clergy of France. The Croix
has obtained the following figures for
the dioceses Some are only approx
1 mate, and in some cases no return
of the seminarists summoned to the
colours has been forthcoming: Agen,
$50; Abb, one-half; Amiens, over
200; Annecy, 200; Arras, 300; Auch,
$50; Autun, 278; Avignon, Ga; Belley
$50, 80 seminarists out of 40; Besan.
con, 300; Bourges, 200; Cahors, 200;
Cambria, 300: Blois, 1O5 and Is sem.
inarists; Clermont, 200; Digne, 100;
Grenoble, 1855; La Rochelle, $50; lie
} Puy, 200; Lille, 800; Limoges, 200;
J Lyon, 400; Mende, 144; Montpelier,
&c; Moulins, 100; NeVers, 100; Or.
J leans, 1853, and % seminarists; Paris,
437; Perpignan, third of the clergy;
J Poitiers, 230; Rouen, 1870; Saint Flour
100; Toulouse, $50; Valence, $50;
) Vannes, $50; and Is seminarists; Yer.
sailles over half the priests.
Roman Students off to War.-Near.
ly all the students from the different
countries, of Europe who were in
Rome preparing for the priesthood
have been called home by their gov.
ernments to serve in the armies. II
was sad to see the other day the
departure of The students from the
: Austro-Hungarian College, these stu.
dents whose bright vermillion sou.
tanes made such a conspicuously bril-
. liant color in the Roman landscape
They, and the French students from
the Seminary of Santa Chaira, called
home, as the others were, by the
, hard law of CONSUMPTION, which does
, not even spare the young Levite Sc.
lected for the service of the altar
we're by strange fate travellers in
the same train from Rome.
st. Bernards Botanic Garden.-One
of the most extraordinary botanic
J gardens in the world is that laid out
: at an altitude of $3.50 feet, on the
Little st. Bernard" near the valley
of Aosta. This garden, established by
; the late rector of the hospice, M
J Glamour, comprises specimens OF
practically all mountain flora, whether
: it grows in the Alps, the Balkans
the Carpathians, the Caucasus, the
) Pyrenees, the Himalayas or among
/ the mountains of America, Japan and
} New Zealand. 1t was begun in 1892
} but was not actually ready for in.
spection until 1897, when the rector
of the hospice intrusted it to the care
of Professor Vaccari M. Glamour
was particularly encouraged in his
. work by French and Italian private
| and public Subscriptions.
. Irish Peer Leads Austrians.-An
| Irish peer is fighting in the Austrian
army as captain in Emperor Franz
} Josef's First Regiment of Dragons
He is Viscount Taaffe, head of an
ancient Irish Catholic family which
. settled in Bohemia after the Battle OF
the Boyne. His father was Prime
Minister of Austria, from 1870-1893
and special committee of the Brit
J ish House of Lords in 1860 upheld
his right to the British title. So long
as Great Britain was at peace with
Austria Lord Taaffe was allowed to
exercise his privileges as British
peer and draw the revenues from his
estates in the west of Ireland. Now
/ he must be treated as an enemy, il
: not traitor. Viscount Taaffe is al
so Count of the Holy Roman Empire
Another member of the family is
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