The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-05-23
three home and three foreign papers
with costs.

three home and three foreign papers,
with costs.
Continuation Schools of Munich
The Catholic city of Munich has the
finest Continuation Schools in the
world. In the year 1908, in that city
of nearly 100000 inhabitants, all boys,
with the exception of per cent, went
straight to definite trades when they
left the elementary school at the age
of fourteen. But of the boys who
passed through the eighth class (2,200
out of total of $4,000 only fifty Cor
2A per cent? went into blind alley
trades. In 1890, before the introduc-
ton of practical work, 1000 boys
went into unskilled trades. In 1896,
under the voluntary systems, 667 went
into unskilled trades. In 1908 (when
the number of scholars had doubled)
only so or 2A per cent went into I'M
skilled trades.
Cardinal kopp's WeaIth.-Dr.
Porsch, executor of the late Cardinal
Kopp, has published statement to
the effect that the prelate did not, as
has been reported in the Press, leave
seven million marks, or even one mil
lion. He was during life most gener-
Gus to the poor.
InduIeences During Centenary.-His
Holiness grants, in connection with
the tercentenary celebrations, in honor
of St. Teresa to the members of the
Discalced Carmelites and to all the
| faithful a Plenary Indulgence four
times in the course of the present year
if they fulfil the conditions prescribed
by the Church and individually or with
| others visit certain designated church
es in Avila, Spain. A Plenary Indul
gence is also granted to those who
shall be present at Triduums or Move
mas held in honor of the saint in the
public and semi-public churches anG
oratories of the first, second, and thirG
| Order of the Discalced Carmelites.
Sketch of st. Teresa.-His Holiness
Pope Plus X has addressed long anC
deeply interesting letter to the Dis
salced Carmelites on the occasion O.
the third centenary of the beatifica
ton of st. Teresa of Jesus. Teresa
Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada
who was born at Avila, Old CASTLE, OF
the 2Sth of March, 1915, and died a
Alba de Tonnes on the 4th of October
1882, was beatified in 1914 and canon
lied in 1922, the feast being fixed fol
the 18th of October.
Plus x Aids Social Workers.-Tht
work of the organization known as thu
Italian Social Week." which has it,
headquarters at Bergamo and which
rallies the Catholics Of the countr.
by reunions and lectures, has been en-
couraged by a special blessing from
Plus x. The work is under the specia
patronage of the Economic Socia
Union, which depends directly on Hi
Holiness. The professors and lectuT
ers for the year have just been aI
pointed at Bergamo, and their names
together with program of the courses
they will give, have been sent to thu
Holy Father The Pontiff has aI
proved the details, submitted an
praises the good dispositions of tn
promoters. 'a@
"Sacro Catino" Broken.-The Cattle
dra1 of San Lorenzo in Genoa has re
Gently suffered the loss of precious
relic. In this Cathedral there has beel
preserved, as it's chief treasure sine
the eleventh century, the cup whicl
is known as the "Sacro Catino." 1t i
mentioned by Dante as the cup whicl
was used by Our Lord at the las
supper, and is believed to be "Pars
fall" 1t was venerated by the faithful
till 1907, when Napoleon carried it Of
to France, but later restored it to Sal
Lorenzo. Like all great relics it i
generally exposed during Holy Week
but unfortunately this year it was gi1
en- into the hands of skilled workman
who had to remove some of the silve
ornaments which surrounded the bow
of the cup, for cleaning purposes. L
doing so the workman smashed tn
glass, and the sacred vessel is now i
such a condition that any possibility c
repair seems hopeless.
London Home for Dying.-The Hos
pice for the Dying, Harold's Cross
London, was founded thirty-fve year
f ago. Of the five hundred patients VIII
enter it annually more than three hui
dred die before the end of year, S
that since it's foundation over te
thousand poor sufferers have had thei
faith strengthened and their hearts VI
: lifted in the last moments by the tel
der care of the Irish Sisters Of Chart
who tend them.