The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-08-08
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New ObIate Province.-The recent
Chapter of the Oblates of Mary I'M
maculate, which met at st. Louis Col
lege, New Westminster, B. c., decid-
ed to raise New Westminster to the
dignity of Provincial House. The de-
cision will add to the Importance of
the Royal City from the Catholic
standpoint. 1t will not affect parish
work, which, as formerly, will be un-
der the supervision of Father Beck.
A coincidence is the fact that this
year marks the golden jubilee of the
first establishment of the See of New
Westminster, in the episcopacy of
Bishop D'HerbomeZ, o. M. |.
New Rector of Ottawa University.
The Reverend Henri Gervais, o. NJ.
l., superior and pastor at Maniwaki
since 1908, has been named rector of
Ottawa University in succession to
Rev. Father Roy. He was born at
Three Rivers in 1864, and it was at
the college of his native place that he
made the greater part of his studies
which he finished at Ottawa Univer
sity. In 1882 he entered the Order OF
the Oblates of Mary Immaculate; made
his VOWS in 1884, and in 1889 was
ordained by RI Rev. Bishop Duhamel.
For sixteen years he served at the
University of Ottawa as professor,
director of studies and vice-rector.
Toronto Pastor Makes Room for
PauIists.-Father l.. Minehan, who
has been pastor of st. Peters, Toron-
to, Can, for eighteen years, leaves
at his own request, to become the
first priest of new parish in the
west end of the city, and to make
way for the Paulist Fathers, of New
York, who were invited some time
ago by Archbishop Mcneil to estab-
lish a branch of their Order in To-
ronto.
Death of Admiral Ramsay.-Rear
Admiral Francis Munroe Ramsay, U.
S. N, retired, who with Admiral
Dewey and Rear Admiral Benham con-
stituted the Schley court of inquiry,
died at his home in Washington, D.
c., on Sunday, July 10, in his eighty
first year. He was born in Washing
ton, the son of Brevet Major-General
George Douglas Ramsay, and was ap-
pointed a midshipman from Pennsyl-
vania in 1850 and served with the
Pacific Squadron from 1851 until 1856.
He then attended the Naval Academy
and was graduated in 1856 and be-
came a passed midshipman the same
year. In 1858 he won the grades OF
Master and Lieutenant, and in 1852
was made Lieutenant Commander
In 1866 he became Commander, and
in 1877 a Captain. In 1889 Admiral
Ramsay was made Commodore, and
in 1894 a Rear Admiral, retiring in
1897 on reaching the age limit Ad
miral Ramsay held important com
hands during the Civil War, being
in command of the United States
steamship Choctaw and the Third
Division of the Mississippi Squadron
during 1864 Before Vicksburg he
commanded a battery of three heavy
siege guns mounted on scows. During
1864-5 he commanded the gunboat
Unadilla in the North Atlantic Squad
ron He was in the battles of Fort
Fisher and Fort Anderson. After the
war he was at different times Super
intendent of the Naval Academy and
7 Chief of the Bureau of Navigation in
the Navy Department. Admiral Ram
say, who was a convert to the faith
was married to sister of the late
Judge Martin T. Mcmahon. When
after the Civil War, the then Genera
Mcmahon was sent as United States
-Ginister to Paraguay, his sisters &C
companied him to South America
There they met Admiral Ramsay, who
was then a fleet captain under AID
miral Davis. The wedding took place
at Buenos Aires, and the celebran
was the famous Father Anthony d
Fahy, o. p, the missionary and patror
of the great Irish colony in Argen
tina. Admiral Ramsay's conversion
took place at the time of his mar
Tiage.
Activities Of Retired italian Pastor
Though retired, Mgr. Sartori, for
merly pastor of st. Joseph's Church
Midland, Allegany Co., Nd, in hi!
native Italian town, Grigno, Trentino
is very active. On June Is, 1914, HI
established his own "Asilo Infantile,
i. e., "Giardino d'Infanzia," and sew
ing school and "Recreatorio Fem
minile," everything gratis and at hi
own expense, under the Sisters o
Providence of st. Gaetano di Tiene
He persuaded also the municipal au
thorities to vote for the same relig
ious order to direct the local hospita
and poor house in substitution of tn,
heretofore insufficient lay service
Moreover, he founded two perennial
burses for Sartori's or other ecclesias
tical students and by contract witt
the Congregation of Charity deedet
all his land and houses for beneficenc
and his splendid villa as a perennial
residence for poor and infirm prizes
and successors. The Monsignor i
now seventy years DID,
New Sisters School.-The Sister
of Divine Providence in Washington
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