The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21

Theodore Amet, the mother Of twenty
two children, all of whom are living,
has been proposed to President Pion-
care by Capt Marie of the League of
Large Families for the Cross of the
Legion of Honor.
Retreat for Servants.-At the Span
ish Convent in Upper Belgrave Street,
London, S. W., a Retreat for Domestic
Servants was given February 9rd to
9Th.
Catholic Commissioner Appointed
DR.. j. Walsh Benson has been appoint
ed to the Commission of the Peace
for the county borough of Middles-
brough, England. DR.. Benson, who
has been prominently identified with
the furtherance of Catholic interests
in the district for a number of years
past, is one of the managers of ST..
Patrick's schools, and a governor of
st. Mary's College, Linthorpe.
Centenary of MarseiIIes Shrine
The famous Basilica and Shrine of
Notre Dame de la Garde, at Marseilles,
France, will this year celebrate it's
seventh centenary
Dancing Teacher Sues cardinaI.-A
Paris teacher of dancing has sued the
Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris for dam
ages to the extent of $4,000 for con-
demning certain dances, alleging loss
by being deprived of pupils and CAS-
persion on his moral character"
Public Prayers Against Bills
There are two bills before the French
Parliament against the passage of
which Cardinal Annette has ordered
public prayers in all the churches.
The first is the Lay defence Bill,
enacting compulsory attendance at
the secular schools and under penal
ties and fines forbidding Bishops and
priests to say a word against them
the second is Bryand's Bill which will
close all but State schools in towns
and villages not exceeding 5000 in.
habitants.
Bishop Left No Estate.-Mgr. La.
guarda, the late Bishop of Barcelona,
died so poor that there was no estate
for his relatives to claim. He had
spent all on works of charity for his
dioceses. He was the great friend of
the poorest and most abandoned, and
even amongst the anti-clericals he had
no enemies.
Madrid Tertiary congress.-There
are ten thousand Franciscan tertiaries
in Madrid. They will hold a national
Congress in May.
Protestant me-RuIers.-Two Irish
Professionals, Mr.. e. Haviland-Burke,
M. P, and Mr. w. H. Davey, B. L.,
editor of the ulster Guardian" the
organ of Liberal opinion in the North
of Ireland, were the principal speakers
at a meeting in Weaste, Stafford, re.
Gently in favor of Home Rule
Mr.. Haviland-Burke asserted that in
five out of the nine Ulster counties
the Catholics numbered from IS per
cent to 81 per cent of the popula.
ton.
Canon Hewlett Honored.-Very
Rev. Mgr. Martin Canon Hewlett, d.
D., Administrator of Westminster
Cathedral, has been appointed Domes'
tic Prelate to his Holiness the Pope.
Mgr. Hewlett is native of County
Kilkenny, where he was born in 1863
He was educated at Downside, at
Pontifical University and Noble Acad.
envy, Rome. Ordained in 1885, Mgr
Hewlett acted for time as secretary
to the late Cardinal Vaughan. He was
attached to Cardinal Satolli's mission
at the opening of the Washington
Catholic University.
Catholic Customs in Wales
Wales, which became so strongly Puri
tanic and Protestant, was at one time
intensely Catholic So tremendous is
the influence of tradition on the Welsh
people that they kept on celebrating
the festal days of their patron saints
for many years after the Reformation
There were about nine hundred and
sixty parishes in Wales and nearly
all of them had their churches dedi
Gated to a native saint. Old Catholic
customs still prevail in the Princi
pality. There is the "cris cros," the
making of the Sign of the Cross; the
Mari Lwyd Lawen," which is an
old mystery play enacted on Twelfth
Night. Prayers for the dead and the
celebration of Palm Sunday are other
Catholic practices still surviving in
this, the most Protestant part of the
British Isles.
Catholic Wins SchoIarship.-Hugf
Quigley, a Catholic student in the arts
course at Glasgow (Soctland) Univer
sity, has won the Monteith bursary
which is a French beneficiary scholar
ship.
Death of Noted Priest.-The deatf
of the Very Rev. Father Michael Kel
ly, D. D., o. S. A., Prior of st. Monica s
Hoxton Square, London, resulted three
weeks ago from an accident. Foi
over half a century he had been thu
pastor in Hoxton-one of the poores
districts in all London. Father Kell!
was selected by Cardinal Bourne tt
give evidence before the Royal Com
| mission on Divorce. held a few year