The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-05-02

WaIla Walla Catholic Scholastic
Catholic schools of Walla Walla,
entertained at a lunch
con of the Commercial Club of the
city, Tuesday, April IA, in the Dacres
hotel. Brother George of the La Sale
Institute gave the address in the
course Of which he quoted an extract
from the last report of the superin-
tendent of education for the State of
Washington, which says that in Walla
Walla city $53.18 are spent annually
for the education of every single pupil.
From this estimate, the $50 pupils en-
rolled in the parochial schools would
cost the city annually upwards of
$4,000 as an extra expenditure for
their education; to this may be added
an extra expenditure of some 100000
for their proper accommodation.
Seminary Mission Society.-The
students of Kenrick Theological Sem.
mary have organized a Missionary
Society.
Relic of True cross.-There has
lately come into the possession of the
Foreign Mission Seminary at Mary.
knoll, N. Y, relic of the Holy Cross
on which Our Saviour died. This
precious relic has been given by a
noble benefactress in Europe, who re.
ceived it from a Passionist Father in
1875. It has been verified at Rome
and will be placed in the Hall of Mar.
tyrs at the seminary.
Army to Honor Rarry.-Secretary
of War Garrison has promised to
gather all the troops within a radius
of 100 miles of Washington for the
parade on May 16, when the statue OF
John Barry, "the father of the Ameri
can navy" is unveiled. Secretary OF
the Navy Daniels probably will order
the brigade Of midshipmen from An.
napolis to march in the parade. The
President assured the committee
members of his intention to speak at
the banquet on the evening of the un.
yelling, unless prevented by impera.
tive engagements.
Priest Has MurilIo.-Reverend
Paul Figueroa, assistant pastor of st.
Church, is the happy pos
SCISSOR of genuine Murillo painting,
depicting ST. Anthony and the Child
Jesus. The canvas in the possession
of Father Figueroa is small one, but
the faces are of the Spanish types to
which Murillo confined himself. The
painting was covered with dirt and
dust when Father Figueroa first found
it seven years ago in the home of a
relative, Mariana Ortiz, at Oquito, a
small town across the border. 1t was
brought from Spain by a relative early
in the last century. Father Figueroa
took occasion seven years ago to go
to Oquito and hunt for the heirloom.
It was only after a diligent search
garrets that the priest came
across it.
Hungarian Count in America
Count Michael Karolyi, the fighting
leader of the minority in the Hun
garian Parliament, arrived in New
York recently on the Cunard liner
Mauritania 1t is his purpose, in ap-
pealing to the Hungarians in this coun-
try, not to weaken their new alleg.
lance but to ask them to exert their
influence in making the freedom which
they have found here reality in the
country of their birth as well.
Cathedral School Cornerstone
The cornerstone of the new Cathedral
school, Eighteenth and Wood streets
Philadelphia, was laid on Sunday
April 26, by Archbishop Prendergast
The sermon was delivered by the
Right Reverend Monsignor Philip R
McDevitt, superintendent of parish
schools.
Brother Amadeus Visits America
Among the passengers who arrived at
New York from Europe, April 8, was
Reverend Brother Amadeus, Superior
General of the Brothers of Charity
He is accompanied by Reverend
Brother Philemon, his first assistant
who was for eight years provincial SUI
perior of the order in America. Brother
Amadeus makes his home at Client
Belgium, whence he governs the In.
stitute of the Brothers of Charity with
the aid of council composed of five
members. The purpose of his visit is
to inspect the American Affiliations.
Vincentian PiIgrimage.-St. Vincent
de Paul Society of Brooklyn, compris-
ing 55 Conferences, will make it's an.
nual pilgrimage to Mt. Loretto, Staten
Island, on June 7th. About 1900 men
will make up the pilgrimage.
Beginning of Mgr. Renson's CONVEX.
sion.-M on signor Benson recently
stated that his conversion to Catholic
ity began when he was travelling down
the Nile in Egypt. cat one place,
he says, where we stopped I discov.
cred that the Catholic Church was
located not in the middle of the city,
not near the hotels, where it would
have the patronage of the fashion.
able, but in section where the poor
Arabs lived in mud-huts. Here was a
priest giving to these people the same
that was given to the mem
bers of the Roman communion in the
most stately cathedrals of the world