The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-24
OLD WORLD NEWS.

Law Against Religious Modified
The second Chamber of Hesse has
unanimously adopted proposal
brought forward by DR.. Schmitt, a
member of the Centre Party, for a
modification of the law against religi-
Gus Orders
Ancient Polish Crown Discovered
It is reported from Vienna on Jan
uary Is that severe storms at Cracow,
in Galicia, formerly capital of the
kingdom of Poland, have uprooted an
ancient elm, revealing the hiding
place of the crown worn by the former
kings of Poland, dating back to the
fourteenth century. The hidden
crown has been lost since the middle
of the eighteenth century.
Titled Woman Enters Convent
Lady Lyveden has entered the order
of the Poor Clares at Edinburgh
Scotland, one of the strictest con.
ventual orders of the Church. Lady
Lyveden was Julia Emory, salesgirl
at Eastbourne, when she met the late
Baron Lyveden, uncle of the present
holder of the title. They we're mar
ried in 1885, Baron Lyveden died in
1900. His widow has since lived in
retirement.
Property of Old Abbey-The Duke
of Bedford's property in the very
heart of London was sold few weeks
ago for an enormous sum not less
than fifteen million dollars. This
property in the thirteenth and four
teenth centuries was all church pro
perty. 1t was then the convent gar
den of the monks of Westminster
Abbey. Under Henry VIII. it was
confscated and given to the Duke OF
Somerset.
English Honors to Catholicism the
list of New Years honors in England
are the names of Sir Christopher
Nixon, Bart, who is made a Privy
Councillor, and the Reverend Mother
Mechtilda, who receives the Kaiser-i
Hind Gold Medal
Cardinal Ordains Converts.-Cardi
nal Bourne conferred Holy Orders
on three converted Anglican clergy.
men, the Revs. A and P. Valentin and
the Rev. A. Buckle in the Westminster
Cathedral, Sunday Dec %.
1.-THE Catholic" is AngIican-A new
monthly magazine has recently ap
peared in London, entitled The Catho
lie, which one might naturally sup
pose to be fresh venture into Catho
lie journalism. 1t is, however, maya
zine for catholics in communion with
the (Anglican) See of Canterbury"
Nuns Save orphans.-Two hundred
children were asleep in the orphanage
wing of St. Mary's Convent, Richmond
Hill, Leeds, England, recently when a
fire broke out They were. quietly
awakened, told to dress quickly and
without being informed the reason fol
their early disturbance, were marched
in body along the corridors into the
convent, which communicates on every
floor with the orphanage, preceded and
followed by Sisters bearing candles
there being no gas owing to the strike
London Club for Working Women
A new Club for Lonely Gentlewomen
and especially converts, started by the
Catholic Womens League, in West
minister, opened it's doors at Christmas
The subscription is fixed at twelve
shillings a year, and the club is oper
on Sundays, which are the loneliest
days for women workers. If the ex
pertinent proves successful the prem
Uses will be increased in size and &
restaurant will be added.
Materials for Gaelic RevivaI.-Al
over the continent of Europe there are
scores of Gaelic manuscripts Older
than even the oldest codexes of the
Bible, and scholars of the hdghes
erudition, such as Zeuss, Windisch anC
Whitley Stokes, have given much time
to the work of translating the Gaelic
texts or CLOSES found in them. Prof
Kuno Meyer, distinguished German
Celticist, has said: Il am convinced
that the present is but the beginning
of an era of still greater activity in al
departments of Celtic studies. Every
thing points to that" This is re
markable change from the time whel
DR.. Johnson affirmed that there wa
not in all the world Gaelic manu-
script one hundred years old, AM
there was no one living then who wa
able to disprove his bold statements
Victory for Irish Tenants.-Th
estate of the Marquis of Clanricord
in County Galway, Ireland, is nov
open to the congested districts boar,
to proceed with its compulsory pun
chase. Lands amounting to 1000
acres and the expenditure of $1,000
600 to s1,50O,O0 of public monies ar
involved in this decision of the Cour
of Appeals. The tenant farmers al
over Ireland are gratified at this vic
tory over one of the richest OF tn
absentee landlords. Since 1874 it |
said that he has paid but two brie
visits to Ireland. He has steadil
ignored all the offers of his tenant
to purchase and until now has SUI
cessfu1ly resisted the compulsory pun
chase measures OF the government.