The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-05-16

ing, a beautiful episcopal ring, set
with an amethyst. The stone is en-
graved with the archiepiscopal cross
and is surrounded by thirty-six dia-
monds of the purest water. The Patri-
arch used the ring for the first time
giving the Papal blessing to his people
on Easter Sunday.
Dutch Catholicism ldeaI.-"After
several years residence in the Neither
lands" writes Lady Acton, "the i'm
preston left by Dutch Catholicism on
my mind almost approaches an ideal
picture. There are about twelve Cath
Ollie parishes in the Hague and it's sub
| urbs alone. The churches are all
large and crowded with worshippers
at every one of the numerous Sunday
Masses"
Gift Of Kings Dauqhters.-The
daughters of the late King Leopold, of
Belgium, have given to the Kingdom
of Belgium Ruben's famous painting,
"The Miracles of st. Benedict" 1t
is now in the Brussels Museum.
A Militant Party and Press.-The
Dutch Catholics, far from being
crushed by disappointed hopes, have
kept up the struggle for their faith
with untiring energy, through years
of discouraging defeat as well as
through brighter prospects in the
more recent years. Their first signal
victory dates from 1880, when Able
Schaepman was elected to the States
General, and for the first time Cath
Ollie priest sat among the deputies.
He really created the Catholic party
as it now exists. His popularity was
| great outside his own religious fol-
lowers, and he found it easy by means
Of this popularity to found Catholic
Press. This was his first step toward
the consolidation of Dutch Catholici-
ty. In 1880 there was but one Catho-
lie organ. Today there are thirteen
Catholic dailies and $50 other Catholic
periodicals, weeklies and monthlies.
Reparation to Joan of Arc.-The
correspondence page of the London
Tablet contains note entitled, "Bish-
op Cauchon and the Blessed Joan of
Arc" which reveals a welcome vindi-
cation of the Blessed Maid by one of
her judges. The writer says: "The
Lady Chapel of the Cathedral of st.
Peter at Lisieux, in Normandy, was
built, in the fifteenth century by
Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais,
who is well remembered as president
of the court which condemned Jeanne
dare. In the deed of endowment
Bishop Cauchon mentions that he
built the Lady Chapel in atonement
for his false judgment in condemn.
ing an innocent woman"
Centenary of Notre Dame.-The IA
nous Basilica and Shrine of Notre
Dame de la Garde, at Marseilles
France, will this year celebrate its
seventh centenary.
} Elections in France.-The French
} elections were held on April 27 and
351 Deputies were definitely chosen
for the French Chamber, but the re
suit of 251 second ballots on May 10
will have to be determined, before the
| result as regards the government, is
} known.
Aid for Catholic School Pupils
| A victory has been scored by the free
Catholic schools of Paris. In connec
: ton with the French schools there is
a system of aid for poor scholars in
| the shape of clothes, meals, necessary
expenses and goods Of all kinds which
are given out to the children of indi
| gent parents. At the last sitting Of
, the city council of Paris, M. Alpy made
proposition that this aid, hitherto
: confined to the lay or anti-religious
schools, should also be available tt
scholars of the free schools. He asked
that political passions should give way
, before the helplessness and needs Of
infancy. MN. Virot and CachiI
moved the rejection Of the PROPOSE
ton, but the city council by 40 votes
, to 81 approved the proposition of M
J Alpy.
7 A Powerful Catholic Press.-The
two most Catholic provinces of the
| Netherlands, Brabant and Limberg
support seven dailies between them
J of which six are in the first named
province, while the seventh is SO pow
erful an organ in the last named, thai
every effort to establish another pa
+ per has failed. In Amsterdam, Rotter
: dam, The Hague and Utrecht, the foul
/ principal cities, there is one powerful
Catholic paper sufficiently strong tt
. be unassailable, more than one O.
| these four having a daily circulation
: of 10000 to 10000 copies.
+ A Journalist on Irish Thrift.-Jamei
!, Creelman, the we'll known correspon
4 dent of the New York dailies, in hi
:. recent article on the Irish situation
: writes: "The old slatternliness, pov
0 erty and general stuck-in-the-mud con
: dition of the masses of Irish Catho
:. lies, to which the Protestant minorit.
t points as evidence of incapacity 70
a | Self-gOvernment was the natural AM