The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-07-11

great PROCESSION at the LOurQeS Eu-
charistic Congress will take place on
Sunday afternoon, July 10Th, at five
o'clock. One hundred and seventy
pjrelates Cardinals, Archbishops and
Bishops have already signified their
intention of being present. Ample &C
commodations, on reasonable terms,
are now assured in Lourdes and neigh
boring towns.
Cause of "The Little Flower" Adj
mitted.-A cablegram from Lisieux,
France, recently announced that the
: Sacred Congregation of Rites had vot-
ed practically unanimously to admit
the cause of Justification and canoni-
cation as saint of Sister Teresa of
the Infant Jesus. Sister Teresa died
fourteen years ago. She was a nun in
the Carmelite convent at Lisieux,
France, and as result of the numer-
GUS miracles that are declared to have
been wrought though her has acquired
worldwide fame and the name of THE
Little Flower of Jesus"
Masons Honor Penitent Pombal.-
The Portuguese Freemasons are very
proud of their latest achievement This
is the erection of statue to the Mar
quis of Pombal, Minister of Joseph II,
whose anticlericalism and above all,
his decree expelling the Jesuits from
Portugal and it's colonies, have made
him notorious 1t is a pity, however,
that his ardent admirers do not follow
his remarkable career to the end.
They forget that Pombal, like many
other prosecutors, was converted at
the hour of his death. The register of
deaths in the Church of Pombal, 1882,
records on folio 173 that "On May Is,
1882, there died, fortified with the last
rites and sacraments, His EXcellency
Sebastian Joseph de Carvaljo Metto,
, Marquis del Pombal, whose body was
placed in the chapel of the Third Or
der, Convent of st. Francis of Our
: Lady of Cardal, in this town.
, Madrid Ladies' Catechism Society,"
Under the auspices of the Ladies' Cat
;. echism Society of Madrid, a great func,
ton with prize distributions, was held
short time ago. Over 5000 Catholic
= workmen assisted. The Queen OF
Spain and the Papa1 Nuncio were pres.
ent. One of the tableaux vivants was
Spain to the Immaculate Virgin
The 5000 workmen cheered the
! Queen.
Cistercian Centenary Celebrated
Last month the ancient Cistercian Alb.
hey, at Pontigny, near Auxerre
France, celebrated its eighth centen.
airy of foundation. Pointigny Abbey
was the second foundation of st. Der
nard's Citeaux. From it thirty-four
houses were established in France. In
= the course of the seven centuries
kings, princes, Bishops and other per-
sonages found peace in those monas-
, teries. At the Pontigny Abbey, the
entire body of st. Edmund, miracu-
+ lousy preserved, rests in the sanctu-
! airy.
! German Catholic Press.-Interesting
, statistics have recently been published
regarding the Catholic press of the
German speaking lands. There are
!, 1,241 Catholic newspapers now appear
ing in Germany, Austria and SWitzer-
land.
Tomb of Emperor.-At Aix-la-Cha-
pelle is the tomb of the great Emperor
, Charlemagne. He was buried in the
central space beneath the dome; but
the manner of his burial is one of the
most impressive sermons ever
preached. In the death-chamber be-
meath the floor, he sat on a marble
chair-the chair on which kings had
been croWned-and, wrapped in his
imperial robes, a book of the Gospel
lay open in his lap; and as he sat
there, silent, cold, motionless, the fin
ger of the dead mans hand pointed to
the words of .Jesus-"What shall it
profit man if he gain the whole world
and lose his own soul?"
Education in Prussia.-Of the $751;.
900 school children in Prussia, 3,S15,-
! OuU are Ill IIOIGSIduL SCuOOIS, l,OOO,OOU
+ are in Catholic schools, and the com
: paratively small number of 368,565 in
the non-sectarian schools. The pupils
in the latter take most of the course
in common, but receive religious in
struction separately in the faith to
3 which they belong.
S For German Catholic Youth.-In the
. German Empire there are 1924 soci
e cites for Catholic youth, with 298,223
e members. They are increasing fast.
Continuation Schools of Munich
The Catholic city of Munich has the
finest Continuation Schools in the
world. In the year 1908, in that city
of nearly 100000 inhabitants, all boys
: with the exception of eight per cent
i went straight to definite trades when
= they left the elementary school at the
2 age of fourteen. But of the boys who
a passed through the eighth class (2,30(
:, out of total of $4,000, only fifty Coz
] 2A per cent? went into the blind alley
! trades. In 1890, before the introduc
: ton of practical work, 1000 boys went
5 into unskilled trades. In 1896, under
r the voluntary systems, 667 went into
] unskilled trades. In 1908 (when the
f number of schools had doubled. only