The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-09-19

against the religious congregations in
France have been officially suspended.
The Government has also consented
to allow chaplains on board the battle
ships from which they have been
banished for some years. Dominicans,
Franciscans and Jesuits have returned
from England and Belgium, whittier
iniquitous persecution had forced them
to retire, to enlist in their country's
service. Among the Jesuit naval chap
lains is former captain in the navy.
In the army the clergy, both secular
and regular, are largely represented.
1t is said that more than four hundred
Jesuits have joined the ranks, and
from the Diocese of Paris alone, nearly
an equal number of the secular clergy
have gone to the front. A marked fea-
ture of the present crisis in France is
a general revival of religious feeling,
even among men who for years had
given up every religious practice. AS
every priest enlisted in the army or
navy will also, as occasion offers, serve
as a chaplain, the religious welfare
of the French forces is secured.
| Famous Belgian Church. - The
Church of Notre Dame at Dinant, Bel
GUM, dates from the thirteenth cen
fury and is said by authorities to be
one of the most complete and perfect
specimens in Belgium of pointed
Gothic architecture. The baptismal
fonts, like those in the Termonde
Church, are of the twelfth century.
Irish Emieration.-The Register
General announces that during the
month of July the number of emigrants
natives of Ireland, who left Irish ports
was 1908, as compared with LII in
the same month last year, a decrease
of 503 During the first seven months
of the year the total number of emf
grants was 14,117, as compared with
20,580 in the same period of 1913
decrease of 6,462. The figures further
show that for the seven months of this
year as compared with the same
period of last year there was a de
crease of 562 in the number o.
emigrants from Leinster, Munster
GIT; Ulster, 3,942, and Connacht, 982
ST. MaIachy's Prophecies.-Ther'
are two prophecies of st. Malachy, on
: relating to the succession of the Pope
e and the other to the freedom of Ire
i land and the downfall of England
!, And these prophecies come to us from
separate and distinct sources; that re
lating to the Popes having ESQ tn
/ story runs), been hidden in the Vat
L can library for four hundred year
l. after st. Malachy's death. The propE
i ecy relating to the downfall of Ems
u land Cfrom manuscript found a
r ClairvauX), has certain interest i
|. the present war conflict. Strange,
it not, that the alleged visions of thi
!. twelfth century Irish saint shout
II both, in the present year, have thi
:, curious pertinency. They can't
II authenticated; but the ingeniou
p authors, whoever they were, stampe
immortality upon their guesses.
r toric See of Meaux which has see
n some fierce fighting during the terribl
n European war is place of much hi
1t toric interest to Catholics. 1t is NJ
y far from Paris, in Northeastern Franc
Ie One of it's greatest Bishops was tn
p illustrious Bossuet, called from his ell
III quence and his learning the Eagle {
N Meaux. He was Bishop of Meaux fro
1881 to 1904. The reading of h
works made many converts; anon
the most distinguished of these CO
verts was the late Ferdinand Brun
there, famous critic and editor of tt
Revue des deux Mondes. Anotht
in Versailles who, commissioned by Kin
I'd Charles the Seventh of France
L. examine Joan of Arc, declared himse
nv convinced of the divine mission of til
Mt Maid of Orleans.
W Where o'ConneII Went to School,
In the war zone among the places des
to English speaking Catholics are S
IT, Omer and Douai, where the penal Law
ic of England forced Daniel O'Connell
ed go to school. O'Connell had tried
n gain admission to the Irish College
r. Liege, but was over age. So he pr
w ceeded in 1871 to st. Omer, not f;
of from Calais, France, where he spel
is one year, thence proceeding to Dous
.e. At the end of a year the French Rev
is luton closed all those Catholic &C
or leges and O'Connell had to go HON
h. At Douai College the translation
b. the Holy Bible into English, as no
to used by English speaking Catholic
was begun in 1878 and finished in 161
The New Testament was translated
ur Rheims in 1882, to which the COLES
of had been moved owing to troubles b
", tween Spain, in whose territori'
"a Douai then was, and France. Rhein
ne is also in the war-zone of today.