The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-14


his Eminence Cardinal Bourne will
preside, will take place in the Hall
| of the Midland Institute, Birmingham,
: on Thursday, March &c, when the
Rev. Bernard Vaughan, s. j., will be
: the chief speaker. 1t will be pre-
coded by the first meeting of the G.
W. L. Council for 1914.
! Catholic Schools centenary.-A
, Catholic school built in 1914, continu-
/ ing as Catholic school without a
days interruption for a hundred
, years, and still going on as a Cath.
Ollie school in 1914, fully recognized
by the Board of Education and the
; local Education Authority, is, perhaps,
, unique. Such a record is held by st.
Wilfrid's, Preston, England. More
than usual interest attached to this
years annual reunion, which took
place last month in the Preston Pub.
| lie Hall.
Author a Convertible London
Tablet announces the recent recep-
I ton into the Church of Crawford
Fitch, brilliant writer, whose "a
Little Journey in Spain," has lately
} appeared.
Late commandant a Convert
= Colonel Haviland lie Mesurier, the
: Military Commandant of South Aus
| tralia, died at the North Adelaide
| private hospital recently. At his
funeral the military forces and cadets
} numbering 1850 turned out to vol
: untary parade on hot and oppres-
sive day to do honor to him. Colonel
, LIE Mesurier was received into the
: Church some time ago.
Priest Represents Ancient Family
| BY the death of Colonel Williamson
of LAYERS, Conrie, Perthshire, Scot
, land, the proprietorship of the estates
passes to his son and heir and only
J. child, Reverend Charles David Rob.
) ertson Williamson, late of the Bromp.
: ton Oratory, London. He was born in
) 1853 and educated at Elton. He was
: received into the Church in 1875; was
: ordained in 1880, and was for eleven
! years priest of the London Oratory
G Father Williamson now becomes land
, ed proprietor of one of the finest es.
4 tates in West Perthshire. He sue
. ceeds to an ancient lineage" "being
f the representative of the Robertsons
> of Struan, the Clan Donnacholdh OF
Highland history, who trace descent
in the Saxon line from Alfred the
3 Great, and in the Stewart line from
: Malcolm II.
To Gust Franciscans.-There is a
2 case now before the English High
: Court of Justice, in which an attempt
7 is being made to upset will be-
queathing 100000 to the Franciscans
t of Clevedon, Somersetshire, on the
, ground that the Order, the members
| of which are bound by monastic VOWS
| is illegal under an old law that rem
| ders them liable to be expelled from
| the country. It is also contended that
) since the Franciscans are vowed to
| poverty they are unable to receive the
| beQuest.
German Catholic Congress.-The
General Congress Of German Catholics
: will be held this year at Munster in
Westphalia from the 9Th to the 18th
of August.
Spanish Queen Heads Movement
Collections were made last month in
all the churches of Madrid for the
: benefit of the wounded soldiers and
, the families of those who had lost
their relatives in the North African
campaign. The movement was under
the special patronage of Queen Vic.
toria, who Is President Of the Ladies'
: Committee connected with the appeal
Devotions at Lourdes.-The stats.
: tics of the Masses celebrated and the
Communions distributed in the sane.
tuaries of the Grotto of Lourdes dur
ing 1913 Chose of the parish church
and Of the religious Communities are
not given) reveal the city of Mary as
the city parexcellence of the Blessed
Sacrament. In the Golden Jubilee
r year, 1908, there we're 94,500 Masses
and 1,066, 400 Communions. In 1913
there were $500 Masses and 100000
, Communions During the season OF
) the pilgrimages, Lourdes becomes a
: center of almost uninterrupted devo-
: ton to the Blessed Sacrament, night
t and day, with a daily procession of
the Blessed Sacrament, in which thou
, sands of people take part, and during
which many wonderful cures happen.
Austria's National Church.-The
Emperor Francis Joseph attended the
conservation of the new Catholic
Church Of Vienna last month. The
: new church is the fulfllment of a
national VOW, made on the occasion
: of the fiftieth anniversary of the &C
cession of the Emperor Francis
3 Joseph to the throne. It owes it's in
. ception to the Archduchess Maria
Theresa, a daughter of the late Dom
: Miguel l of Portugal, who married
, the Emperors late brother, the Arch.
5 duke Charles Louis.
) Doyen of French Bishops.
3 signor Monier, dean of the Bishops OF
| 30 h. Ds1A