The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-05-09

'HOLIC BULLETIN, MAY
settled at Acton Burnell. There they
carried on their work until April 26,
1914, when the property was acquired
at Downside, which has gradually de-
veloped, in the course of century,
into one of the largest and most
stately religious houses in the king
dom. It is tragic coincidence that
the mansion should have been de-
stroyed just a fortnight before the
hundredth anniversary of the depart
ure of the Benedictines from it for
Downside.
Jubilee of Little Sisters.-The Lit
tie Sisters of the Poor at Harborne in
the Diocese of Birmingham are MAX
ing preparations for the solemn cele-
bration of the golden jubilee of their
\ foundation in Birmingham. The Lit
tie Sisters of the Poor belong to an
institute founded in Brittany in 1910
by the Able lie Pailleur. Since that
date three hundred homes for the
poor have been founded by these Sis
tiers in various parts of the world, and
they have now in their charge over
$4,000 old people.
u Industrial Schools for DubIin.-Day
} industrial schools are to be estab-
lished in Dublin. The Christian
Brothers have agreed to take over
their management.
First Nobertne Abbot in England.
!. For the first time in four hundred
years an Englishman was on Tues
} day, April IA, raised to the dignity of
! Mitred Abbot of Welbeck at the Cor
pus Christi Basilica, Miles Plating,
Seadon, C. r. P, was made Titular Alb
, bot of Welbeck, Bishop Vaughan Off
!, ciating. Abbot Seadon was the first
Englishman to enter the Order of the
Norbertines or White Canons, since
!, the Reformation" and is also the
first English Abbot thereof for nearly
four centuries. Ordained by Cardinal
1880, at Brussels, nine years later
Father Seadon came to Manchester
} with the late Abbot Geudens and DR..
Heylen to open Corpus Christi mis-
sion, and has labored there since,
having been Prior for some time.
: Catholic Choir for Prison.-For
| E14Io H.
Catholic chaplain at NORWOOD Scrubb
prison, has been directing Catholic
!. prison choir which gives Sunday en-
, tertainments to the Catholic prison
/. ers. So successful has been this in
novation that the choir is now called
into service on behalf of all the
inmates of that particular gaol. A
, few weeks ago the choir, which now
has an orchestra of talented amateur
musicians to second it's efforts, gave
concert to upwards of a thousand
prisoners. The program, which was
under the direction of Father Ha-
warden, consisted entirely of sacred
pieces taken from the compositions of
Gounod, Mendelssohn and Sullivan,
many of them very beautifully illus
trating the holy season.
Noted Catholic Diplomat Dead.-A
well known Catholic passed away last
month in the person of Sir Hubert
birmingham, who died somewhat sud
denly in his seventy-second year. Ed
!. ucated at the University of Paris he
i. was generally acknowledged to be
one of the finest French scholars of
the day. He knew good deal of the
conditions governing the Turkish and
Balkan questions, having been an at
, tache at Constantinople, Charge
, d'affairs at Vienna, and Consul Gen.
, eral at Belgrade, at different periods
{ of his career. After his retirement he
spent few years in the House OF
Commons as Liberal member for Der.
wick. But he soon tired of politics
and entered the Colonial service, be-
coming successfully Colonial Secre
tary for British Honduras and later
Governor of Mauritius and Governor OF
Trinidad. He was made G. M. G. in
1880 and K. C. M. G. in 1893.
Famous Painting Found.-Domini
chino's "St. Catherine of Alexandria, >
one of the Italian masterpieces of the
sixteenth century, discovered last
year in historic Scotch castle, has
been authenticated in Pairs. 1t was
lost for two centuries.
New Bishop of PaIencia.-The Bish.
OPP of Palencia, Spain, has retired on
account of age. The Apostolic AID.
ministrator of Ciudad Rodrigo has
been appointed Bishop in his place
, He was student of the College OF
Irish Mobiles at Salamanca.
Socialists Would Tolerate Wealth.
, Curtis Brown, the well-known news
paper correspondent, has been look
|, ing into Socialism in Germany. He
finds that German Socialists, while
apparently violently opposed to
; capitalism, are really not so averse
to becoming possessors Of goodly
wealth. He says Socialists have
abandoned the notion that capitalism
is necessarily vicious in whatsoever
form it is carried on. This notion is
replaced by the more practical no
ton that capitalism is virtuous only
. whom n ia not onnosed tn Socialism