The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-09-12
priests have to join the ranks when
mobilization Is ordered.

vert and sometime Papal Zouave, is
an English Catholic layman who has
special interest for Americans when
we remember that he is a grandson
of the Lord Kenyon for whom Kenyon
College (Episcopalian) Gambler, Ohio,
was named. Mr.. Kenyon built at his
Gillingham seat the noble Church OF
Our Lady of Perpetual Succor. His
wife is daughter Of Lord Henry
Kerr, of the Lothian family, famous
for the large number of converts it
has given to Rome.
Priest Unmasks a Spy.-The other
days, says Times telegram from
Brussels, a distinguished Jesuit was
walking in Brussels when he saw
man coming towards him dressed also
in the garb of the Order He greeted
him in Latin, but the other made no
reply. Thereupon the Jesuit went up
to the other and pulled at his beard,
which came off in his hand. The man
was shot few hours later.
Antl-cathollc Propagandlst Dead
Rev. Jacob Primmer, who, as Scot
fish evening paper says, gained con-
the last quarter of century, as an
opponent of Roman Catholicism and
Ritualism,' died recently at Dunferm-
line. He was the principal exponent
of the spirit of extreme intolerance,
which is happily dying out in Scot
land. He had been i'll for some weeks
past, and it is probably something
more than coincidence that the Dun
feminine School Board decided last
week to include the Catholic school in
a scheme for supplying free books, a
measure which the deceased minister,
who was member of the board, had
opposed with the utmost bitterness
| Fame of BoIogna.-Many of the
Bishops of Bologna have become
Popes. Among them were John X,
Cosimo Magliorita, who assumed the
name of Innocent VIII; Tomaso Par
entucelli, later Nicholas V; Giuiliano
della Revere, who became Julius H.
Allesandro Ludovisi, or Gregory XIV,
and Prospero Lambertini, or Bene-
dict XIV. Many of Bologna's Bishops
became famous Cardinals, among them
Caraffa, Corere, Albergati and Cam
peggio, noted for the many embassies
on which he was sent to Germany and
England in connection with the Reform
alton and the marriage of Henry VIII,
1925. After Bologna became an
Archepiscopal See almost all the
| Metropolitans were Cardinals, includ-
ing Gabriel Paleoti, who left the
Cathedral as it is today. Bologna was
the birthplace of five Popes, Honorius
II, Lucius II, Alexander V, Gregory
XIII and Innocent TX. The Archdio.
cese of Bologna contains SO parishes
1,172 churches, chapels and oratories,
837 secular priests, 119 regular and gil
seminarians. There are 10 schools
for boys and 81 for girls. The Arch
diocese has population Of 565,489.
Chief among the sacred edifices of
Bologna is the Cathedral, dedicated
to the commune and erected in. go
to replace the ancient Cathedral which
stood outside the city walls. Destroy
ed by fire in 1130, it was rebuilt in
1855. In its present form it dates
from 1905 Then there is the Church
of Corpus Domini, founded by st.
Catherine d. Vigri, commonly known
as ST. Catherine of Bologna. In one
of the chapels is preserved the mum
mified body of the saint, together with
many of the objects used by her dur
ing life. The beautiful Church of st.
Dominic is located in Bologna, close
by the Dominican convent, in which
st. Dominic died. The tomb of the
saint is a veritable museum of art.
Religious Revival in France.-Re-
ferr1ng to the religious revival in
France that the war has brought forth,
an English correspondent says: "The
seeds of it were sown before. and
those who see France from within
know that, in the large towns especial
ly, there has been, for the last few
years, a gradual increase of religious
practice, whereas in the country there
mas been decided falling off. The
peril at hand has called forth in manv
souls their dormant religious faith.
A Little Sister of the Assumption was
travelling in the Paris Metro ''Have
you medal, Sister," asked a soldier.
The Sister produced a goodly stock
OF medals that were promptly divided
among the soldiers present. Many of
the penltents who, during the mobiliza-
ton, bes1eged the confessionals, had
forgotten how to prepare their con-
tess1on, but one and all were prompted
by an idea that they expressed thus:
Nous voulons partir ct MOURN pro-
prement': We wish to enter on the
campaign and to die cleanly.'"
Catholic Lord Mayor.-At a recent
informal meeting of the Manchester
City Council, a committee was ap-
pointed to consider the question of
the Lord Mayoralty for next year.
The committee met last week, and
unanimously decided to invite the
present Lord Mayor alderman Nc
Cabe) to accept Office for a second
year. The invitation was afterwards
presented to the Lord Mayor, and he
promised to give it his consideration,
and reply to the committee in due