The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-10-17
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pupils.
Religious and Priests in Belgium
In Belgium there were before the war
about 10000 members of religious or
ders devoted almost wholly to teach
ing; they had about two thousand
two hundred and twenty-five houses
The secular clergy number about five
thousand five hundred, with the regu-
lar clergy outnumbering them by a
thousand.
The Norbertine Fathers.-Tn 1920
the Canons regular of st. Norbert
(Norbertine Fathers) will celebrate
the eight-hundredth anniversary of
their foundation. During eight CEN
turtles the order has gone through
many vicissitudes. At the Reforma-
ton it was almost annihilated. Now,
however, it is fast recovering from
it's severe losses.
Origin of MacGregor Name.-The
Irish Association of Queensland, Aus
tralia, recently rendered a farewell
banquet to the Governor, Sir VIM. Mac
Gregor, whose term of Office has ex-
pired. There was great representa-
tive gathering, presided over by the
president, among those present being
his Grace. Archbishop Duhig and the
Premier (Mr. Denham). In reply to
the toast of his health, Sir William
said that he had Partially for Ire
land, but deserved no credit for it. His
family believed it's ancestors, Meal
| pines, came from Ireland, bringing the
name to Scotland with them. In the
Highlands they retained the pronunci-
alton of classics taught by the Irish
monks. He had often wondered how
the name MacGregor had been adopt
ed, and learned through Archbishop
Mcdonnell, a Canadian Highlander
| that the archives of the Vatican dis.
closed that an emissary named Meal.
pine had been sent to the Pope, one
of the Gregory's, urging that England
should leave Scotland alone. A son
was born to McAlpine when he was
/ in Rome. That son was called after
the Pope. Hence the grandson be-
came MacGregor.
=, Death of Eminent German EccIesi
astic.-Right Reverend DR.. Alois
Schaefer, Titular Bishop of Abila, Vic
! ar Apostolic in the Kingdom of Sax
ony, and Administrator-Ecc lesiasticus
in Saxon Upper Lusatia, died recent
ly at Schirgiswalde, Saxony, in the
sixty-second year of his age. CDR
Schaefer was born at Dingelstaedt
in the Eichfelde Prussian Prov
ince, of Saxony, on May 2, 1858, anG
in 1863 his parents settled at Chem
nitz in the Kingdom. of Saxony. II
1878, DR.. Schaefer was ordained
priest, and was at first active in par
ish work; in 1881, he was made pro
fessor of Exegesis at the Lyceum a
Dillingen, in Bavaria; in 1885 he be
| came Professor of New Testamen
Exegegis at the University of Muens
ter, Westphalia; in 1894 he was Pro
lessor of the same at the University
of Breslau, and in 1903 at the Uni
versity of Strassburg" He was ap
pointed Vicar-Apostolic by the Pope
upon the nomination of the King o.
Saxony. AS young theologian he
dearly loved the Blessed Virgin, anC
was the head. of her Academic So
dality, among whose honorary mem
.bers were Cardinal Hergenroether
Mgr. Hettinger, the learned Denim
ger and others.
Requests to Dublin charities.-Mr
Charles Lawler, proprietor of the I'm
perial Hotel, O'Connell Street, Dublin
a directoriof the Alliance and Dubli1
, Consumers Gas Company, who dice
, last April, left personal, estate in thu
United Kingdom valued at 100000
Among the testator's numerous char
! liable and, religious requests are SIS,
900 for the construction and equip
, ment of a dispensary in memory o
him to be attached to st. Vincent:
Hospital, Stephens Green, Dublin
: $4,000 each to the Meath Hospital
the Royal Hospital for Incurables
Donnybrook, Dublin, and the Hospita
for the Dying, Harolds Cross, Dublin
and $4,000 each to st. Vincent's Hos
. pital, Stephens Green, Dublin; the
Deaf and Dumb Institution, Cabra
st. Mary's Asylum for Female Blind
Merton, the Little Sisters of the AS
sumption, Camden Street, Dublin; thu
st. Vincent de Paul Male Orphanage
Dublin.
Death of Pioneer New ZeaIanc
Priest.-A pioneer of the Catholic
: Church in New Zealand passed away
, at Auckland recently in the person
) of the Right Rev. Monsignor O'Reilly
at the age of Il years. Monsignol
O'Reilly was born at Rosscarbery
County Cork, Ireland, on February "a
1843, and came out to New ZealanC
with his parents in 1852, arriving il
Auckland in May of that year. HI
| received private tuition from the
priests of the diocese. 1t was at the
Maori School, situated where thu
Bishops house now stands in Ponson
by, that Monsignor O'Reilly began hi!
ecclesiastical studies in 1853. He wa:
ordained to the priesthood by Bishop
7 Pompallier on February "a, 1865
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