The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-07-03
OLD WORLD NEWS.

OLD WORLD NEWS.
italian Generals Daughter a Num-
General Cadorna, the COMMANDMENTS
chief of the Italian forces, has daugh-
ter, Sister Maria, nun in the Con-
vent of S. Maria Ausiliatrice, Flor
ence, Italy.
Vicar Apostolic Appointed.-Rev.
Constant Daems, B. F. NJ, has been
Project Apostolic of South
Van Aertselaer, who was made Coad-
jutor to the Vicar-Apostolic of Cen
trail Mongolia.
Jesuit Dead in Africa.-The death is
announced of the Rev. Kenelm Digby-
Beste, S. j., project of studies at Bulu-
wayo, Africa. After completing his
ecclesiastical studies at st. Beunos,
Father Digby Beste taught at Beau
mont College, Windsor. He was for a
time at Florence, and went to Africa
in November last.
Collegiate Church opened.-The
new Collegiate Church of st. Finbarr,
an adjunct of the Honan Hostel, Cork,
Ireland, is in process of erection. The
cornerstone was laid recently by Right
Rev. DIR. O'Callaghan, the Bishop of
the diocese. The church is the gift of
the late Miss Isabelle Honan
Redmond Indisposed.-J E. Red
mond, Irish Nationalist leader, is sui.
fering from ptomaine poisoning, and
will be unable, for some time, to at
tend sessions of parliament
$4,000 Italian. Priests in the War;
Eighteen thousand Italian priests are
now at the front. Seven hundred of
them are acting as chaplains, 1000
of them are with the Red Cross, and
the remainder are with the rank and
file of the army. The latter are in
duty bound to offer religious assist
ance when it is required, and to write
letters for illiterate soldiers.
A Zeppelin Kills Two Sisters.-The
sad intelligence is cabled that when a
Zeppelin airship was destroyed be.
tween Client and Brussels by British
aviators, the aircraft fell landing on a
Catholic orphan asylum killing two
Sisters and two orphans, and injuring
many others. The Zeppelin crew OF
% men lost their lives.
Pools of Solomon.-About four miles
from Bethlehem are the three pools
of Solomon. One of them is 582 feet
long, 209 feet wide and 40 feet deep
The next is 423x229 feet and 80 feet
deep, and the third is 380x229 feet and
% feet deep.
Catholics in the War.-In the Euro
pean war about 100000 allied Cath
olics are at war with 63,116,900 Ger
man and Austrian Catholics.
Uganda's Silver Jubilee.-The silvel
jubilee of Catholicism in Uganda, Afri
ca, occurred on the twenty-seventh o
March, this year. 1t is now just TWEEN
ty-five years since the first four Ugan
da natives were baptized by Catholi,
missionaries. Those who know thu
glorious record of the Church II
| Uganda will not forget what she oWe
to her Uganda martyrs, and the out
look for the faith, with the amazint
statistics that show to-day Catholi
Uganda population of 10000, is in
deed a rosy one.
/ Costly chapeI.-The Borghese Chap
| ell, in the Church of st. Mary Major
Rome, is said to have cost ten million
dollars.
DubIin's Night sheIter.A Catholi,
Night Shelter has just been opened il
Dublin at cost of about $4,000.
Church in Shanghai.-The Churcl
at Shanghai, China, has one Bishop
1877 priests, 81 native priests ant
about 100000 Christians.
Christian Brothers, Student Killed
One of the first South Africans tt
fall in defense of the British Empire
was Neville Pickering, student of the
Christian Brothers, College, Kimberly
South Africa.
o'Leary Given Cross. Sergeant
Michael O'Leary of the Irish guards
went to Buckingham palace, London
Eng, on June % and received the
personal congratulations Of King
George, who pinned the Victoria eros:
on the soldiers breast. OLeary WoI
this, the most coveted of the British
military decorations, during the win
ter campaign in France.
xkARK OF GOOD Mp,.