The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-06-05
OLD WORLD NEWS.

Clerics in Bavarian Army.-Six hun
lred seminarians are now serving in
he Bavarian army.
Aged Brother Passes.-Brother Lau-
renee Carr, for sixty-three years a
of the Passionist Order in
greater part of his life
being spent in Mt. Argus Retreat,
recently.
Honor Joan of Arc.-The Catholic
women of France, in conformity with
the call of the League of French
Women, received Holy Communion on
Sunday, May 16, the feast of the
Joan of Arc.
Sandman 8ishop.-Very Rev. Fa-
Their Cesarano, C. SIS. R., has been ap-
pointed Bishop of Ozieri, Sardinia.
Irish Composer Lost.-Amongst
those reported to have been lost in
the Lusitania was the we'll known
Irish composer, O'Brien Butler. He
was popularity known in Ireland as the
Father of Irish Opera"
Kings Tomb Spared.-At the great
fire in Madrid, Spain, which destroyed
the Court of Archives, Santa Barbara
Church, adjoining, was badly damaged,
but that part of it which contained the
tomb of Ferdinand VI, of Braganza,
was saved.
Vicar Apostolic of Arabia.-Father
Paul, o. M. Cap, has been made Ad-
ministrator of the Apostolic Vicariate
of Arabia. Father Paul succeeds Mgr.
Pressuti, who died in August, 1914.
Priest on lusitania Saved.-Father
Cowley Clarke, of the Archdiocese of
Westminster, Eng, whose name is
listed among the rescued in the Lusi-
tania disaster, is son of a prominent
convert physician in London.
Priests and Prelates in the War;
The African Missionary" states that
about one hundred and forty members
of the Society for African Missions,
including two bishops, have been
"commandeered" for service in the
war.
Catholic Chaplain kilIed.-News has
been received in England that the
Rev. William Finn, who was appointed
naval chaplain in November last, has
been killed while serving with the
British expeditionary force in the OAR
danelles. He was formerly stationed
at Sanction, Yorks.
New Archbishop Of Posen.-The
Holy See, in agreement with the Ger
man Government, has appointed as
Archbishop of Posen and Gnesen Mgr.
Dalbor, canon of the Cathedral of
Posen. He was born in 1869 at Ostro-
wo, in the Posen district, and made
his philosophical and Theological
studies in Muenster, Posen, and Gne-
sen, and afterwards went to the Gre.
gorian University, Rome. He is the
author of several books on theology
New Greek 5ishop.--Mgr. Matthew
Vido has been made Bishop of Tyne
and Mycone, in the Greek archipelago.
Mgr. Vido was formerly Vicar General
of the diocese.
Priests and Students Leave Rome.
In accordance with the instructions
of Cardinal Gasparri, the Papal Score
tary of State, all the students at the
German College at Rome and most of
the German and Austrian prelates and
religious, following the example of
other German and Austrian residents,
including journalists, left Rome last
week.
Irish Lay Society.-A movement is
on foot in Ireland to organize a fra
ternal society modelled upon the
Knights of Columbus as they exist in
America. The new order will be
known as the knights of st. Colum.
banus, named after the great Irish
saint who evangelical Switzerland and
Northern Italy in the sixth century.
Raised to the Episcopate.-Father
Ange, O. M. Cap, has been made Coad.
jutor, with right to succession, to Mgr
Gramigna, Bishop of Allahabad, Hin.
dustan, India.
Religious Houses Reopened.-News
has. reached Rome that several relig.
ious Institutes in Syria. including fifty
Franciscan houses, have been reopen.
ed by order of the Porte, acting on
the request of Mgr. Dolci, Delegate
Apostolic at Constantinople. No news,
however, is given of the number OF
religious left in the country to reoccu.
py the houses after the general exc.
dus when Turkish action against re.
ligious houses began.
Bishop of Martinique.-Rev. Paul
Lequien. G. S. Sp., has been made
Bishop of Martinique. replacing Mgr.
Malleret, c. S. Sp., who died in June.
1914. Bishop Lequien was born in
1872, and since his ordination has
been q missionary in Senegal. Hayti.