The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-07-17

MINISTERS at the Dardanelles. He
says Father Finn, insisted on going
ashore with his poor boys" and up
to the time he died he was asking
for them. He was hit four times.
Catholic SCULPTOR an ex'
hibition of the works of Ivan Mestro-
vic, the young Slav sculptor, was held
in London. The list of his works
contained about seventy entries. He
has achieved considerable fame on
the continent as well. Mestrovic is
a Catholic.
Martyred Priest Honored.-On Sun
day, June Is, thousands of people as
sembled at Newort, County Mayo, Ire
land, and marched in procession to the
grave of the martyred priest, Father
Manus Sweeney, who was hanged on
the market crane of Newport on the
9th of June, 1899. A beautiful monu-
ment marks his last resting place in
Burrishole Abbey, three miles from
Newport, and the 10th anniversary
of his execution was fittingly cele-
brated.
Letters of Father Maturin.-Mr.
Wilfrid Ward has been asked by the
surviving relations of the late Father
Maturin to edit for publication a Sc
lection from his letters and papers,
and will be grateful if any who pos
sess letters suitable for such a book
will send them to him at 81 Belgrade
Road, S. w. London, where they will
be copied and then returned.
Aged Priest Saves Nine Lives.-A
French priest who is seventy-six years
of age and is not with the army, has
just saved ninth person from death.
Father Dejean, we'll known at Cahors,
recently saved a merchant who had
fallen into the river while fishing.
Pere Dejean holds the gold medal of
the Saviors of France, the medal for
lifesaving and a medal for the admir-
able devotion with which in 1871 he
cared for his parishioners of Flanjac
when they were attacked by the black
smallpox.
Father Rosa, S. j., one of the fore.
most journalists in Italy, has been
chosen by the Holy Father to be edi,
tor of LA Civilta Cattolica." The
newly appointed editor was among
the very first to raise the alarm as tc
the growth of modernistic doctrines
six or seven years ago.
Belgian Chaplains.-One of the
Catholic missionaries of Papua, the
Rev. Henri Van Neck, Belgian, has
been decorated by his King for his
courageous conduct on the battlefield
After twelve years of mission work il
New Guinea he had gone to his coun
try for a holiday, when war broke
out. He at once engaged as chaplain
in the Belgian army, and was attached
to the First Cavalry Division. He il
still in service, and intends to return
to his missionary labor as soon a
the war is finished.
Archaeological Discovery.--Recen
excavations at st. Aubin's Abbey a
Canterbury England, have resulted il
remarkable discoveries. A layer o
earth was removed disclosing what i
assumed to be the remains of wor
begun by Abbot Wilfric in 105t
There now may actually be seen tn
despoiled tombs of Archbishop
Laurence, Mellitus and Justus an
part of what may be the altar of 81
Gregory. There is also visible tn
grave in which the body of st. Mildre
was laid by Wilfric. The discover
goes straight to the beginning of tn
English Church.
/ The Capuchins.-The Order {
Friars Minor 4Capuchin has 81 prov
inces, containing IT'S houses, in whic
are to be found $3.50 priests, 1,19
student clerics, and 1892 lay brother,
giving total of 1899 professed r,
ligious. If to these are added tn
novices and the Tertiary Brother
living in their converts, the gran
total is 10,104. Attached to the var
GUS parishes in the provinces ar
6,204 branches of the Third Orde
numbering 92S,576 secular Tertiarie
The foreign missions of the Capuchin
number AZ, divided as follows:
Europe, II in Asia, A in Africa, is
America, and 5 in Oceania. In thes
missions 746 priests and 292 la
brothers are engaged.
College chapeI.-The Roman-Byza1
tine 1000 new chapel of st. Charles
College, Gainesville, Md, was ded
Icated at the commencement exercise
of the college last week.
Home and heaven priceless gift
of a God Who strangely. loves US
/ to tho Christian orn NOT fIo word