The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-24
OLD WORLD NEWS.

OLD WORLD NEWS.
Kings Gift to ChYrch.-The King
of Spain has sent handsome dona-
ton for the enlargement of st. James
Church, Spanish-place, W., which is
the church of the Spanish Embassy
in London.
Pope REEVES Old Custom.-On Palm
Sunday, His Holiness the Pope gave
Easter Communion to the Noble
Guards, Chamberlains and others of
the Vatican.
MuriIIo's Masterpiece. = Murillo's
famous masterpiece, "The Assump-
tion," in the Louvre, Paris, was taken
by Marshal Soult from Spain, and sold
to the French Government for
$4,000.
Catholic Missions in Japan.-Of the
$1,145,OOO sent to Japan last year. for
the preaching of the Gospel, only
$4,000 was contributed by Catholics.
Missionary Succumbs.-The death is
reported from Holland of the Dutch
Borneo missionary, Father Albertus
Reyffert, a Jealous priest, who accom-
plished great work in the foreign mis-
sion field.
Priests in Airship.-From Lyons,
France, the aviator Marc BONNER ac-
companied by three priests made a
flying visit in fifty-two hours to the
Egyptian mission of Tanta. They flew
from Lyons to Cairo and the mission.
Marist Brothers School.-Lisgar
Castle and an estate of over hundred
acres near Baille borough, County
Cavan, Ireland, has been bought by
the Marist Christian Brothers. 1t is
to be used as training college for
young men who join the order.
Saw Service in Crimea.-Mother
Camillus, Superioress of the Convent
of Mercy, Bermondsey, Eng, has COM
pleted her fiftieth year in the Order.
She worked with Florence Nightingale
in the Crimea.
Prize for Saints Life.-Mrs. Thomas
Concanon, M. A., Liosnamara, Salt
hill, Galway, has been awarded by a
committee of the Irish Hierarchy, the
prize of $1,000 offered by a distin-
guished American ecclesiastic for the
best losophico-historical presenta-
ton" of the life of st. Columbanus.
The donor of the generous prize did
not wish to have his name disclosed,
but his anxiety was ito present the
Irish people and their descendants
with work at once scholarly and
popular
General Chapter of the Friars Minor.
On May IL the Order of Friars
Minors will hold their General Chap
ter at the international College of st.
Antonio, Rome. BY the tenth of that
month the representatives of some
hundred and twenty Provinces of the
Order will have gathered from the four
quarters of the world, and on the
following day the business of the
Chapter will commence. But not until
the twenty-second of May, the eve of
Pentecost, will the Fathers prepare
for the election of General Imme-
diately after the General is chosen,
the voters will proceed to elect the
members of his Council.
No Site for Dublin CathedraI.-The
Most Reverend DR.. Walsh, Archbishop
of Dublin, in letter to the press,
states that enquiries so far as they
proceeded, showed that the purchase
of the contemplated site alone for
the new Cathedral in Dublin would
cost between $250,0OO and 100000.
That was final. The Archbishop de-
MES newspaper report to the effect
that he has acquired site for the
Cathedral. He is not aware that such
a site can be purchased.
Belgian WorLmen's .Association.-A
large number of Belgian wofkmen in
Birmingham, Eng have Joined to-
gether under the name OF the Belgian
Workmen's Association The commit
tee offer their services to the various
British manufacturers to assist in
placing Belgians in their own particu-
lar trade and to find labour where