The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-13

didly equipped motor chapel for use
with the army. The presentation was
made with great ceremony. and tie car
has already gone to tile western front.
The chapel car is very compact, likel
a small van in shape, with seats In
front for priest and driver, the back
let's down to form an altar frontal and
step, while canopy covers the priest.
Within the recess is the reliable, with
crucifix, candlestick, etc. There is a
receptacle for vestments. The chapel
car is furnished with a full compile
ment of everything necessary for the
Church's service on all occasions.
The car has already enabled priests
to celebrate Mass for the troops on
the battlefield just behind the firing
line.
Mgr 6enson's Mystery Play.-The
late MonsignOr Benson has left lega-
cy to the boys of the Westminster
cathedral choir school in the shape
of a new mystery play entitled, "The
/ Upper Chamber" 1t has been highly
| praised by Cardinal Bourne as piOus
and beautiful exposition of Our Lords
Passion. The dead priest had hoped
. to superintend it's production this
Lent, but happily he had left the min
utest stage directions, and the choir
rendered this final work in as perfect
a manner as possible, on the three
days preceding Ash Wednesday i'll the
chapter hall of the cathedral
/ Superioress for Forty Years.-The
Sisters of Mercy, st. GATHERINGS Con-
went, Edinburgh, recently celebrated
/ the golden jubilee of their Reverend
Mother, Sister Mary Agnes Snow.
i The late Abbot Snow and Canon
i Alfred Snow of Liverpool were
brothers Of Sister Mary Agnes. Her
! three sisters also entered the religious
life, one being a member of ST..
GATHERINGS community. For forty
}, years Sister Mary Agnes was re-
elected Mother of this community.
4 Franciscan Sisters Care for Orphans.
ciscan Missionaries of Mary no fewer
; than one hundred children, orphaned
J through the recent earthquake, are
! being cared for by the nuns Forty
ffuf tfre~ Sisters have been employed at
, the railway stations in helping the
,Idoctors receive the injured, and their
!. kindly oininistrations have been greatly
$ valued by the victims of the disaster.
Cardinal Bourne at the Front.-Car-
i dinal Bourne of Westminster recent
ly visited the English soldiers at the
front in France and addressed the
: troops about to take their place on the
: firing line.
+ Appointed Vicar-Apostolic. = His
t Holiness has appointed Rev. Leon
VI Girod of the Congregation of the Holy
I Ghost, Vicar Apostolic of Loango and
4 Titular Bishop of Obba. He succeeds
Mgr Dcyoult, who died March 4, 1914
The Biblical Commission.-The
! Biblical Commission has prepared q
). number of answers to questions con
E nected with the eschatology of the
New Testament. They will be eager
ly welcomed by biblical students and
scholars, for the archaeological prob
. lem arising from certain passages 81
: the Gospels and the Epistles of st
Paul is one of the most intricate ant
Interesting in all Scripture.
Assistants to "BIack Pope."-The
assistants of the new General of the
:. Jesuits have been named as follows
Il For Italy, Father Nalbone; for the
Il English speaking countries, Father
d Wallnesley; for France, Father Fine
e and for Germany, Father Oppewrats
+ who is a native of Amsterdam.
Dominican Nuns for Japan.-Japa1
will soon have convent of Dominican
8 nuns. After having studied the Japan
b ese language for some months, Mother
S Mary Thomas will shortly sail from
I" San Francisco for Manila. There sht
d wilEdecide where to locate the Mother
house in Japan. On the same steamer
will, be also six Spanish Dominican
r Fathers. destined for missions in thu
1t Orient.
81
d Ferrer Monument Removed.-It will
e be remembered that several years agt
4, Brussels. erected monument to til,
s. memory of the Spanish anarchist
All Francisco Ferrer 100000 Spanish cit
e Izens protested in vain against it's erec
!, ton. The German governor of Brus
sells on January "a ordered the remov
A. al of the monument after declaring
eI it public scandal.
r. Death of Anglican Convert.-Rey
q. Hugh Briggs passed peacefully ava
d in his sixty ninth year at st. Mary
Hill, Paignton, England, ON Januar
30, after an illness of eight days durs
j. ton. He had lived in retirement, witt
r. the Marist Fathers at st. Mary's Hill
d for some years past. He was at on
9. time in charge of the mission at Bird
e port, Dorset. He was a convert t.
4 the Catholic Church, having for sey
eral years been assistant curate o
!. All Saints Anglican Church, Plymouth
ol during the incumbency of the late Rev
&c. r. Chase, who, like Father Briggs
u also entered the one true fold, AM
j. afterwards became superior of tn
ri 8 nf