The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25

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and J. B. Murphy were elected As
sistants.
Descendant Of Stuarts Dead.-A
lineal descendant Of the Royal Stuarts
passed away the other day in the
person of Miss Haggerston, daughter
of the late Sir Thomas Haggerston,
of Ellingham Hall, Northumberland,
England The Haggerstons are one of
the ancient Catholic families OF Eng.
land.
Donation for War sufferers.-On1
| the occasion of presenting to the peo-
pie Of East Prussia recently dona-
ton of 10000 marks from Pope Bene-
dict for the benefit of war sufferers in
East Prussia, the Bishop of Kuhn
also handed over to the civilian adj
ministrator large sum collected by
Catholics of the United States for the
same purpose.
/ Motherhouse in Rome.-Since the
great war the Religious of the Sacred
Heart, having to change the Mother
house from Brussels, have estab-
lished it for the time being at Villa
Lathe, Rome. On August IA seven
teen nuns made their final solemn
vows before Cardinal Merry del Val,
the Protector of their society, and on
the fifteenth sixteen others performed
the same solemn act before Cardinal
Bisletti. The newly confirmed pro-
fessed have left Rome for their con-
vents in different parts of the world.
Date of "Papal .chapel."-The Holy
Father has decided that the anniver
sary of his pontif1cal coronation, in
stead of being held on September G.,
will be celebrated on December o.,
the date of his episcopal consecra-
ton received at the hands of Plus x,
the day after the anniversary of his
sacerdotal ordination, following here
in the example of Plus x, who kept
the remembrance of his pontifical
coronation on November 16, the an
niversary of his. episcopal consecra-
ton.
A Link With Pre-Reformation Days.
There is well attested tradition
that even through the most perilous
periods of the Reformation a priest,
sometimes several we're to be found
at Lanherne, ST. COLUMBIA, Cornwall
, England, and that the Blessed Sacra.
/ hoc or
: :, without a break through all the years
: of religious disaster.
Pope Decorates DipIomats.-Pope
Benedict XIV, to show his pleasure at
= the Treaty of Friendship" of the
South American Republics, has dec
grated the foreign ministers of Chile
!, and the Argentine with the Grand
), Cross of the Order of st. Gregory the
Great; to the foreign minister Of
Brazil, who by the constitution is moi
. allowed to accept such a decoration
= His Holiness has sent mosaic, made
i in the Vatican, representing st. Sc
: bastian, Protector Of Rio Janeiro.
= Change of ,Arras See.-Through hi:
= Secretary of State, Cardinal Gasparri
. Pope Benedict has written to the
( Bishop of ArraS France. expressing
4 deep regret at the ruin of his epis
: copal city as result of the awful
!. conflict that is going on, sympathizins
Il with the prelate and his flock and Civ
e ing his consent to the temporary re
a. moval of the Bishops residence from
!. Arras. Two cities were mentioned BY
the Bishop as being suitable for hi'
new provisional Observation-Disclosures
o and ST. Omer-and His Holiness
If agrees to the selection of either o
n. them for the purpose.
4 A Catholic WiII.-Miss Gertrude M
!. Plowden, of Somerset, Eng, who die,
? on May Is, left estate of the gros
N value of $3.50, of which G5,891 j
net personally Testatrix left G5 t
the priest-in-charge of the mission il
50 which she should die, 9100 to 81
ID David's, Cardiff, G250 to the Sisters O
ar Charity, ST. Vincent, Mill Hill, N. w
at and 968 to the Bishop of Newport fo
Id such purposes as he shall determine
al The rest of her estate she left to he
lit nephew, Francis Charles Plowden.
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X New Franciscan Provincial.-Th
Very Rev. Theophilus Witzel, o. T
NJ, one of the most learned member
of the franciscan Order, has bee
elected Provincial of the province c
- Fulda, Germany. Father Witzel unit
recently had served as army chaplai
. of Fulda regiment. After his ordin;
- ton in Germany, he went to Rom
to pursue higher studies. While Their
- he was organist of the Collegio Sa
Antonio. Returning to Germany
won a doctors degree from the un
III versity of his native place, and the
al proceeded to the Holy Land for tn
IL special study of Scripture and Orients
le languages. He is about thirty-seve
at years of age. The province of Fuld
has already given two generals t
the franciscan Order, the Most Re,
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