The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-08

bout $l,O00-has been passed unani-
nously. The monument will be erect
d in the centre of King Edward Ave-
ue.
Nonagenarian Nun Dead.-Mother
layier Condor, of the Carmelite Con-
ent, Tallow, Ireland, died recently at |
he great age of ninety-six years, sew
nty-seven of which she had spent in |
he cloister. On May "a, 1919, Mother
Iaxier was born in the County Tip
,erary.
The Holy Childhood Benedict
" desires that in all the schools and
colleges of the United States, the work
If "The Holy Childhood" be estab-
ished.
Irish Catholic Prisoners.-Very Rev.
Father Crotty, o. p, who went from
Rome on the earlier days of the war
% become a chaplain to the Irish Cath
,lic prisoners in Germany, has sent
list of the Tipperary prisoners of war
1t Limburg Uahn), and it has been
published in the C1onmel Nationalist"
There are over 1000 Irish Catholic
prisoners at Limburg, and almost
every one of them received Holy Com
nunion on st. Patrick's Day. They
are doing we'll and cheerfully bearing
The difficulties of exile and imprisOn-
ment."
Jesuit General a Linguist.-The re-
Gently elected General of the Jesuits,
Father vladimir Ledochowski, the
twenty-sixth General of the Order,
breaches fluently in Polish, French and
German. He is member of the Aus
troll Polish aristocracy. His father was
Count Anthony, a cavalry officer in the
Austrian Army. In his youth, the new
General was a page in the court of
Empress Elizabeth of Austria. He is
now forty-nine years old.
Benson Memorial Church Opened
The Benson Memorial Church" at
Buntingford, England, was formally
opened on April 6, when Cardinal
Bourne presided at High Mass, cele-
brated by Mgr Barton-Brown, and Fa-
Their Bernard Vaughan, S. j., preached
a special sermon, in the course of
which he paid a generous tribute to
Mgr. Benson.
italian Princess 5aptized.-The bap-
tism of the Princess Maria at the
chapel in the Villa Savoia, Rome, was
attended by the King and Queen of
Italy, the Duke and Duchess of Aosta,
the Duke of Genoa, the Project of the
Palace and other officials of the court.
At the same time Mgr. Beccaria, court
chaplain, administered Confirmation
and first Communion to the two Prin-
cesses, Jolanda and Mafalda, and
Prince Umberto.
French Semnarian Honored.-At
the Hospital st. Louis, Saumur,
France, the military medal was recent
ly awarded, with much ceremony, to
an ecclesiastical student from Quinn
per, named Gastric, who under the law
of CONSUMPTION was serving in the
French army as sergeant in the
.Cyclist Corps of the cavalry. He was
wounded in Belgium, and when re.
stored to health returned to the front;
but fifteen days later his arm was sc
severely injured that it was found
necessary to amputate it. The medal
was presented to the sergean by Gen
eral Desfandais in the name of the
President of the Republic.
National Irish University.-A meet
ing of the Senate of the National Uni
versity was held on March 80, in Uni
versity College, st. Stephens Green
Dublin, for the comforting of Honorar!
Degrees. 1t was the first occasion of {
ceremony of the kind in the life of thu
University, and was invested will
much interest. The gentlemen hon
ored numbered several well-known cit
the different professions in the metro
polls and in the country. They were
all students of the old Catholic Uni
versity, and for conscience sake re
Trained from attending institutions
where they could have obtained uni
versity degrees. In accordance witt
an ancient usage, gracefully recog
nized and admitted by the Senate o
the University, the Rev. Nicholas Dill
Ion, 0. f. NJ, on whom the degree o
LII. d. was conferred, appeared in thu
habit of his Order without academica
robe.
Catholic Receives Military Cross
To the number of recent Catholic re
cipients of tl:s Military Cross shoult
be added the name Of Captain Ceci
William Mallaby Firth, Dorset Regt
(Beaumont), England, who has don,
conspicuously good work with TIT
Signalling Corps, Headquarters Staff.
Pilgrimage to French Shrine.-Th'
anniversary of the discovery of thu
miraculous statue of st. Anne d'Auray
April Is, brought crowd of som'
10000 French to the famous Breton
shrine. OF these only 1000 came b.
train; the others tramped from thu
surrounding districts. All were fast
ing in order to make their pilgrimag
more efficacious by fervent com
munion. The pilgrims arrived il
patches the night before and mad