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

i
ish worlxmen. The Belgian Work
mems Association has also established
fund for assisting the Belgians in
Belgium. All the workmen members
of the Society are contributing per-
centage of their weekly wages to this
fund, and it is also being augmented
by gifts and by collections at concerts
which are being arranged.
Worlds Oldest Priest Dead.-Said
to have been the oldest priest in the
world, the Right Reverend Abbot Don
Anacleto Salazar, c. R. L., died on
March 18 at Onate, Spain. He was
within four months of completing his
one hundred and fourth year. Abbot
Salazar, who was born in July, 1911,
was ordained in 1885, thus having
spent eighty years in the priesthood.
on his one hundredth birthday Don Sa-
lazar was raised to the abbatial digni-
ty, and on that day he sang Pontitical
High Mass.
Irish Catholic Order of Foresters.-
A conference was held in the Mansion
House, Dublin, in connection with the
formation of an organization entitled
the Catholic Order of Foresters of
Ireland. Mr.. T. J. Fay, secretary,
explained the objects of the Order,
which, he said, would work for the
benefit of its members on true Catho-
lie lines. The object, he said, was to
band together all Irish Catholic men
who had a desire to belong to an
!, Order of Forestry. 1t was truly Cath
olic and Irish, and had the approval
of the clergy.
Statistics of Scotch Archdiocese
| The Rev. Thomas Miley, the Diocesan
) Senior Inspector of Religious Instruc-
I ton in the schools of the Archdiocese
of ST. Andrews and Edinburgh, has
just issued his report, which states
!. that continued progress is being made.
n There was notable increase in the
number of baptisms and the roll of
: pupils at school showed a big increase.
He estimated the Catholic population
of the Archdiocese at 70,267, and the
: number of pupils on the school rolls
in 1914 was 1887, as against 12,78S
in 1913. The children examined in
1914 numbered 1852, as compared
g with 12,47S in 1913.
Catholic Hotel SUGGESTIVE
3 action of few Catholics in founding
10 Nof IN r
it's justification in the first annual
general meeting of the shareholders
II held at the Salisbury Hotel, London
q recently, where it was reported thai
. despite the untoward events of the
d year 1914, the business Of the hote
had been most satisfactory.
Victim of Sleeping Sickness
: Those who know how unsparing have
= been the efforts of the Scheut Mis-
- sionary Fathers in the Belgian Con
. go to grapple with the terrible 'sleep
ing sickness there will regret to hea
that Father Eelen, one of the Congo
:, lese missionaries, is at the presen
:. time being treated for the disease a
: the Hospital of ST John and st. Eliza
= beth, London. He was stricken b.
:. the fell malady when working in tn,
=. mission field among the swamps o
- Bokoro. He returned to Belgium t.
:. seek medical advice, but only to fin
: his country devastated and his com
munity in exile, so followed them u
London. Unhappily, since his arriva
in England the disease has mad
- rapid progress and the patient is il
an almost perpetual state of como
the fatal sleep" which by degree
~ eXhausts the sufferer.
Relic of Martyr.-Part of the blood
mr. stained shirt worn on the day of hi
al execution by William Howard, Wis
tv count Stafford, has recently bee
" added to the treasures of the MAJ
is tyrs' Oratory at Tyburn. This pre-
or cious relic is due to the generosit
of his descendants, and the nuns of S
Brides Abbey, Milford Haven, hav
or made for it a beautiful setting, cop
Mt in Illuminated. work of a design in tn
NJ possession of the Duke of Norfoll
- showing the various arms of tn
10 Howard family.
Irish Provincial of o. M. I.-Re1
NO Thomas Leahy, o. M. l., rector of S
#, Anne's, Rock Ferry, has been appoin
ed Provincial of the Oblates of Mar
- Immaculate in succession to the lat
Father O'Reilly. A native of Dublil
10 Father Leahy was educated at Hi
= burn and Liege He was ordained g
: Liege in 1896, and after serving fo
ia a time on the staff at Tower Hill, Lol
= don, went as rovice master and supe
- ior to Stillor an, County Dublin.
- 1897 he became Superior at Roc
~ Ferry, where he completed the carr
ing of the interior of the church a
a testimonial to Rev. D. Organ, {
M. l., and in 1909 celebrated tn
IT. golden jubilee of the church. In 191
Is he built, at cost of $4,000, the fin
p Lourdes Memorial Hall adjoining tn
-. church.
at
ne Roman Conferences of ST. v. de
ne There are thirty-seven conference
UT of st. Vincent de Paul in Rome. o
ne a recent Sunday the Holy Father n
ne Iceived the members in the Consistoris
I'll Hall. Prince Luigi Bonconpagni, Pre-
OF ident General of the Society, read a