The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-07-24

Italian Generals Daughter a Num-
General Cadorna, the COMMANDMENTS
chief of the Italian forces, has a
daughter, Sister Maria, nun in the
Convent of S. Maria Ausiliatrice, Flor
ence, Italy.
$4,000 Priests.-According to esti-
mate there are about 100000 priests
in the Church. OF this number about
100000 are on the Continent of Eu-
rope.
Pope's Patriotism.-The "Osserva-
tore Romano" states that the Pope
daily contributes to the relief of 500
families of Roman soldiers fighting
at the front.
$4,000 Priests in ltaIy's Army
Eighteen thousand Italian priests are
now at the front. Seven hundred of
them are acting as chaplains, 1000 of
them are with the Red Cross, and
the remainder are with the rank and
file of the army. The latter are in
duty bound to offer religious assist
ance when it is required, and to write
letters for illiterate soldiers.
Belgian Woman Given PapaI Palm.
Recently in Rome gifted young
Belgian woman, Mile. Van den Heuval,
was awarded the richly chased gold
palm given annually by the Pope to
some high parsonage in the Catholic
world, generally to member of a. ruiz
ing family or to the head of some
great institution, in recognition of
work done for the Church.
Cause of Ratification of Friar
Minor.-On the 22nd of June the Sa-
cred Congregation of Rites held a
preparatory meeting to discuss the
virtues in the heroic degree of the
Venerable Giambattista De Borgogna,
a Friar Minor of the diocese of S.
Claude, France, who died in Rome in
1925 at the age of twenty-six, and
whose body is preserved in the Church
of ST. Bonaventure on the Palatine.
Sculptor Busy.-Rodin, the French
sculptor, is busily engaged on a bust
of the Holy Father.
Pope's Brother Dead.-The death
has taken place at Genoa of the Mar
quis Giulio della Chiesa, younger
brother of the Pope
Large Requests to Irish Church.
BY the will of the late E. j. Byre of
Dublin, the youngest son of M. j.
Byre of Bays Wells, County Kilkenny,
the Church in Ireland and abroad ben
efits considerably. The estate, valued
at $2O1, 900, is divided amongst Cath
olic charities.
Buried in atacombs.-The number
of Christians buried in the catacombs
of Rome is estimated at minimum
of 1,752,000. These catacombs re-
quired an excavation of ninety-six mil
lion cubic feet Of solid rock,
Japanese Nuns in United States
Two Japanese nuns have just arrived
at Sacramento, Cal, for the purpose
of working among their countrymen
in st. Stephens parish. The Sisters
are descendants of the first Japanese
converted by st. Francis Xavier in
the sixteenth century
Wanted to See Priest.-Mr. David
Roberts, descendant of the founder
of Calvinistic Methodism in Wales,
was on his deathbed received into the
Catholic Church. When he was told
that death was approaching and asked
if he would like to have the minister
he answered the only person he would
like to see was a Catholic priest.
Catholic Pilgrims.-The war did not
stop this year the annual procession
of Catholic pilgrims to Tyburn, Lon
don, where so many Catholics suffered
for the faith during the days of perse.
cution. In dull, dismal weather, heavy
rain and penetrating damp mist,
many Catholics assembled at the site
of the old prison, and, bearing aloft
the crucifix, trudged along in process
sional order to the convent at Tyburn.
Catholic HolIand.LThere are no
less than los Catholic publications in
the small kingdom of Holland. There
are SO Catholic religious houses of
men, % converts of contemplative Sis
tiers, and 400 houses of nursing Sis
tiers, with 10000 members. Holland
has not as yet Catholic university.
1t has 730 primary schools, with 1885,
600 pupils; also 81 Catholic colleges
and five diocesan seminaries. The g.
100000 Catholics of Holland are divid-
ed into 1,12O parishes. There is a
church or chapel for every 1900 of the
faithful. ~ ~
Rene Bazin.-'T shall not relate my
audience with the Pope" says Rene
Bazin, the famous French author, c.
that is one of those things that re-
spect and refinement should prevent.
But what can say is this that in the
conflict which divides the world /
found him as clear sighted as I had
hoped, and that in this great soul I
recognized not only the desire for
peace, but that most perfect of the