The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-21

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Prince Aldobrandini, the newly APP
pointed Commandant of the Noble
Guards of His Holiness, the Order of
Christ, the most priced military dis
tinction in the gift of the Pope. The
Order of Christ, the principal eques-
trian order bestowed by the Holy See,
was instituted by Pope John XXI.
Trappist Organ Builder Dead.-The
Trappists of the Monastery of Our
Lady of Compassion, Wood Barton,
near Kingsbridge, England, have re-
| ceived news of the death of one of
their community, Father Gabriel, who
has been at the front since last Au-
gust. Deceased was a religious of
organ-building fame. He repaired the
organs at Plymouth Cathedral and
Syon Abbey, Chudleigh, having spe-
cial qualifications in this direction,
being the son of a famous French
organ builder.
Spanish Shrines.- Montserrat, in
Spain, is a wild granite mountain,
1920 feet high, and is covered with
Catholic shrines and hermitages.
/ PapaI Medals for 1915.-The Papal
medals for 1915 have been struck and
are. artistically beautiful On one
side the medals bear representa-
ton of the Sovereign Pontiff in moz-
zetta and stole. This year, the first
of His Holiness, Benedict XIV, no
special event is commemorated, the
reverse of the medal bearing the arms
of His Holiness and the words:
"Summum Sacerdotum Auspicatus
III. Non. Sept. A. MCMXIV."
Architect of ST. Peter's.-When the
great sculptor and painter, Michel
angelo planned and completed st.
4 Peters Rome, he was u years old.
u New Liverpool Church.-A magni.
ficent new church has just been
opened at Liverpool by Archbishop
Whiteside. Dedicated to St. Paul, it
has been built at a cost of $4,000 by
! the generosity of the late w. Leem-
| ing, uncle of the rector. 1t is of red
sandstone with a tower, and Gothic
decorated windows and will hold four
hundred persons. 1t is complete save
for the organ and Stations of the
: Cross, which were to come from Bel
GUM. The first Mass said within its
walls was for the repose of the soul
} of the fouder.
5 Old Egyptian University.-The Ash
' ar University in Cairo, Egypt, was
founded in 98S, and is said to be the
oldest in the world.
Priests in Lemberg churches.-The
German-Austrian forces have installed
: Catholic priests in their churches in
} Lemberg, where the Russian invaders
) had seized the church property anC
) set up a Russian orthodox Arch
f bishop. The Catholic Archbishop
= whom the Russians took prisoner il
reported to have been exiled to ST
IBERIA.
l Jesuit House a Hospital.-The BIZ
+ Jesuit house, the Institute Massimo
. up by the railway station in Rome
was opened recently for the reception
of Italian wounded. Among those pres
ent was the rector of the Massimo, t,
whom the authorities gave their sir
cere thanks for the generosity of tn
Order in so promptly offering tn
building, in which two hundred bed
are now prepared. The Jesuits ur
dertake the spiritual care of tn
t wounded who may be brought there.
e ST. Sebastian Catacomb.-In tn
r Catacomb of st. Sebastian are burie
IS the bodies of 46 Popes and 1900
martyrs.
8 Famous Bell MeIted.-The hug
q bell in the tower of the Cathedral {
i, st. Stephen, Vienna, popularity know
/, for years as die Crosse Brummerin
(The Great Growler), has pealed ii
last peal. 1t has been presented t
w the War Metal Collection, to be melte
q up and used in the manufacture {
r ammunition. The bell has not bee
! sounded for several years because
i was thought the tower in which
= has hung would not resist the vibri
n tons. It was cast in I'LL, out of tn
metal from captured Turkish cannon
weighs some Al tons, is almost min
feet high and some 81 feet around tn
= base.
= Pope's Relatives In Army.
: nephew of Pope Benedict XIV an
member of one of the most prominei
families of Northern Italy, Marqui
lei Ugo Pietro Spinola, has been in thi
= country on personal business fc
N more than a year. He is an office
in one of tie Italian cavalry reg
ments, but has not yet been sun
moned for duty. He is planning t
return to Italy next month. Thre
70 of his brothers are in the Italia
p army.
n croagh Patrick PiIgrimage.-Th
h annual pilgrimage to Croagh Patric
i takes place the last Sunday of Jul!
r. On that day there were as many q
]. thirty Masses celebrated in the littl
4 chapel on the mountain top and th
: number of the assembled pilgrims wa
about twenty thousand. The preache
m chosen for the English sermon thi
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