The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-30
OLD WORLD NEWS.

OLD WORLD NEWS.
Oblate Army Chaplains.-Six Oblate
priests, from the Ceylon
mission field, have arrived in North
arn France to take up work as army
chaplains.
French Bishop Dead.--'La Croix" of
Paris announces the death OF Mgr.
Capmarti1l, Bishop of. Oran, to which
See he was appointed by Plus X from
a pastoral charge in the diocese OF
Bordeaux.
Japanese Envoy to vatican.-The
Japanese Government has decided to-
appoint Il diplomatic representative to
the Vatican.
Won 5ueIow's Wife Catholic.-The1
wife of Prince Won Buelow-ex-C han-1
cellor of Germany and Ambassador
to ltaly--is a Catholic, of Italian birth,
and d member of the princely and
ducal house of CaInporeale. She also
has strain of English blood, through
her mother, who was Miss Acton,
Of the old Shropshire Catholic fam
lily of Acton.
kiIIaIoe Aids BeI9ians.--The priests
and people of the diocese of Killaloe,
Ireland, sent Cardinal .Mercier over
$4,000 for the relief of the Belgians.
$4,000 Priests in Armies.-liE a re.i
cent lecture, one of series on the.
clergy and the war, Monsignor Laeroix
told a Sorbonne audience i'm Paris
that there were $4,000 priests in all
the armies engaged, 10000 of them
fighting as regular soldiers in the
French ranks.
General Kelly-kenny.-The late
General Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny, for
merly Adjutant- General of the British
army, was devout Irish Catholic, and
a distinguished soldier. His home
was in County Clare, Ireland, where
he lived since his retirement in 1907.
Forty Anglican Converts. Since
March of last year, nearly forty Amer
lean clergymen in England have join
ed the Catholic Church, and scarcely
a week passes without the announce
ment of some fresh clerical CONVEX
sion.
Cause of Roman Matron.-The Sa-
cred Congregation of Rites held a
sitting recently, to inquire into the
cause of the Venerable .Elizabetta
Canori-Mora, a Roman 1natron of ex-
life, She was a victim of
her husbands tyranny, which lasted
until her death. Of good family and
blessed with means, she expended all
in the hope of saving her SOUL She
sought no comfort and asked no SYM
patty After her death the worthless
husband reformed his life. When
raised to the affairs she will become,
without doubt, the matron of Catholic
WIZ SuuSI Ill llLCs
Chinese Mission FieId.-The work
in the Catholic mission fields of China
is bearing fruit. Within ten years
the number of Catholics i'll the
province. of Pekin has increased from
$4,000 to 100000.
Made a 5ishop.-Mgr. Longhi, Presi-
dent of the Pontifical Academy of
Noble Ecclesiastics, was raised to the
dignity of, Archbishop Oh December
II in the chapel of the Academy. The
title is Observation-Disclosures of Colossus.
Cardinal Vico was the consecrating
prelate.
Refugees From Syria.--A large NUM-
Der of priests and nuns who have been
expelled from Syria have arrived in
Rome, most of them almost in state
of restitution.
Famous Composer Dead.-The
death occurred recently i'll Munich of
the celebrated composer, Father Hart
mann, of the Friars Minor. Ills most
recent work, "Te Deum," was given
in Munich a year ago in the presence
of King Louis.
Treaty Signed in Monastery
century ago on Christmas Eve there
was signed in the old Carthusian mon
astery in the city of Client the Treaty
of Peace between Great Britain and
the United States which brought to a
close the last war between the two
great nations. The occasion has been
signalized on the part of the Peace
Centenary Committees at both sides
of the Atlantic by the issue of mani
festoes.
Requests to charity.-Of his person
al estate. 913,993 left by the late
Joseph O'Neill, tobacco manufacturer,
Bagenalstown, Ireland, who died on
March 81 last, he bequeathed G1 900
to. the Superioress of the Convent at
Mooncoin for charitable, purposes; !
g., 900 to the Abbot of Mount Nellie
ray for: Masses; ESQ tos the priests
in charge of Bagenalstown for Masses;
$500 for the Apkeep and repair ofthe
Chapel at BallinkiIlen, and 800 for
the erection of a stained glass win
dow there.