The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-06-19

casualty list contained the name Of |
Captain Gilbert Neale Gerard, of Lam
cashire, England, among the wounded. |
Captain Gerard, who was attached to
the First Battalion Highland Light In
fantry, is nephew of the late Father
John Gerard, S. j. He succeeded to |
the estate on the death of his father,
General Sir Montagu Gilbert Gerard,
in 1905.
Mgr. Benson's Play Barred.-The
British Lord Chamberlain has refused
to license Monsignor Benson's last
work, Passion Play, entitled 1.-THE
Upper Room" which has been highly
praised by Cardinal Bourne. The
reason given for his action is that he
cannot license work which presents
the Blessed Virgin Mary to the pub
lie! Here is reverence turned inside
out with vengeance.
Pope Aids Louvain Library.-His
Holiness having been petitioned to
assist in the reconstruction of the
library of Louvain has ordered that
the publications of the Vatican Library
be placed at the disposition of those
authorities and also such books as
are there to be disposed of and are
suitable for the purpose; this to be
without prejudice to further help the
August Pontiff may be able to lend
| later on.
Dutch Friar Dead.-Dutch Catholics
have received with deepest regret the
news of the death of the venerable
/ Friar Won Meurs, whose eightieth
birthday was to be made the occasion
for great tribute to his work for the
Church and to his beautiful poems
and writings. Though the committee
was formed and subscriptions came
pouring in, the proposed presentation
never took place, for on the morning
of his eightieth birthday he passed
away very peacefully, fortified with
} all the last Sacraments BY his
: death the Church in Holland loses a
noble and beautiful figure, popular
alike with Catholics and Professionals
Ancient Ruins Found.-In the Piazza
ColOnna the commercial center of the
city of Rome the excavations for the
building of new huge edifice reveal
: ed not only the foundations of me-
, diaeval palace but those below that,
forty feet below the Rome of today,
of building which goes back to the
time of the republic.
Irish Justice Apprenticeship. JUS
, tice Moloney, who is a Catholic, has
2 been appointed a Lord Justice of APP
peal in Ireland in succession to Lord
Justice Moriarty, who died recently
in Birmingham after an operation.
: Appointed Solicitor-General for Ire
. land in 1912, the new Lord Justice
l of Appeal became Acknowledgement
in the following year, and he had
held that position only for a month
: when he was raised to the Bench in
: succession to the late Mr.. Justice
c Wright.
Kaiser Pardons French Nuns.-The
e emperor has pardoned five nuns OF
e the convent at Royce, France, who
e were convicted Of having concealed
n a wounded French soldier in the con
g vent last December When the soldier
u was convalescent they gave him
Il women's clothes to wear and hid him
(; successfully for several weeks.
r Conservation of France.-His Emf
q nence Cardinal Annette, Archbishop o.
T. Paris, intimated to the Archbishops
and Bishops of France that it was
e the desire of the French Cardinal:
u that France be consecrated to thu
q Sacred Heart on Friday, June IL, thu
II day indicated by Our Lord to BLESSED
l. Margaret Mary for the Feast of Hi
s, Sacred Heart Where the ceremon.
j. could not take place on that day i
s, was carried out on the following Sun
s day.
Vatican Aids Quirinal.-The Vatican
= has placed at the disposal of TIN
= military authorities for use as hospi
tails several ecclesiastical buildings
including the German College. In tn
; Vatican Hospital of Santa Maria tw
hundred beds have been handed owe
to the Italian Red Cross.
" Portuguese Bishop Dead.-The dealt
!, of Mgr Mutinho, Bishop of Portalegre
Portugal, is announced from Portugal
Of
Archbishop of Chambery.-Mgl
CASTELAR,, Bishop of Digne, has BEEF
lie promoted to the Archbishopric O
Of Chambery, in place of the late Card
j. nal Dubillard.
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