The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-10

the victims of English tyranny and |
persecution.
Portrait of Pope Benedict Albert
Besnard, director of the Villa Medicis |
at Rome, has commenced painting a
portrait of Pope Benedict XIV, repre-
senting him walking in the Vatican
gardens, with the dome of st. Peters
in the background.
Sentenced for Killing Priest.-A
Swat tribesman in South Africa has
been sentenced to death for the MUIR
der of Father Mayer, missionary in
Swaziland. Robbery was the motive
of the crime. Father Mayer was
killed with an assegai, terrible in
juries being inflicted.
Priests Mentioned for Bravery.-In
General French's latest despatch no
less than three Catholic chaplains
are mentioned for distinguished serv-
ice, conspicuous gallantry and brav-
cry in the field They are Monsignor
Bickerstaffe-Drew, Father Henry Day,
S. j., and Father RaWlingson.
Belgian Convent Used as Hospital.
The Convent of the English Canon
nesses Regular of st. Augustine, in
Bruges, Belgium, is in the hands of
the Germans, who are using it as
hospital. A few of the nuns are still
there, but the majority fed to the
convent of the Order at Hayward's
Heath, Sussex, England.
Vicar Apostolic Dead.-Monsignor
Alphonse Bermyn, B. F. M, Vicar
Apostolic of East Mongolia, succumb-
ed to typhus fever recently. Born in
Flanders in 1853, and ordained to the
priesthood in 1873, he left at once for
the Orient, where he labored with
much success in difficult field. He
was made Vicar Apostolic of Mon
golia in 1901.
Belgian Daily Resumes Publication.
The Belgian Catholic daily paper
lie IKE Steele" which ceased to ap-
pear in Brussels on the arrival there
of German troops, is now published
Regularly at LIE Havre.
Father Mathew Hall Re-opened.-
The old Father Mathew Temperance
Hall in Friary Lane, Cork, Ireland,
was. re-opened recently in the pres
ence of large number of the par
ishioners of st. Finbarr's by the Most
Rev. DR.. Cohalan, Assistant Bishop of
Cork.
Irish "RoII of Honour."-During
these times of war and terror people
have become accustomed to read lists
known as the Roll of Honour. In a
few days Rome will be presented
with an Irish Roll of Honour" The
list of Ireland's 259 martyrs will be
read on the exterior of every church
in the Eternal city. This is the de.
cree which Benedict XIV has signed
and by virtue of which the cause OF
| the Irish Martyrs has now been in.
/ troduced in the Sacred Congregation
of Rites.
Honored by the Pope.-Emily
Hickey, the convert daughter of the
Protestant rector OF Mackmine Castle
Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
has been decorated by the Pope with
the gold cross PRO Ecclesia ct Pom
tifce." Her grandfather had also beer
a Protestant parson. She became &
Catholic seven years ago and has
since devoted herself to social anC
philanthropic work Her book, en-
titled Thoughts of Creedless Won
en-" has attracted many to- the
Church. She holds Cambridge Uni
versity first class honors.
Remarkable Death.Bed Conversion
IA remarkable death-bed conversion
has taken place at Chaplain, England
The convert was DR.. David Roberts
whose ancestor founded Calvinistit
Methodism in Wales. The doctor
who was in his fifty-fourth year, wa:
also a Methodist, his wife being {
Presbyterian. When told he was dy
ing he said the only person he would
like to see would be a Catholic priest
One of the Redemptorist Fathers o
Chaplain was sent for. He found thu
dying man in the best dispositions
and received him into the church
The first time the convert entered ;
ECatholic Church as Catholic wa
; when his body was brought into st
. Mary's for a Requiem Mass.
Missionaries Die in Battle.-Accord
! ing to report received by the Contra
, Office of the Society for the Propaga
ton of the Faith, twenty-five Jesuit'
have already been killed in the war
The Paris Foreign Mission, Societ!
has more than two hundred of 1T
, apostles, and one hundred of its sem
inarians on the battlefield. OF these
nine have found a soldiers death
The Lyons African Missionaries hav'
lost two of their members. The La
zarists, though numerous at the front
have had no losses, though many o
them have been seriously wounded.
franciscan General Chapter.-Th'
Most Reverend Father General of th'
Friars Minor has recently announced
that a General Chapter Of the Ordel
will be held in Rome on the Vigil O
Pentecost, May %, for the purpose O.