The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24
OLD WORLD NEWS

Sisters Hospital In Denmark.-At
Odensen and Randers, in Denmark,
the Sisters of st. Joseph are to build
hospitals.
A PoIygIot Manager.-It is reported
that julius Mueller, manager of the
great publishing house of Benziger
Brothers, at Einsiedeln, Switzerland,
who died last December, was familiar
with twenty languages.
Pontifical confessor.-His Holiness
Pope Benedict XIV has appointed Very
Rev. Luigi Castellani, of the Servants
of Mary, confessor of the pontifical
household.
Jesuit Contracts Leprosy.-The Rev.
Jose Tarrago, member of the Society
of Jesus, who for the last five years
has served as chaplain of the leper
colony on the island of Culion, P. L.,
has contracted that dreadful malady.
Requiem Mass for LaWyers.7-Mass
was celebrated at the Sainte Chapelle,
Paris, recently, for the the 10Y mem
bers of the Ordre des Advocats who
have fallen in defence of their country.
This is the first time that a requiem
service has been held in the Sainte
Chapelle since it's connection with the
Palais de Justice.
John MacNeill, President of the Sim
Fem volunteers, who recently was
found guilty of completely in the Irish
revolt, has been sentenced to life i'm
prisonment and the sentence has
been confirmed
Convert Decorated for Bravery
Sergeant C. w. Tanner Of the Nine
teenth Battalion Hondon Regiment)
who was received into the Church
while in France, recently, by Father
Lane-Fox, has been awarded the D.
c. NJ for gallantry in saving the lives
of his comrades in mine explosion
while under heavy fire, and was pre-
scented with the medal on the field by
the general in command.
Vincentians Kept susy.-During the
recent disturbances in Dublin the st.
Vincent de Paul Free Night Shelter
for Catholic Men was enabled to keep
it's doors open without Interruption.
The numbers availing themselves of
it's hospitality was unusually large, the
| figures Cor three weeks being: adj
missions, 1862; meals supplied free,
1924.
| Anglican Convert.-John B. Cain
died at Bournemouth recently in his
seventy-seventh year. A native OF
Brighouse, Mr. Cain, after success
full career at Oxford, was Anglican
rector of Monkton Wylde, Dorset, fol-
| twenty-five years. Afterwards he be
came a Catholic. He was keer
music lover, and among his many gifts
to Bournemouth was complete musi
cal reference library, which cost
$4,000.
Cardinals Would Aid Missions.-The
Cardinals composing the Sacred Con
gregation of the Propaganda Eide have
held meeting at which they discuss
ed the unfortunate conditions which
the war has brought about in the
missions of the orient, and adopted
measures to relieve the prevalent dis
tress there, and to provide for theil
future, in view of the changes thai
may result from the awful conflict.
Spanish Trappist Dead.-The deatl
has been announced in the CisteriaI
monastery, Isidro, Spain, of the Able
Ginabat. He had a special zeal fol
the propagation of the Catholic press
When he entered the austere Order
of La Trappe in 1879 few of his friends
thought that he would have sufficient
health for such life, but he became
successfully master of novices, sub
prior and prior of his community.
Tabernacle is MemoriaI.-Mrs
i Hornung, wife of the creator Of
"Raffles,' and sister of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, has presented taber
nacle to the Monsignor Benson Memo
rial Church in Buntingford, England
in memory of her son recently killed
on the French front. Mrs. Morning
unlike her apostolic brother, is a de
vout Catholic. She is Red Cross
nurse.
Missionary Bishops Apprenticeship
Holiness has made the following re
cent appointments:
Rev. Daniel Foley, to be Bishop Of
Ba1larat, Australia; Rev. Jean Dana
scene, O. M. Cap, to be Bishop of Port
Victoria, Seychelles Islands; Right
Rev. John Baptiste Marie de Cue
briant, P. F. NJ, to be Vicar Apostolic
of Canton, China, transferred from
the Vicariate of Kien-tchang; Right
Rev. Evangeliste, o. Nj. Cap, to be
Vicar Apostolic of Arabia.
i French Prisoners Form Conference
French prisoners of war in the Ger
man prison camps at GrafenWoehr
Bavaria, have formed Conference Of
the st. Vincent de Paul Society which
they have named, appropriately
enough, the Conference of ST. Petel
in Chains. Fellow prisoners in the