The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-02

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) ,633 beds for wounded soldiers.
Summoned for Military Service
Mr. Cecil Chesterton has been called
on for military service, and has Joined
the East Surrey Regiment. In his abb
sence The New Witness will be edited
by G.. X. Chesterton.
Society of Foreign Missions.-Seei-
ETY. of Foreign Missions of Paris, last
year, baptized 2S,094 adults, 107,725
children Of pagan parents, and con-
verified 359 heretics. The Society num-
bers 1,343 members.
Aged Missionary.-Father Tardival,
founder of Maryland a mission sta
ton, in Henzada, Burma, India, and
where he remained working, without a
single holiday, for So years, has died
of pneumonia, 50 years OF age.
Glasgow CathedraI.-On the 22nd of
October, st. Andrews Cathedral, Glas-
Cow, Scotland, celebrated with great
eclat the hundredth anniversary of it's
opening. Four Scottish, one English
and one Irish Bishop participated in
the celebration, besides Archbishop
Mcguire.
ST. christopher's Medal. = Queen
Alexandra, of England, attributes the
safety and return of the men of the
Shackelton Arctic expedition to a lit
tie medal Of st. Christopher, which
she gave the explorer before he
started.
Bishop Becomes Parish Priest.-The
president of the Red Cross of Italy
announces that the chaplain of the
Red Cross Hospital in Crema has fall
en- i'll of typhoid and that the Right
Rev. Monsignor Minoretti, Bishop OF
Crema, not having a priest at his dis
posal, has himself taken up the duties
of chaplain in the hospital
Catholic Bulletin of Pekn.-In China
is published the Catholic Bulletin OF
Pekin. According to it that Empire
had, last year, 1,729,223 Catholics ane
4g Bishops. Priests from Europe mum
bered 1,430; Chinese or native priests
numbered 500; churches and chapel:
numbered 8,618. In the theological
seminaries were SIS students; in the
lower seminarieS 1887
Dutch CathoIics.-Holland contains
about 100000 inhabitants. Of this
number over 100000 are Catholics
The Church of Holland has over 40 re
ligious houses of men and $40 of WON
en-, 730 schools and 125,000 pupils. 1
has, besides the seminaries, II col
leges and high schools, and % mission
houses where missionaries are trained
There are published in Holland 10
Catholic journals.
Priest Prince Sings Mass for Prison
ers.-The colony of invalid German
war prisoners at Davos, Switzerland
recently received visit from Primo
Max of Saxony, a brother of Kin
Frederick August II. The prince, VIII
is a Catholic priest and professor @
theology, remained three days, and O.
Sunday celebrated a solemn Hig
Mass, which was attended by the Pro-
estant prisoners as we'll as by tn
Catholics.
| Vincentan Superior Dies in Paris
Cable advices announce the death i
Paris of Very Rev. Emil Vilette, Supt
rior General of the Vincentian Order
This noted churchman was stricke
with paralysis some time ago., and
is believed that his death was has
tened by worry over the Europea
war.
| A Whole Family Converted.-To tn
recent conversions of Protestan
clergyman, and the wife of wei
known general, has now to be adde
that of whole family. Mrs. Romanes
widow of we'll known freethinkin
professor at Oxford, and owner of a.
important property in Rosshire, Sco1
land, has been received into tn
Church with all her children, togethe
with the tutor of the latter, who was
Scottish Episcopalian minister and tn
Protestant chaplain to the family, VIII
had their own chapel on the estate
This will now become Catholic. TIL
news has created deep impression il
the district.
Catholic May Sit on Throne c
PoIand.-The King of Poland will prof.
ably be Catholic, it is declared o.
high authority. The choice lies, it
said, between an Austrian archduk
and a Bavarian prince. Leopold c
Bavaria, it is believed, will be chosen
as he has two sons, and his wife
Princess Cisela, is the daughter of En-
peror Francis Joseph of Australian
gary. In her veins, it is said, flow
the blood of the ancient kings c
Poland, with whom the house of Hap:
burg formed marriage alliance.
| catholicity in Germany.-Accordin
Ito statistics which have Just been pul
& = ss-s---is 81 81 : 81