The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-11-04

Mgr. Ranu2zi, Mgr. Del Bianchi, and
Mgr. Tedeschini. the last-named rep
resenting the Papal Se~cretariate Of
State.
D, S. c. to Priest.-The award of
the Distinguished Service Cross to the
Rev. Father Anthony II. Pollen, S. j.,
is announced in the list of British
naval honors recently issued. Father
Pollen, who is fifty-six years of age
although himself severely burned,
carried men, whose injuries from the
same Il were Of a still more seri-
IL kind, from the battery-deck to the
distributing station on board the
"Warspite" in the battle of Jutland.
Death Of Mother Rernard.-Where-
ever the community Of the Sisterhood
Of st. Louis is known throughout Ire
land, the news of the death of Mother
Bernard, the Superioress of st. Louis
Convent, Clones, was heard of with
poignant sorrow. In the ~sixty-second
year Of her age and in the thirty
third year of her religious life, Mother
Bernard passed away at a private hos
pital, Belfast. She was a native of
County Cavan, a daughter of the late
James Herman, Of Aughavainis,
Gowns. She entered the community of
st. Louis in 1884, and ably assisted
to build up for the Sisterhood of st.
Louis the fame that it has attained
as an educational community. She
remained at Monaghan for many
years, and thence went to Carrickma-
cross where she founded a branch.
She was Superioress of the Carrick-
macross Convent until 1906, when she
became Mother. Superioress of the
Clones Convent, and for the last ten
years she had conducted the Clones
institution with conspicuous ability.
Chair of Pope syivester.-In the
cloister of the Lateran, Rome, is the
chair of Pope Sylvester, who died in
1876.
Alexandria of Eaypt.-Alexandria,
AtoS pGJ 10 LOu0S ~ SICJ vi CipOCl OOU,UUU,
It's first Bishop was st. Mark, the
Evangelist, who was ~martyredAin the
year 68.
Wonderful Botanical Garden.-On
the Little st. Bernard" hospice, near
Aosta, Northern Italy, at an altitude
of $3.50 feet, is a remarkable botanical
garden, in which are grown the noun
tain fora of the Alps, the Pyrenees
the Himalayas, Balkans, C%arpathians
Caucasus and the mountains O
America, Japan and New Zealand.
Priests in China.-The number O
Catholic priests in China, includin;
both Europeans and natives, is 1926
Protestants have 5,118 European mis-
s~ionaries, besides a large number 0
native helpers. The comparison be
5 tween the Catholic and the Protestan
} population is more consoling. Cathc
lies number 1928, 254, and Protestants
235,303.
: French Observation-Disclosures eccle
l siastics who have been decorated an
Y cited in the order of the day of tn
army for gallant conduct on the feel
of battle now number 564. Eleve
. were shot by the Germans, three die
from illtreatment during the invasion
~thirty-four were taken as hostages (
Germany, and four Of them have die
t in captivity.
Peace CONVERSATIONAL Robert
e Corniani, an Italian liberal, well know
for his historical and politico-soci;
s writings, has published in the Ra
segna Sociale a valuable article Q
"The Pope and the Peace Congress
in which among other things, he di
1t poses of the objection that Italy HI
y anything to fear from the Pope's pa
%ticipation, and shows at the same tin
e. that Italy cannot afford to go {
a record as insisting on the Pope's e
clusion.
lc Irish Prisoners.-An interesting a
s., count is given in the Dublin Leader
the "doings" in Richmond barrack
re where some of the Irish rebels" a
confined. AS an example,: Every d;
the Angelus was recited in Irish
Of members of our party in turn, and
IN the evening we had the Rosary
Irish. l must say that the devote
shown in the religious exercises il
t, pressed me more than anything else
Id witnessed at Richmond, and it seem,
d to me as if the Irish language inspir
e- all present with the most inten
10 fervor. / saw nothing SO impressi'
VS. anywhere under such disadvantage
nt circumstances before"