The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-03
OLD WORLD NEWS

Papal Intervention Successful
Thanks to the Intervention of the
Holy Father the ancient privilege of
exemption from military service of
the inhabitants of Mount Lebanon has
been confirmed by the Turkish Gov
eminent.
Succeeds Cardinal Gasquet.-Abbott
Amelli of the Benedictines of Monte
Casino has succeeded to the practical
work of Cardinal Gasquet in the cor
rection of the Vulgate of the Sacred
Scriptures.
Barracks Converted into School,
The big barracks formerly occupied by
the British soldier garrison in Navan,
County Meath, Ireland, will shortly be
used for a holier and more useful pur-
pose than housing the British red
coats. The barracks has been pur
chased by the De La Sale Brothers
who will convert it into a school foi
the youth of Navan.
$4,000 Conversions Year-It has
been recently stated by the League OF
Converts of New York that $4,000 is
the average yearly number of CONVEX
sions to the faith in the United States
Internuncio to Argentina.-As a sub
stitute for Mgr. Locatelli, Titula1
Archbishop of Thessalonica and Inter
nuncio Apostolic in the Argentine Re
public, who has been recalled to Rome
to fill another position, the Hol,
| Father has nominated the Most Rev
| Alberto Vassalo, Titular Archbishop O
| Emesa.
Mass For Troops.-For the frs
time in history Mass was celebrated
! in Trinity College, Dublin, on May Z
for Irish and English troops stationed
there.
Scotch Archbishop's JubIee.-Th,
faithful throughout the Archdiocese O
st. Andrews and Edinburgh and from
a much wider field in Scotland, paiC
a striking tribute to the Most Rev
Archbishop Smith, d. D., on the occa
sion of the commemoration of tn,
| fiftieth year of his ordination to TIL,
priesthood and the twenty-fifth of hi
episcopate.
The Bishop of Monaco.-An inter
esting fact about the newly-electet
Bishop of Monaco, Mgr. Vie, lat,
Vicar General of Orleans, is that HI
was a pupil of the great prelate, Mgr
Dupanloup. Bishop-elect Vie, who il
now bordering on his sixty-seventl
year, was one of the French eccle
siastics whose names His Highness tn,
Prince of Monaco presented to th,
Holy See. Mgr. Vie is considered on
of the first orators in France
Another Anglican Convert. An
other conversion is reported from
Birmingham, England This is Mrs
/ Cush, wife of a prominent architect
who was converted five months age
Now his wife also has been receives
and the two, being earnest, energeti
and well-known, will work togethe
| for the spread of the faith as the
previously worked for Anglicanism.
| Passionist Generals Jubilee-Th
Very Rev. Silvio di IS. Bernardo, Gen
eral of the Congregation of the Pas
sionists, celebrated the fiftieth ann
Fersary of his religious profession re
GENTLY. At High Mass celebrated b,
him in the Church of SIS. John an,
Paul, on the Coelian Hill, Rome,
| large number of religious and Ia,
friends attended. Among others VIII
i offered congratulations to the Genel
al on the anniversary was the Hol.
Father.
Bust of Cardinal Newman.-A fin
bust in bronze, a striking likeness o
i Cardinal Newman, has been set up il
| the gardens of Trinity College, o.
ford, England It stands under. tn
rooms occupied by his tutor, Tommy
Short, and looks towards Wadhan
i College. The Cardinal is represents