The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-05-06
OLD WORLD NEWS

Jesuits in German Province.-There
are $40 Jesuits in the German Province
OF the Order. Of these 353 have been
discharging active duties in connec.
ton with the war since the commence.
ment of hostilities.
Bishop Gets Iron cross.-Right Rev.
erend Karl Joseph Schultz, Bishop of
Paderborn, has been decorated with
the Iron Cross.
"St. Patrick's Hand."-St. Patrick's
Cathedral in Belfast, Ireland, pos
sesses the reliquary known as st
Patricks Hand"
Kings Generosity.-Recently King
Alfonso. of Spain, opened accounts in
the new Spanish Postal Savings Bank
for 100 workingmen, 100 women work
ers and 100 orphans.
Presentation Nuns in Australia
In the Diocese Of Geraldton, West Aus
tralia, there are at work 43 Irish Pres
entation Nuns, in six converts, edu-
| eating 600 children. In all Australia
| this order has 400 Sisters with six.
thousand children under their charge.
The Martyrs Harvest-The soil of
Tiensten, China, where in 1870 ten Sis.
tiers OF Charity and two Vincentian
priests were martyred, is now produc-
ing most abundant harvest of souls.
Last year 1900 pagan Chinese were
| converted and baptized.
Bishop of Verdun.-A dispatch from
Paris says that Mgr. Ginisty, Bishop
OF Verdun, was the last civilian to
leave that shell-swept city. The Bishop
left the town on the footboard of q
| locomotive, the only means of con.
Veyance available at the time.
Jesuits Arrive in India.-Tndia ey.
changes announced that four American
Jesuit Fathers arrived February % at
bombay. They sailed from San Fran.
cisco on January 6 and travelled via
Japan and China. They all belong to
the New York Province, and their
names and immediate destinations are
as follows: Rev. D. Lynch to st.
Patrick's, Karachi; Rev. T. J. Barrett
to st. Vincents, Poona; Rev. e. T.
Farrell to st. Anne's, ByculIa; Rev.
II. j. Parker to ST. Stanislaus', Band
ra.
Royalty in Pilgrimage. = Sixteen
members of the Austrian imperial fam.
lily, including Archduchess Zita, wife
of Archduke Charles Francis, heir to
the throne, Archduchess Maria Their.
esa, wife of Archduke Karl Stephen,
and Archduchess Leopold Salvador,
with seven sons, took part in a pill.
grimage headed by Cardinal Piffl,
Archbishop of Vienna, to the sanctu.
airy of the Madonna of Zell, to implore
peace, according to dispatch from
Rome.
The Church in the orient.-The Jes.
uits of Shanghai have just issued a
pamphlet from which are taken the
following figures, showing the remark.
able growth of the Church during the
past 80 years in the Orient. Japan
in 1866 had 10000 Catholics; they now
number 72,454, and Japan is acknowl.
edged to be difficult country to
eVangelize. Thibet, an almost inacces.
sible region, had 100 Catholics half a
century ago; now it has 1851 Mon.
golia, also a hard country for the
missionary, had 5000 Catholics; now
it counts 1885. Its companion, Man.
churia, had 5000 converts in 1865;
now there are 50,321 members of the
True Fold. Kiang ST shows 69,1S0
Catholics as against 5000 half cen.
fury ago; Shang Tung 130,5O5 against
1851. Tche Ii is the banner prov
ince with total Catholic population
OF 4S5,Sl6. The Catholics in the en-.
) tire p provinces total 1,S6S,21S.
J Catholic Schools Win Prizes.-The
} wins of the Catholic schools in
Queensland, New South Wales, for
1915 have been remarkable. These
5 include nearly one hundred scholar.
: ships, nine out of fifteen of the posi-.
/ tons in the professional division OF
the public service, half the clerical
public service passes, including first,
: second and third in each case. When
: it is realized that these results come
/ from the children of section which
J includes but % per cent of the popula-
: ton, and that not the section possess.
ing wealthy advantages, we can ap.
{ preciate the splendid work done by