The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-05-13

diocese.
Brothers Novitiate Transferred
The novitiate of the Brothers Of
Charity, at Client. Belgium. has been
transferred, pending the war, to Bell
mont Park, Waterford, Ireland.
Home for Crippled GirIs-At Glaze
ton-on-the-Sea, England, the Sisters of
Mercy have Home for Crippled
! Girls"
Archbishops Nephew Decorated
| Lieutenant j. Barrett, b. A., a nephew
of the late Archbishop of Adelaide,
Australia, the Most Reverend DR..
OReilly, has been decorated with the
Distinguished Service Order medal for
bravery under fire in Flanders.
Estate to Religious Purposes.-Miss
Margaret Stella Nichols of London,
daughter of the late Mr.. Richard
| Nichols, left an unsettled estate worth
more than 100000, much of which
she bequeathed to religious purposes.
To Introduce Cause.-The Arch
bishop of Rennes and the Bishop of
Limoges, France, accompanied by his
Vicar General and the Superior of the
Sisters of ST. Sauveur and of the
Blessed Virgin, are visiting Rome to
prepare for the introduction of the
cause of Mother Mary of Jesus. the
foundress of the Congregation.
Benson Memorial Chapel.-A new
tabernacle has been given to the Ben
son Memorial Church at Buntin3ford,
England, to replace the small and in
adequate tabernacle previously in use.
The donor is Mrs. Hornunglof Ken
singtOn, who gives it in :memOry
of her son, an officer killed at the
front. The first Mass with the new
tabernacle was said on Sunday
April 2, though Mrs. HOrnung was
2 unable to be present, as she has join
ed the Red Cross in France. Half the
: cost of the new organ was borne by
D a captain in the Royal Engineers, now
r in France, and the other half by many
/ friends of Monsignor Benson in
S memory Of him.
: Ruthenain Co-Adminstrator.- Rev
1 IT, Martiak of LansfOrd Pa, has beer
b appointed cO-adminiStator with Rev
|, Peter POniatysZyn Of Newark, N. j.
l. in charge of Greek Catholic affairs il
the United States. The former viii
look after the Greek Catholics O
a Hungary and the latter the Greeks o
J. Galicia.
# Parish School Damaged.--A fir
J. broke out in st. Charles BOrromeO'
d parish school in Brooklyn on the after
5, noon of April 20, destroying the twC
II upper floors of the four story bricl
J. 00O
$ Land for Catholic High School,
1t Archbishop Prendergast has takel
Y title to a plot of ground $50 by 81
Y feet at the corner Of 49th and Chest
r. nut streets, Philadelphia, Pa, which
will be the site for new Catholi
II High School for boys. The site cos
1t $47, 500 and the building will entail a.
l. expenditure of over 100000.
T. Supreme Council, C. x. of A.-Th
IS Supreme Council of the Catholi
n Knights of America will meet O.
e Tuesday, May 8, at Louisville. Ky
t. This will be the nineteenth biennia
e session of the order, which was OF
s. ganized in 1877, being the oldest Catf
l. olic fraternal insurance society in tn
lie country. 1t has a membership of owe
k 10000, and it's financial condition
e. in excellent shape. The mortuar
III reserve fund of the organization no.
n. amounts to $1,5O0,OOO, and is increa'
ing yearly.
a Catholic Pupils Win Prizes.-Som
ID years ago deputation waited on tn
st Minister of Education of Australia t
Id allow the pupils of the non-stat
H. schools to compete with those NOR
a favored children of the state school
re for the scholarships given from tn
I'd common purse, to which all contribut
W their share That reasonable reques
as was refused; and many said at tn
N time that there was a fear in the edl
n cation department that Catholi
te schools would specialize in the sui
jects of the examination, and tina
Catholic children would take NOR
h than their share of the plums. How
of ever that may be, a compromise wa
" effected, and thirty-five scholarship
err were arranged for the children of tn
lg non-state schools. Of the 10000 chi
" dren attending the self-supportin
ce schools, 1921 are in the Catholi
Mt schools. In the Diocese of Sale loo
70 children attend the Catholic schools
ut yet three of the pupils secured scho
w arships at the last examination.
he Catholic Boy Heads List.-Tn the o,
ford local examinations, the results {
which are now issued, pupil of S
,e- Cuthbert's Grammar School, Newca
st tle-on-Tyne-J. w. Barr = achieve
he again for this famous school the di
an tinction it gained last year when al
mt other pupil headed the first-class hol
an ors list for the entire country. s
RS Paurs High School, Edgbaston, Bi
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