The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-03-11

-A0AAS DOA1<E I'M MANN
requests all teachers to
pay special attention in the coming
term to the respect and honor due
to our enemies; that no hatred or
contempt should enter the minds of
the children against the brave men
with whom their fathers are in deadly
combat: and that hate or contempt
is not to be cultivated in the youthful
Catholic Scientists.-Mr Bergin,
professor of physics at University
College, Cork, states that three,
probably four, of the great discoveries
of electricity, with which the modern
world is working such marvels, were
Catholics and men of great fervor in
their belief. They were: Galvani,
Ampere and Charles de Coulomb
Ohm is thought to have been a Cath
Ollie, since he was for ten years
professor at Jesuit College at Cologne
Calvin, the greatest of them all, and
the founder Of electrical science,
never finished his lectures without
eNhorting his pupils to a renewal Of
their faith.
A Deserved Promotion.-In the
consistory recently held His Holiness
Benedict XIV, proclaimed Bishop
Augouard titular Archbishop of Cas-
siopeia, under which title he will be
hereafter known. This was done OH
the occasion of his episcopal jubilee,
and in recognition of his long services
among the tribes of Africa.
For more than thirty-nine years he
has been a missionary among the
cannibal tribes of the Congo, and is
perhaps better known by the title of
Bishop of the Cannibals" than by
any other. His writings, dealings
with the habits and customs of the
blacks, are famous throughout the
scientific world, and the French
Academy decorated him for his re-
search work. His articles, which
have appeared in the annals of the
Propagation of the Faith, are records
of his own and the lives of his de-
voted missionaries who have brought
the former Cannibal natives to a high
degree of civilization.
Death of cyriIIos vlII.-The Syrian
paper "Al-Hoda" of New York brings
news of the death at Alexandria of
His Beatitude Cyrillos VIII, Greek
Melchite Patriarch of Alexandria, An
tioch, and Jerusalem.
The Patriarch's family name was
Geha. He was born at Hallapp in
Syria, November 20, 1910, ordained
priest in 1865, and promoted to the
archiepiscopal see of Hallapp, his
native city, in 1885.
On August q, 1897, Propaganda
appointed him Administrator OF the
patriarchate of Alexandria, Antioch,
and Jerusalem, the Patriarch Gregory
having just died. After an interreg-
mum of one year, Peter " was
named to the vacant see. Peter
died in 1903, and the Archbishop of
Hallapp succeeded him under the
name of Cyril VIII.
The Patriarch was a man of pro-
found eruditiOn, and an eloquent
speaker. He devoted himself to the
promotion of the interests of his
large pariarchate, and met with
wonderful success. One, of his last
official acts was the bestoWal upon
Father G. Sawaya, the Syrian Greek.
MelChite missionary in the diocese Of
Monterey and Los Angeles, of the
title of Proto-Presbyteros, u dignity
somewhat similar to that of the
Monsignori i'll the Latin rite.
Noted Writer convert.-It is not
surprising news to us to learn of the
conversion of Selma Lagerlof, noted
writer, says an exchange. The
thoughts penned in her Legend of
the Sacred Image" and translated by
the very clever Velma SWanston
Howard bespeak pure and noble
mind-a mind which lives midst
loftier heights, where communion
with all that is good and pure is
sweet and the sordid is unknown.
The closing prayer i'll the legend is
purely Catholic, and all through the
tale runs a delightful spiritual vein
of thought which serves to entrance
the reader, who may only lay aside
the book to wish for a continuation
of such tales. Ii the reported con-
version of this gifted writer, one time
winner of the Nobel prize, is true, what
a splendid acquisition she will be to
the brilliant coterie of present day
Catholic writer's.
Marriage in. ZuIuIand.-At a mar
riage in Zululand the young girls,
with the bride hidden among them,
sing their first songs OH their arrival
at the kraal of the bridegroom. These
Introductory songs and dances, per-
formed by the brides party, are call
ed isingenisO. The action in these
dances consists of gradual, slow
movements forward and backward
with clappng of hands.
Then the bridegroom's party fol
lows, the dancers become more and
more excited, and, after a time, com