The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-26
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Jesuit's Golden JubIee.-Father
SASHA, S. j., on Sunday, August 20, will
celebrate in st. Joseph's Church, San
Jose, California, his f1ftieth year as a
member of the Society of Jesus.
Bishops Silver Jubilee.-Right Rev.
Theophile Meerschaert, Bishop of Ok
lahoma, will celebrate the silver ami
versary of his elevation to the episco-
pate on September s, the Feast of the
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Priest Elected President. = Rev.
Michael j. Seaman, of the Cathedral
and Director of the Catholic Charitable
Bureau of Boston, has been appointed
to succeed the late Judge Harvey H.
Baker as President of the Massachu-
sets State Conference of Charities.
Memorial Chapel Donated.-A hand
some memorial chapel is to be erected
in Holy Redeemer cemetery, Balti-
more, Md, by Mr.. Frank A. Furst of
that city. The chapel will cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000 and will fill a
needed want which the Redemptorist
Fathers, who control the cemetery,
have felt for long time.
Priest Honored by the Pope.-Rev.
Peter Brommenschenkel, pastor for
the past thirty years of st. Boniface' S
parish at Westphalia, Ia, has been
raised to the dignity of Monsignor by
Pope Benedict. This honor comes as
high compliment to the good work
accomplished by this we'll known and
popular priest.
Beuuest to Bishop.-Three hundred
dollars cash and the residue of an eS-
tate of approximately $25, 900 were left
to Bishop Mcdonnell, of Brooklyn, by
the terms of the will of the late Pas
quale Ruggiero.
Request for CoIIege.-Allan J. Nc.
Donald, LII. B., son of the late lament
ed Senator Mcdonald, Glace Bay, Nova
Scotia, Can, has recently informed
the authorities of st. Francis Xavier
College, Antagonist, N S., that it will
receive the sum of five thousand dol
lars from the late Senator's estate.
Urge Sisters to Open HospitaI.-The
Carondelet Business Mems Association
of st. Louis, Mo-. at meeting in the
Carondelet Branch Library recently,
decided to appeal to the Sisters of St.
Joseph to purchase the Mathilda Hos
pital property on Michigan avenue, op-
posite the library, and reopen the
building as hospital.
Mass at EARLY Hour.-After many
earnest petitions from the Catholics
employed at the amusement resorts
at Coney Island, N. Y, Pope Benedict
has been pleased to grant dispense
ton permitting the celebration of Mass
at 1 a. M, on Sunday morning at the
Shrine Church of Our Lady of Solace.
ST. Louis Cathedral SchooI.-The
new st. Louis Cathedral parish school,
begun six months ago in that city, will
be ready for occupancy next month.
1t is 140 by IT'S feet, and so feet high.
Besides its eleven class rooms, it has
rooms for every form of parish activ-
ity. In outline it is T.
CoIored Girls Enter Convent.-Miss
Mary Warmack and Miss Emeline
Mathews, the first colored girls of In
dianapolis to enter a convent, left
two weeks ago for Baltimore, where
they entered the novitiate of the OBJ.
late Sisters of Providence
Antidote Publishing Co.-Rev. ]. A
Campbell of Hereford, Texas, has or.
ganized The Antidote Publishing Com
pany, corporation that will take over
and continue the publication of The
Antidote, Catholic paper that for six
years has paid particular attention tG
the false statements circulated by the
anti-Catholic papers of the United
States.
Heat Kills Two Priests.-Rev. D. w
Clarke, pastor at New Madrid, Mo.
died on an island near Paducah, KY.
from heat prostration recently, and
Rev. Arnold Giles, pastor at Fontana
Wis, also died from the effects of the
heat at Kansas City.
Non-CathoIics Aid church.-A very
beautiful and substantial church, built
at a cost of between $4,000 and $4,000
has recently been completed at Mari
ana, in Victoria County, Texas. The
building was made possible through
the generosity of the recently deceased
Jas. McFadden and his son, M. A. Nc
Fadden, neither of them Catholics.
Indian Missionary Dead.-Rev. B
Florian Hahn, one of the oldest priests
in Southern California, died on August
3 at Oxnard. He was native of Ger
many, sixty-six years of age. He la
bored among the Indians of the st
Boniface Indian School at Banning fol
a quarter of century. Recently hi
was pastor Of st. Francis Church, Riv
erside.
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the United States is the Ursuline
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