The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-07
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the gold in it has been placed on the |
lid of the receptacle in the form OF
cross, while about the edges of the |
box is a gold rosary which also be-
longed to her.
The ciborium contains four garnet
rubies, five pigeon-blooda rubies, six
other rubies and 1876 diamonds. Alto
gether there are $50 Jewels in the
vessel.
A Religious Census of Soldiers and
Sailors.-Senator Shepperd, of Texas,
will introduce bill at the next session
of congress for a census of the re-
ligious belief of the officers and en-
listed men of the United States army
and navy. The senator, at the re-
quest of some prominent Jews, asked
that a Hebrew chaplain be appointed
in the navy. He was told that there
were not enough Israelites in the navy
to justify the appointment. He asked
| how many there are there. The de-
partment could not tell him. Neither
| could the war department inform him
how many Jews there are in'the army.
So he intends to find out.
School of GaeIic.-Rev. John Klei-
| don has opened summer school of
| Irish Gaelic in Sanborn, n. D., where
he is pastor of Sacred Heart Church,
and is teaching the language to the
Irish children of his parish. Some
of the children have acquired re-
markable fluency in the conversational
Irish. Father Kleidon, who is of Ger
man descent, preached the Irish SER
mon last st. Patrick's Day in st.
Catherine Church, Valley City, N. D.
| Chaplain Wounded.-Major Rev. DIR.
John O'Gorman, pastor in Ottawa,
Can, Chaplain of the Third Infantry
Brigade in France, is in a French hos
pital wounded by shell, but not dan
gerously.
carmeIites in MiIwaukee.-The Car.
melite Fathers are going to erect a
monastery in Milwaukee.
Belgian Nuns in PhiIippines.-The
Belgian canonesses of ST. Augustine
have opened twenty-six schools in the
Philippines during the last six years,
and all are prospecting.
ST. Vincent de Paul Soeiety.-Among
recent donations to the st. Vincent
de Paul Society for its poor are:
Thomas II. O'Connor, New York,
$4,000; the late Bishop Doran of Proyi-
dence, $1,000; Robert J. Noohan, Balti-
more, $4,000; Captain Lambert of
Pueblo, Colo, $1,000.
Golden, JubiIee.-Rt. Rev. Monsignor
, Claude Jaillet, pastor of St. Patrick S
Pro-Cathedral, Corpus Christi, Texas.
celebrated his golden jubilee as "a
priest on September II. The fifty
years of his priesthood have been
spent in missionary work in Texas.
Passionist CoIIege.-The Passionist
Fathers have secured a valuable site
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University, in Washington, d. c., and
will in the near future erect House
; of Studies.
Silver Juhilee.-The silver jubilee
of the dedication of st. Mary's Cathe.
dral, San Francisco, in 1891 will be
observed with great solemnity on the
last Sunday in October. Preparations
are already under way to make the
occasion a memorable event in the
history of the archdiocese
Newark cathedraI.-AH the stone
work of the new Cathedral OF the
Sacred Heart in Newark, N. j., has
been completed and contractors have
begun the interior work. When the
editice is finally turned over the Bish.
Top O'Connor, it will have cost approx.
imately a million and a half dollars.
Father Serra's Missions.-Of the
missions founded by Father Junipero
Sierra in California four are destroyed
and twenty are in a fair state OF
preservation.
Catholic College for Women.-Octo
Der witnessed the opening of St
, Joseph's Day College for Women, the
! first Catholic institution of it's kind
: in Brooklyn. The event marks mag
: nifcent contribution to the cause Of
t Catholic education and inaugurates ar
: era of opportunity for the young ladies
of the diocese of Long Island.
g House Of Rest for Sisters.-GrounC
+ was broken on September 20, for &
/ house of rest for the Sisters of st
e Joseph of the Archdiocese of Boston
\ The new building will be erected OF
Y a plot of ninety acres on hill-toI
Overlooking scenes of beauty on every
side. The donor, who will expenC
}. 100000 IN this benefaction, Is unwill
e ing to have his name known.
S Catholic Student organizations.--i
+ list of Catholic student organizations
s lin secular colleges and universities
e prepared by the Newman Club of tn,
o University of California, shows. tina
v there are sixty-one associations organ
# lied to safeguard the spiritual wei
l. fare of the Catholic students in at
e tendance at secular institutions o.
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