The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17

deceased members of the department.
Mgr. Lavelle welcomed the men and
Rev. V. p. Mclean, chaplain of the
| fire department, preached the sermon
Abbot's Golden Jubilee. golden
jubilee of the Rt. Rev. Benedictine
Abbot of ST. Benedict, Kansas, was
celebrated recently. A scholarship in
st. Benedict's College endowed to the
amount of $4,000, was. feature of
the celebration.
Catholic Summer SchooI.-The Cath
Ollie Summer School of America will
open Sunday, July 2, and on July the
lecture course will commence. The
beautiful grounds of the Summer
School at Cliff Haven, N. Y, are be-
ginning to present the appearance of
activity which presages a busy and
prosperous season.
Design for Monument Accepted
The Francis Scott Key monument COM
mission has accepted the design sub
mitted by C. f. Niehaus, a sculptor
of New Rochelle, N. Y, for the monu-
ment of the author of the Star
Spangled Banner, which will be
erected in Baltimore. Thirty-four
sculptors contributed designs.
| 60 Years a Religious.-SiXty years
as a religious is the record of Sister
Clotilda, of the Order of the Sisters of
Charity of st. Vincent de Paul, and
who has been connected with st.
Vincent's Female Orphan asylum in
Albany, N. Y, for twenty-five years.
The anniversary was celebrated on
May II. Sister Clotilda is a native
of Scotland and was brought to this
country when a young child. At the
age of IS she entered the Order of the
Sisters of Charity of st. Vincent de
Paul at Emmetsburg, Md. During the
Civil War she served as nurse.
New Sisters convent.-The Rev
Daniel Lenehan, pastor of the Sacred
Heart Church, Maiden, Mass, will
build a convent for the Sisters OF
Providence, who teach at the Chever
us School. 1t will be three stories
high of brick, and will cost approx
mately 100000.
An Unusual Event.-Rev William
Marchant, o. P, ordained at Washing
ton, D. c., May II, solemnized his first
Mass in st. Patrick's Church in Cleve
land on May 81. His brothers, Rev
Cyprian Marchant,, o. P, and Mr.
Thadeus Marchant, seminarian
acted as deacon and sub-deacon re
spectively. The young priest is {
!, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Marchant, anC
interest in his first Mass, aside from
three brothers officiating, is augment
ed by the fact that the entire famil!
lare converts to Catholicism, havins
been formerly members of the Episco
palian Church in Cleveland.
Texas Vicar General in Camp
: Very Rev. ]. M. Kirwin, rector of ST
Mary's Seminary, La Porte, Texas
and Vicar General of the Diocese o
Galveston, left last week for San Ar
5 tonic, where the Texas National Guar
: is mobilizing by orders Of the Pres
2 dent Father Kirwin is chaplain O
the Fourth regiment of the Texas Ne
tional Guard and he went into cam
e with them Immediately after the Oh
8 der for mobilization was issued.
j Priest Fractures SkuIi-The funers
/ of Rev. Charles Stapf, pastor of S
S Johns Church, Cambridge, Neb., too
), place week before last. During tn
e funeral services all the stores in tn
l. town were closed as mark {
e respect. Two weeks previously h
ii sustained a fractured skull from fal
It ing down the stairs of his residence
e and died at st. GATHERINGS Hospita
k Omaha, where he was taken for surg
cal treatment.
# To Pastor and orphans.-The( wi
s of Michael ]. Ahern, Denver, Colo
!, shows the following requests: To hi
n former pastor, Rev. James M. Walls
# of St. James Church, Montclai
g $500; to the Good Shepherd Home
d $1,000; to st. Vincent's Orphanag
n $500; to the Queen of Heaven O
J. phanage, $500; to st. Clara's Orphan
d age, $500; to Craig's Colony, $500.
e Century Old custom-The May pr,
n cession of May %, participated in b
parishioners of Holy Trinity Churcl
Washington, D. c., was viewed wit
J. considerable interest, from the faC
IS that this annual demonstration ha
A, been failure of Georgetown for owe
n one hundred years. The parish {
# Holy Trinity was the first organize
If in this vicinity, and the Jesuit father
e have kept the procession feature fc
n every year.
$, To Encourage Large Families
IS Believing that the American race
st degenerating both physically and mel
tally, because of the tendency of pa
ents to have small families, which the
Of say in turn is brought about by tn
o, restrictions placed on the number {
children in a family by landlords, Re,
IF Fathers Conrad and Bernard of S
Y, Joseph's Church, West Hoboken, N.
{. have determined to solve the problel
"a by building large apartment house
s, for large families. The idea is i
ID its infancy and few of the details hav