The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-09-02
OLD WORLD NEWS

Sienor Marconi Promoted.-Signor
Marconi has been promoted to the
rank of captain in the Italian Flying
Corps.
"our Lady of America."-At Ma
zareth in the Holy Land, the Francis
can Fathers have given their new con-
vent and church the name of "Our
Lady of America"
Convert from Anglicanism.-Miss
Mary Byrne, portrait painter of some
note, who has resided for the last ten
years in Rome, has renowned Angli-
canism. She was received into the
Church by Cardinal Merry del Val.
Marquis De Segur Dead.-Marquis
De Segur, the historian and member
of the French Academy, died in Paris
recently. He was elected to the
academy in 1907.
Honored BY the Pope.-His Holiness
has appointed Mgr. Carton de Wharf,
Treasurer of the Archdiocese of West
minister, to be Domestic Prelate.
Mgr. Carton de Wharf is brother of
the Belgian Minister of Grace and JUS
tice
Churches and Schools in Ulster
In Ireland there is much anxiety lest
several excluded provinces with their
churches and schools be placed under
Ulster provisional government. The
Bishop of Derry is publicly advocating
a general national convention to con-
slider the matters.
Catholic Population of Turkey.-In
Turkey there is Catholic population
of 100000 souls.
PapaI Dignity Conferred.-His Holt
ness the Pope has bestowed the Papal
order and diploma PRO Ecclesia ct
Pontifice" upon Mr.. w. P. Mara, a
well-known official of the Law Courts,
and prominent members of the West
minister Catholic Federation, for serv-
ices rendered to the Church in Eng
land in his capacity as layman.
Bishops Protest ForcibIe Deporta.
tion.-The Amsterdam "Tyd" states
that the Bishop of Utrecht has pro
tested in his own name and in that of
the Bishops of Cambria and Lille
against the forcible deportation to
Germany of large numbers of young
men from the occupied towns of Lille,
Roubaix, and Tourcoing.
New Russian Bishops.-From Rus
STA comes the news that in the person
of the Right Reverend Ignatius Du.
bowski a new bishop has been ap.
pointed to the See of Lutsk-Ztomir,
which has been vacant since the death
of DR.. Medzialkowski, five years ago.
DR.. Michael Godlewski, lately a pro.
fessor at the Ecclesiastical Academy,
Petrograd, has been named a titular
bishop.
Gregorian Calendar in Serbia.-The
Austrian government has ordered that
the Gregorian Calendar has to sub
stitute the ancient Julian one in use in
the annexed provinces of Servia and
has directed circular to all the or.
thodox Metropolitans and Bishops to
celebrate from the LIST of August next
all national and religious feasts &C
cording to this calendar.
Miraculous Cure Reported.-A
miraculous cure is reported from St
Winifred's Well, at Pantasaph, Wales
The subject is an Irishman from Glas.
gov, John McMullen. Nine years ago
this poor fellow, who is forty-three
met with an accident in a colliery
which affected the spine, causing
locomotor ataxia and turning him into
a bed-ridden invalid. Early this month
he and his wife went to st. Winifred's
Well on a pilgrimage. After his sixth
bath in the well he climbed out of his
own accord, entirely cured, although
several doctors and specialists had
said he was hopelessly injured. He
remained for a week at the well, max
ing his Thanksgiving, and when he
left carried his own luggage to the
station.
Convert Priest Dead.-Canon Gerald
Hay, who died at Genoa, Italy, recent