The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-15

HoLIC BULLETIN, JULY
cesslon to Mother Camilius, whose
death took place recently. For num-
Der OF years Mother Stanislaus was a
valued assistant to Mother Camilius
In the administration of the various
houses of the Order.
Death of Count AntonelIi.-By the
demise of Count Agostino Antonelli,
granddaughter of the great Secretary
OF State to Plus TX, Cardinal Antonelli,
Rome has lost prominent figure of
the old school, Count Antonelli was
seventy-one years of age. He was an
energetic promoter and generous bene-
factor of great many good works in
Italy.
Priests From lndia.-The General
Superior of the Society of the Divine
Saviour has received from Father
Christopher Becker, Prefect-Apostolic
of Assam, a letter dated Alexandra
Palace, London, May 20, in which the
writer states that he arrived on May
10 at Tilbury and next day was brought
to the Alexandra Palace. There were,
he said, about seventy Catholic
priests there-all from India.
Seminarians for Military Duty-The
Catholic Church in England has been
dealt severe blow in the govern
ment's decision that all seminarians
who are eighteen years of age and who
have not commenced the study of
theology are subject to military duty
The ruling is such as to catch all
aspirants to the priesthood except a
few who are already in the last stages
of their preparation for Gods service.
This will mean that, if the war con-
tinues for protracted period, the
seminaries, when those now therein
are ordained, must close, while even
tually there will come a period of
years when there will be no one ready
for ordination.
Editor of the "Germania" Dead
Hermann Ten Brink, the editor of the
"Germania," the important Catholic
daily paper published in Berlin, died
in that city on June 10. A native of
Westphalia, he was sixty-five years of
age. He was brought to the front in
political life by the Ku1turkampf. He
worked for many years very hard in
| Berlin, first as co-operator in the work
of the Centres Parliamentary CORE.
spondence and afterwards as the
editor of the "Germania' Hermann
Ten Brink exercised a good deal of
influence, and counted many friends
amongst leading German ecclesiastics
and politicians.
Turks Arrest Catholic CIergymen.-
The Paris Temps" publishes the fol.
lowing: News more and more
alarming comes from Syria concerning
the situation of the Catholics in the
East. The Maronite Patriarch, Mgr
Hoyek, has been arrested by the
Turkish authorities. His Bishops
secretaries and servants have been i'm
prisoned or dispersed by force. He
has been dragged from his residence
at New Canoubin to Ably, where he was
brought before q cpnrt-martial. Seven
| prelates, amongst them the Archbishop
of Sidon, have been deported to Damas
Gus. Over forty mitred abbots, superb
/ nf communities dion ~ W. =
simple priests and monks have been
arrested and taken to Damascus. The
Turkish excuse for these measures is
the allegation that compromising pa
perS have been found in the archives
of the French consulate at Beyrout.
| Australian Summer School.-The
Melbourne Advocate of February ~
1916, contains the report of the first
session of Summer School held al
Queenscliff under the auspices of the
Catholic Federation, February being
a summer month at the Antipodes. II
was planned to last for one week tC
study Catholic and national questions
| Capuchin Missionary Dead.-Aftel
the death of the Right Rev. Paolo Tel
Bishop of Pesaro, member of the
Capuchin Order, this body suffers
another serious loss in the death Of
Father Serafino da Collepardo, one Of
the greatest missionaries of the pres
ent century. The good Capuchin has
passed away suddenly in Rome after
a particularly active career. Father
Serafino worked as missionary il
Africa from 1886 to 1891 during which
he became so expert in the Abyssiniar
tongue as to compose on his return tt
Italy an Italo-Abyssinian dictionary
which is now used throughout the
empire. After few years he returned
to Abyssinia where he again gave him
self to apostolic work among the ma
tives. Among the works to his credit
are his "Catechesis Philosopher
Morals" and "Propedeutica ad Scien
tam Religions" Father Serafino was
attached to the Sacred Congregation
of the Council and to the Sacred Con
gregation of the Propaganda in the ca