The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26

the Archdiocese of Armagh, having
been born 81 years ago in the parish
OF killeeshin, County Tyrone. He was
entering on his sixtieth year in the
sacred ministry. the whole of which
was spent in the adjoining parishes
of Lordship and of Cooley, in County
Louth.
Wardrobe of st. Victoria.-In Spain
is annually collected Wardrobe of
st. Victoria for the poor. This ward
robe. amounting to about 5000 gar
ments, is personally distributed by the
Queen, assisted by the noble ladies of
the kingdom. Among the poor appli-
cants, this year, was woman loo
years old. She was sent home in
royal carriage, accompanied by her
parish priest.
Posthumous Works of Father Ma
turin.-Two posthumous volumes by
the Rev. B. w. Maturin, the we'll
known Irish priest who was one of
the victims of the torpedoed Lusitania,
are to be published by Messrs. Log
mans. One of the forthcoming
volumes, containing a collection of
sermons and Sermon Notes." is
edited with an introduction by Will
frid Ward; the other, entitled Fruits
OF the Life of Prayer, Being Addressed
on the Seven Words from the Cross"
contains a preface by Father George
Congreve.
UshaW Graduates at the Front
The roll of honor of Ushaw College,
England, shows that $50 old students
are in active service. Of these thirty
one are naval or military chaplains.
Overwhelming Father Finn who
fell at Gallipoli landing-were killed,
and eleven have been wounded. Mass
Is said every Monday in the college
chapel for the soldiers and sailors.
Pope Aids Prisoners.-Pope Bene-
dict has made another successful
| move for the relief of suffering due
to the war. At his suggestion 100
German and 100 French prisoners who
are i'll and who could not get the
proper treatment in concentration
camps, have been given hospital care
in Switzerland. The respective gov
| eminent defray the expense. More
sick prisoners will soon be trans
ferred to Switzerland.
AA4 "a A
orable incident took place at Lourdes
recently. 1t was noticed that after
the recitation of the rosary before
the statue which stands at the place
of the apparition, Monsignor Schoep-
fer, Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes,
laid on the altar of the grotto a vol
luminous packet. 1t was tied with a
white silk ribbon and contained hun
| dreds of quarto sheets of paper
bearing the names of $4,000 Catholic
soldiers and sailors of the British
Empire. 1t being impossible for
these brave men to make the pilgrim
age to Lourdes in person, they
desired to send their signatures to
Mary's altar as a token of their un-
shakable love and confidence in her.
| Irish Bishop Protests.-Most Rev.
DR.. Mangan, Bishop of Kerry, has
made public protest against the
British Governments censorship of
letters sent to him by members of
his flock. Letters of private and
confidential nature addressed to the
Bishop we're opened by the censor IS
we're letters of similar nature ad-
dresses by relatives to priests and
nuns in the Kerry diocese. The
Bishop reminds the English govern
ment of the reverential respect which
the German-Austrian authorities hold
for the person and property of the
clergy and other religious orders in
countries under Teutonic rule.
Fund for SchoIarship.-A Catholic
woman, Mrs. Rose Leyland, of Man
chester, England, has left fund TO
found scholarship for Catholic
women who wish to study medicine.
This scholarship has been held for
the past three years by a Catholic
woman student at University College,
Cork.
Catholic Electoral Union of Italy,
The nomination by the provincial
representatives of Count Santucci,
Rome, as General President of the
Catholic Electoral Union has given
a good deal of satisfaction. For up
wards of twenty years this Roman
nobleman has given all his energy to
the execution of the wishes of the
Holy See regarding the various social,
economic, political and religious or
CARNATIONS that cover the surface of
the peninsula and are guided by the
principles laid down by the Pope. Not
the least important of these is the
Electoral Union, which exercises a
decidedly steadying effect on the
political situation in Italy whenever
a crisis takes place. Count Santucci
is a Municipal Councillor of Rome, a
lawyer attached to the Sacred Trib-
unal of the Rota, and Consultor to
the Pontifcal Commission for the
Qualification of Canon Law. 1t will
be recalled that when Pope Benedict
XIV wished to treat with the Swiss
Government on the project of draft
ing sick and wounded prisoners of
war into Switzerland it was Count
Santucci his Holiness chose to act as