The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

in some French papers, that, accord
ing to the Vienna Press, the new
Nuncio to Austria, Mgr Valfre de
Bonzo, had said he was requested by
the Emperor to solicit the interven-
ton of the Pope in favor of peace and
that his Holiness had promised COM
pliance, is quite groundless.
Honor for Catholic OfficiaI.-Mr
Balfour has appointed as his private
secretary the Hon. James Eric Drum
mond, c. B., a Catholic. In the Ca
zette,' it is notified the King has con-
ferred on Mr.. Drummond the honor
of knight Commander of the Order of
st. Michael and st. George.
Catholic Lord of the Treasury.-In
the late English government Mr..
James Fitzalan Hope, M. p, held the
position Of Treasurer to the House
hold, but in the same Gazette" just
referred to it is announced that Mr..
Hope has resigned this appointment.
1t is also announced that the King
has been pleased by Letters Patent
to appoint him, together with Mr..
Lloyd George and Mr.. Bonar Law and
Mr.. J. W. Pratt, to be Lords Commits
sioners of his Majesty's Treasury.
Mr.. Hope is nephew of the Duke
of Norfolk, to whom he was secretary
when that peer was Postmaster-Gen
eral.
Saionikfs Old Churches.-The fin
est remains of the ancient city OF
Saloniki are its churches. How they
ever survived the tempeSts of the
Middle Ages is q miracle. Neverthe-
less they did, twenty-five OF them.
And they stand today, turned back
into churches after their 500 years of
use as mosques, illustrating the story
of Byzantine ecclesiastical architec-
ture ever. more beautifully, in certain
ways, than those of Constantinople.
Moreover, they make up among them
museum of the lost Byzantine art
of mosaic, unrivaled save in COnstan-
tinople and Ravenna.
Death of Land Leaguer.-The death
has taken place in Dublin, at the age
of "A, after a remarkable career, OF
Mr.. James Bryce Killen, B. L., an
active worker in the early Land
League days, and one of the doyens
of the Irish Bar. In the early eighties
his services were at the disposal OF
the Land League prisoners, for whom
he was chief counsel. In Il memor-
able trial in the West he was CO.
defendant with Messrs. Michael Dav-
| lit and Jas. DAILY. Subsequently he
again came under the ban of the gov
eminent, and served periods OF inn
prisonment with Dayitt, Parnell, DAILY,
| and others, eventually having to fly
| the country, going to America, where
he took up journalism. He never re-
! sumed his original vocation, and on
his return to his native land was d
constant contributor to the Dublin
Press.
Famous "Cure" Spring Dies.-Janu-
airy was an unlucl1y Friday i'll the
district of Howell, Flintshire, Wales.
ST. Winifreds Well, on which mills
depended for water, ceased to flow.
| The incident has caused CONSERVATION
in Howell and will be felt through
| other Catholic circles. The flow was
normally over 1000 gallons per min
ute and has been SO from time i'm
memorial. The stream served many
mills along it's banks, and the spring
has been celebrated for miraculous
cures that for hundreds of years have
| followed bathing in the waters of THE
| Lourdes- of Wales" Cures have been
effected within recent years.
English PreIate Made Brieadier-
| GeneraI.-It is a Well-deserved honor
which has been conferred on Mgr.
w. l.. Keatinge, c. M. G., of being
| promoted to the rank of Brigadler-
| General, on his appointment as prin-
cipal chaplain to the British forces
at Salonika. Mgr. Keatinge, at the
beginning of the European war, was
made senior Catholic chaplain to the
British expeditionary forces, and in
| 1915 received his C. M. c., also being
mentioned in dispatches.
| Recent Convert-William Busch OF
Pittsburg, Pa, who has been a promi-
nent resident of Milan, Italy, since
| the year 1908, has been received into
the Catholic Church.
Death of Noted Priest.-The Rev.
Father Bonaventure Hammer, 0. F.
NJ, 20, who translated Gen. Lew
Wallaces Ben Hur into German, is
| dead.
| Mgr. Marzolini. = Mgr. Marzolini,
Canon of st. Peters, Rome, is very
| i'll. He served Pope Leo XIII in the
capacity of private secretary, and
was with the great pontiff as trust
ed friend up to his death in 1903.
Mgr Marzolini's place of residence is
the Vatican Palace, as an official OF
the administration of the funds of the
Holy See.
Mr.. Redmond's Dinner Party.-A
dinner party was given at the House
of Commons by Mr.. Redmond to Lord
Shaughnessy, in celebration of his
taking his seat in the House of Lords