The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-01-13

| in the West Indies, and fifth, Philip,
will, it is hoped, be ordained in about
| two years time. Rev. Father Bernard
Vaughan, S. j., preached at vespers.
Families of the "Disappeared."-M
| Pratt, deputy for Versailles, France,
has been received in private audience
| and explained to the Holy Father the
scope OF the organization, fUnion des
| families des disparus-which in fact
is not dissimilar to that of the office
| at the secretariate of state. The Holy
Father said that M. Prat and the
union could count on all the help that
he could give them in searching for
knowledge of SO many who had dis
appeared" in ameliorating the lot of
their families and in all other char
liable ends that the union undertook.
Letters From italian Prisoners
Recently there was cabled the story
of the fourteen out of the eighteen
BelgianS condemned to death whose
lives Pope Benedict's Intervention was
in time to save. And lately there
have been arriving at the Vatican
numerous touching letters of Italian
prisoners and refugees, some in Con-
stantinople, where the apostolic dele
gate had been able to bring them
comfort and help; some who by his
Intervention had been able to escape
from Constantinople, and sent to
Rome their humble thanks when they
had safely returned to Italy; some
state prisoners in Serbia, but COM
forted by the presence of priest who
spoke Italian.
New Minister at Vatican-Count
de Sails, the new British Minister to
the Vatican, accompanied by Messrs.
Gaisford and Wilson, recently pre-
scented his credentials to the Pope
He was received at the Vatican with
military honors, and greeted by Mon
signors Saz de Samper master of the
Chamber to the Pontiff), Tedeschini,
and Pacelli, and other lay and eccle-
siastical members of the Papal Court.
Count de Sails remained half an hour
alone with the Pope, and then pre-
scented the personnel of the Legation
to his Holiness. Subsequently the
Minister visited Cardinal Gasparri,
Secretary OF State.
informed Irish Rebels Set Free
The British Government has decided
to release the Irish prisoners who
were interned after the rebellion in
Ireland. Henry E. Duke, Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland, announced in the
House of Commons on December Il: :
''The time has come when the ad-
vantages of releasing these men far
outweigh the risk and l have so ad-
vised the Government. Steps there
fore were taken today to proceed with
the least possible delay to return the
interned prisoners to their homes -
According to the statement of the
Secretary for Home Affairs in the
House of Commons last October there
were 576 Irishmen interned in connec-
| tion with the recent rebellion.
New Bishop of Cork.-One of those
splendid and religious functions, redo
| lent of the ages of faith, was seen
| recently when the Bishop of Cork, Ri.
Rev. Daniel Cohalan, J. U. D., was
| enthroned in his Cathedral. The &c
| clesiastical and the civic professions
passed through dense throngs of
| townsfolk to the Cathedral, the mayor
and corporation coming in state, to-
gether with president and faculty OF
University College, the Harbor Board
| and other local authorities. After the
| Mass of installation the new Bishop
received some beautifully illuminated
| addresses, amongst which were some
| fine specimens of Celtic art. Accord
| ing to his wish, there were no pres.
entations, or rather only very per.
| sonal one, which consisted of a fine
| classmates in college, most of whom
are now we'll known Irish priests.
Cardinal Logue's Jubilee. - The
| sacerdotal golden jubilee of his Emf
Il
| hence Cardinal Logue, Primate of Ire
land, was celebrated at Armagh
High Mass was sung by the Most
Rev. DR.. MacRory, Bishop of Down
| and Conner, in the presence of his
| Eminence and all the bishops of the
| province. His ordination took place
on December 81, 1866. He was at the
time Professor of Dogmatic Theology
in the Irish College, Paris, to which
| post he had been appointed whilst in
| Deacon's Orders. He was ordained
| by Mgr. Alouvry, who was born in
| London and had been Bishop OF
Painters from 1916 to 1856. He occu
| pied the Chair of Theology in the
Irish College until 1874, with a brief
interruption during the Franco-Prus.
sian War.
| Cardinal PffI.-Cardinal Piffl, the
Archbishop of Vienna, sang the Pom
tifical Mass of Requiem in st. Ste
phen's Cathedral for the late Emperor
Francis Joseph.
| Mgr. Biondi.-On December II, Car
dinal Serafini consecrated in Rome
Mgr. Biondi, the new Delegate Apos
| tolic to the East Indies, titular Arch.