The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11

was 4S,703.
Priests in French Serving
at present in the French armies in
accordance with the civil laws of
France, are about $4,000 priests
approximately 5000 more than the
whole number of priests in the Church
in the United States.
to the N. Y World and Prof Guthrie
of Columbia University, 1000 priests
of France have been slain in the war.
In battle were killed $500 and 1900
who served as chaplains, stretcher-
bearers and hospital attendants.
Dutch Catholics Well Organized
In the Netherlands a great movement
is growing in favor of syndicates of
Catholic workmen and the enrolment
increases daily. 1t is said that more
than One-half of the Catholic workers
today are members of Catholic or
CARNATIONS. A fine spirit of Catholic
charity is shown in the working
classes who have taken in many of
the refugee children from the coun-
tries engaged in war.
Big Monastery Burned.-The mag
nificent Carthusian Monastery of
Hahn, a gem of Gothic art, near Dus-
seldorf on the Rhine, has been destroy
ed by fire.
Franciscan Brother.-The Cause of
the Beatification of the franciscan
Brother Garcia Acosta, of Chilli, South
| America, has been introduced.
Catholic Scholarship in Germany
The war has by no means arrested
the progress of Catholic scholarship
| in Germany. Word reaches this coun-
try that Mgr. DR.. Joseph Wilpert has
completed his monumental work on
the Roman mosaics and paintings in
church structures from the fourth to
| the thirteenth centuries. The work,
chiefly because of it's costly illustra-
tons, is sold at the high price of $3.50,
but before the last impression of the
| first edition was off the press every
volume had been disposed of. DR..
| Harnack, the noted Protestant the
| ologian, bestows unstinted words of
praise upon the author, referring to
his labors as splendid evidence of
/ e. l,oN Mt co;n Eo
pursuits of peace are not being sus-
pended in Germany under the stress
of the war.
Franciscan Monastery.-The Fran
ciscan Convent in Manila was found
ed in 1877. Thirty years ago the
Franciscans had there seven parishes
with about $4,000 people
English Catholic Physician. Sil
Alfred Keogh, chief of the British
medical service, is a native of Ros
common, Ireland, and was a student
in Dublin University He is Catho
| lie.
Successor of st. Aidan.-The late
Bishop Browne of the Diocese O.
Ferns, Ireland, was the seventy-secont
Lord Bishop of Ferns in succession tt
st. Aidan, the founder of the See. H,
was born in the parish of Mayglas.
in 1912, and was ordained priest il
1867. He was elected bishop of tn,
diocese in succession to the Mos
!, Rev Michael Warren, and was con
secrated in September, 1884.
II English Catholic Honored. - TIL
/ Sultan of Egypt has conferred upol
, the Earl of Denbigh the Order of tn
J Nile. Lord Denbigh is one of tn
: senior Catholic peers of England, an,
no family among the aristocracy ha
, done more war work than the Field
| ings, of which he is the head.
/ Knights of the Blessed Sacramen,
Cardinal Logue has approved tn
society known as the Knights of tn
Blessed Sacrament, which is spread
: ing in Ireland and England The sc
/ ciety has no additional prayers, n
/ meetings, no subscriptions, but eacl
: member pledges himself to promot
? devotion TO our Lord in the Blesse
Sacrament by frequent Communion
visits to the Blessed Sacrament, an,
) other pious exercises. The societ
| now numbers 10000.