The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24

with the Allied Powers, expressing the
hope that the Italian and Allied Gov
ernments would answer the Pope's
Peace Note, showing disposition to
consider a just peace, and affirming
the necessity of maintaining national
resistance and discipline as the best
means of achieving victorious peace.
Another Chaplain Killed. - The
name of yet another chaplain must be
added to the roll of honor, Father
Michael Bergin, Jesuit of the Irish
province He was born at Rosecrea,
Ireland, thirty-eight years ago. He
first served as chaplain in Gallipoli.
and, later, in Egypt, before proceeding
to the western front, where he was
attached to the Australian Field Brl-
gade, and lost his life at the post of
duty on October IL.
Catholic Electoral Union.-A letter
| from Count Carlo Santucci explains
| the reasons for his resignation of the
position of President of the Catholic
Electoral Union of Italy. 1t is due,
| not, as was rumored, to the existence
| of "split in the Catholic camp" but
| to his sense of the Importance of the
position and the grave responsibility
attaching to it. Count Santucci hap
| pens to be Chief Director of the Banca
di Roma, lawyer attached to the
Sacred Tribunal of the Rota, and one
of the principal figures in a dozen
other organizations. Time was want
ing to him to fulfil his duties as Pres
| ident-General of the Catholic Electoral
Union of Italy, but he will work as a
private in the ranks of this wide
| spread organization.
Famous Old cathedrals.-The great
Cathedral of Mayence, }on the Rhine,
dating in part from the9year 975, has
Sc pillars, around which are many
tombstcnes and affairs dating from
the 18th to the 10Th centuries. The
principal door or portal of the Cologne
Cathedral is not quite SO feet high and
81 feet in width and is 201 feet high,
up to it's roofing. 1t has a length of
525 feet, and has two towers each
525 feet high. The valuable XVI cen
fury windows of the Cathedral of Co
logne, on the Rhine, are being re.
moved elsewhere for safety. Five OF
the windows were executed in 1908
and 1909, and are the finest of their
kind extant
/ Our Lady of the Asturias.-A move
ment is now on foot in Spain tC
crown economically the miraculous
image of the Virgin of Cavodonga
Our Lady of the Asturias. To aid
the movement a magazine entirely
devoted to the interests of this famous
shrine under the title of "Cavodonga,'
and giving not only the history of the
image but lists of favors granted al
the shrine, or through the interces
sion of Our Lady invoked under thai
title, has been founded. An appea
is made not only to the inhabitants Of
:. Spain but to Spaniards throughout the
| world to make The. crown a. worthy
one. Already gifts in money and in
. kind, the latter including some mag
nificent jewels, among them many ole
Spanish heirlooms, are flowing in L
was at Cavodonga that the first battle
of the campaign which ended in the
expulsion of the Moors from Spair
took place.
Forcing Members of Religious or
ders into the Army.-A determined
effort is being made by the bigots il
England to force military service OF
the members of religious orders. A
short time ago a local committee
struck because certain monks in thu
neighborhood were not called up
Now well-known Nottingham clergy
man has written to the Ministry O.
National Service, asking why member.
of religious committees are to be ex
a reply that they cannot be called
up without the special approval of tina
!: department, to whom all appeals mus
7 be referred, he and his associates in
timated their intention of taking the
) matter to Parliament. Their idea j:
that if they cannot force monks int
: the firing line as combatants, they
, will at least disturb the tenure o.
( their religious life, and put them tt
driving motor-wagons or working like
conscientious DIRECTORS behind the
J lines-anything, in fact, to prevent
them from continuing a1ife of prayer
/ and praise at moment, when there
J are few people engaged in that essen
|, tial occupation.
France and the Sacred Heart.-Tht
!, Bishop of Autun, in a letter to his
flock urging fresh outburst of devo
/ ton to the Sacred Heart, reveals {
i new phase of the life of Blessed Mar
Z garet Mary Alacoque. In addition tt
her general mission she had a specia
mission to France as a nation, which
is attested by letters in the archives
of the Visitation convent at Paray Il
| Monial which have not hitherto beer
published and from which Monsignol
: Berthoin quotes. Louis XIV, the heat
of the state, was urged to build {
i church in honor of the Sacred Heart
and to consecrate himself and his