The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-10
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tive of Queretaro, Mex, was taken i'll
on Christmas Day and died on Janu
airy 3, receiving the last sacraments at
the hands Of one of his classmates
who had been ordained two days
Church MISUNDERSTANDING serv
Natchez, Miss, Ri. Rev. John E. Gum,
Bishop of Natehez, made a statement
that in a certain place in Franklin
county, where there is movement on
foot to erect a church, threats had
been made by a lawless element to
burn the edifice and to kill the priest.
Bishop Gum announced that the
threats would be .disregarded and the
church built as planned.
Did Not Leave Convent Grounds in
Fifty Years.-Sister NJ. Neri Juillart,
of the Ursuline Sisters Of Brown
County. Ohio, who celebrated the fifth
eth anniversary Of her religious pro-
fession recently, has q record that will
doubtless stand as unique, in that, dur
ing the fifty years that have passed
since her profession at the Brown
County Convent, she has never found
occasion to leave the convent grounds.
Railroad Buys Church.-St. Peters
Italian Church on Forbes street,
Pittsburgh, has been sold to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company for
$225,000 and the church is also to re-
ceive $4,000 additional as bonus
for the Inconvenience to which it will
be put by having to secure a site and
erect new church. Offers have also
been made by the same corporation
for the purchase Of ST. Patrick's and
St. Philomena's Churches, but as yet
nothing definite has been done.
New College for Girls.-The Mary
wood School for Girls in Evanston,
ILL.,, opened two years ago by the Sis
tiers Of Providence, is so rapidly in
creasing in it's attendance that the
Sisters will, no doubt, soon find it
necessary to build. Archbishop Mum
delein, speaking to the Sisters recent
ly, regarding the welfare Of the Mary
wood School, advised the erection OF
such buildings as would provide &C
commodations for students in high
school and college departments in the
northern section of the city. The
Sisters hope to succeed in carrying
out this plan, so much in accord with
the frequently expressed wish OF
Archbishop Mundelein to provide
higher education under Catholic aus
pieces for the young women in Chicago
Noted Educator Dics.-Rev. John ]
Sherry, S. j., Vice-President of Loyola
University, New Orleans, died recent
ly at the Touro Infirmary, and was
buried in the Jesuit Cemetery al
Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala. He
was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1870
and at the age Of II, entered the
Jesuit novitiate at Tronchiennes, Bel
GUM. He completed his novitiate anC
studies in America and was ordained
at Woodstock in 1901. Before assum
ing the ice-presidency of Loyola
Father Sherry served as president O.
st. Johns College, Shreveport, La.
and of Sacred Heart College, Augusta
Ga. A sister, living in Dublin, and {
, cousin in New York are his only sur
| viving relatives.
Union cf Holy Name Societies.-Tht
Union Of the Holy Name Societies o
the Diocese of Providence, R. l., at it
semi-annual meeting, held last Sep
TENDER, voted an appropriation 0
$1,000 for the creation of scholarship
at La Sale Academy. The member
of the Union referred the details o
/ the establishment of the scholarship
TO the Executive Committee. On las
Tuesday evening the officers Of tht
Union and members of the Executive
Committee assembled at the Episcopa
residence and there presented tt
Right Reverend Bishop Harkins, thu
| treasurer of La Sale Academy Corpo
ration, a check of the amount re
quired for the establishment of a L;
Sale Scholarship. The scholarship il
to be known as the Holy Name
Scholarship" and is given by thu
Union of Holy Name Societies as ;
memorial to the life and works of it
first Supreme Spiritual Director, thu
late Right Reverend Thomas F. Doran
D. D., at the time of his death, AUX
iliary Bishop of the Diocese.
Portuguese Churchill San Jose
Cal, the Portuguese Catholics ar
building a church costing $4,000.
Two Million CathoIics.-The die
ceses of New York and Brooklyn
which practically constitute Catholi
New York City, contain two million
Catholics, 1000 priests, 400 churches
800 schools and $1,000 Catholic chi
dren.
i Large Parish.-St. Stanislaus, tn
oldest Polish parish in the city, is tn
largest congregation in Cleveland
More than 5000 families are on tn
membership roster and eight Masse
are said every Sunday to make it pos
sible for all members to attend sery