The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-12

by Rev. Charles J. Burger, c. SS. r.,
! Familiarity known as THE Redemp-
torist deaf-mute missionary"
Good Shepherd JubiIee.-The golden
jubilee of the now extensive House OF
the Good Shepherd in Boston was OBJ
served last Week. The Sisters Of the
| Good Shepherd were established in
Boston under the late Archbishop
Williams in 1867 from the provincial
house in New York. The Boston
foundation of the Sisters of the Good
| Shepherd ranks as the twelfth founda-
| ton from the original American
house of the Good Shepherd in Louis
| vile, Ky.
Brothers SchooIs.-St. Leonard $
| Academy, Brooklyn, for the second
| consecutive year, has won the type
| writing accuracy championship@of the
Metropolitan district. The contest
was won against a dozen schools in
New York City and New Jersey. St
|
the Franciscan Brothers, and is in
charge of the Rev. Brother Gerard
o. S. F., who personally prepared the
| boys for the contest. Another Cath
| Ollie school, La Sale Academy, in Sec
Ond street, Manhattan. conducted by
the Christian Brothers, won second
honorS in the contest.
"Mother of French Poor."-A noted
| character has retired from the bust
ness activities of that busy thorough
| fare, North Clark street, Chicago.
Nine. Julie Meret, ninety years old,
known affectionately for many years
as Mother of the French Poor in Chi
cago." closed her once fashionable
| candy shop and has retired to the
peace and quiet of a Home conducted
| by the Little Sisters OF the Poor.
Many stories are told i'll Chicago of
the self-sacrificing labor and great
charity of Nine Meret in her efforts
to aid the poor, not alone of her own
nationality, but all who sought her
aid.
A Rare Famly.-Very rare indeed
is it to find an entire family of sons
and daughters consecrated to the serv-
| ice of God, yet such is the case with
the Hickey family of Cincinnati, Ono,
| which gave five priests and two sis
ters religious to the Church. The
| father, Patrick Hickey, was born in
TipperaTy, Ireland. The mother, Mrs.
Johanna Hickey (nee Stanton), was
also born in Ireland, in the county of
Cork. The couples greatest endeavor
was to promote the glory of God and
| His Church, and their greatest pleas
use the reading of the religious
| books which constituted their library.
ST. Viator CoIiege.-In response to
| the call of our President and in obedi-
ence to the eloquent and patriotic ap-
peal of Archbishop Mundelein, the
student body of st. Viator College,
Bourbonnais, ILL.,, took immediate
steps toward preparedness. A mill
tary organization has been established
and preliminary drilling is held two
| hours day, three times a week. The
familiar baseball enthusiasm among
the four hundred students has given
way, in a great measure, to the mill
tary spirit.
| Ruthenian Prelate ExiIe.-Archbish-
op Szepticky, freed by the Russian
| l,n Of
Very Rev. Peter Poniatishin of New
ark, \. j., may come to this country.
| The Archbishop was primate of
Galicia, of the Ruthenian Greek Cath
| Olic Church, and was made prisoner
| by the Russians at the capture of
Lemberg. Father Poniatishin, who is
administrator of the Ruthenian Catho-
lie diocese of the United States, with
| Mr.. Kearns, his counsel, went to
| Washington and had the state depart
ment request the Russian government
to release the archbishop. Father
| Poniatishin and Mr.. Kearns are now
| trying to bring him to America. i.
| Second Time in Histcry.-For the
second time in the history of Lafay-
cite, Ind, an American flag floats to
the breeze from Catholic church. 1t
was raised on the spire of st. Mary's
| Church the other afternoon by the
| Very Rev. John r. Dinnen dean of
the Fort Wayne, Indiana, diocese. In
1898 the Rev. Father Dinner raised a
flag when war with Spain was de-
clared. The spire is 17S feet high and
the flag floats from the highest point
in Tippecanoe county.
Death of Well-known Nun.-Word
has been received by the Rt. Kew.
COadjutOr Bishop Chartrand, announc-
ing the death of Sister Juliana Chat
ard, sister of the Rt. Rev. Bishop
Chatard, Bishop Of indianapolis, at
the motherhouse of the Sisters of
Charity, Emmitsburg, Maryland. She
was eighty-five years of age and had
been mistress of novices of the Sis
ters of Charity. for many years. She
was one of the best known Sisters of