The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-17

Archb shop in Afrca.-Mgr.
Combes, Archbishop. of Carthage, hav-
ing retired from the administration
OF the Archdiocese OF Aleiers, which
IS we'll as Carthage, was under his
jurisdiction, Mgr. Augustin Leynaud
has been appointed to the See
Bavarian King Receives Papal Nun
cio.-king Ludwig of Bavaria has re-
ceived in audience the new Papal
Nuncio, Mgr. Giuseppi Aversa, and eX-
changed with him mutual greetings,
says a dispatch from Munich Later
the Nuncio was received by the queen.
Sir Mark Sykes.-Sir Mark Sykes,
the well-known Catholic M. p, has at
last been found for a government job.
Though smaller one than was eX-
pected, it is probably only a stepping
stone to higher things. He has been
appointed assistant secretary of I'M
perial defence
English Holy Well Stopped by Elk
pIosion.-The sudden stoppage of the
flow of st. Winifred's we'll, Holywell,
which caused CONSERVATION in the
town last week, was the result of an
explosion Of gelignite by workmen
who were draining an abandoned lead
mine in the vicinity, and caused the
spring 10 come through the mine.
The local District Council are taking
steps with regard to their lost water
supply.
A Priest on the General Staff.-The
London Daily Chronicle says: The
| Rev. P. EIDE Cosgrain, q General Staff
officer at the War Office, has been
decorated by the Gar with the re-
ligious order Of St. Stanislaus. Be
| fore joining the Catholic priesthood
he was a major in the Royal En-
gineers.'
Roman Colleges CIosed.--The mag
| nifcent Canadian College building in
Rome is closed: also the German
hungarian, Bohemian, Ruthenian,
Maronite, st. Anselm's and other col
| leges.
Noted Irish Convert.-Miss Gerald
| inc Graves, Of Dublin, Ireland, grand
| daughter of the famous Protestant
| Bishop Of Limerick, has been re-
ceived into the Church. Miss Graves
was instructed at St Dunstan's,
| WoIling, but owing to reasons OF
health she removed to 30 lrnemouth,
and it was in the Jesuit church OF
| that resort that she had the happiness
Of being baptized, and of making her
| first Communion.
The Relic ChapeI.-A unique little
| chapel has been erected at La Panne,
| Belgium, near Queen Elizabeth's resi-
! dence. It is known as the Relic
| church, and many of its furnishings
| are part of the wreckaee OF bonn
| barded churches. Beautiful old sacred
! pictures and cTucitiXeS are to be seen
| here, some Of them married by shells.
| In one corner is a heap Of stone can,
non balls dug up by the soldiers in
making trenches near Newport. It is
| supposed that these balls had been
used centuries ago in the Battle OF
the Dunes.
A Naval ChapIains callantry.-A
naval chaplain, Rev. S. A L. Thorn
ton, Of the Royal Navy Of England,
| has been awarded the D. S. 0. for de
voted attention to the wounded I'M
der shell fire during four days con-
tinuously" Father Thornton, who is
native of Glasgow, was stationed at
| CadzoW, Hamilton, before the war
| broke out, when he joined the Navy.
| He has been on service ever since in
| various theatres Of action-the North
Sea, Egypt, the Dardanelles, Greece,
| and France.
| Another Chaplain KiIled.-Another
Ichaplain has been killed at the front
| in the person of Father Henri
| Matthew, who came from the Francis
can convent at Taunton, England,
| and still another, Father Peter Groe-
bel, has died after a brief illness, at
the base hospital at Boulogne. Father
! Groebel had been for several years
| with the navy and the army, and was
instrumental in bringing several pill
| grimages of Catholic bluejackets to
| Rome. No less than thirteen chap
lains are mentioned with honor in Sir
Douglas Haigs latest dispatch, and
two, Father Devas, S. j., Of Preston,
and Father Thornton, Of Dublin, have
received the D. S. O., for conspicuous
| bravery. 1t is noteworthy that the
English province of the Jesuits has
supplied some fifty of the Catholic
chaplains now serving with the Brit
ish army.
| Catholics in India Ask for New
Bishop. A Bombay correspondent
states that for considerable period
representations have been made to
the Holy See and the British Govern
ment with a view to the abolition of
the Padroado or Portuguese ecclesi-
astlcal patronage in British India.
Catholics of Bombay, Salsette and
Bassein, British subjects, have petit
toned to be withdrawn from the
| 1lIrl S6ic1l0n Of tho pprt11oI1oco picbOD