The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-09-08
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Converts Erect Chapel In .London's
Cathedral-The Irish Nuns Of
Ypres-Bigoted Ulster Of
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IIle CudpolS OIL westminster CaCQoQral
has just reached completion, and it is
significant of the times that it is one
the entire cost of which has been de-
frayed by offerings from recent con-
verts to the Church. This is the chapel
of St. Paul, which lies to the right of
the high altar. The roof is fine ex-
ample of mosaic and the walls are COW
cred with marble, while the delicate
neutral tints of the whole decoration
fall into harmony with the rest of the
finished portions of the vast fabric,
which is making satisfactory progress
even in war time.
The Irish Nuns of Ypres.
A touching ceremony has just taken
place in the new home of the Irish
nuns of Ypres, Merton, near Ennis
corthy, Ireland, where a fine convent
has been erected to receive back the
Sisters who found hospitality in Bel
GUM in the dark penal days. Sir
Thomas Esmond, M. P, came to re-
store to the nuns two precious relics
saved from burning Ypres during the
bombardment. The first is q magni-
ficent silver monstrance which has
been in the convent for a long period;
the second comes at an opportune time,
for it is the silver crozier of the Alb
hess of Ypres. Both were handed to
the abbess-elect of the Irish commu-
nifty of Benedictines. Mother Mary
Maura, o. S. b., who succeeds the aged
abbess, who did not long survive the
horrors and anxieties of the flight to
Ireland.
Bigoted Ulster Officer Relieved of His
Command.
A scandalous specimen of Ulster in
tolerance was exposed in the House OF
Commons last Thursday, when ques-
tions were asf1ed regarding the con-
duct of Lieutenant Colonel Monteagle
Brown, commanding the Second Mum
sters. 1t was stated that this officer
had treated the Catholics under his
command with great bigotry and
harshness. Last winter he refused
permission to send for the Catholic
chaplain for sergeant dying from the
effects of an air raid on the section
held by the regiment, and although
the chaplain was only a quarter of a
mile away, the soldier died without
the sacraments. In recent advance
a gallant officer, seeing an Irish COM
pany left without any OF it's senior
officers, dashed forward and linking
arms with the regimental piper, led
the men to the attack, securing the
success of brilliant action, although
himself wounded in both arms before
the advance. This officer, a Catholic,
was buried for eleven hours, but the
colonel not only refused to send out
to place him under arrest on his return
and consistently refused requests from
other officers to recommend him for
honors. Lieutenant Colonel Brown has
now been relieved of his command, we
are glad to say
Belgian College Still Intact.
There is one college in Belgium
which has so far escaped all the furies
of the war and has continued it's or
binary existence. 1t is, curiously
enough, the College of Notre Dame de
la Prix, the new title wherewith Our
Lady of Peace is invoked now in the
Litany
The Kaiser Visits the Abbey of Maria
Laach.
The Kaiser has recently been paying
several visits to Catholic centres OF
activity in the Fatherland. Last week
ha was received at the famous Bene
dictine Abbey of Maria Laach and en-
tertained by the abbot. A few days
afterwards he visited the equally cele-
brated Abbey of St. Hildegarte at
Eubingen, near Rudesheim. He prayed
in the church, and was afterwards con-
Quoted over the beautiful cloisters by
the abbess and some of her nuns.