The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02

Congregation of Rites held in the Vat |
lean the following matters engaged
the attention of the Cardinals attached
to this body: l. The introduction OF |
the Cause of Beatification of the Serv- |
ant of God Andrea Garcia Acosta, |
lay-brother of the Order of Friars
Minor. 2. The revision of the writ
ings of the Servant of God Felix de
Andreis, Priest of the Mission. 5. APP
probation and concession of the Mass
and Office in honor of the martyrs
Gavinus, Protus, and Gennarus, Pa
irons of the Archdiocese of Sassari,
Italy.
Crisis in italian Journalism.-If the
journals of every country have been
hard hit financially by the war, the
Italian papers seem to have suffered
particularly. The story of the big
deficit which the Catholic company
headed by the ''Corriere d'Italia" has
Just made known to it's readers as
having to be faced, is the same tale
that every newspaper in the peninsula
has to relate. Almost since the out
break of the war the size of the Ital-
ian newspapers has been reduced.
And now a Government decree orders
every newspaper in the country TO be
cut down to half its normal size. Each
of the dailies brought out by the
"Unione Editrice Italiana' calls for
help. The company frankly asks the
nf fol f11nnaia1
ance, and declares it will have to
blush for them if it is not forth-com-
ing.
Cardinal Mercier's Thanks.-The
"Osservatore Romano publishes a
letter from Cardinal MERCER to the
Pope, acknowledging the decisive in
| fluence of the intervention of his Holt
ness in regard to the Belgian deporta-
tons. "The deportations," writes the
Cardinal, "have ceased since the mid
die of February and we have no doubt,
| Holy Father, that this important re-
suit is due to the energetic interven-
ton Of the Holy See with the Impe-
rial Government. There are many who
| have been able to entertain for a
moment the illusion that they have
contributed to this attenuation of our
trials. But the dates prove it is the
work of your Holiness and I am pro-
foundly grateful to you for it. So
far the repatriation has been limited.
Continue, Holy Father, to protect us.
! The Prussian Minister to the Vatican
has telegraphed to Rome from Lugano
that all the hostages at HolZminden
have been repatriated.
Celebrations at Genazzano.-A good
deal of interest is taken in Rome in
| celebration that is being held in
the hill-town of Genazzano, some two
dozen miles from the city. The clos
ing days of April marked the fifth
centenary of the miraculous arrival
at the Augustinian Church among the
Sabine Hills, from over the AdriatiC
Sea- of the picture of Our Lady OF
Good Counsel This occurred in 1857
when the Turks threatened to take
Scutari, where the picture had been
.
full. Rarely have miraculous events
been attested by so many witnesses
Since that time Genazzano has beer
a worldwide place Of pilgrimage by
those devoted to the Mother of Coco
Counsel. The Feast was preceded by
Solemn Iridium, on each day o.
which High Mass was said by the
Most Rev. Mrg. Jorio, Titular Arch
bishop of Nicomedea; the Right Rev
Mgr. Zampini, Sacristan of his Holi
ness; and the Very Rev. Father Rod
: riguez, General O. S. A. At the peti
J ton of Father Rodriguez the Hol.
Father granted a Plenary Indulgence
to all pilgrims to this celebration OF
the usual conditions.
Professor PhiIIimore.-To the intel
{ lectual Catholic the presence of Pro
fessor John S. Phillimore in thu
Chair of Humanities at Glasgow Uni
: versity, Scotland, is one of the chic
sources of interest in the contempt
J, rary affairs of that famous seat O
| learning founded by Pope Nicholas
V. in the middle year of the fifteenth
J century, though it has since wan
dered far from Catholic traditions
The Professor, who, still under As
is a son of Admiral Sir Augustus
Phillimore, was received into thu
Church in 1905, and was DR.. Gilber
Murray's successor in the chair o
| Greek there until transferred to hi
present position in 1906. An arden
crusader in the work of overthrow
ing the Protestant tradition that Brit
ish intellectual life began in the day
+ of Elizabeth, Prof. Phillimore did goot
> service for that cause in editing for
the now suspended Catholic Library,
Bishop Fishers commentary on thu