The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-03-30

OIL -lIiSu DGOUiCs
The Gregorian university.--0wing
to his advancing years the Very Rev.
Januarius Bucceroni S. j., who has
filled the chair of Moral Theology in
the Gregorian University, Rome, for
many years, has asked to be relieved
of this responsibility. Probably no
thcologian in Rome is more famous.
Certain it is there is no one who has
so many ex-pupils all over the globe.
Churches Hit in Air Raid.--In the re-
cent air raids on Venice, bombs mar
rowly missed the Rialto Bridge and
the Bridge of Signs. The oratory in
the Church of st. Giustina was de.
stroyed; in San Simeone Piccola
Church two marble columns were
shattered; st. John Chrysostom'
Church was damaged; 26 houses were
destroyed and 60 damaged.
The Cromer Prize.-The successful
competitor in the first contest that
has been held for the newly estah-
lished "Cromer Greek Prize" at the
University of Oxford, England, is an
Irish Catholic, a graduate of Clon-
gowes Wood College, of the National
University of Ireland, and of Platers
Hall, OXford-the Rev. Aubrey Gwynn,
S. j., NJ. A.
Fort Augustus, EngIand.-The SUI
periorship of Fort Augustus Abbey
England, vacated by the recent res
ignation of the Abbott, Sir David
Hunter-Blair. now temporarily resid
ing at Oxford, has been bestowed
upon the Very Rev. Hilary Wilson,
0. S. B., with the title of Prior. 1t
is impracticable to hold an election
for new Abbot owing to the number
of priests of the monastery who
are serving as chaplains at the front
Religious Formation of Women
Canon Reymann, of Paris, has not
contented himself with the organiza-
ton and direction of his new great
association of Catholic Railway Serv-
ants. He has undertaken the forma-
ton of feminine elite employed by
the railway companies, and by the
state in its post, telegraph and tele-
phone services. With the object of
furthering the organization of the AS
ISOLATION, a splendid ceremony was
held last week in Notre Dame Cathe-
dral, under the presidency of Cardinal
Annette.
Sir Nicholas O'Conor.-The Eng
lish press chronicles the death of an
other descendant of ancient Irish
kings-Sir Nicholas O'Conor He was
British ambassador at Constantinople,
and was descendant of the last ma.
tive king of Ireland, Roderic O'Conor,
who concluded the famous Windsor
treaty with Henry II, in 1175. Sir
Nicholas shared his distinction with
The O'Conor Don, both tracing their
descent from Sir Hugh O'Conor OF
Ballintubber, who is regarded as the
undoubted representative of the old
Irish monarchs. Sir Nicholas was ed
ucated at Stonyhurst and had a most
distinguished career in the diplomatic
service
A Hierarchy's Protest.-In their
Lenten Pastorals the Catholic Bish-
ops of Ireland strongly protest against
the misrepresentation and insults to
which the Holy Father has been sub
iected during the war Their Ian
guage on the subject breatles indig-
nation. Their anger has been aroused
by the unfair treatment meted out to
one who has used his high position
and his worldwide influence to i'm
press upon the world at this time of
ill-will and hatred the need of cult
waiting the Christian virtues that tend
to lessen the horrors of warfare Nor
has the wrong done to His Holiness
by the Treaty of London been forgot
ten. :
Valuable Find.-Portraits of ltaly's
wv 5lCuICoL pOCCS, bhuIS duu L z
trarch, have been discovered in the
Church of st. Augustine, at Rimini,
Italy. The likenesses represent the
poets in their youth and form part
of large fresco paintings made in the
fourteenth century by students, it is
supposed, of the celebrated Giotto
and covered over in 1880, after the
Black Death pest of that year when
the walls of many hundreds of
churches in Italy were whitewashed.
Independent of the artistic value of
the frescoes, it is stated they will be
preserved in order to settle disputes
as to the appearance of the, two poets
when young.
Reception at Shanghai.-Among the
many cordial welcomes extended to
the Very Rev. James A. Walsh, SUI
perior of the Catholic Foreign Mission
Society of America, in the Far East,
that given at Shanghai was unusually
impressive. At the Astor House lin
that city, banquet arranged in his
honor was attended by over six hun
dred, including a score of missionary
priests. Large Catholic demonstra-
tions arc, of course, rare in pagan
China, and a gathering of this size in
welcoming the American Catholic