The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
OLD WORLD NEWS

OLD WORLD NEWS
after she had collected quantity of
rice for the poor from charitable
grocer in London, Sister Mary Pris-
ella Kearney of the Little Sisters of
the Assumption was fatally injured
when a cask of spice weighing over
200 pounds fell on her. She died soon
after. Sister Priscilla was forty-three
years old and native of Lansdown,
County Leitrim, Ireland.
Monument to ST. Teresa.-Devotion
to st. Teresa, which is so general in
Spain, has been given special express
sion in the city of Avila, where the
people are in special manner admir-
ers of the saint-not to be wondered
at, as it was her native town-by the
erection of a monument. The work
was undertaken as a eommemoration
of the fourth centenary of St. Teresa
The Bolo ScandaI.-The 'Osserva-
tore Romano" officially denies the
statements connecting the Pope with
the Italians implicated in the French
Bolo scandals, and also declares that
when Caillaux was staying in Rome
neither he nor his wife was received
in audience either by the Pope or his
Secretary of State.
Names Easily Confused.-An Eng
| fish exchange remarks upon the ease
with which the names of the titular
Sees of the two recently appointed
English prelates may be COMPOUNDED.
Mgr. Bidwell, the Auxiliary Archbish-
| Op of Westminster, is Titular Arch
| bishop-elect of Metropolis, and Mgr.
Keatinge, the new Chaplain Bishop,
is Titular Bishop-elect of Metellopolis.
Both titles are those of former Sees in
Asia Minor
Flag Day in Dubln.-For the first
time Catholic charity held an eXclu-
sive flag day in Dublin on Saturday,
and the results were most encourag-
ing. The society in question was the
st. Vincent de Paul Society, which
has a great work to do among the
sick poor of the city. AS a rule a
bazaar is held about this time, which
brings in some $4,000, but it has been
impossible to organize this in the
present year. From an early hour
the streets were picketed with flag
sellers, and by the evening no one
ventured to be seen without one of
the emblems of charity. The finan.
cial results are understood to have ex-
ceeded all expectations. 1t is proba-
BILE other societies will follow the ex.
ample of the S. V. P.
Religious outrage.-The figure OF
Our Lord has been torn from the
Catholic shrine al Ramsgate, England
and is terribly mutilated This is the
second outrage within few months
committed, it is said by a secret or
| ganization.
Gothic Building Suffers.-It is re-
ported that the magnificent Carthu.
sian monastery of Hahn, Germany an
architectural work of Gothic art near
Dusseldorf on the Rhine, has been de,
stroyed by fire.
Numerous Shrines in China.-In
China, numerous shrines are now
erected in honor of the Blessed Vir-
| gin Mary, especially in Chinas pic
turesque mountains and valleys.
Venice on Knees.-Led by the Patri-
arch of Venice, the mayor and city
council and the civilians remaining
in the city have just concluded three
days of prayer in San Marco, besides
making pilgrimages to other churches.
in order to petition for the safety of
the city and Of the country.
Work for Young.-The Rev. Father
Higley, at the anncal meeting in Lon
don of the Association of Poor Law
Unions, said that in view of the war
losses their policy should be to keep
as many boys as possible in Eng
land, and to emigrate as many girls
as they could send out to equalize the
sexes as far as might be.
| Rome at Attention. Cardinal
Vicar urges the Catholics of Rome to
meet the war situation is a spirit of
absolute concord. He exhorts to every
personal sacrifice to help those in
need, and calls for prayer for soldiers,
orphans, widows, and the needy, and
for the 'scivil and Christian salvation
lof our Italy