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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
Foch To Visit New York
,coMMANpER OF THE tALLtED
ARMIES ACCEPTS afNvITATIoN5

New York City is to have the honor
of entertaining Marshal Foch, COM
mander of the Allied armies.
Mayor Hylan, Immediately after
signing of the armistice with Germany,
sent to Foch congratulatory mes
sage and invited him to visit New
York City, assuring him he would be
royalty welcomed and entertained and
have the freedom of the city,
Foch sent a 'cablegfam to Hylan
thanking him for his invitation and
accepting it. 1t was said at the office
Of the Mayor that it Will be Hnpossi-
BILE to fix the date for the Marshal's
visit until the settlement Of the terms
/ OF peace, but that efforts will be made
toshave the leader Of the Allied armies
in New York at the earliest date pos.
|sible.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
CATHOLIC OFFICERS
ADMIRAL BENSON AND GENERAL.
KEENAN, PROMINENT AT
PEACE CONFERENCE.

While Admiral Benson will be the
highest ranking United States naval
officer at the Peace Conference, Gen.
eral Francis T. Herman, a prominent
Catholic army officer, has been sent
abroad as an assistant to General Tas-
ker Bliss, formerly Chief of Staff, who
represents the U. S. Army at the his
toric gathering.
General March, in selecting General
Herman for this duty, eharacterizes him
as "a man of great legal ability, and
experienced in military and interna-
tional law
General Herman, who comes of old
Irish-American Catholic stock, is the
man who put the machine guns in the
Army. When member of the General
Staff, General Herman worked out the
details of the scheme for equipping
each unit of the fighting force with a
machine gun platoon. Previous to that
time no plans had been made distrl-
buting the guns.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
The Portuguese Republic
TO SEND DISTINGUISHED ENVOY
TO THE VATICAN.

The Minister and Plenipotentiary
chosen by the Portuguese Government
on the resumption of diplomatic re
lations with the Vatican, Capt. Jose
F. De Costa, to represent Portugal at
the Vatican has for personal reasons
given in his resignation. AS a matter
of fact, he never officially presented
his credentials, although he was re-
ceiVed in private audience by the Holy
Father, and also by the Cardinal Sec.
retary of State, after his arrival in
Rome few weeks ago.
The Republic has now appointed
Senor Doctor Emanuel Georges
Forbes de Bessa, president of the Sen.
ate, who has a little Scottish. blood in
him. His Holiness, the Pope, has sig.
.niied his pleasure to receive de Bessa
who will shortly arrive in Rome to
take up his duties
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
OF ST. LOUIS

that time Minnesota had five thousand
twelve hundred. Bishop Cretin at
once set about to build a larger
church, and in 1854 he laid the foun-
dation for the Cathedral which was
torn down few years ago.
The first Catholic families of Men.
dota and st. Paul were French Cana
dians. 1t was with their aid that Mgr.
Cretin built the church which he
erected in st. Paul on his arrival. In
the course of time the influx of peo-
pies of different tongues into this city
caused Bishop Grace to decide on the
erection of a church for the use of
French Canadians only. A meeting
was called by the Bishop on August
10, 1868, for this purpose. Work was
begun at once on the new structure.
and the French church was blessed by
Bishop Grace on December 20, of the
same year. The building was 70 feet
long and 33 feet wide 1t was located
on the northeast corner of Tenth and
Cedar Streets. The church was dedi-
Gated in honor of St. Louis, King of
France. There was a great demon
stration that day and parade and
music led by the German societies.
Pontifical Mass was sung and the SER
mon of the occasion was preached by
Father Ravoux.
The parochial school was erected in
1873. On the opening day fifty boys
and eighty girls were enrolled under
the direction of the Sisters of st.
Joseph. The first school has been
replaced by larger and more com
modious structure with more than two
hundred pupils at present In 1881 the
parishioners bought a new church
which they were to occupy until 1909.
1t was located on the corner of Wa
basha and Exchange streets, and was
blessed on April "a, 1881. From 1863
to 1885 the following priests acted as
pastors of the Church of ST. Louis:
Fathers Schmirer, Cauvin, Lauzon,
Mangin, Lebret, Theiren, Hubert,
Payette, Lapalus, Genis.
In 1886 the administration Of the
parish was entrusted TO the Marist
Fathers. Since that time the success
sive pastors have been Reverend Faith
eIs Bigot. ~ Gndins. Gross
Thomas, Remy, Rulquin, and the pres
ent pastor, Rev. Etienne Vinas, s. M.
The cornerstone Of the present
church on the corner Of Tenth and
Cedar streets was blessed by Arch
bishop Ireland on June 6, 1909 This
church is a beautiful structure sur
mounted by two towers. In the gal
lery which rises above the principal
entrance are the statues of st. Ann
and st. John the Baptist which recall
the fervent devotions that flourished
on the banks of the st. Lawrence. The
interior of the church Is imposing, and
is beautifully set off by marble
columns. The Renaissance style Of
architecture is followed throughout.
AS part of the church there is also
a beautiful chapel which is used for
services during the week.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
Churches And Epidemic
SUPREME COURT OF KANSAS
FoRBIDs THE CLOSING OF
CATHOLIC cHURcES DURING
THE EPIDEMIC.

A few weeks ago, commenting up-
on the unwarranted closing of Cath
olic churches by order of health Off
GERS, the Pittsburgh Observer made
these remarks: Are Catholics going
to permit the growing secularism-or,
rather, paganism-of the day to put
the churches in which they worship
Almighty God on the low level of
theatres, nickelodeons, and dime-mu-
seums, to be closed at will by every
petty politician who has succeeded in
getting himself appointed health
commissioner or acting health COM
missioner and who makes up his
mind to do so, on the pretext that he
is thereby promoting the sanitary in
terests of the community? To con-
tend that those interests are served
by an arbitrary edict which closes
the churches during the few hours
that they are opened on Sunday, and
which allows the unhealthily crowded
street-cars to continue to run day after
day, and fiye-and-ten-cent stores, stock
exchanges, brokers' exchanges and
other places which are densely packed
with people daily, to continue to oper-
ate as usual, would be preposterous.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has
Just taken the same view of the mat
ter. The Board of Health of the City
OF Wichita had issued a similar ukase.
Application was made in the District
Court for an Injunction rastrainino tho
board from closing the churches; and
in support of the plea it was shown
that the Board of Health was not con-
stltuted according to law; that there
was no ordinance permitting the es-
tabllshment of quarantine; that the
meetings of the Board of Health were
not conducted in an orderly manner:
that no records of the proceedings
were kept; and-most important point
OF all-that, although the churches.
schools and theatres had been closed,
large crowds had been permitted to
gather in department stores, depots.
restaurants, drug-stores, street cars
81 persons had been counted in one
car; that after the quarantine had
been established dinner for the news
boys had been given at which 200 were
present. Judge Bird, who heard the
arguments, granted the Injunction.
The city authorities, who backed up
the action of the board, took an appeal
to the Supreme Court of the State,
which has upheld Judge Bird.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
APPEAL TO POPE
GERMAN CATHOLICS SEEK: SoF.
TENfNG OF AMlSTIcE
TERMS.

The German Catholics have adj
dressed an appeal to the Pope They
desire the Intervention of the Holy
Father to modify the conditions of
the armistice. They say "The condi-
tions must throw the German people
in .direst need, the demand for the
surrender of the Indispensable railway
rolling stock prevents the carrying out
of the traffic necessary for the victual-
ing of the people, who for four years
have been starving. The food supplies
for the enemy troops of occupation
cannot be procured" They conclude
by begging His Holiness, in the name
of humanity and Oft the principles of
the religion of love to intervene with
the Allies for the right of the German
people to live.
No mention is made of the Allies
guarantee Of sufficient food, or of the
condition in which Allied prisoners
have been released and left to find
their own way to the lines of the vic
tors or die upon the route.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
CHIEF EXECUTIVE or ST. PAUL
PLEADS FOR RECOGNITION OF
ERlNs RIGHTS - sELF-DETER-
MINATIoN OF. PEOPLES SHOULD
BE APPLIED TO a. NATION
WHICH HAS SO GLORIOUS A HIS
TORY AND so ENvIA9LEb "A
RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENTS.

At large gathering, held in Hiber-
nian Halls, this city, on December 8,
Mayor Hodgson of st. Paul was one
of the speakers who advocated free
dom, for Ireland The Mayors adj
dress follows
My fellow citizens, while we have
come here tonight to mingle in all the
fraternal happiness which makes men
glad to be alive we have come peculiar
ly each from high and holy motive;
from very high and holy motive,
when our hearts and pulses are thrill
ing. If there is a man who denies
the propriety of meeting like, this
that man has not in his heart the high
and holy motive for which our boys
have died on the battle-smitten fields
of France. But assume that nowhere
in the broad United States of America
will be found man who has to apoli-
gize for gathering like this. in the
holy name of liberty--for the purpose
of declaring to the world the liberty
of humanity. There could be no, time
so appropriate as now for us to gather
together to consider what we in ST.
Paul may do to advance this cause. in
which we are interested and try to
bring to consummation the dream of
hundreds of years, that dream. that
kept Ireland beautiful and bright and
noble.
The whole problem in which we are
interested tonight has been effectually
stated by the great President of the
United States Qoved by all the world,
the President who has the singular
good fortune to be disliked by
the Senate of the United States), that
at the peace table. will be attempted
the proof of the sacrifice of, those who
have died for Liberty, especially the
principle of the self lf-determination OF
peoples, regardless of their size or i'm.
portance, or power. In other words the
president has laid down the principle
that there is no such thing as justice
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
FRENCH PARISH CELEBRATES
GOLDEN JUBILEE or FoUNDA-
TlON-BISHoP GUNN Is PRES
ENT-BANQUET IN EVENING
HISTORY OF. THE PARISH.

On Sunday, September Is, the
parish of ST. Louis, st. Paul, COM
memorated the golden jubilee of it's
foundation. The dedication of the
first church took place on December
20, 1858, and was performed by Bishop
Grace.
At 10:30 last Sunday morning
Solemn High Mass was celebrated by
the pastor Rev. Etienne Vinas, S. M.
The deacon was Very Reverend Henry
de la Chapelle, Provincial of the
Marists, who also preached an elo-
quent sermon for the occasion. The
subdeacon was Rev. Victor Mulsant,
S. NJ.
Right Reverend Bishop Gum of
Natchez, Miss, who is also a mem
Der of the Marist Order, said the nine
o'clock Mass and preached. In the
afternoon Bishop Gum confirmed a
class of seventy children.
At seven o'clock Sunday evening a
banquet was served in the Ryan Hotel
in honor of the golden jubilee of the
French parish. A large and varied
program was given. Among the
speakers were Mayor Hodgson, Bishop
Gum, Judge Bazille and Fathers de
la Chapelle, Vinas, Bazin, Millet,
Reardon and Mulsant.
History of the Parish.
The history of the Church of ST..
Louis may be said to date back many
years before its actual establishment.
About one hundred years ago French
Canadians were to be found through
out the present States of Minnesota
and Iowa.
In 1851 st. Paul received it's first
Bishop in the person of the Right
Reverend Joseph Cretin. Some of the
French settlers had located near Fort
Smelling. They kept in touch with
st. Louis and the rest of civilization
by means of the steamer Virginia
which piled on the Mississippi.
In the year 1889, Bishop Loras ar
rived in Dubuque from France. He
brought with him Fathers Cretin,
Pelamourges, Galtier and Ravoux. A
few months later the new Bishop
made his pastoral visit at Fort Shell
ing and Mendoza. In these two mis-
sions at this time there were 1856
Catholics. Father Galtier arrived at
Fort Smelling in 1910, and there estab-
lished a mission center. In 1874 Fa,
ther Ravoux, who had succeeded Fa.
ther Galtier, had charge of the mis-.
sions of Mendoza, st. Anthony, Little
Canada and Saltwater. Two years
later Father RaEoux located on the
present site of st. Paul.
In 1851 Bishop Cretin arrived at St
Paul. He took possession of his Ca.
thedral which had cost $500. AT
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
ST. PAUL PRIEST CITED
REV. w. HART, NOW CHAPLAIN,
INSPIRES STRAGGLERS TO Ac-
TIoN.


Rev. William L. Hart, for 10 years
pastor of ST. Marks Catholic Church
in ST. Paul, now chaplain with the
American Army in France, has been
cited for bravery, according to word
received in St. Paul.
Father Hart was attached to the
One Hundred and Fortieth Infantry
and he was cited for bravery by COM
mand of Major General Traub, and the
citation was made by Colonel H. S.
Hawkins. d.
The citation says that Father Hart
in battle on September rs to October
/, 1918, not only rendered spiritual aid
to the wounded but gathered strag-
glers together, and by word and ex-
ample, without regard to his personal
safety, encouraged them to action
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
THIS DAY is EVER PoPULAR-ALL
SHARE ALIKE IT'S .JoYs-WAAT
CHRISTMAS MEANS TO US.

The Spirit of Christmas is the spirit
of joy. Of all the festival days in
the year Christmas is always the
brightest and most gladstone. Though
there be cold in the air and frost and
snow under our feet, there is always
warm sunshine in our hearts.
Thanksgiving day, though it is an
nually heralded by the proclamation
of the President and the governors of
states, is commemorated only by those
who live under the American flag and
by our fellow-citiZens sojourning in
foreign parts. But Christmas is a
worldwide festivity in which every
Christian nation of the earth partici-
pates. Though unannounced by civic
proclamations, it is forgotten by no
one. 1t is eagerly expected by all;
it is heartily enjoyed while lit lasts,
and leaves after it sweet religious
memories. 1t returns every year as
fresh and fragrant as the newborn
flowers of spring.
Christmas is always popular. Ever
ancient and ever new" time writes no
wrinkles on the heavenly brow of this
annual visitor
In our favored country this Christ
mas Joy is universal Every heart re-
spends to it.
The young will rejoice today. 1t is
pre- eminently the feast of childhood.
They welcome the day with gleesome
hearts. They see in their fathers
face a brighter smile; and their
mothers embrace seems to them more
tender than usual.
Today the aged people grow young
again and share in the innocent sports
and nirth of their little ones. The
spirit of Christmas quickens them with
new life, gives them a foretaste of
the perennial youth reserved for them
hereafter.
The poor man also rejoices today,
and why not? Ofsall days in the year,
does he not feel this morning the dig
nifty of his Christian equality as he
enters the House of God? Does he not
realize that, as the humble shepherds
were as welcome to the crib of Bethle-
hem as we're the princes of the east,
so is he not as welcome as the rich
man to kneel before the altar and to
partalSe of the banquet of the Lord?
The benevolent rich man rejoices to-
day. His soul expands and is en-
larged under the genial Influence of
heaven-born charity. He enjoys that
sweetest and most rational pleasure OF
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
The Catholic Party
lNpoRsEs A REPus-
Lie FOR AUSTRIA.

A bill providing for election in Janu-
ary of a constituent assembly, to con-
vene March /, has been published by
the provisional government of German
Austria, according to dispatches. This
body will be elected on the basis of
one deputy for each 4S,00O inhabi-
tants. Women will vote, also all males
of twenty-four years old or over.
The Catholic party has issued 10
manifesto formally indorsing the re-
publican form of government. This is
regarded as a death-blow to the Haps-
burgs' hopes.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
PoNTIFF ASKS THE CATHOLIC
WORLD TO PRAY FOR THE sue.
CESS OF GATHERING AT PARIS
POSITION OF THE VATICAN.

The encyclical letter addressed by
Pope Benedict to the Catholic Episco-
pate throughout the world, exhorting
it to offer prayers for the guidance by
Providence of the approaching peace
conference, bears the date of Decem-
ber /.
The Pope attributes the end of the
war 'to Him Who governs all events,
Who, moved to pity by the perserver-
ing prayers of the good, granted at
last that humanity might recover final
ly from so many griefs''
The Pontiff rejoices at the impress
i've demonstration of piety that has
occurred throughout the Catholic
world, and continues:
There remains now to implore the
Almighty that the great gift granted
us have it's crowning, that the dele
gates of the various nations to meet
in solemn congress give the world a
just and lasting peace. Such grave
and complex decisions will have to be.
taken as no human assembly ever took
before. Therefore, words are wanting
TO express how greatly the delegates
need to be divinely enlightened so as
to be able to accomplish their mission.
Their decisions in the highest de-
gree will affect the interest and good
of all humanity. Thus, Catholics who
favor order and progress must invoke
the divine assistance upon those par
ticipating in the peace conference. We
desire this duty to be recalled to all
Catholics"
The Pontiff ends by urging the
Bishops of the world to implore the
Almighty by means of public prayers in
each parish, to shed His light upon the
congress and enable it to secure true
peace founded upon the Christian prin-
ciple of justice.
The Vatican and the Peace Confer
ence.
Our Rome correspondent writes that
the Vatican will now enter on phase
OF activity none the less fruitful, IN
deed far more fruitful, in spite of the
end of the many activities by which
it has relieved the war sufferings of
the world. The Office for prisoners of
war will cease it's work, much, no
doubt, to l.re .elief of Mons. Tede-
schini, already hard worked and like
ly to be more so now that his con-
frere in the department of foreign af-
fairs is going to be absent on his jour
ney to the United States; but in the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
Resolutions On Ireland
LOCAL COMMITTEE FORWARDS
PLEA TO PRESIDENT.

At recent meeting in Minneapolis
under the auspices of the Ancient Or
der of Hibernians, the following reso-
luton was drawn up and cabled to
President Wilson:
The Resolution.
Petition of the committee represent
ing the priests of the Archdiocese of
st. Paul.
TO His Eycellency, the Honorable
Woodrow Wilson, President of the
United States:
Whereas, The people of the United
States have in accordance with the
constitutional laws of the said United
States entered into this World War:
And Whereas, Your Exeellency has
declared that our object is not terri
torial ACKNOWLEDGMENT, or the main-
tenance of secret diplomacy Or the fold
struggle for the balance of power, but
the self-determination of all nations,
small as well as great;
And Whereas, The Irish nation is
the oldest nation in Europe and the
most closely connected with the Unit
ed States;
Therefore, Your petitioners, as
American citizens in accordance with
their constitutional rights, respectfully
ask Your Excellene', to use the unique
position of the United States at this
jtincture to the end that:
The claims of Ireland for complete
independence be acknowledged and as
sured by the United States.
]. c.. BYRNE, Administrator.
P. ONEH4I4,
]. HARRINGTON,
T. r. GLEESON,
P. CUNNINGHAM,
Chaplain, A. o. H.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
MAYOR HODGSON ON IRELAND

and liberty for few, but that Liberty
and Justice, if they mean anything.
must include all aspiring peoples, small
as well as great. 1t seems peculiarly
happy that we should seek out this
time for such a settlement of this ques-
tion as will forever establish Ireland
among the free nations of mankind
this very great question of Democracy
when in the gladness of our hearts
we SO readily forgive wrongs-to set.
tie this great problem Of Ireland upon
a basis of affection, of neighborly re-
gard, free from all the old prejudices.
Every friend of Ireland and the Home
Rule question is to be guided and in
spired by the young generation who
have died in the present conflict rather
than to be obliged to settle it through
the accumulated prejudice and arimos-
tiles of past years, and in an hour like
this the aspirations of this people
should be realized nor should they
be obliged to demand of the world any
more than the right to be accorded
to the nations of the world infinitely
smaller than Ireland.
In the breaking up of Austria we
have seen the beginning of self-deter-
mination of peoples, freedom of small
states-the Jugo Slav and Czecho
Slovak-and again we see President
Wilson declaring that these small ma
tions are entitled to their free republics
for the simple reason that these ma
tions although part of Austro- Hun.
gary-these small peoples are entitled
to set up their own government and to
work out their own salvation if we are
to have a just peace, and that to no
nation would the principle of justice
be denied that thus will we be our
own masters instead of someone's
servant
In English history is an inheritance
of great name, such Irish names as
Edmund Burke, Fox, Wolf Tone,
O'Connell and Grattan, creating new
dreams for Ireland, making of their
work an imperishable record. These
men in serving the needs of the world
had great dreams that some day out OF
| their service great free republic of
Ireland would arise, republic which
for good or i'll should be self-deter.
mining nation Of free people who were
not dependent upon the acts Of other
Iie9ples for their life, for their country
land, for their liberty.
tcpntlnued On page q -
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
St. Paul Chaplains

At the request of Bishop Hayes, Chap
lain General of the Catholic Chaplains
of America, the following applications
from this diocese have been submitted
for chaplaincies: Rev Fathers Cyril
Farrell, Stephen Winter, George M.
Van der Velden, Hilary Jordan, Steph-
en- Theobald, William Luby, Francis
Missia, Joseph .Freisleben, Lawrence
Lynch.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
Honor Soldier Sons

/ A banquet will be given to all of the
1,4O0 Marquette graduates who are
now in France, on their return, accord.
ing to a plan adopted by the members
of the Marquette University Alumni
Association in Milwaukee last. week,
AS the various graduates return they
will be given ovations, but the large
banquet will be held only after the
entire I,400 return.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
Albert To Honor Foch

King Albert of Belgium intends to
create a new military order to be
known as the Order of the User, The
Echo De Paris says. The first man
to be decorated with the new order
will be Marshal Foch.