The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-12

pool has been killed. He was a Je-
suit in his fortieth year, and is the
third brother of his family to die on
the field of honor. Father Smith, of
the Northampton Regiment, has been
wounded and is in the hospital in Lon
don; and Father Stuart, of Dundeld,
has been gassed and is in the hospital
in Manchester.
Church in Saloniki.-At the burning
of Saloniki, the magnificent Byzantine
Basilica of ST. Demetrius was, it is
reported, ruined. It's architecture and
mosaics we're destroyed. 1t was one
of the finest Byzantine edifices in the
world. ThessaloIica, or Saloniki, is
in Macedonia. Christianity there dates
from the time of st. Paul Apostle.
ST. Demetrius, the Martyr, is the Pro-
tector of it. From his tomb flowed
an oil which worked miracles. His
superb Basilica is now a mosque.
The city has about 5000 Catholics;
chapels, the Lazarist Fathers, the
Sisters of Charity, the Bulgarian Eu-
charistic Sisters and Seminary.
The Gates of Paradise.-LorenZoG Gil
berti, famous Florentine sculptor,
who excelled in casting his sculpture
in metals, had acquired so great a
reputation that the municipal authori-
ties gave him a commission, about
1889, to decorate the chief doors of
the Church of San Giovanni with
bronzes representing scenes from the
Old Testament. The doors when fin
ished, met with unqualified praise
from all sides. When Michael Angelo
was asked what he thought of them,
he said: "They are so beautiful that
they might fittingly serve as the gates
of paradise!"
The Vatican Observatory.-The Vati-
| can Observatory has had one more
very interesting specimen added to its
store of 154 meteorites. The new
comer-described as "Bolide," seem
| ingly species of siderite-has been
sent to the observatory collection from
Brazil, where it fell on January 90
| 1869, at Des Refs. 1t had been in the
| hands of Professor Lapponi at the
College of Strada, AreZzo, Italy, now
| through the good offices of Father
| Mezzetti, S. j., reaching the Vatican
| Gale Sweeps QueenstoWn.-A north
! onoo0onanio1 bu CnOuy anr
extreme cold, swept Queenstown or
| December Is, according to a Contra
News dispatch from that Irish port
and which was delayed on account o.
wire trouble. Many persons were in
jured in the streets. st. Colman':
Cathedral was damaged, and the police
barracks and many houses were I'm
rooted. Giant waves swept over the
vessels in the harbors, and for sew
eral hours they were cut off from com
munication with the shore.
4 Fugitive Poses as Priest.-A youn&
German newspaperman, who made hi
escape from a prison camp in thu
south of France, has been captured
after two weeks liberty. He wa
wearing a long black beard, and
long cloak like that worn by one o
the French religious orders. In hi
hand he carried a French prayer book
on the flyleaf of which he had writer
in perfect French that he was prizes
on a pilgrimage to Lourdes and tina
he had vowed to make the journey OF
foot and without speaking a word
He had shown this soiled prayer bool
everywhere along his way, and thu
simple-minded peasants had fed AM
sheltered him without suspicion.
Another Priest KiIIed.-Rev. Patricl
LOBBY, chaplain to the forces, ant
formerly assistant priest at st. A
phonsus', Liverpool, is, says The Cath
oiic Times, officially reported Woundet
and missing under circumstance
which leave little doubt of his death
The senior priest of his division say
that Father LOBBY went into action
with the regiment to which he wa
attached on October 27, and was tn
first man hit. So, it appears certain
that he was wounded. His body, how
ever, was not recovered, as wher
he is believed to have fallen, was
very exposed area, and it was not pos
sible to search for it.
Archbishop Fugitive
on the arrival in Rome of Mgr. Anas
!, tasio Rossi, Archbishop of Udine, h.
was received i'll audience by the Hol,
Father. Mgr. Rossi only left his Epis
copal residence after the burning an,
plundering by the invaders had a.
ready commenced, and over 100000
fugitiVes had abandoned the city ant
its environs. He left the city witt
a few aged ecclesiastics and severa
nuns, and made his way on foot from
one locality to another until he wa
able to take the train for Rome Bene
dict XIV was deeply affected by the sal
news of the Archbishop and approved
his departure from Udine under tn,
Exceptional circumstances which would
have left him alone in the city.
i Irish Bishops PastoraIs.-The feas
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