The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-04-20
father who had looked after their well
fare for more than twenty-three
years.

mOu0iS vi pl0Iy ana zeal. rev. fTOS-
per Durand, o. F. NJ, tells of one in
his district who has served as a cate
chist for 20 years without receiving
one cent of remuneration for her la
bors. She says she is working for
Our Lord and wants no reward but
His love and appreciation. She is
revered and loved wherever she goes,
for there is no sacrifice she is not
willing to make if by making it she
can win a soul to Christ. She thinks
nothing of walking miles in order to
baptize a dying infant, and on one
All Saints Day she made a journey
of 10 miles that she might receive
Holy Communion Another Sister in
the same district has not missed daily
Communion once in five years unless
she has been in an outlying station
where there was no chapel.
Gratitude of PoIand.-Than the let
ter recently received by Cardinal
Gasparri, Secretary of State, from
the Most Rev. Edmund Dalbor Bishop
of Posen and Gnesen, no warmer eX-
preston of gratitude towards the
Holy See has reached the Vatican
since the outbreak Of the European
War I'VE Poles" says the Bishop,
attached with every fibre of our
hearts to the Apostolic See, full of
the deepest gratitude towards the
most august Pontiff, know now more
than ever in these times of turbu-
the kindness and the paternal good
ness shown to us with such mag
nanimity by the common Father OF
ALL While a single Polish heart beats
we shall never forget the sublime
words which the Sovereign Pontiff i'll
the celebrated exhortation of August
l, 1917, addressed to the heads of the
belligerent peoples, asking that, in a
spirit of equity and justice; the ques-
tons concerning the countries form
ing the ancient kingdom of Poland
should be examined"
Priests Bravery.-Whilst on his
holidays in Bundoran, Ireland, last
year, the Rev. James Routledge, rec
tor of st. Dunstan's, Moston, Man
chester, England, had an exciting eX
perience in which he displayed great
presence of mind and courage. The
screaming of two children attracted
his attention, and, seeing that the
cause was a runaway horse attached
to a trap, he acted with much
promptitude. With the aid of his um
brella he managed to seize the reint
and, though dragged some distance
he held on and succeeded in bringing
| the FESTIVE animal to standstill
This act of bravery was publicly rec
ognized at Manchester town hall, Eng
land, recently, when the Lord Mayor
Sir Alexander Porter, presented Fa
Their Routledge with the Carnegie Gel
titicate.
Honor Where Honor Is Due.-In tn
newspapers of Italy news of tn
latest success obtained by the Hol
Father in the work of alternating SUI
fering has been widely published. !
large number of Italian prisoners c
war who are suffering from tubel
culosis have been released frol
Austria at the intercession of his Hol
ness, and this without any return b.
i, ing required. At least two of tn
anti-religious daily papers of Rom
would fain deprive Benedict XIV {
the credit of this charitable interfe
ence and coolly give it to the Re
Cross Society of Italy. Not, indeed
that the Pope minds very much VIII
gets the credit of the work; nor al
Catholics in general going to quarr'
over the matter with anti-clerical
But one likes to refute a falsehoo
such as that put forward by the tw
sheets in question. The matter ha
been under discussion since the opel
ing days of January between tn
Papal Nuncio at Vienna and the Mil
lister of Foreign Affairs, as the cop
of the official document clearly show
so that the Italian Red Cross Societ
had as much to do with the move a
had the man in the moon.
A Chaplain Victim.-One of tn
Irish chaplains, the Rev. John Mel
vane, c. F., of the 18th Royal Dubli
: Fusiliers, was among the victims
the barbarous attack on the hospit;
ship "Glenart Castle A Solem
Mass of Requiem was celebrated fo
the repose of his soul by the Bisho
, OF Portsmouth, England, in that cit
on Monday, March 4. Father Mel
Vaine was native of Scotland, an
had studied for the priesthood {
J Blair's College, Aberdeen, and st. Su
pice, Paris. He was ordained in 100
! and at the time of his appointmer
! as chaplain was senior assista1
priest at the Cathedral, Glasgow. II
had spent some time at home recen
ly recovering from gas attac1
There was profound sorrow in h
regiment when the hope of his bein
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