The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-11
NEW WORLD ITEMS

number of it's students who nave SO
far Joined the col0rs.
Vermont x. of C.-The Knights of
Columbus of the state of Vermont nave
lust concluded a drive for Catholic
War Camp funds that netted $S2,974.-
6S. The successful completion OF the
drive was celebrated with largely
attended meeting in De Goesbriand
Council Hall in Burlington.
Entire class Enters SerVice.-The
entire graduating class of Loyola col
lege, a leading Catholic institution IN
Montreal Canada, has joined the col
ors. Most of the students enlisted in
the Royal Flying Corps.
Monument Perished.-The Church
of Saint John the Baptist, Edgard, one
of the landmarks of Louisiana and one
of the historic churches of the South,
was recently destroyed by fire. The
catastrophe occurred on the ninety
sixth anniversary of its erection.
viii Represent cardinaI.-Cardinal
Gibbons has designated Ri. Rev.
Thomas ]. Shahan, D. D., Rector of
the Catholic University, as his repre-
sentative at the annual convention OF
. the League to Enforce Peace" which
will be held in Philadelphia under the
presidency of William H. Taft, on
May 1917. The subject of Bishop
Shahan's address will be: Shaping
the Worlds deals
Father Mccarthy Decorateo.-Rev.
Thomas Mccarthy, c. F., of the Do
cese of London, Ont, now chaplain
with the Canadian Expeditionary
Force at the Front, has received the
Military Cross. The award is in
recognition of heroic conduct at the
battle of Passchendaele, in which,
though gassed, he continued to at
tend to the wounded and dying. Fa-
Their Mccarthy is a young priest, a
graduate of st. Peters Seminary, Lon
don, and was attached to Parkhill,
Ont, before going overseas.
LILO SoIdiers.-Eleven hundred SOL
diers stationed at Camp Macarthur
received Holy Communion at the
Church of the Assumption, Waco,
Texas, on Sunday, April 7. Fifty
trucks conveyed the soldiers from
the camp to the church. The 8
o'clock Mass had been reserved for
the men of the Signal Corps section,
assembled from, perhaps, every State
in the Union. Not only was no
civilian permitted to attend this Mass,
but not even soldiers minus the proper
identification badge were allowed in
the church during this service Break
fast was served to the soldiers after
the Mass.
Bible Brings $6,25o.-At the sale of
books and autographs collected by the
late John d. Crimmins the highest
price was $3.50, paid by George D.
Smith for Bible, translated from the
Latin Vulgate, and published in Dub
lin, 1892. The book has been extend
ed to forty-two volumes by the inser-
ton of more than 5000 prints and
drawings. 1t is the most extensively
eXtra-illustrated copy of the Douai
Bible known. 1t came from the Au-
gustin Daily library, and is in bind.
ing by Blackwell. The original draw
ings include specimen by Raphael
from the collection of Sir Joshua
Reynolds, and other specimens by
Cipriani, Paul Veronese, Carlo Maratti
and Lairesse. The specially printed
title pages are decorated with water
color embellishments by Eugene
Grivas.
Easter High Mass.-Base Hospital
Unit q, somewhere in France, has
the distinction of being the only camp
in France = American, British or
French-where High Mass music was
sung On Easter Sunday by choir of
American officers and nurses, accord.
ing to letter just received in Pitts.
burg from their chaplain, Lieutenant
Reverend James R. Cox. He writes
that at IL o'clock Easter Sunday morn.
ing he celebrated a High Mass and
was ably assisted by Professor Web
Der of Greensburg as organist, who
had a large. choir including well
known singers. This unit is com
posed mostly of non-Catholic doctors
and students from the University OF
P1ttsburg and nurses from the Mercy
and ST. Francis Hospitals.
Refugee Nuns.-Buffalo, N Y, was
visited few days ago by two refugee
nuns from Belgium, now established
in convent about thirty miles out OF
London. The Sisters, one of whom is
an English convert and the other a
native Belgian, came with the APPROX.
al of Cardinal Bourne and have been
recommended to the charity of
United States Catholics by the Cardi-
nails Gibbons and Farley, upon whom
they have already called. The Eng.
lish Sister, whose brother is com.
mander' of a British battleship. told
a representative of The Catholic
Union and Times that there have been
10000 conversions in the British
Army since the war began. The Bel.
gian Sisters male relatives are in the