The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-26

Pope Presents Medais.-The Holy
Father presented to. Monsignor Hey
len, Bishop of Namur, at the final
audience before he left Rome, a medal
| which had just been struck in honor
| of Our Lady, Queen of Peace. He
requested the Bishop to take another
copy of the same medal for him to
Cardinal MERCER.
French Military Bishops.--A Consis-
torial Decree appoints Monsignori
/ Ruch, titular Bishop of Nancy and CO.
adjutor of the Bishop of Nancy, and
Llobet, Bishop of Gap, as Inspectors,
with the powers of the Ordinary over
all priests and clerics serving or act
ing as chaplains in the French army
Appeal to Spare Bruges.
Kaufman, the provost of the Cathe-
dral Chapter of Aix-la-Chapelle, has
may happen TO the forces in Belgium,
the celebrated Belgian city of Bruges
be spared and preserved. He says the
quaint old Flemish city" is a shrine
for many pious and holy things and
of sacred and beautiful past redolent
OF art and faith.
Sister and Brother-For over a
thousand years the sacred bodies of
st. Benedict and of his sister, St.
| SchOlastica, have been reposing in
the vast and magnificent Abbey
Church of st. Benedict on the noun
tain top of Monte Casino, in Italy.
Popes, emperors, kings and the faith
full people have made Respondent that
magnificent house of God. Under it's
Grand Altar S. Benedict and Schol-
| astica rest.
Remarriage of Widows.-The Arch
bishop of Liverpool, England, in his
Advent Pastoral, points out that when
a soldier or sailor is reported 10 have
lost his life in the war, the mere
official notice of death does not ordi-
narily warrant the priest to presume
the death. In case, therefore, the
widow wishes to marry again, unless
the death is undoubtedly certain, the
evidence should be submitted to the
! Ordinary before she be allowed to con-
tract new marriage
| English Colleges New Rector
Greeted by Mgr. John Prior, auditor
of the Rota, and Dom Langlon, pro-
curator of the British Benedictines,
Right Rev. DR.. Hinsley, appointed
Domestic Prelate, new rector of the
English College in Rome, arrived
from London to take up the reins laid
down last month by Archbishop Nc,
Intyre, Auxiliary of Birmingham.
Mgr. Hinsley was born of an Irish
mother and an English father
Educational BiI.-The Education
bill in London has been dropped. So
many were the complaints aimed
against it, that it has been decided to
bring in a new bill embodying provi-
sions to meet the objections of certain
sections of the community. So far,
Catholics do not know whether their
particular demands are to be con-
ceded in the new measure; and the
announcement of its provisions is
therefore awaited with interest.
Meanwhile, strong party is being
formed to oppose any attempt to tam
per with the religious training of the
little ones under any excuse of "high-
er" education.
Venice in Prayer.-In Venice the
Mayor of the city and the city officials
went in procession to ST. Marks Cathe-
dral to implore Gods protection over
the city. The Patriarch of Venice,
Cardinal de la Fontaine. met them on
their way, and led the supplicatiOn3.
The procession afterwards, in Condo
las, visited the churches and shrines
of the city, begging God to extend
His protection over Venice. The SOL
emn chant of the Litanies in Venice,
heard on the canals and piaZzas, was
most impressive.
French Hospitality.-A bit of life in
| France these days is told of in a
letter from Rev. James r. Cox, for
merly of Epiphany Church, Pitts
burgh, to a friend of that city Father
Cox was one of the first to go to
France, accompanying Base Hospital
| Unit No. 81 His letter says: I'VE
all pray for peace and we hope to
| spend our next (1918) Christmas back
home, but we all swear that we never
/ will return until all the world, not
only France and America, enjoys the
priceless boons of Liberty, Justice and
Equality The French people are sim
| ply wonderful in their hospitality
They just receive us everywhere with
/ open arms, and we are welcome in
| every French home from the highest
people in the land to the poorest peas
ant"
English College in Rome.-For some
time past it was pretty well known
in Roman ecclesiastical circles that
one of the foreign national colleges
could hardly be said to be in -four
ishing condition from a financial point
of view. An apostolic visitor has been