The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-13

African Heroism.-The Father SUI
perior of the Oudhias Mission white
Fathers) in Kabylia is justly proud of
his native converts, many of whom
served ON the French Front. He tells |
how captain of sharpshooters fell,
grievously wounded in action, few
yards away from the enemy lines,
whilst terrible barrage fire pre-
vented all help reaching him. Hear |
ing the officers cry for aid, one of |
his men, Kabyle, named Michel Am
ran, accompanied by his sergeant-four-
rier, dashed through heavy fire to the
wounded man, and, repeatedly invok-
ing the help of Our Lady, succeeded,
with the assistance of his comrade, in
carrying his captain through the bar
rage-fire to the ambulance. Michael
had Mass of thanksgiving for his
preservation said at the mission;
whilst his gallantry was rewarded by
the authorities with corporaps
stripes.
vent at Picking, China, has lost its
reverend Superior, Sister Marie-Made-
leine Reynal, who has passed away
at the age of At, deeply mourned by
her sorrowing community, already
deprived of so many of its members
by death. 1t was under her super
vision that the normal school for
young Chinese girls was founded, des-
tined specially for those intending to
try their vocations as Sisters Of Char
ity, and no detail of the vast house
| hold she governed escaped her loving
care. Sister Reynal was, moreover,
great-niece of the we'll known Sister
| ing the siege of Picking.
| Calvary War Observation-Disclosures
Bourne unveiled a second war memo
rial in the shape of an outside Cal
vary on Saturday, August %, at Kent
ish Town. Apropos of that erected
at Billericay, non-Catholic who was
present at the ceremony of unwilling
has written to the daily press to ask
why the Church of England permits
the wind to be taken out of her sails
by a religious body far inferior in
numbers and influenced" The reply
is probably because the Church of
England remembers that it was her
spiritual progenitors who tore down
the wayside crosses of England and
burned them in the public squares.
One of her churches has, however,
Melitus, in North London, which
proudly claims to be the only church
in the world dedicated to this early
Archbishop of Canterbury, who was
also first Bishop of London, has just
inaugurated great outside Calvary in
memory of the fallen. Probably the
sequel will be an appeal by some OF
the parishioners against Popish prac
tees.
Masterpiece Stolen.-It has been
discovered that francesca Francia' s
masterpiece, The Madonna and
} Child" has been stolen from the
Academia di Belle Arti, in Bologna
: Italy, and that a colored photograph
: of the picture was substituted in place
of the original painting. An employee
in the gallery found that the photo
graph had been pasted in the frame
so as to conceal the theft. This mas
terpiece dates back to the fifteenth
century. A thorough investigation
: is being made by police authorities
who suspect visitors in the gallery
The names of those under suspicion
have been secured, according to the
police. The picture referred to is
probably that painted by Francesca
Francia in the latter part of the fit
zenith century, showing three-quartel
7 figure of the Madonna holding a chile
in her arms, and ST. Francis at the
right, holding cross, with a land
scape background.
; Castelnau and the Studen1s.-Ls
Croix reports a recent address OF
General Castelnau during the distrib
=, ution of prizes at the old Jesuit day
school, Rue Madrid, Paris-secular
lied in it's administration by M
Combes, of prosecuting fame. The
General-who has lost no less thar
three sons in the war, former schol
ars at Rue Madrid-delivered himself
in manner to be expected of so fer
vent Catholic and so gallant sol
, der and patriot. Reviewing the les
sons to be gathered from the Euro
, pean conflict be observed: "You must
serve God with an undisguised faith
and in the sight of everyone, though
without parade. For God asks you
for work-for effort combined with
prayer. After God, comes France anC
included in that inherited treasure
"a French education. The muscles
OF the body are serviceable, but must
be guided by the intellect. We have
greater need of intelligence and of {
deeper sense of duty than of games
We shall never be fit to command
!, , unless we have first served" Genera
Castelnau also alluded to Douaumont
where two whole French sections lie
buried, still clinging to the soil will
their skeleton hands because they haC
orders to stand there, and so they