The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-05
NEW WORLD ITEMS

of nurses from Mercy Hospital with
Base Hospital 80, did not return to
Denver with the many veterans OF
this organization, who arrived home
recently. They asked to be retained
in service, and about twenty-seVen OF
them remained in France.
Golden Jubilee. - Fifteen hundred
persons of Youngstown, Ohio, offered
their Holy Communion at the 1880
Mass at the st. Columbia Church on
March IS, for the intention OF the pas
ter. Rev. Edward Mears, and in honor
of the fiftieth anniversary of his or
dination to the priesthood. The form
al celebration of the happy event
will take place on Sunday, May 4, and
Will be marked with religious and
civic ceremonies.
Gaelic Sermon.-At the MONDAY
Mass at ST. Andrew Church, New
York, Rev. DR.. H. j. Gallagher gave
Il five-minute sermon in the Irish Ian
guage on March IT, Dr. Gallagher is
professor of Gaelic at the Catholic
University at Washington, d. c..
Rev. Richard j. Casey, assistant at st.
Boniface German Church, recited
the Rosary in Gaelic that night.
Makes Apology to x. of CA new
society being formed and to be
known as the United Veterans of the
Republic has apologized, in literature
recently issued, for emitting the K. Of
c., Salvationists and Jewish war
workers from its possible member
ship, while admitting other welfare
secretaries. They will now be admit
ted.
Real Irish Church.-One Of the last
churches in San Francisco to recover
from the effects of the earthquake and
fire was st. Patrick's. It's complete
restoration, when accomplished, will
make it a thoroughly Irish shrine.
The stained glass windows are a pOr-
trait gallery of the saints of the
Green Isle, and the columns support
ing the roof are to be of green, while
everything about the church is sug-
gestive of the land which Patrick
brought under the control Of the faith
Appreciate Convent SchooIs.-Sali-
ma, Kan, business men strongly be.
lieve that Catholic enterprises are
good things for Salinas healthful
growth In a short campaign to raise
$4,000 to induce the Sisters of St
Joseph of COncordia Kan, to build a
100000 boarding and day school al
Salina, the Salina business men went
far over the top.
New Bishop of Vera Cruz.-A dis
patch from Vera Cruz announces that
the Right Rev. Juan Herrera Pima
Bishop of Tulancingo, has been APP
pointed Bishop of Vera Cruz to sue
coed the late Bishop Joaquin Arcade
Pagaza. Bishop Pagaza died last
summer in the month of August. He
was consecrated Bishop of Vera Cruz
in 1895. Monsignor Herrera is vel
known in San Antonio, Tex. He lived
there, as an exile from Mexico, fol-
the past few years.
Secretary Dies in France.-A cable
from Paris Headquarters, knights O.
Columbus, announces the death o.
Overseas Secretary Richard L. Con
roy of New York. His death occurred
at the Military Hospital at Limoges
on March 6. Mr.. Conroy was the fifth
Knights of Columbus secretary to dix
abroad while engaged in Knights o.
Columbus overseas duty. Mr. Conroy
arrived in Paris on August %, 1918
and since his first assignment to duty
in France has been one of the mos
active members of the force.
Catholics and Methodists. - Plan.
are under way for the organization O
the Catholic students at Denver Uni
Versity, an institution conducted I'm
der the auspices of the Methods
Episcopal Church A Catholic club il
Methodist college is decided,
unique. Chancellor Henry Buchtel O
the university, Methodist clergyman
former governor of Colorado, ha
given his enthusiastic approval to tn,
plan. There are about forty-two stu
dents eligible for the club, which il
to be affiliated with the Nationa
Catholic Students Association o
America
Nurses Home.-Rt Rev. Bisho1
Donahue has completed a deal, where
by two residences on North Mai
street, just opposite the North Vince
ing Hospital, have been acquired TO
the use of a nurses home, in connec
tion with the hospital at Wheeling
w. Va. The large rooms will be fitte
up with every comfort and pleasur
for the young ladies at this, the lars
est institution of it's kind in that sec
ton. A number of improvements vii
be necessary, but it is expected tn
nurses will be able to occupy TIL
home during the early summe
months.
Priest Gives All For ReIief-Fift
dollars, all the money he had in tn
world, was the first contribution mad
in the local drive for relief wor
abroad by Father Charles Cichock
an octogenarian, who is spending hi
last days as the guest of Father Free