The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-26

ton regarding the system employed
by the Knights in finding jobs for
demobilized soldiers. 1t is possible
the same plan or something similar
to it will be adopted by the English
government officials. Leaders in
British labor circles called the gov
ernments attention to the efforts of
the Knights in the United States.
PapaI Honors Awarded.-Pope Bene
dict has bestowed upon DR.. Marco
Fida Suarez, President of Colombia,
the Grand Cross of the Order of Plus
TX, the highest civil decoration with
in the gift of the Papacy. The Grand
Cross of the Order of st. Gregory the
Great has been awarded to Emmanuel
Golnagu, former minister of Colombia
to the Vatican The rank of COM
mander in the Order of St. Gregory
the Great has been bestowed upon
Felice de Baros Cavalcanti and Pro
fessor Napoles Depaiva both of Rio
Janeiro and Salvatore de Granada of
Nicaragua.
Cause of the Irish Martyrs.-Father
Gregory Cleary, o. F. M, arrived in
Rome recently to execute commits
sion in the interests of the cause of
the Irish martyrs, Or rather of the
FranciScans whose names are on this
list for canonization as having died
for the faith in Ireland. Father
Cleary desires to visit the libraries in
search of evidence concerning the
lives of seventy-seven Friars Minor.
AS he finds DR.. Hagan of the Irish
College has explored the Roman Ii
braries, Father Cleary will soon start
for the other Italian cities where evil
dence concerning his brethren is like
ly to be found.
Catholic Progress in North Shan
tung.-The Franciscan Fathers have
charge of the mission of North Shan
tung, China, part of the territory re-
Gently given over to Japan by the
Peace Conference. An attempt was
recently made, not by the Japanese.
to expel these missionaries from their
mission, but as far as we are at pres
ent aware the attempt was unsuccess-
full or partly so. In this f1ourishing
mission there are in all SIS priests,
including 81 natives, there are five
lay-brothers and eleven sisters. They
conduct many institutions, including
two seminaries, one college for teach
ers, 1877 primary schools, 16 schools
for catechumens, seven orphanages,
two dispensaries, and two hOspices
for the aged, where there are over 1870
inmates.
Marist Martyr.-The Sacred Con
gregation recently proposed to the
Holy Father the introduction of the
cause of qualification and martyr
dom of Blaise Mormoiton, professed
lay-brother in the Society of Mary,
| originally from Yssac la Tourette, in
the Diocese of Clermont. France. He
was killed, through hatred of the
Faith, after very pious life in New
Caledonia, in June, 1S47. The Sow
ereign Pontiff agreed to this PROPOSE
ton.
soIder-Priest Back in the Missions.
One of the first of the French
soldier missionaries to return to the
missions is Father Joseph Blois of the
Foreign Missionary Society of Paris.
He is now stationed in the Diocese
| of Nagasaki, Japan.
First Zamboangan Priest.-Father
Nicasio Patangan, the first native
Zamboanga priest has just been or
dained by Bishop McCloskey, of Fam
boanga, Philippine Islands.
Historic Church to be Restored
The decision to restore the Church of
St. Pancras, erected in London in
1850, reminds the Daily Chronicle that
it is supposed to be the last church
in or about London in which Mass
was said at the time of the Reforma-
ton. In the adjoining churchyard
many Catholic inscriptions may be
seen on the graves.
New Educational Scheme.-The
Marist Brothers have hit on an eco
nomical method of running boarding
school in the Belgian Congo. Unable
to establish school large enough to
hold all the students that were flock
ing to them, they established a vii
lage of separate huts. Each father
who sends his sons to the Marist
school must build a hut for them.
Education is given free by the Broth
ers but the students are required to
support themselves. During their
recreation time they fish or shoot to
provide themselves with the neces-
saries of life The Brothers find the
| result of this home and college life
most satisfactory. At present the vii
lage contains 127 boys, of whom So
are the sons of chiefs, and II are
| Christians.
requests of English Catholics
James H. Hale, of Dublin, who died
on March 5, left personal estate of
the value of G24,S27. He gave $4,000
in trust for Beaumont College, Old
Windsor, G1,5OO to the prior Of the
Church of the Benedictines at Nal
vern, and $500 each for the Catho-
! lies of Westminster and the poor of