The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-05-10
OLD WORLD NEWS

OLU WONLD NEWO
Americans in Rome.-One very not
able feature of Holy Week and Easter,
1919, in Rome was the presence of
large numbers of American officers
and men at the ceremonies. There
has been a regular influx of these to
Rome, all being DESTROYS of visiting
the Eternal City and seeing the Holy
Father before recrossing the Atlantic.
Some have been privileged to assist
at papaI functions in the Vatican.
Pope Writes Bishops.-Pope Bene-
dict has written most gracious con-
gratulatory and laudatory letter to
Cardinal Gibbons and the American
episcopate upon the recent celebra-
tons of the golden episcopal jubilee
Of the former and the great meeting
Of the Catholic hierarchy, promising
national shrine, to be erected to the
Immaculate Conception at the Catholic
University of America, in Washington,
d. c.
Procession Bombed.-As a process
sion in honor Of the Virgin was pass
ing through the streets of Seville,
1t is believed that an attempt was
made to secure the jewels of the
statue Of the Virgin, which are valued
at $4,000. The people grouped about
the statue after the explosion and pre-
vented the carrying out of such plan
important Appontment.-An ap-
pOintment of Importance in Rome is
that of the Very Reverend Father
Hertzog, Procurator General of San
Sulpice, whom His Holiness has
named a COnsultor of the Sacred Con-
sistorial Congregation. This Sacred
Congregation has for it's special end
the choosing of Bishops for dioceses
not under the jurisdiction of Propa-
ganda, and hence the opinion of one
Of such wide experience as Father
HertZog in such matters has been con-
sidered highly useful to the institu-
ton.
interesting Ceremony at Venice
An interesting ceremony has just
taken place at Venice, where, in pres
ence of the civil, military, naval and
ecclesiastical authorities, the famous
Regiment of the Marina, which took
part in the defence of Venice, solemn
]y received the name of San Marco.
Eulogistic speeches were made by the
admiral and the syndic, and in pres
ence of great crowd, the Cardinal
Patriarch of the city, Cardinal della
Fontaine, solemnly blessed the newly
christened regiment, which now has
the right to bear upon it's standard
the winged lion of st. Mark the Evan
gelist.
King Thanks the Pope.-The Holy
Father has received a letter from
Lord Curzon, thanking him very sin
cerely in the name of King George
for his kind intercession with the Otto
man Government on behalf of Major
Cree and other British officers belong.
ing to the Mesopotamian army. They
were taken prisoners by the Turks
and condemned to be shot as francs
tireurs, but their sentences were re.
pealed through the kind offices of the
POntiff.
Emir FeisseI in Audience.-On April
rs, His Holiness received, in spe-
cial audience and with due cere.
monial the Emir Feissel, son of the
King of Hejaz, that most interesting
Vilayet of Arabia. Count de Sails
the British minister, accompanied the
young prince to the Vatican; and the
Procurator of the Maronites acted as
interpreter of the conversation, which
lasted a quarter of an hour. Subse.
quently Prince Feissel had visit with
Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of
State. The audience was very inter.
esting, as the Emir had led the Ara.
bian forces, which very materially as
sisted the British in routing the Turks
in Palestine and Syria; and the ques.
ton of boundaries and relations of
Syria to the Arab Kingdom to the
east is under discussion at the Peace
Conference in Paris.
st. Joan of Arc.-Andrew Lang was
something of an iconoclast in matters
of history. He was an extraordinarily
conscientious student and writer
Moreover, he was a strict Presby.
terrain. Yet in his story of her life,
which he published in 1908, he de.
scribed Joan as 'the contamination and
ideal of two noble human efforts to-
ward perfectiOn-the peasants daugh-
ter with the flower of chivalry, brave,
gentle, merciful courteous, kind and
loyal. She was the most perfect
daughter of her Church. To her it's
sacraments were the very bread of
life"
Bishops and Priests.-The Siberian
Minister of Justice has just published
a report, giving further details of the
atrocities, committed by the Bolshe-
visits before the evacuation of Perm.
h 1ory L. H. L.