The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-11

MERCER in Boston, was RaDDl Dr.
Rosenau, who expressed his greeting
in Hebrew. His Eminence replied in
Hebrew.
Marian Congress.--A great Marian
Congress took place in the South
American Republic of Columbia re-
Gently. The Pope made the President
of Columbia a knight of the Grand
Cross of the Order of Plus IX.
The Centenarian Priest.-While in
Winnipeg the Prince of Wales gave
special audience to the well-knoWn
centenarian priest, Father Dandurand,
O. M. l., who is 101 years of age, and
is still saying Mass daily.
Beuuest to Society.-The will of the
late John Hartley of Henry, H., just
admitted to probate, leaves $4,000 to
the Catholic Church Extension society
of Chicago, and an equal sum for the
erection of four chapels in memory OF
his parents.
Honor to MuIIigan.-The Interna-
tional Federation of Catholic Alum
nae presented William J. Mulligan,
Chairman of the Knights of Column
bus War Activities, a set of embossed
resolutions acknowledging the activ-
tiles of the Order during the war.
Quebec School Fiaures.-Statistics
furnished by L'Action Catalogue, in
dictate that at the present time, after
school re-opening, there are some
$4,000 French-Canadian Catholic chill
dren attending the various schools in
Quebec city.
Military Mass.-The military field
Mass of the Staten Island Chapter,
knights of Columbus, to be offered
for the souls of the men of the service
who made the supreme sacrifice, will
be held in the Curtiss High School
field New York City, on Columbus
Day, October IL. The Mass will be
celebrated by the Right Rev. Mon
signor Charles A. Cassidy, dean of
the Catholic Church in Richmond
Borough.
Vicar-ApostoIic of Jamaica.-Jamai-
ca is to have new Vicar-Apostolic,
in the person of Father William
O'Hare, s. j., of the New York Prov
ince of the Society. He is forty-nine
years of age. Jamaica, though a
British possession, is under the eccle-
siastical care of American Jesuits. 1t
has only small Catholic population
SO, 900, out of 9O0,0O0-with Ct
churches, % clergy, and Is nuns.
Sister, Noted Educator, Dies.-In st.
Vincent Hospital, New York, last
month, Sister Anne Dolores Brennan,
for more than SO years connected with
the Academy Mt. St. Vincent-on-Hud-
son, passed from earth. In her death
the Sisters of Charity of New York
have lost a remarkable member,
noted educator, a devoted religious.
Will Be Jesuit-Edward P. Bowling,
Jr., former member of the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat staff, has entered the
Jesuit novitiate at Florissant, Mo-, to
study for the priesthood. Several
weeks ago he quit newspaper work,
preparatory to becoming Jesuit.
Mr.. Bowling is an athlete of some
prominence. At one time he played
semi-professional baseball and of late
played on Municipal League baseball
teams. He attended st. Louis Uni
versity and st. Mary College, st.
Mary's, Kan, before taking up news
paper work.
When Cardinal MERCER comes to
Chicago as the guest of Archbishop
Mundelein late in October he will be
greeted by large chorus made up of
selected members of the choirs from
all the Catholic churches in Chicago.
Rehearsals have begun at convenient
place down town. An appeal has been
issued for candidates for this chorus
to send in their names at once to the
Rev. ]. Edgar Bourget, diocesan
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of the Holy Name
Nun Perishes in Hurrcane-The
Spohn Sanitarium, conducted by the
Sisters of Charity in Corpus Christi,
was badly damaged by the disastrous
storm which swept over Southern
Texas recently. One of the Sisters in
charge of the institution, Sister M.
That's, lost her life, but all the inmates
are reported to have been rescued.
Sister That's body was found at Port
land, about ten miles from Corpus
Christi, where it had been washed
ashore.
Born at Home of "LittIe Flower
st. Louis University, always the home
of students from many foreign lands,
gives especial welcome, this year, to a
French student of theology, Mr.. Paul
M. Barranger, S. j., whose family was
closely connected with the family of
the Little Flower" Soeur Therese.
Mr.. Barranger was born in the house,
in which the Little Flower" spent the
days of her childhood. He was also
we'll acquainted with her father; and
his own sister, who later joined the
Same religious community tn which