The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-19

year, was a world famous antlquafv
and author, his books dealing with
church history and related topics num-
Der more than fifty volumes. Dr.. Cox
had spent a long and honorable career
as a clergyman of the Church of Eng
land, being successfully Rector of Bar
~ton-le-Street and Holdenby. He was
| born in 1S43, and in 1917 was received
into the Catholic Church by the Bene-
| dictine monks at Downside Abbey,
near Bath.
At Loreto.-The victory of Italy and
her Allies is to be celebrated at the
famous sanctuary of Loreto by a patri-
otto display and pilgrimage, which will
include representatives of all Italia
Irredenta," as it is called. The we'll
known Latinist, Prof. Giuseppe Albini,
has composed an ode to the Dead
which has been set to music by the
| Chapel Master Of Loreto, Maestro Clio
vanni Tebaldini. This work will be
given for the first time before the
crowds, assembled for the celebration
of peace, on the piazza, which sur
rounds the basilica; and Verdis TIE
Deum" will also be sung on that occa-
sion.
Chapel as Thank-Offering.-There is
a movement on foot in Venice to re-
store the Chapel Of the Rosary, built
in memory of the Battle of Lepanto,
and partially destroyed in the aerial
attacks on the city during the a 1t
is proposed that this work should be
undertaken as a thank-offering for the
present victory of the Italian arms. A
committee has been formed, of which
Senator Pompeo Malmonti is the
President, and the Syndic of Venice,
Senator Grimani; the Minister of Ma
rine, Gen. Diaz; Minister Fradalotto,
and Admiral Thaon de Revel have
given their adhesion to the idea.
Bolshevik Atrocities Against Nuns.
II must hold my heart with both my
hands for fear it will burst from pain"
wrote Madame Helena P~aderewski,
wife of the Polish premier, to Presi-
dent Smulski of the National Polish
department. There is misery here
and famine" her letter said. The
and without cloaks in zero weather.
|. Our enemies commit the most
horrible atrocities. Some Of the WON,
en- taken prisoners were impaled on
pickets. SO were also six nuns who
were then removed and hurled into a
heap to die slowly" Madame Pader.
ewski charged the Bolsheviki with
committing nameless atrocities.
Church of EngIand.-Things are
coming to a crisis in the Church OF
England. A vicar in a country parish
has raised a grave issue by refusing
. to obey an injunction against having
the ceremony of Benediction, on the
ground that the objection that Bene
dictiOn is contrary to the usages and
belief of the Church of England is a
lay decision, and that he cannot ACCEPT
lay control. AS the Bishop also takes
his control from the parliamentary
body, to which the parson takes objec
ton, it looks as though an impasse haC
been arrived at. Meanwhile another
English clergyman. the Chaplain of st
Barnabas Home, Seaford, has beer
better employed. He was received
into the Church whilst on a sick bed
and die two days later, fortified will
: all the rites of Holy Church.
John Ayscough.-Mgr. Bickerstaffe
Drew, who is we'll known to man
thousands of readers under his pei
name of John AyscouSh," is retirins
from service as an army chaplain. HI
has spent more than thirty years il
the British Army, having been ap
pointed acting chaplain only two years
after his ordination to the priesthoo;
in 1884. He was appointed six year!
later a regular chaplain, and was sta
toned at Plymouth for seven years
In 1889 he was made senior chaplain
. to the garrison at Malta, and ten year;
later was appointed senior chaplain a
Salisbury Plain, a post he held unit
the outbreak of the war during whicl
he served in France, being twice men
, toned in dispatches.
\ Vatican Omits Name,-The name o
Monsignor Gerlach does not appear i,
e the 1919 "Annuario Ecclesiastical" HI
was one of the Camerieri Segreti Par
4 ticipanti, that is, on personal attend
ance on the Holy Father. His ofic'
was that of guardaroba, keeper of tn
WARDROBE: one of his duties to bea
the Red Hat to newly made cardinals
i In 1917 he was found guilty of higl
treason by the Italian Military Court
and was sentenced to penal servitud,
for life. The Holy See does not &C
in a hurry and no change was made il
his regard in the 1918 "Annuario.
This year, however, his name does no
S appear; and Monsignor Migone take
his office.
J Belgian CIergy-At a meeting of tn
Belgian Bishops held in Brussels TIL
i, other day it was unanimously decide,
to forbid the clergy to have anythin
to do in politics, even in support o
= the Catholic Party, while n idea O
the clergy acting as deputies wa
strongly discouraged. Cardinal Mel