The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-20

lions ana bring them to fruitiOn. This
guild is now going to step further,
and has issued call for godmothers
or godfathers for young men-many
of them converts, some of them in
business-who desire to study for the
priesthood, but who have not the
means to step aside from the strug-
gle for existence to make these neces-
sary studies. A modest sum of $500
will insure the preparatory training
and test the vocation, after which the
student can be placed in one of the
colleges at home or abroad for spe-
cific diocese. The work is an exceed
ingly valuable one at the present time,
when recruits are so greatly needed
to make up the deficiencies caused by
the war.
To Become Nun.-Eva Lavalliere,
at one time one of the most popular
actresses of Paris, has announced her
decision to retire from the stage and
enter a convent. She gave up the
stage some time ago, and it has been
frequently reported that she intended
to test her vocation in some religious
order. The news of her intention
seems to be more definite this time.
For the last two years Nine Laval
liere has been working among the
sick pilgrims at Lourdes, assisting
them to battle in the waters at the
miraculous grotto These works of
charity, she asserted, have been all
along intended merely as a prelude
to her entering the religious life Her
intention is to seek admission to the
Carmelite convent in Marseilles at the
end of the present month.
Church in INTERCHANGEABLE gov
eminent of Wurtemburg has decided
to readjust the relations between
Church and state, and as a result of
this decision the Catholic, Evangeli-
cal and Jewish faiths are now recog-
nized as Independent religious cor
porations, with taxation rights. The
ministry of worship has inaugurated
a new department which will deal
with the ecclesiastical parishes, insti-
tutions and societies, on the basis of
the new law of religious independence,
though it does not seem certain that
the religious orders and congregations
will come under this survey. The de-
partment will have something to say
in the matter of appointments to &C.
clesiastical benefices, and there will
be some supervision in connection
with financial matters involved in the
separation of Church and state. The
control over Church property is stated
to be of a provisional character only.
Tomb OF st. James.-We have seen
that the Powers cannot do without
the Pope. Similarly nearly four CEN
turtles of Reformation" cannot Danish
the Church. Those who would for
get her, find her in the oldest of
corners; and relics of the ages of
faith are to be traced in many obscure
observances of today. About this
season people begin to eat oysters
again. The children of the poorer
quarters of London have a custom of
building little cells with the discarded
shells of the first oyster feasts, picked
out of the dustbins, etc., and waylay-
ing passers-by for a half-penny or a
penny with the formula will known
to the Londoner: please remember
the grotto." Mean people, who don't
like sparing coins even to poor, little
ragamuftins with few pleasures, are
apt to grow impatient at these appar-
emily motiveless demands. Catholics
will, perhaps, look more kindly on
these humble structures, when they
realize that they are in honor of ST..
James, whose feast used to be OBJ
served on the 5th of August, and that
the pennies are asked to keep a light
ed candle constantly burning before
this representation of his sepulcher:
at least, that was the primal origin
OF this custom, which endures today
without meaning amongst the chill
dren