The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-13

erelSn IOnLlH IN military UNIFORM,
leaning on their swords, are two
princes, who are assistants at the
Papal throne. They are the princely
heads of the Roman Colonna and Or
SIM families, the oldest in Rome and,
indeed. in Europe. No dignitary &C.
c!esiastical or lay, ranks before them;
not even a CARDINAL only the Sover-
eign Pontiff himself. In all solemn
functions, they are incensed.
Carmelite Nun Decorated.-An i'm
pressive and unusual ceremonial took
place recently at the reception OF a
Carmelite novice at the convent in
Bergerac, France. Before the novice,
Mile. Leuleu, left the sanctuary to en-
ter the cloister to don the religious
habit. Captain Duke d'Auerstaedt read
aloud for the assembled congregation
the paper which described the de-
votedness of the Sister before her en-
trance into religion as a Red Cross
nurse during the past war. The duke
then handed Nils. Leuleu the Croix
de Guerre, which had been conferred
upon her for her attention to the
wounded.
Solemn Requiem for Father Mack
sey.-A most impressive ceremony in
Rome on November % was the Sol
emn Requiem and chanting OF the
office of the Dead for the great Je-
suit, Rev. Charles Macksey, Professor
of the Gregorian University, who died
last July, but whose solemn obsequies
at ST. Ignatius Church were postponed
on account of unfavorable conditions
then prevailing. The body Of the
huge church was half filled with stu
dents of the university, all of whom
Joined in chanting the Office. The
apse was occupied with Roman Je-
suits, heads of colleges, superiors of
religious orders, and many prelates
and priests, who had known and es-
teemed the illustrious American Je-
suit.
Church in Prague. Archbishop
Kordac, of Prague, has taken posses
sion of the See, Posen. The patron
Saint of the CZechs, st. WenceSlaus,
was recently agnificently hOnored at
Prague. On that occasion, during two
hours fully $4,000 people went in
mighty procession to the Cathedral.
es. Such is Catholic life in Catholic
lands. Prague contains over so
churches, % chapels, II converts. It's
Cathedral dates from the year $50,
and has a tower 322 feet high.
An Altar Piece.-The Isenheim al
tar piece of Matthias GruneWald was
exhibited for the last time in the
Munich Picture Gallery on September
81. 1t will now be replaced at Colmar.
Article 245 of the Peace treaty pro-
vides for the return to the French gov
eminent of all works Of art carried
away from France by the German
authorities during the war of 1901,
and during the present war The
Isenheim altar piece, which is regard
ed as the finest work of Matthias
! Grunewald, was taken from the Col
!
late war. 1t was painted between 1893
and 1916 for the high altar of the
Preceptory of st. Anthony in Isen-
helm, Upper Alsace, as the gift OF the
! Prior Guido Guerci 1t represents the
figure of st. Anthony and st. Sebas-
tian with the Hermits Anthony and
Paul, in a fantastic desert landscape,
! surrounded by singing angels
! A Valued Manuscript very beau
tiful and valuable MSS reminiscent
OF Catholic times has just been secured
for the Fitzwillam Museum of Cam
! bridge University by subscription. 1t
is the Isabelle Psalter, or Book of
Hours, written and illuminated for the
sister of st. Louis who founded the
Abbey Of LOngchamps. The date of
! this lovely relic is somewhere be-
tween 1854 and 1870 and it is an
unique work In the latter half of
the fourteenth century it formed part
of the library of Charles V of France,
! was then lost sight of for four hun
dred years and was bought by Rus
! kin in 1854 from Mr. Jarman, after
which it found it's way into the collec-
ton Of Mr. Yates Thompson, who
! traced it's history back to the day
! when it was first written in Paris.
! Church and Persecution.-The cur
rent number of the Acta Apostolicae
Sedis contains three significant let
ters to Hungary: to Cardinal Ger
noch and the bishops; to the Prior of
the ARCHAEOLOGY of ST. Martin in Pan
nonia; and to the Abbot of the Cis-
tercians at Zircz In them the Holy
Father speaks of the temporal trou-
bic the Church has gone through, per-
secution and confiscation of posses
sions, and sends congratulations on
the firmness and union of all in avert
ing the troubles and fighting for the
Church. And his message is to hold
firm, especially under the temptations,
fomented by the Church's enemies,
to relax discipline This firmness in
circumstances SO suddenly changed,
and close union of all with Holy Moth
er Church, will be one side of Mgr
Micara's mission in Bohemia. And at
the same time he will be studying con-
dltiOnS. Rome is very quietly but