The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-12

terest, the resting place of the first
Apostles at st. Sebastian, has revealed
to Professor Marucchi signs. which, in
themselves remarkable, suggest even
| more interesting things TO come.
There is controversy over the extent
of association of st. Peter and st. Paul
| with this hallOwed spot. 1t is thought
by some that, in addition to their
bodies resting there for a space of
time-as is generally agreed-they &C
tually lived there; and an inscription,
recently come to light, suggests that
there was an actual home of the
Apostles" Christian archaeology is
going to prosper as much as anything
else by the cessation of hostilities.
Chaplain Figures. - Some figures
just published regarding the chap
lains service in the British army give
some interesting statistics as to the
| part taken by the Catholic clergy dur
| ing the fighting When the first Brit
| ish eXpeditionary force crossed to
| France in 1914 it was accompanied by
| "a chaplains, about half the pre-war
establishment of chaplains of all de-
| nominations. Among the number
were four Catholic chaplains, among
them being Mgr. BickerstaffeDrew
better known by his pen name of
| John Ayscough." At the time of the
| armistice there were $3.50 chaplains
| of all denominations serving, of whom
| CAT were Catholic priests, this number
not including those chaplains holding
| Dominion commissions. The principal
Catholic chaplain, Bishop Heating,
who is Episcopus Castrensis and Or
binary for the army, holds the rank
of brigadier general.
| Cardinal Mercier.-Cardinal Mer-
| cier has received a message of hon.
age and friendship from the Spanish
| friends of Belgium addressed to him
by the Chaplain of Honor of the Royal
| Palace at Madrid, Mgr. Juan Zaragua-
ia. The illustrious Belgian Cardinal
has replied in the following terms to
the Spanish ecclesiastic: MY Dear
Friend | beg you to interpret to
your compatriots the sentiments with
which l respond to you on this occa-
sion Your sentiments of special kind
ness as to myself move me greatly, for
| see in them a homage to an heroic
population, and l thank you with all
my heart. l have long known the
current of sympathy which the friends
of Belgium have set toward Belgium
in the chivalrous Spanish nation.
rejoice profoundly in the success of
their generous efforts and thank God
for them Tell them that Belgian
Catholics appreciate in all it's i'm
mense value the friendship of Cath
Ollie Spain
| Noted Convert Dead.-A great Cath
Ollie lady and once famous beauty has
passed away at her chateau in Brit
tany, France, in the person of An
toinette, Baroness de Charette de la
CONTRIB, widow of the illustrious de-
fender Of Pope Plus the Ninth. She
was the daughter of Colonel Andrew
Jackson and Rebecca Wan Leer) Polk
of Nashville, Tenn, and the great
granddaughter Of Colonel Thomas
Polk of the Revolution, grand-uncle of
President Polk. Her uncle, General
Leonidas Polk, was the distinguished
Confederate leader and her aunt, Su,
san Polk Rayner, was the wife of
Kenneth Rayner, formulation of the
Union Degree Of the Know Nothing
Party ostracizing Catholics. A daugh-
ter of this couple, Mrs. Susan Polk
Rayner Glennan, Washington, D. c., is
ter Miss Rebecca Polk became Cath.
olics about thirty years ago. At her
funeral Queen Amelie Of Portugal
and her sister, the Duchess of Aosta
Of Italy, were present, as well as rep
resentatives of King George, Queen
Alexandra, the French government
and the King Of Spain.
kniehthood For Mgr. Barnes.-The
: Very Rev. Mgr. Arthur Stapylton
Barnes of London, has been appointed
/ a Conventual Chaplain of the Sacred
Sovereign Military Order of st. John
of Jerusalem. The Order, which has
had it's headquarters at Rome since
Great Britain came into possession OF
Malta, has an English association
whose center is at the Hospital Of St
John and Elizabeth at st. Johns
Wood, London. The Honorary Grand
Cross Of the Order was held by the
late Prince Consort, and by King Ed
ward VII and is held by the Queen of
Holland. The President of the Eng
, lish Association Is Lord North. The
Order ranks first in European prece-
dence, before even the Garter and the
Golden Fleece. All the knights must
be Catholics and must show sixteen
? qaurterings. The Holy Father was a
knight previously to his accession to
: the Pontifical Throne. The modern
Order of ST. John of Jerusalem bears
the same relation to the Sacred and
Sovereign Order as the Protestant Es-
, tablishment to the Catholic Church in
England, and is in possession of the
! Original Orders Church In Clerken.
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