The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-29

THE cATHC
maintained on each of the hospital
ships that are retained in the service
after the cessation Of a state of war.
A chaplain is also to be stationed at
every naval base that has been es-
tablished by a foreign nation in the
occupied territory.
Service for Judges.-It has been an
established custom in London for Cath
Ollie legal lights to attend the Red
Mass" the votive Mass of the Holy
ton and just before the opening OF
the new session of the law courts.
Cardinal Bourne presided at this cere-
mony recently in Westminster Cathe-
dral, while the Right Rev. Monsignor
Canon Martin Hewlett officiated as
celebrant.
Bishop Sends Greetinss.-Greetings
to American friends have been sent by
Mgr. F. Dantin, La Salette Missionary.
newly made Vicar Apostolic of Betafo.
Madagascar, Africa. In letter writ
ten the very day of his conservation.
Bishop Dantin says: Il was conse-
Grated this morning in the cathedral
at Tananarive by His Lordship Mgr.
de Saune. The holy oil which makes
pontiffs has been placed upon my fore
head, and | am now Bishop of Betafo.
To my kind benefactors in America |
send my blessing and | beg continu-
ance of their prayers and favors.
Japan's Veteran Priest.-In the big
city of Yokohama. Japan, there is one
church, dedicated to the Sacred
Heart, whose congregation is made up
almost wholly of foreign residents.
The pastor of this church, Rev. F,
Pettier, P. F. NJ, has just celebrated
his golden jubilee, and the occasion
was fifty observed. OF his fifty years
of priesthood, Father Pettier has
passed forty in the Sacred Heart par
ish, and the Catholics of Yokohama
left nothing undone to show their love
and veneration. The pleasure of the
occasion was somewhat married by the
fact that Father Pettier's eyes are
badly affected, and it is feared he
may lose his sight altogether unless
he has a change of climate
CHARACTERIZATION of congo.--At Uban-
gi, one of the principal cities of the
Belgian Congo, Africa, there has just
been held a General Congress of all
the Ecclesiastical Superiors in the
country. Abundant fruit is promised
as result of this conclave, which
embraced the heads of no less than
twelve of the most important orders
in the Church, each we'll represented
in the Congo The Bishops and priests
! included Belgian Foreign Missionaries
(Scheut, Dominicans, Capuchins,
Premonstratensians, White Fathers,
Sacred Heart Fathers, Jesuits, Bene-
dictines, Trappists, Holy Ghost Faith
ers, English Foreign Missionaries
| mill HID, Redemptorists. The Vicar
| Apostolic of the Belgian Congo is Mgr
| Van Ronsle, B. F. NJ
! Ruins of Ancient Church.-A very
| interesting discovery has been made
in st. Adams Church, Worcester, Eng
| land. In the course of restoration the
! removal of plaster in the interior has
revealed stonework which archaeol-
/ ogists' believe to be the remains OF
! the original church which was built
more than 1000 years ago by ST. Egg
! win, who was Bishop of Worcester
from 693 to III The discoveries in.
! clude single stone lintels over a door
way and window of a type that is
! said to have preceded the use OF
arches. The discoveries entitle the
/ church to rank as one of the earliest
monuments of English Christianity
Historical record has proved that as
long ago as 1892 St. Wulstan, then
of his time to consider the claim OF
! the church to be the oldest in the city
| Swiss Catholics Suffer Loss.-Swiss
Catholics have suffered great loss in
| the death of Mons. Figenwinter, dep
uty of Basic on the National Council
| He was not only one of the best juris
consults of the country but he was a
very popular man on account of his
!, culture, his wise sense of the neces
stiles of the present time, to which he
combined strong religious spirit. He
was the partisan of serious reforms in
the social order. At the commence
ment of his career he thought the
nuetral professional syndicate might
be made useful, but he soon found his
mistake and withdrew Catholic inf1u
ence from the movement He was
editor of the Revue of Sociology pub
lished at Basic which is full of inter