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

brother or the monastery Oh Our lIduy
of Gethsemani, KY, died November
%. in the seth year of his age, and
the fifty-third of his religious life.
Collection for Orphans. - In Cleve-
land. the orphans collection was
taken up last month. That OF st.
Patrick's Church amounts to $1,000:
St. Roses $1,000 St. Thomas $1.450;
st. Ignatius' $S66.50: ST. Philips $500;
st. Johns $500 and quite a number of
churches from $500 UPWARD, making a
total of 50,2G4.74.
$4,000 K. C. Building Assured.-A
$4,000 home for the Knights of Co
lumbus in Shenandoah. Iowa, is as
sured by the amount Of subscriptions
received. 4 three or four story build
inc will be erected adjoining st.
Mary's Church. The first floor will
contain business Offices Recreation
rooms and Il large lodge hall Will be
features of the building.
Cathedral Observes Centenary.-St.
Patricks Cathedral of Rochester. n.
Y, celebrated its centennial last
week. st. Patrick's is the oldest
Catholic Church between Utica and
Cleveland. The erection of the first
Church in 1919 marked the beginning
of Catholic life in Western New York.
Seventy-fifth Anniversity.-The dia-
mond jubilee of ST. Vincent de Paul
Church, St. Louis, was celebrated No
vember 16 with all the pomp and pa
geantry which the occasion warrant
ed. Most Rev. Archbishop Glennon
pontifcated at the Solemn Festal
Mass and the sermon, covering many
of the salient and most interesting
events in the long annals of the
Church, was delivered by Rev. P. P.
Crane. rector of st. Lawrence O'Toole
parish.
Altar Stones BIessed.-Fifty altar
stones were blessed by the Right Rev.
J. Henry Then, d. D.. Bishop Of Den
Yer. in a service at the Cathedral on
Monday morning of last week, last
ing from 100 until 1890 o'clock. All
the priests of the Cathedral parish and
about ten other clergymen of the city
assisted the Bishop. The blessing of
the altar stones is proof of the prog
ress of the diocese. 1t was necessary
to prepare fifty for present use and
for use in the next few years.
A Cemetery Group.-A cemetery
CruCitiXiOn group consisting of a 20
foot crucifiX and five life-size statues
has been erected in st. Patricks Gene
terry at Erin, in the Superior, Wis,
Diocese. This group which cost
$1,000, has been donated by those who
have their dead buried in this Gene
terry. The ladies of St Patrick's par
ish, of which the Rev p A. Walsh is
pastor, held a bazaar one day of last
week at which they made $1,000
Noted Nun Dies.-Sister Francis
Liguori Keller. the last of the four
Sisters of Charity who established
the New York Founding Hospital
fifty years ago, died at that insttu-
ton on Sunday. November %. Fifty
CdIo dSO- vi ACJODtI IL, 1919, DlSIel
Mary Irene, Sister Teresa Vincent
Sister Aloysia and Sister Francis Ii
guori opened the first building of the
New York Founding Hospital. For
twenty years Sister Francis Liguor
was the hOusekeeper of the institu
ton, and then for thirty years she
acted as sacristan, having charge of
The chanel and tha altar
Made Head of Parish SchooIs.-The
Rev. Joseph Wehrle, d. D., assistant
of St Johns parish, Erie Pa has
been appointed superintendent of the
diocesan schools. The Rev. DR..
Wehrle is admirably adapted by nat
ural talent and training for this i'm
portant office, and his appointment is
a matter of congratulation with the
diocese. The parochial schools have
been brought up to a high point of
efficiency by the retiring superintend-
ent the Right Rev. J. Mark Cannon,
d. D., Auxiliary Bishop of Erie, whose
episcopal duties, together with the re-
quirements of his pastorate at ST. An
drew's Church, have made it impos-
sible for him to continue in charge.
Gesu Silver JubiIee.-The clergy
and people of Gesu Church, Milwau-
kee, Wis, will celebrate the silver
jubilee of their parish next week. On
December 16 at P. NJ. grand con-
cert will be given in the Gesu audi
forum by the Church choir, assisted
by all the available musical talent of
the parish, under the leadership of
Prof. John Leicht, organist On the
following Sunday, December p, a Sol
emn High Mass will be celebrated at
which a jubilee sermon will be
preached by the Rev. Richard d. Sic
vim, S. j., of Marquette University.
Dickens Descendants. = Several of
the at-grandchildren of Charles
Dickens attended Miss Elaine Dickens.
granddaughter of the novelist, who
was married to Major Alex Whalev in
the Brompton (Catholic) Oratory.
London, on Saturday, November %
The eight bridesmaids all wore typ
zeal Dickensian dresses of white silk
with wreaths of colored flowers on
their hair and carried early Victorian