The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-19

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the only daughter of the second Earl
She married in 1908; and !
in the December of 1917, in Westmin- |
ster Cathedral, she was received into !
the Church.
Monument to American Soldiers
A monument to the American soldiers |
who persisted in France will be un-
yelled on Memorial Day next year
near the tomb of Lafayette in the Pic
pus cemetery. This plan was an
nounced by Andre Tardieu at the close
of the American tribute to Lafayette,
paid on July 4 by Hugh G. Wallace,
the American ambassador to France,
who laid wreath on the tomb of the
French hero. M. Tardieu said the
sculptor, Bartholome, had been in
trusted with the designing of the
monument
Shrine for Memorial chureh.-A
project has been initiated by the Right
Reverend Archdeacon Segrave, P. P,
V. G., to erect shrine in honor of
Our Lady of Lourdes inside the en-
trance gates of the Oliver Plunkett
Memorial Church, Drogheda, Ireland.
The project has received a good deal
of support from the people of the
town.
Catholic University of Lille. - The
Catholic University of Lille has re-
sumed it's usual life. The library,
which contains 250,000 volumes, has
suffered comparatively little during
the war. This university has gener-
ously offered to Louvain a gift of 1000
medical books, and also to rebuild the
Diocesan Missionary Library at Cam
brai, which was destroyed during the
war.
PapaI Nuncio to PoIand.-Mgr. Ratti
has been appointed Titular Archbishop
of Lepanto and Papal Nuncio to Po-
land. He will take up his residence
at Warsaw.
Ukranian Ambassador.-The ambas-
sador of the Ukranian republic to the
Holy See, Count Kierwicz, was re-
ceived in audience by the Pope, to
whom he presented his credentials on
July Is.
Memorial Tablet to Leonardo.-The
great scholar and artist, Leonardo da
Vinci, whose fourth centenary is being
celebrated this year, was the guest of
Pope Leo X during his stay in Rome
from 1913 to 1916, and occupied an
apartment in the Belvedere at the
Vatican, where he also had his studio
The Holy Father, who is a great ad.
mirer of the fine arts, has ordered a
marble tablet to be placed over the
door of the apartment, commemorate
ing Leonardo's stay
First Albanian Bishop in ItaIy.-It
is not generally known that numerous
and flourishing Albanian colonies ex.
list in Italy, especially in Calabri and
Sicily. They are the descendants OF
refugees who fed before the Turkish
invasion in the fifteenth century, and
are Catholics of Greek rite. For the
first time since their settling in Italy
the Albanians will have a Bishop OF
their own, in the person of Mgr
Mele, whom the Holy Father has been
pleased to appoint to the episcopal
See of Lungro, in Calabria. The new
Bishop who is only 32 years of age
was consecrated recently in the
Greek Church of St. Athanasius, by
Mgr. Papadopulos of the congregation
pro Ecclesia Oriental
Work of Great Artist.-The heirs OF
the late Cardinal Cassetta have pre-
scented to the Pope work from the
brush of Giotto, representing scene
of martyrdom. Rome possessed hith
erto only two other works of the great
master, one of which is in the Sacristy
of st. Peters, the other in the new
picture gallery organized by Plus X
The Holy Father has directed the
third to be placed in this gallery.
Great CathedraIs Of World.-The
greatest Cathedrals in the wrold are
ranged thus, in the order of size: St
Peters, Rome; Milan Cathedral, Italy;
Cordova Cathedral, Spain; Seville Ca
thedral, Spain; Cologne Cathedral
Germany, and York Minister, England
These enormous churches were al
built by the genius and piety OF
Catholics.
Gaelic in ScotIand.-The movement
for the revival of the use of Gaelic
which has made such phenomenal
progress in Ireland during recent
years is also making marked ad
vances in Scotland, where prominent
men are advocating public grants fol
the support of Gaelic teaching. There
is already a Gaelic teaching clause in
the Scottish educational act.