The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-22

BILE attachment of the Christian women |
and girls of the country.
King Visits Famous BasiIica.-King
Victor Emmanuel, at the invitation of
Cardinal Maffi, Archbishop of Pisa, Wis
tied the ancient Basilica of ST. Peter,
near Pisa, where excavations are be-
ing made which seem to prove that
the site was actually visited by ST. Pc
ter, in whose memory the original
Church was erected. The present Ba
silica was erected on the ruins of the
early Church, built in the fourth CEN
fury. Tradition says the Church
marks the landing place of st. Peter
on his way to Rome, the Church be-
ing near the seashore. s.a
Famous Capuchin Dead.-A sterling
old campaigner of the Capuchin Or
der was buried recently in Dublin, Fa-
Their Salvador Corrigan, who died in
the monastery of the Capuchins in
Church street at the ripe old age of
eighty-six years. A Dublin daily gives
an appreciative account of the aged
Capuchin: Father Corrigan, native
of Dublin, entered the order in Italy at
a time when no novitiate was allowed
to be established in Ireland, and was
ordained in Bologna in 1859 Return
ing to Ireland he labored until 1867,
chiefly in Dublin and Cork, and the
present graceful Gothic Church in
Church street is lasting monument
to his zeal. In 1884 he volunteered
for missionary work in India. Failing
health obliged him to return after two
years, and his native city has since
been the scene of his labors. His love
for the poor was one of his most
beautiful characteristics, and on many
occasions he appeared in the police
court to plead an excuse for a pris-
oner.'
Britain's Ambassador to Madrid..+-
Sir Esme Howard, K. c. NJ. G., who
has been appointed British Ambassa-
dor at Madrid, has had varied career
in the public service. His first .ap-
to the Earl of Carnarvon when Viceroy
of Ireland in 1885. He then became
assistant secretary to Lord Kimber
ley, Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
after which he was third secretary to
the British Embassy at Rome and at
Berlin. He next served as trooper
in the South African war. subsequent
ly becoming consul general for Crete,
then going successfully to the embas
sizes at Washington and Budapest
His next step was Minister at Berne,
then at Stockholm, and now he be-
comes ambassador to one of the most
ancient courts in Europe. A kinsman
of the Duke of Norfolk, he is a con-
vert to the Catholic Church, being
descended from a Protestant branch
of the Towards
A Notable Mission.-St. Ninian's
Mission, Edinburgh, Scotland, estab-
lished over thirteen years ago under
providential and romantic circum-
stances, is. for it's size, one of the
Scotland. Mgr. Thomas Miley is it's
pastor, and has been so since it's foun-
dation. Some fifteen years ago, when
Father NJ. Power, S. j., then sta
toned at the Sacred Heart Lauriston,
was conducting at Edinburgh, his
great open-air meetings on behalf of
Scottish Catholicity, a Protestant gen.
tleman passing one evening stopped
to listen to what the distinguished Je-
suit had to say. He was Mr. t. j. r.
Wilson, who then represented in the
Edinburgh Town Council the Dairy
Ward, and he was the owner of a val
liable estate in the ancient village of
Restalrig, which abounds with many
memories of a beautiful Catholic char
acter belonging to pre-Reformation
days. So impressed was Mr. Wilson
with the reverend gentleman's zeal
and earnestness in pleading the
Church's cause that he there and then
offered Father Power part of his fine
estate on which to erect a Catholic
Church for the faithful of the district.
Father Power prevailed on Archbishop
Smith to accept the offer On the
| eventful day the Church was opened,
January 6. 1906, the donor of the
ground, his wife, and eldest son, were
present, having meanwhile gained the
| gift of conversion to the faith. Mr..
Wilson afterwards became prominent
ly identified with the Catholic life of
the city. He was organizing secretary
of the Diocesan Catholic Truth So
ciety, and in other avenues of lay seTv-
ice did splendid work When war
broke out, he joined the Fifth Royal
Scots, fought at the Dardanelles,
earned the D. S. O. and was raised
to the rank of colonel