The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-12-11
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$400 The 300 students gathered $1,1S0
in this campaign, thus easily winning
| first place on the percentage basis and
nearly winning first place on the
money basis, although competing
against schools that number their stu
! dents by the thousands.
School is Accredited.-The st. Jo-
seph parochial school, Mason City, Ia,
has been placed on the list of accred-
tied high schools in Iowa. John E.
Foster, secretary of the board of Sec
ondary school relations in Iowa has
informed the Rev. P. S. O'Connor, pas
tor of st. Josephs parish, that the
board has voted unanimously to make
the school accredited. 1t has been the
ambition of Dean O'Connor since 60
ing to Mason City two years ago, to
raise st. Joseph's school among the
approved institutions of the state, and
he has worked diligently toward that
end. With the assistance of the Pres
entation Sisters, who are in charge of
the convent, he elevated the standard
of the school to the requirements of
the state for accredited schools.
A Missouri Campaign.-Witht the ap-
proach of winter and the consequent
increase of attendance at society meet
inss throughout the land, the Centen-
NAL Endowment Fund Committee of
st. Louis University is receiving en-
couraging reports of the activities of
the various Councils of the Knights
of Columbus of Missouri who have
pledged themselves to raise $250,000
of the fund of 100000, which is alb
solutely necessary to the support and
development of this splendid institu-
ton. The Knights of Columbus of the
state have been melted to their best
efforts in this cause through a stir
ring appeal on the part of T. E. Pur-
cell, State Deputy, who urges the COM
bined energy of the Knights of Colum-
bus in the support of such Catholic
institutions of higher learning as St.
Louis University.
catacombs Chapel Feature Of
Church.-An underground chapel,
which is an advanced reproduction of
the catacombs of the second and third
centuries, is one Of the features of
the Church of the Holy Rosary in
Washington, D. c.. the main edifice of
| which will be finished within the next
month. The chapel has distinctly
Roman atmosphere, but is minus the
damp and dank odors and the crude
drawings which are characteristic of
the underground chapels and passages
of Rome. The brilliant coloring and
artistic presentation for which the
Italians are famous have been repro
duced faithfully in the work within
the church. One of the distinctive
features of the church is a grotto
which affords a splendid example of
the manner in which artistic effort is
utilized to show the history of the
Church. The Church of the Holy Ros-
airy is located within a stones throw
of the United States Pension Office.
Early NewfoundIand.-T years
1920 and 1921 challenge Catholics of
ST Georges Diocese, Newfoundland, to
turn their attention back to some of
the early history of their diocese. In
these years occur two anniversaries
Of the diocese. One of these is the
| fiftieth anniversary of the erection of
the territory into a Prefecture An
other is the fiftieth anniversary of
the nomination of the Project Apos-
tolic. Until 1850 there was no resident
| Catholic priest on the coast in this re-
| gion. In 1850 the first resident priest
| arrived. He was Rev. Alexandra Be-
LANCER. The apostle and social re-
| former of this wilderness-like place,
however, arrived on November 2, 1868.
This was Rev. Thomas Sears of the
Antagonist Diocese. 1t was in 1870
that the territory was erected into a
| Prefecture, and in 1871 Father Sears
was nominated Project Apostolic In
| 1892 the Prefecture was made a Vicar
late, and in 1904 the Vicariate became
Diocese.