The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-01-22
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Tetrazzini To Sing For School. All
the boxes and three hundred center.
section seats for the Nine. Luisa Tet.
razzini concert, in the Coliseum, St
Louis, on January q, have been do
mated to Rev. Cesar Spigardi, G. s. c.
B., pastor of two Italian churches in
center and downtown districts of the
city, for the benefit of his free school
for Italian children. Nine. Tetraz
zini has always taken an interest in
the Italian school in st. Louis, and
visited it upon her last trip. She has
promised to sing before the children
during her coming visit. n
Marist Brother Drops Dead.-Broth
err Francis Guages, member of the
faculty of st. Joseph High School in
San Jose, dropped dead last week
on a downtown street in San Fran
cisco. Brother Francis was so years
old, and was member of the Order
of Mary, religious order devoted to
the education of the young. He came
to San Jose from Dayton, Ohio, where
he had been a member of the Order
for over eight years. According to
advices from San Jose, Brother Fran.
els had come to San Francisco for a
brief visit and was to have returned
there Tuesday night. He is survived
by brother, Michael Guages. Of the
CoV who Sc ISnS r,f he
faculty of st. Mary College, in Dayton,
and a brother and sister who reside in
Baltimore.
For Relief In lreland.-Formation
of the American Committee for Relief
in Ireland, with a preliminary fund OF
100000 to complete organization work
and start relief. was announced at a
meeting in New York of business men
of Irish ancestry from various parts
of the country. Cardinal Gibbons, OF
Baltimore, heads the list comprising
the committees national council. Rt
Rev. Bishop Gallagher, of De.
troit, and Col. P. H. Callahan, of
Louisville, are members of the Ma
tional Council Cablegramg received
from the four Archbishops of Ireland
in response to inquiries from Cardinal
Gibbons, further testified to the need
of immediate relief. Sir Horace
Plunkett, on his recent arrival In
America, personally emphasized the
need of relief in certain areas of Ire
land.
Brooklyn vincentians.-The report
of the work of the Brooklyn st. Vim
cent de Paul Society during the past
year, read at the meeting, drew atten
ton to the fact that almost all the
conferences of the st. Vincent de Pau
Society were established in the Eng
lish speaking parishes, and, owing t.
the Catholic immigration in recent
years from Southern and Contra
Europe, the. bulk of the poor catholic
families now are in the non English
speaking parishes. Unfortunately, the
society has not been successful in es
tablishing conferences in the non-Eng
,lish speaking districts, where the
greatest amount of poverty prevails
Special mention was also made of the
usual gift from the Catholic Ben
evolent Society 1.-THE Heany estate)
which distributes every year through
the conferences over $4,000 worth o.
food and clothing to the needy poor
The total income of the society from
all sources during the year ending
September 80 was $4,000, which wa:
distributed to 1,129 poor families il
their own homes There are at pres
ent fifty,eight conferences in Brooklyn
Sisters in Need.-The work of ;
community Of French exiled sisters
who are devoting their lives to tn,
care of poor and abandoned countr!
children is threatened with disaste
unless assistance can be secured TO
them. This is the burden OF the ap
peal Of Mother Gertrude Berho, pr
Dress of Saint Benedict's Convent a
ST. Benedict, La, who is faced will
the problem of great work to be dom
and little means and no accommoda
tons with which to do it. Soon afte
the community was established Il
this country the Sisters lost all in
fire that spread from the neighborhoo
and since then a small house has beel
shehering the nuns and their charges
A new convent and school are absolut
necessities. Recently the superiores
lost her arm in machine and thi
has added to the distress of the mem
bers of the community.
OLD WORLD NEWS
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