The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-03-19
TRIBUTE TO K. OF c.
SOUTH AMERICAN CATHOLICS
PROUD OF NORTHERN KNIGHTS
AND THEIR WORk-PERU RE-
cEPTiON TO K. OF C'S IN AMER
ICAN FLEET.
(By N. G.. w. c.. News Service.

(By N. c. w. C. News Service)
In one of the rooms of the Catholic
University in Lima, Peru, recently
the Union Catolica de Caballeros gave
of Columbus.
A party of K. of c., forming part of
the detachment of the North Ameri-
can fleet anchored in the Callao, was
present, accompanied by the Catholic
chaplains of the fleet. The following
address was made by Dr. Carlos Are
mas, president of the Union Catolica:
Tribute to Knights.
Among the splendid officers of the
great Atlantic fleet so cordially well
coined in Peru, our fraternal glances
perceived the Knights of Columbus,
the representatives of the powerful
and fourishing institution of America,
yesterday the foremost Catholic as
ISOLATION of the United States, and TO-
day the foremost Catholic association
of the entire world and which, at a
time when the weakened forces of
the world are striving for world or
ganization, is called upon to form the
nucleus of the new crusade which, by
defending the Catholic Church, will
thereby defend Christian civilization
in the source which gives it life and
vigor.
Your ideals, POLITICALLY expressed in
your, title, knights of Columbus have
consecrated you to carry on the work
of the genial and pious navigator who,
when he planted the cross on the vir-
gin soil of America, did not think of
the wealth he had conquered, or of
the future empire of the new CONT
nent, but rejoiced that he had won
another world for the Gospel and
the Church of Christ.
''The knights of Columbus, who
| know how broad is the field of Catho-
| lie action, are the same who, after
helping the Catholic University, the
American Louvain, and establishing
numerous institutions of learning and
charity throughout your glorious coun,
| try, offered their lives during the great
| war. When victory had been won,
| they left the field of battle and pro
ceeded to Rome to console the Vicar
of Christ and show the world that
faith and heroism spring from the
same source, for the greater glory OF
God and man.
Your country, which has amalga
mated all the superior races, is pre-
destined to be the eternal surprise OF
| the world. 1t has surprised us with
the miracles of democracy, the mira
cles Of science, and it will surprise
us with the miracles of faith.
"A century ago the number of Cath
olics in your country was $4,000. Ac
cording to the latest census the mum
Der is now 20 million, of which there
are nearly one million Knights of Co
lumbus. This remarkable and fecunC
development of Catholicism in the
| United States, is living promise
that the Catholic faith will be. the
cupola which will majestically crown
the civilization of America.
i "My toast, gentlemen, is the real
ization of this great hope, the glor.
of the Knights Of Columbus which il
identified with the glory of tn,
Church, the hope that Peru may hav'
an institution which has such worth,
representative among the American
Colony, and, lastly, the great Ameri
can fleet which, evoking ancient
Christian ideals, will carry the ney
, Knights of Columbus back through tn
. legendary seas"
This speech was answered by tn
'raad Chaplain and by the America
tConsuI. Mr. John Roth,