The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-09-03

Since 1875
out a permit-the collection was for
the White Cross-near the gate of
Catholic Church, but was dismissed,
and the sum deposited as security was
refunded.
Relations Between Vatican and
Letts.-The diplomatic relations be-
tween the Holy See and the Lettonian
Republic are now an accomplished
fact and have just been settled by
means of a Concordat. The Republics
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
when last. in Rome, was received by
His Holiness, and had the most cordial
interviews with the Cardinal-Secre-
tary of State. On his return to Riga
he reported that the Holy See, after
the recognition de facto established
two years ago, had been made year
since the recognition de jure, but
through consideration towards the
other powers, this last fact had not
been divulged. The Under-Secretary
added that the clauses of the Con-
cordat had been drawn up by him
personally, during the conversations
with Cardinal Gasparri and Mgr. Ger
retti. The text OF the Concordat was
presented by him to the Legislative
Assembly for ratification.
Keeps Strange Vow to Blessed
Virginia. curious sight was witness
ed in the streets of Lisbon just after
dawn recently. Maria Conceicaco,
wife of a workman, was seen dragging
herself painfully on her knees from
her house through the busy streets to
the Church of Our Lady of Health,
thus carrying out a vow made during
the illness of her husband, in case of
his recovery. The distance from her
house to the church was over two
miles and long before she had accom-
plished one-half of her pilgrimage,
her knees were torn by the stones
and her dress was stained with blood.
Maria's husband, a young tin-smith,
fell seriously i'll about six months ago
and was given up by the doctors. His
devoted wife tended him with untiring
care and love and when it was thought
| that he was dying, she prayed for a
miracle that should save his life, max
| ing a VOW that if he recovered she
| would go on her knees, as a sign of
! thanksgiving, to the shrine of Our
Lady of Health. The husband recover
ed and the wife has fulfilled her VOW.
Praises Irish Faith.-Right Rev. DR..
Phelan, Bishop of Sale, Australia, de-
| livered an address from the top of
Croagh Patrick, County Mayo, on the
occasion of the annual pilgrimage
| there. He said as an exile for 33
years from his native land he was in a
position to compare the manifestations
of Faith during the days of his boy.
hood with what he had witnessed dur
ing the past month. In that. respect
he could not help quoting the words OF
Cardinal Manning who, writing to the
Archbishop of Armagh fifty years ago
/ ooiu. hhoW VI lO COuuIIy Ill IuS
world more truly Christian, nor any
Catholic nation that has retained its
faith and it's traditions more inviolate
Ireland remains to this day as st
Patrick left it, unstained and inviolate
in Catholic fidelity" Ireland's cen
turtles of sorrow, he continued, scatter
ed her children over the habitable
globe. The result was that her sons anG
daughters were preaching the Gospe
of Christ and training youthful minds
from the North Sea to the South
Pacific and from the Pyramids OF
Egypt to the Falls of Niagara.
Cornerstone Laid.-Cardinal Bourne
on August Is laid the foundation stone
of New Priory and Conventua
Church of the Holy Ghost, which the
Dominicans are to erect in Oxford
The new church and college will be
on Saint Giles Street, the famous
medieval street of Oxford, and di
rectly facing Saint John College. The
ceremony comedies in day and time
exactly with the first arrival of the
Dominicans in Oxford seven hundred
years ago. The ceremony took place
in the presence of a brilliant assembly
;. of bishops and clergy, including Car
dinal Gasquet. Representatives of al
religious orders were present, aud the
university identified itself with thu
occasion by the presence of high of
: ficials of the university senate. TIL,
Conventual Church is to be magnifi
: cent structure in the purest Gothic
, style. High Mass and canonical hours
will be chanted daily by the choir 0
{ one hundred Friars. The Pope ha
/ joined himself with the anniversar,
: and the return of the Dominicans tt
: Oxford by addressing pontifical lei
FL ter to Doctor Bede Jarette, the Pre-
i vincial of the English Dominicans.
Webeck Abbey to be SoId.-Ar
e nouncement by the Duke of Portland
p one of the wealthiest members of tn
r English nobility, that as result @
J, high taxes either he or his sons woul
t be forced to dispose of Welbeck AL
Y hey, in Nottinghamshire, is not will
a out certain interest to Catholics, il
r asmuch as the abbey was founded
e 1854 as a religious establishment an
J. is one of the great English manor
o that was confiscated by Henry VII
f The Abbey was formerly the propert