The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-05-07

understanding may be established be-
tween the sister countries of England
and Ireland. Such supplication is
needed more than ever at the present
moment, when events are daily oc-
curing, which perplex and shock the
public conscience of both nations"
For this intention, public interces-
sions are ordered throughout the
month of May. The parish clergy are
urged to provide for the continuous
recitation of the rosary in the
churches during the day, while the
religious communities are asked to
maintain a continual succession of
prayers day and night.
Fate of Abbey Theater.-There is
grave fear of the disappearance of a
theater which in the main has shown
healthy and often Catholic spirit.
Ever since it's foundation nearly a
quarter of century ago, the Abbey
Theater, Dublin, has been the chief
exponent of drama in it's highest con-
ception in Ireland. For the most part
the plays were purely Irish, and the
dramatists were mainly Catholics.
Irish life in all it's varieties and char
acteristics was portrayed with won.
derful fidelity. The vulgarizing ten
denotes which have debased the mod
ern English theater were vigorously
excluded. All the intellectual classes
in Dublin regularly patronized the
abbey" Owing to the effect of cur
few and other restrictive regulations
this famous Irish theater is threatened
with extinction, This theater has
come to be regarded as a national
treasure and already efforts are being
made by it's admirers to tide it over
it's difficulties.
Cardinals Last Letter.-One of the
last letters written by Cardinal Am
cite, Archbishopt of Paris, before his
death, was to Cardinal Gibbons 1t
was found on his desk The letter is
as follows: "The great distress of the
French churches devastated by the
war is well known to your Eminence.
ollu lldO Oil CdOy UCCA IHS OUJGCG VI
your generous charity. Despite the
large number Of contributions re-
ceived, especially from several do
ceses in the United States, above all
from your diocese and the diocese of
New York, the majority of the four
thousand churches which were pill
LACED, ruined or completely destroyed,
have not yet been rebuilt. The So
ciety founded in Paris for this pur-
pose has not yet been able to provide
even a temporary shelter for divine
services in many parishes. 1t is,
however, urgent to insure the COM
forts of religion to the Catholic peo-
pie who are returning to dwell in
these regions. 1t is all the more nee
essary because of the active Protes-
tant propaganda which is being car
ried on among them by agents who
are receiving considerable help from
America
Relic Of crusades.-A most interest
ing discovery has just been made in
the Church of Saint jesse sur-Mer, in
Artois, France. While transferring to
a new reliquary the relics of the pa
iron saint of the parish, it was no.
ticed that the relics were enveloped
in piece of oriental cloth which ap-
peared to be very curious. The Direc-
tor of the Trocadero Museum of Par
is was called to study the valuable
piece of cloth, and was able to ascer-
tain that it. was costly cloth brought
to France from Palestine at the time
of the Crusades. 1t was possible to
decipher the inscription "Glory and
happiness to the Cid Abou Mansour
Negtekin. May God prolong" The
rest of the inscription was torn, but
the information obtained was suffi-
cient to determine the exact age of
the tapestry, since the Negtekin men,
toned was general of Sultan ADD
Al-Malik, who caused him to be put
to death in the year 961. The cloth
was therefore made toward the mid
die of the tenth century 1t would
seem probable that the cloth was pre-
sented to the, ancient Abbey of Saint
jesse at the time of a first translation
of the relics in 1876, by the Count of
Boulogne, Etienne de Blois, whose un-
Gle Godefroy de Bouillon had brought
it back from the first Crusade.