The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-09-10
OLD WORLD NEWS

French Cardinal Honored.-His
Eminence, Cardinal Francis Mary
Royerie De Cabrieres, Bishop of Mont
pelier for forty-eight years, has been
made Knight of the Legion of Honor
by the French Government.
British Welcome Irish Nuns.-The
Irish Sisters of Charity have taken up
residence in their convent at st.
Brigids, The Drive, Walthomstow,
Essex. They received cordial well
Brentwood called on them.
Benedictine Abbot Elected.-Dom
Walter Edmund Kelly of the Benedic-
| tine Order, who was Prior at Douai
when the religious Orders were expell-
ed from France in 1908, and has since
retained that Office at the new Douai
Abbey, Northampton, has been elect
| ed fifth Abbot of the English founda-
ton. He is native of Coventry and
was educated at the French Doua1,
where also he was protested.
France Grateful For American Help.
Notable work in aiding the rebuild
| ing of French churches is being done
by the American Committees for Dew
astated France, according to pastors
in various parts of the country who
have been interviewed by the Rev. l..
J. DAILY of Philadelphia, who is repres-
enting the National Catholic Welfare
Council at the Boy Scout training
camps established on the Disc and the
Somme. A glowing tribute to the eff.
forts of the Committee is paid by the
Rev. Henry Rosseau in letter to Fa-
Their Daily.
Cardinal His Own Secretary.-It
may not be generally known that the
aged and venerable Cardinal Logue
does not keep a private secretary In
the midst of his multifarious eccles-
iastical duties he actually attends to
his own correspondence. Even the
modern convenience of a typewriter is
disregarded by him. He writes fair
ly good hand for one of his years. In
| the circumstances it is only natural
to expect that he should keep no copy
of the letters he writes. And he keeps
none. 81 am my own secretary, and
am kept too busy to be able to make
COPIES" he says.
Nicaragua Official in Rome.-Pope
Benedict has received Minister of
Foreign Affairs zepeda, of Nicaragua,
and Mrs. Zepeda. The minister ex-
pressed the devotion of the people
and Government towards the Holy See,
and presented an autograph letter from
President Chamorro. The Pope con-
| ferred upon the President the decora-
ton of Plus TX, and on Zepeda the
Grand Cross of st. Gregory the Great.
A nephew of President Chamorro also
was made a Commander of the Order
of st. Gregory the Great. Count Capel.
To-, the representative of Nicaragua at
the Vatican, gave a reception in honor
of the minister and his party at which
cardinals, prelates and members of the
l diplomatic corps were present.
Feast Of Madonna.-The Second
Centenary of the Coronation of q
miraculous image of the Madonna
Della Misericordia was celebrated re
Gently, with solemn festivities in the
city and diocese of Macerata, Italy, oil
which the Blessed Virgin is the prin
cipal Patron. AS token of his in
terest in the occasion and a mark OF
tender love for Mary, the Holy Father
sent as his especial representative
Cardinal Tacci, whose presence
: served to render the services more i'm
pressive and joyous. For the past two
centuries the miraculous image ha.
J been the object of deepest venera
/, ton on the part of the citizens O.
: Macerata and the surrounding
J neighborhood. Because of the elabo
. rate decorations in the Basilica tn,
exercises of a Solemn Novena wer,
{ held in the nearby Church of st
J Juliana.
5 parliament of s.n-Th,
: present sessions of the Dali Eireanl
!, are likened to an assembly of priest
Z and bishops coming together from oh
/ scure catacombs and deep dungeons
! while the speeches of President D.
Z Valera are compared to the sermons o
} the apostles, in the interview given b,
) Right Rev. Mgr. Newsome, an Enc
) lish visitor at the public meetings o
Z the Irish parliament in Dublin. Iris]