The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-07-08

the DOurSGOlSlG uuuor JQ0 udulo VI Tic
Ladies of the Holy Family. In the
thickly populated districts north
east of the capital, those ladies
during the last year gave care and
aims to 1S,507 sick persons. Thanks
to them, 623 sick persons were able
to die with the comforts of religion;
95 marriages were regularized; 800
baptisms administered; IS tardy First
Communions were made and 9 Con-
firmations administered. In addition
to this, the organization paid for the
treatment of 1862 persons in hospitals
or sanatoriums.
Temperance in IreIand.-Serious-
minded Irishmen are concentrating
upon temperance propaganda and re-
form. 1t is felt that there is laxity
in the enforcement of the existing
licensing laws, that there are too
many saloons and that intemperance
is accountable for many offenses
against peace and order. In Armagh
diocese a temperance congress at
tended by 200 delegates was held.
Cardinal Logue presided His En-
inence observed that a great deal of
the rapine, cruelty and murders that
had marked the last few terrible
years were due to the fact that in
temperance was prevalent among
those who participated in the strug-
gle on both sides. Papers on various
aspects of the problem were read and
discussed. In these, temperance in
struction in the schools was advocated
and restrictive legislation urged.
Archbishop O'Donnell delivered an adj
dress, in the course of which he stated
that the best method of promoting
temperance was through the schools.
Blessing of the Seattle Arch
bishop Of Aix-en-Provence this year
performed the traditional ceremony
of the blessing of the sea in the most
modern of sea-going craft. 1t is a
century-old custom in Provence to i'm
plore the protection of God against
the cruelty of the waters of the
Mediterranean, and each year the
primate of Provence gives his bles-
sing to the sea from boat in mid
ocean. This year, M. Samat, a news
paper man from Marseilles, who was
an aviator during the war, was trying
out along the coast a "hydro-glider,"
a small craft which is propelled by
means of an ordinary airplane engine.
He invited Mgr. Riviere, Archbishop
of AK and primate of Provence, to
accompany him in his frail craft.
Mgr. Riviere went on board with his
vestments and archiepiscopal crozier
and blessed the sea from the rocks of
Marseilles to the beach of the "Saintes
Maries,' where, according to tradi-
ton, Saint Mary Magdalen, Saint
Martha and Saint Lazarus landed
when they came to Gaul after the
Ascension of Christ.
Hospital Of Santo Spirito.-The dis.
astrous fire at the great hospital of
Santo Spirito in Rome, by which six
teen patients lost their lives owing
to- the collapse of floor, has drawn
wide attention to the history of this
institution, part of the social and
charitable provision made and main
tanned by the Popes as rulers of the
Eternal City. Centuries before any
modern hospital was built, Santo
Spirito carried on it's good work by
the side of the Tiber It's vast orig
inal buildings, constructed under the
direction of Guido de Montpelier, were
put up in the time of Innocent Ill
whose reign covered the end of the
twelfth and the early part of the
thirteenth century. A number of later
Pontiffs, among them Innocent w
Sixtus Nv, Benedict XIV, and Plus vi
enlarged and repaired the hospital
and similar work was done under Plus
TX before the fall of the Temporal.
Power. Santo Spirito is one of the
most notable charities of it's kind in
Europe, and the recent fire, tragic
though it has been in the loss of lives
| has fortunately not interrupted 6
work that has been going on in Rome
| for more than seven hundred years.
Help for Irish Brothers.-In the
| educational sphere the Irish Christian
| Brothers have in face of great diff
culties played a great and noble part
In every chief town throughout the
country their primary and secondary
schools are largely attended. II
Dublin and Cork especially thei
schools take pride of place every yea
in the intermediate examinations
Owing to the sturdy action of tn,
Brothers in regard to religious edu
cation, and their insistence upon tn,
| exhibition of religious emblems in tn,
| school rooms, and the use of tex
books in accordance with Irish ideas
the British government refused t
recognize their primary schools
They have, therefore, had the worl
without any state grant. It is gen
orally felt that this grievance ough
to be removed by the new Irish gov
eminent. Action in support of thi
view has been taken by former pupils
They call upon the Minister of Iris
Education to recognize the service
rendered by the Christian Brother
to the Irish nation in educational maj
tiers during the past hundred year
by seeing that in the ALLEGATION O
l p,,f,,,.a Grants For ad1,oo fion +I,ox, q "