The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-06-24
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sen of Marquette university will spen
the summer in Europe, collecting laL
oratory materials in Germany, Italy
France and other countries for the
Marquette department OF biology.
New X. c. Home started.-Work
has started on the Knights of Column
bus home, overlooking the MISSISSIPPI
pi at Bellevue, la. When completed
it will be one of the most picturesque
lodge homes in the country. The To-
cal council is growing, class OF for
ty having just been initiated.
Academy To Be High School.-The
building used until this year to house
pupils of Nazareth academy, Catholic
school for girls, Concordia, Kan, will
be used as a Catholic high school be-
ginning next fall, according to an
nouncement made by the Rev. Father
A T. Ennis, in charge Of the parochial
school.
Four Members Of One Family Mar
ried Together.-June l was indeed
June bridal day in the family OF Mr..
and Mrs. John Schmitz, Milwaukee.
On that day four of their children
were married in St. MichaePs church.
Their daughters, Rose and Mollie.
married Jerome Weslow and Edward
Thielenhusen, respectively, while
their sons, Matthias j. and Rudolph,
married Leona Adler and Elizabeth
Bettendorf, respectively. Mr. and
Mrs. Schmitz have nine children.
Catholic Summer SchooI-On Sum
day, July 2, the formal opening of the
Catholic summer school at Cliff Ha-
ven, N Y. will take place, Rev. John
E. Flood, LII. D., of Philadelphia, pres
ident of the school, being in charge
The program for the first week will
be: July 3-7-Five morning lectures
by Rev. Charles Bruehl, Phi. D., Over
brook seminary, on Science and Faith
Four evening lectures by Rev. H. B
Spalding, S. j., of the Queens Work
on Some Labor Problems of the Day
July patriotic celebration.
TweIve-Year-oId Girl to Enter High
SchooI.-Among those to receive dip
Tomas at the eighth grade graduation
exercises, Sioux Falls, S. D., was IL
year-old miss, Dorothy Lynn, daugh
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. D. Lynn, who
not only enjoys the distinction of fin
fishing the grammar school to enter
the Cathedral high school in the fall
at the age of II years, the youngest
of so graduates, but also of receiving
a gold medal awarded for having the
throughout the year. Besides excel
ling. in her class work, Miss Dorothy
Lynn is an accomplished pianist
Church Was Set Aflre.-Special in
vestigators from the Office of State
Fire Marshal found what they deemed
positive evidence that the fire which
destroyed st. Peter and Pauls Catho
lie church, Naperville, ILL.,, Sunday
was incendiary. They discovered tina
one of the windows near the altar hat
been smashed in. This portion of tn.
church was the only part which wa!
not destroyed by fire. 1t was thu
theory of the investigators that thu
firebug broke through the window will
oil or other chemicals and started thu
fire. Witnesses told Of two fire!
bursting simultaneously from the bel
fry and the rear, near the altar.
Oldest Priest in the WorId.-For
long time, the oldest priest in TIT
world was Father Damase Dandurand
0. M. l., who died at the age of TO-
on April Is, 1921, at Saint-Boniface
Canada. At the present time, TIT
oldest priest in the world is said t,
be another Oblate of Mary Immacu
late, Father Constant Chouvanel, o
the Ceylon Missions. He left Franc,
seventy years ago, before the con
struction of the Suez Canal, and tool
six months to reach Ceylon by wa!
Of the Cape of Good Hope. Fathe
Chouvanel is now 81 years old. H,
says Mass regularly, still breaches
and never fails to celebrate three
consecutive Masses on Christmas.
Bishop Meets Hardins.-Among the
distinguished visitors at the White
House during the week was the Rt
Rev Joseph J. Fernandez, of Mexico
in whose see is the famous shrine
of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The
Bishop was accompanied by the Rev
Eugene Sugranes of San Antonio
Texas. The visit was merely one
of courtesy. Bishop Fernandez, who
recently underwent a severe oper
alton at San Antonio, made a shor,
tour in the United States before re
turning to Mexico to resume his epis
copal labors, and while in Washington
took occasion to pay his respects tt
: the President. 1t was stated on his
behalf that no official matters of any
sort nor the relations between the
United States and Mexico were dis
cussed.
Priest Injured Rescuing Child
Rev. Francis M. O'Reilly, assistant al
the Church of Our Lady of the Ro
sary, New York, and former chaplain
in the army overseas, is in a serious
condition as the result of an attack
made on him by savage bull dog
which he was attempting to prevent
from biting little girl The ANNA,
bit Father O'Reilly fourteen times
and it was only after struggle Of
twenty minutes that the young priest
succeeded in overpowering the brute
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