The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-12-02
OLD WORLD NEWS

performance at Oberammergau took
place on September Is. The great
hall was filled; $500 seats had been
The actors gathered all their strength
for the last presentation, fraught with
peculiar JUNCTION and solemnity. Lang
played his part of Christ for the last
time in his life with such feeling and
| emotion that all were deeply moved.
When he left the theater grateful
Hands took hold of his own and tears
were streaming down his cheeks. The
Weeping Women that accompanied
Mary were weeping women indeed.
Old men leaning on their sticks, their
heads bowed down, left the theater
| forever.
Training of Native Clergy for
Japan Progresses.-The Seminary
in Toxic has eighteen native
students, according to the latest
| figures from Archbishop Rey.
Besides financial difficulties there
are many others in this i'm
portant work of forming native
clergy for the conversion of Japan.
Delicate health, which seminary life
with it's regular program of studies
tries greatly, is an obstacle. But even
greater than this is the obligation of
military. training, which disarranges
the course for two or three years and
throws the young men into a pagan
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were ordained to the priesthood at
Toxic. Immense throngs attended.
The last ordination was twenty years
ago.
Aerial Travel Abroad.-How far
ahead of us Europe is in the matter
of air transportation can be gathered
from a news item which we find in
foreign newspapers, to the effect that
started between London and Cologne
late in September. The time for the
Tourney is a little less than four and
a half hours. This is regarded as the
first leg of a prospective air route to
India. From the Manchester Guardian
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transatlantic air service within the
next two years is probability. The
liners will be huge ships with pas
lsenger capacity of 100 each and Ca
|pable of maximum speed of 100 miles
an hour. Their engines will have a
Icapacity of 5000 horse power. 1t is
Expected that the journey from Lon.
don to New York viii take less than
two days.
| Austrian Bishop Appeals to French
Rev. Father Bede, a religious of the
Order of Saint Benedict and pastor OF
the Cathedral of Gurk, in Carinthia,
has come to France, under instruc-
lions from his Bishop, for the purpose
of soliciting French aid for the or
phanages and hospitals of Austria
The Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal
Dubois, has warmly recommended this
mission to the generosity of Partisan
Catholics. Mgr. Adam Heftner, Bish,
op of Carinthia, is also contemplating
the foundation of a school for girls,
which will be entrusted to French
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Before the war, many girls of the up
per classes in Austria received a part
of their education in French converts
Since the depreciation in the value
of Austrian currency makes it impos.
sible for them to come to France ais
in former days, the new school will
fill great need.
Brother Builds For Community
The story of Buckfast Abbey, built
by the hands of the Benedictine
monks, is known throughout the
Christian world.
But England has one religious
brother of the Missionary Sons of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary of Spain
who has just completed. single hand
ed, large hall for community pur-
poses, and who, while engaged in the
enterprise, enlarged and beautified the
community church, which was getting
too small for the congregation.
The site of the new hall was occu-
pied by stables and cowsheds in 1914
when he started work. The outbreak