The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-12-30
OLD WORLD MEMS

Cardinal Yslesia Dies in Santiago.
Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Martin de.
HeYrara de Ia Yelesia. Archbishop
OF Compostella, died in Santiago Sat-
urday ct the age of eighty seven. He
was a native of Aldeadavila &c la
Ribera in the diocese of Salamanca.
From 1875 to 1889, he was Arch
bishop of Santiago, Cuba He was ell
cvated to the Cardinalate in 1897.
Christ Triumphant.-The Minister
of Public instructions lately ordered
the mayors of 5000 municipalities
throughout Italy to have replaced i'm
mediately upon the walls of the
schools the crucifixes which were re
moved by Socialist and Communist ad.
ministrations. Portraits of the King
are also to be replaced.
Their removal, says the order, be-
sides being an open and intolerable
violation of the law. offends the pre-
ponderant sentiment of the state and
the principles of the unity of the ma
ton.
Delegate Present at Opening of cof-
fin of st. Francis xavier-A dispatch
to the London Times tells of the GER
emonies held at Goa, in connection
with the ceremony of exposing the
face of st. Francis Xavier, whose tomb
is in the Jesuit Church there. The
Apostolic Delegate, accompanied by a
number of dignitaries, celebrated sol
emn vespers in the church where the
Saint is buried, and after the services
the body was borne under a silken
| pail to the sacristy. There the silver
coffin was opened and the face of the
Saint exposed. 1t is said that the fea-
lures were recognizable.
Nuns and Girls from Near East Ar
rive in Paris.-Monsignor Bahaban,
Bishop of Angora, has arrived in Paris
with two fiocks of Catholic Armenians
who have fed Turkey and sought ref
uge in France. The convoy includes
nuns and orphan girls who were gath
cred in Smyrna and Mudania after the
events of last September. One group
has settled in Var, and the other near
Crosse on the Rivera. Hospitality is
being given them in religious houses
A French priest from the Var sec.
ton organized the refugees and sue.
ceeded in securing transportation and
shelter for these unfortunate Chris
tianS. s
/ Meals for Poor Bonn Students al
House Conducted by Nuns.-A Men
sa Academica" has been established
at the University of Bonn for the pur
pose of aiding the impoverished stu
dents in their struggle for higher ed
ucation. Those students who are in
Strengthened financial circumstances
are provided with meals at this house
which is conducted by Catholic nuns
| The university authorities have is
sued an appeal to alumni, friends and
former students for contributions to
a fund for the maintenance of this
house. 1t is proposed to make the
institution memorial in honor of the
one hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the university.
i Heroic Priests Last Effort to "Show
How to Meet Suffering."-The death
| has just occurred in Paris of Able
Contenot, who, after serving in the
Army in Africa, entered the priest
hood, became the pastor of large
! parish, and was later appointed chap
lain of the Little Sisters of the Poor
in Paris.
! He had suffered for many months
from the disease which finally caused
his death, and the leroism with which
he endured long periods of pain was
| truly remarkable
To the nurse who tried to persuade
him to take an anesthetie on several
occasions when surgical intervention
had become necessary, he steadfastly
replied: No, my child, am priest
and | am no longer good for any.
thing but to show people how to suf
fer"
Rotary Club in Erin Hears PRIEST
All classes in the community deplore
the frequency and the disastrous eff
| feet of strikes. Very Rev. Father
Thomas, 0. S. F. c., addressing the
Rotary Club, said the time had come
when reason and moral law should be
| the deciding factors in the relations
between employers and employees and
when a strike should be an exception
instead of a rule. If labor unrest was
| to be allayed without an upheava
of society its cause should be studied
and as far as possible removed. The
general convictions of the majority 81
the people regarding the factors thai
made for the well-being of the toilel
were woefully out of date. Too much
| emphasis had been laid on the right.
of employers and the duties of EN-
ployes; an emphasis that led PEG
pie to forget that employers had du
ties as well as rights and that work
| ers had rights as well as duties.
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