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CHUBCH DIRECTORY
MINNEAPOLIS.
ProsCsthedral of
the
Immaculate Con.
caption (Third atreet and Third avanua
north)—Rev. T. B. Cullen. Maaaea on
gundaya and holy days of obligation at
«, 7. 8. 8. 10 and 11 a. m.: evening devo
Uons, aermon and benediction on Sunday
f- at 7:8# m. maaaea on week daya at
iS- 7:11 and 8 a. m. confession every morn-
In* before the a. m. mass, every Satur
il day afternoon and evening and on tne
Pfe
eve
fX)
of all feaata holy hour every Friday
evening from 8 to 9 classe* of fnstrue
tlor.sfor adult Catholioa and noa-Cath
olica every Monday evening in the acnooi
ball at 8 o'clock.
Rosary—Rev. J. A.
Shell, O.
HOly nw«r/—*•«*• v.
HVi'.. Sundays low maaaea at 8, 7:30, •, cnu
dren's masa at 10 a. m. high
aerraon at a. m.: holy daya of obliga
tion. low maaaea at 6:80, 7 and i^ high
masa at 8 a. m. benediction of the nroat
Neaaed sacrament at 7:48. Week
masses at «, 7 and 8 a. m.
P.
dev°"°n!ri^
honor of the aacred heart on the ttrn
Friday of each month. Vespeni every
Sunday with instructions at 7:80 p. m.
Church of St. Stephen (Clinton arenut
and Twenty-second atreet)—Rev. J. H.
Gaughan. Maaaea on Sundaya, 7. 8.
and 11 a. m.s vespers 7:45 p. m.. maaasa
on holy days, «, 7,8 and a. m.
Church of Thomas ffork avenue
and West Forty-fourth atraet)-«ev. M.
O'Brien. Masses 8:80 and 11 a. m., 8un
day school 8:80 a. m. vespers 7.48 P. m.
Church of 8t. Lawrence (Twelfth av»-
Church of St.
sua aouth and Eighth atreet)
Jamea Klein. Sunday masses at 8 and
10:80 a. m.: afternoon service »**•.
r.tini^h af tha Sacred Heart (RoDDina
SSR
tewi-psr
Sunday of the month Inatructlona for
children Saturday.
Church of St. Charles
TJ.lrtie"t%X!l
nue south and Fourth atreet)—)Rev. JJ*n
cia J. Lang. Masses 8 a. m. and 10.8*
a. m.: high masa at 11 a. m. Sunday
school at 9:80 a. m. vespers and benedte
tlon at 7:80 p. m.
Church of the Incarnation
avenue and Thirty-eighth etMet)—Rev.
J. M. CTeary. Masses 7:80. high
masa with sermon at 11 a. m. weaa
day maaaea at 8:48 and 7:80 a. m.
Church of St.
JO"PjhS^"'nthmer
and Twelfth avenue north)—Rev. Othmjw
Krren. O. S. B. Sunday maaaea. M*
masses and communion. 6:30 a.
iiren'a masa and Bngilsh sermon.
m. high mass and sermon 10:80 a. w..
Wy daya, first masa at 8 a. m., sunoay
•ohool it' 1:80 P.
Clctlon. 8 p. m.: week-day masses at
and 8 a. m.
Church of Our Lady of Leurdea (81
Prince atreet aouUieaat)^av. Joaeph
OulUot Low masa 8 a. m.. children a
maaa and aermon, 8:80 a. m.
instruction after children's masa high
mass and aermon, 11 a. m-:
benediction, 7:80 p. m. Week-day
at the church 7:45 a. m.: at tha J®1*001'
8M Fifth atreet northeast. 8:80 a. m.
Church of Our Lady cf
j'{rP**"11
St. Anne's (French)!tLyndale
enth
Jjitf
(Twenty-Jlrst avenue south and grtn
atreet)—Rev. J. F. Hovorka. Low mua
at 8 a. m. high mass on first and third
Sundays of month, 10:80 a. nj-! Sunday
achool and Instruction, litany and bene
diction, I p.
avenua aoutti)—R®v. Doma#cua
Richard, pMtor. Realdenee, 1019 Lyndals
avenue north.
Anthony ef street
St. Padua
ML.<p></p>Padua.{Main
and Njnth avenuj^norUieast^—Rev. Pat.
41 nth avenue
rltfk Kenny, pastor,
northeast.
St. Boniface (German)—Rev. Adrian
Schmidt, paator. Residence 881 Second
street northeast.
St. Clement's (Twenty-fifth avenue
northeast Rev. Robert J. Fltigerald.
pastor, 911 Twenty-fourth avenue nortn
eaat.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Italian)
(Main atreet and Seventh avenue north
east)—Rev. Albert R. Banehlne. Real
denee #85 Main atreet northeast.
SU Philip (Pollah) (Twenty-sixth street
and Bryant avenue north)—Rev. Am
brose Krysewskl, paator, Twenty-alxth
avenue north and Bryant.
Holy Cross (Polish) (corner Fourth
etreet and 17th avenue)—Rev. Henry Ja
Jeskl, pastor, 1825 Fourth atreet north-
St. Elfsabeth'a (German) (Fifteenth
avenue south and Blghth atreet.)—Rev.
James Klein, pastor, 1410 Blghth atreet
couth.
St. John the Baptist (Twenty-fourth
avenue and Third atreet northeast)—
Rev. Joson Kovoc, paator. Realdenee
8880 Second street northeast
Church of tha Ascension (Eighteenth
avenue north and Bryant)—Rev. J*
Harrington. Paator Masses at 7:80. 9.
1*. n. Sunday evening aervlce 7:46.
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Ulster, and all parties at least real
Ized what tragic consequence must
pV follow attempts to fight out the Irish
"t question any longer on the lineB of
llf civil war. In short, the Dublin out
rage wiped war off the slate.
Thus, though rage and pity still
exist in Dublin and though the revel
ations at the inquest by proving that
|p the soldiers fired without orders, in
S|
creased popular anger, the Irish sit
lf| nation more calmly and more freely
and hammer out in negotiation some
settlement which will be acceptable
to all sides.
Tories will make some fight still,
England can keep out of war, but
war comes they will be sllencod
Ji and even fiercely condemned if they
keep up domestic division in sight of
li the enemy at the gates. What tories
|still ask is that parliament should
|be adjourned, and not prorogued, on
|the ground that this domestic issue
should be suppressed till foreign
complication is over, and they know
Ijthat adjournment would hang up the
fjiome rule bill, while prorogation
lirould at once make it a law.
The Irish and liberal parties will
last tolerate any further postpone
ment of home rule or Welsh dises
tauent and thus I can almost
lately promise that home rule
'he a law In three or four weeks
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D. Rowland, Louis Tonskemper, Fe
lix Simonett.
Hibbing, Minn.—E. A. Bergeron,
H. A. Farmond, Rev. James Hogan,
M. J. Moran, F. A. Malloy, John Mil
nan, Charles A. Bardessono.
CATHOLICS ON PILGRIMAGE.
Albany, N. Y., Aug. 1.—Several
thousand Catholics, representing the
Albany diocese, left here and nearby
points on a pilgrimage to the shrine
of St. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec.
IRISH IMMIGRATION STATIS
TICS.
The registrar-general's return of
the number of natives of Ireland
who left Irish parts during April
shows that the total number was
5,114, as compared with 6,171 in
April of 1913, a decrease of 1,027.
The total number of emigrants for
the. first four months of the present
year was 7,801. In the same period
last year the number was 9,892,
which shows a decrease for the pres
ent year so far of 2,091 persons.
Of the 7,801 emigrants for the pres
ent year, 1,004 went from Leinster,
a decrease of 153 as compared with
the corresponding period in 1913
2,046 went from Munster, a decrease
of 1,458 and 2,213 from Con
naught, a decrease of 247. Of the
3,985 steerage passengers to the
United States, 1,297 had their pas
sages paid for in America.
PRIEST-MAYOR TO SPEAK.
Watlienu, Kas., Will Hear Priest
Who Hold Unique Position.
The Wathena-St. Joseph Chau
tauqua should prove to be a hummer
this year. They are advertising the
most unique feaeture ever staged on
a Chautauque circuit. This is the
bulletin they eare' sending broad
cast over the state of Kansas, says
the Register.
"Father Patrick Dunigan of La
peer, Mich., will deliver one of his
notable lectures the second day.
Father Dunigan is the only priest
mayor in America, being the chief
execeutlve of Lapeer."
Priests are becoming quite promi
nent in civic works of all kinds, but
Father Dunigan is the first priest In
recent years who has been elected
mayor of any of our American cities.
A number of cities have depended
upon a strong character from the
priesthood to keep the town clean as
was recently evidenced by the New
Jersey town*that closed its doors and
mourned during the funeral cere
mony of its "good boss," Father
Mallon.
The American Magazine in a re
cent article had this to say of the
distinguished priest-mayor:
"If you should ever visit Lapeer,
Mich., probably the first place you
would, be shown would be thfe home
of Reverend Father Dunigan, located
on the liill over looking the city and
nestling beside the church. This
for two reasons, first because the oc
cupant is one of the most hospitable
men that ever drove the skeleton
from the feast, and second, becatise
he is Lapeer's foremost citizen her
Big Man, Father Patrick R. Dunigan
is the only Catholic" priest-mayor in
America, perhaps in the world. He
is the executive of a city that Is over
whelmingly Protestant, whose Cath
olic population is but three ^er cent,
of the town's four thousand inhabi
efficient official the city had ever had
in its history. Of the 721 votes cast
at the election, only 31 were Catho
lic. His election was due solely to
the personality and character of the
•nan to his labors as a citizen for
the common good of the community.
Father Dunigan stands six feet
tall, weighs around two hundred
pounds, and has the appearance and
activity of an athlete. He has clear,
blue, Irish eyes a broad, generous
kindly mouth and a substantial
jaw. His parish embraces a country
about forty square miles, and
among the towns in it are Davison,
Inilay City, Metamora, Oxford, Otter
Lake, Columbiavllle, Hadley, Elba,
Attica and Lapeer. He alternates
between his churches in these places,
attending as many as the weather
and roads will permit. Tlirouch
mud and snow and ra*.n he shuttles
back and forth across the kingdom,
visiting the sick and burying (he
dead. There are marriages and
christenings disputes to settle, ad
vice to give—admonitions, and
praise, sometimes.
He is the type of man you me it
but seldom in a lifetime, and the
meeting leaves you with a cherished
memory.
CHANGING FATHERS.
When St. Francis, directed by the
light of divine grace, began to dis
tribute his substance among the poor
he was summoned before the bishop
who ordered him to sign a paper re
nouncing his right to his father's
estate, lest he should also give that
away after the latter's death. Francis
complied willingly, and then taking
off his garments he laid them at his
father's feet saying:
"Hitherto I have always during
life called thee father. Henceforth
I can say, with much more truth and
satisfaction of mind, 'Our Father
Who art in Heaven,' for in His
hands I hare deposited all my treas­
-ty.
ure in Him are now placed all hopes
and expectations." Ever afterwards
his father continued to curse him.
So Francis took a poor, despised old
man, adopted him as his father in
Christ fed, clothed and sheltered
him—on the one condition that he
would bless St. Francis each time
that he was cursed by his own un
kind father.
SOME CLAIMS OF THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH.
In a late number of the Catholic
World, Bertram C. A. Windle, M. D.,
F. R. S., a brilliant Irishman (among
the many) has a remarkable article
on "The Intellectual Claims of the
Catholic Church," in which he
shows that those who take the
trouble to study it in the dry light
of science, will soon discover that
our church, from the intellectual
standpoint, is just as much a matter
for marvel and for thankfulness as
it Is from any of the many other
standpoints from which it may be
viewed."
Mr. Windle does not deal with all
the claims our church has on the
minds of the intellectual, but he
gives a few facts which that most
objectionable of creatures, the
"superior person," would do well to
study, as far as his intellect will
permit him. Without taking our
bearings from Mr. Windle directly
or solely, we think we can (and
may), name of the church's claims,
as follows:
(a) She is the only Church Christ
founded, even if Wattaker's almanac
names more than a hundred sects
for England alone.
(b) She is the only One, Holy,
Catholic and Apostolic Church—
even if Chiniquy's books, Rev. Clot,
Mother Eddy and Deacon Jasper
Johnson say the contrary.
(c) She is the only church whose
ministrations reach the childien of
all nations, a matter belonging to
her Catholicity, but solely disp:t'd
by the founders of the Campbellitcs.
(d) Her philosophy and theology
presuppose in those who study them
some education. They were never
meant to be understood by self-or
dained exhorters or setf-iminortai
ized sciolists.
(e) The greatest poets, literateurs,
scientists, general scholars, philoso
phers have, in 90 per cent of the
cases, been Catholics. .What was
Pasteur? What is Lorenz, Van
Roentgen, etc.?
(f) Even Darwin got his cue from
the Schoolmen.
(g) The great scientists who are
not Catholics are not Protestants
either they are Infidels. So are the
best theologians outside of the
Church. Catholic argument, when it
does not win them, at least "smokes
(h) The Catholic Church is the
only one where poor and rich, ignor
ant and learned, feel equally at home
(i) She Is the onoly Church which
can win a Newman, a Manning, a
Von Stolberg, a Schlegal, a Brown
son, etc.
(j) She is the only Church, as
Comte de Mun says, who can give
God's answer to the agitated social
body.
(k) She is the only Church that
can boast of hundreds of thousands
of monks and nuns. What is the
sacrifice of a Christian Endeavorer
when compared with that of the
priest, brother and nun among the
lepers?
(1) She is the only Church that
tries to save the Child.
(m) The only Church that has
civilized the world. Here and there
others turned up, once the savages
lost their thirst for blood.
(n) There is even, as the late
Father A. F. Hewitt, C. S. P., once
said, a distinct charm in the word
"Catholic" for those who retain the
Christian tone and temper of mind.
(o) She is the only Church infidels
find worth fighting.
(p) Christ was fought by all
classes of men in Jerusalem His
Church has inherited the common
hatred of all heretics, infidels, Jews
and schismatics.
(q) The unbroken chain of her
Popes forms the backbone of general
history. Luther is dead, but there
is still a Pope.
(r) The Church, as Archbishop
Hughes once said Is not a foreigner
on any continent or Island of this
globe.
(s) She Is the only Church that
can speak with authority, and the
only Church that truly respect!) the
Pible.
(t) She has given the artist, the
musician, the sculptor, the archi
tect, etc., their noblest themes, the
themes that Immortalized them.
(u) She is the only Church that
deserves the common hatred of such
blackguards as Luther. Calvin, Hen
ry VIII., Zwlngli and Knox, and such
cads as Chiniquy, Combes and Clem
enceau.
(v) She is the only Church that
bears a full message to the world.
(w) The Church that tan make a
man confess his sins, although she
can have him sing hymns, strain his
eyes, and strike his breast
Id
the
bargain.
ix) She is the only Church whose
doctrine can bear the scrutiny of
common sense.
(y) Like her founder, Jesus tho
Christ, she never changes. Her
ft."
..At iti
THE IRISH STANDARD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8,1914.
priests cannot teach and preach ac
cording as every wind of doctrine
moves.
(z) She is the only Church that
has never yielded, never faltered,
never gone back, never ma.lo a com
promise with infidelity, never let so
the Old Testament or the New. Never
hesitated in the conflict with kings
or people when Christianity was at
stake. She defied King Hal and dip
obeyed Napoleon.—Tidings.
ROME HAD SUFFRAGETTES, TOO
Reminders Are Found of Ancient
"Conventas Matronalis."
Rome, June 9.—The historian
Lampridlus in his life of the Em
peror Elagabalus, who reigned for
less than four years and was slain
at the age of 18 with his mother,
Julia Soaemis, by the praetorians on
March 11, A. D. 222, relates that the
Emperor's mother, who encouraged
and shared the follies and enormi
ties of her son, took a place In the
Roman senate and was herself the
president of a sort of female parlia
ment, which held its sittings near the
Quirinal. and published edicts for
the regulation of all matters con
nected with morals, dress, etiquette
and equipages of the matrons.
The site of this female parliament
has now been identified by Prof.
Pasqui, who discovered the remains
of a building under the palace of the
Marchesa Bourbon del Monte, close
to the Porta Salaria. Two female
marble statues without heads and
arms were found lying on the pave
ment of a large room, the walls of
which bear traces of colored fres
coes. Fragments of marble columns
which originally supported the roof
of a large hall or assembly room
also were found. The identification
of the site is based on the special
kind of dress and sandals worn by
the two statues, which are almost
identical with the tunic and shoes
which .were the insignia of Sena
torial rank.
The location of the site between
the gardens of Sallust and the
Baths of Diocletian, on the Quirinal
hill, corresponds to the description
of another historian, Vospiscus, who
relates that Aurelian restored the
female parliament. A so-called
"conventus matronalis," or associa
tion of matrons, probably preceded
the female parliament, the identifi
cation of which will undoubtedly be
used In favor of modern female suf
frage.
A LITTLE STORY WHICH SHOULD
STRIKE HOME.
By Shl&a Mahon.
A Catholic woman living in an
apartment hotel, took notice of a
smart young colored boy, about
fifteen years old. He was bell boy
and every one had a good word to
say about his politeness and good
service to the guests. Every morn
ing the Catholic woman attended
and every time she went out the bell
boy had a respectful "Good Morn
ing," for this particular woman. One
morning she happened to drop her
prayer book, which the boy picked
up. The leaves had flown open and
a picture of the priest celebrating
mass with a small boy In attendance
was visible.
"I used to serve mass," said the
boy, when I was at home in the West
Indes, "but I don't now," he said,
and there was a regretful note in his
voice. "Why don't you now," asked
the lady?
"Wal I jest had to give it up when
I came here. Colored people are not
much liked here. Many white folks
don't seem glad to see them In
church, I dunno why. "God made
us all I guess," he added with a
whimsical smile. "Anyhow I don't
go to church any more."
"But that is very wrong," said
the lady. "You must commence
again at once. There is exposition
of the Blessed Sacrament going on
in the church I go to. Don't you
get a half holiday to-day?
"Yes," said the boy, "but I am
going to play baseball." I am sorry.
"A'll go with you some other day,"
he added.
"You'll come to-day," said the
lady firmly. "Now that I know that
you are a Catholic, I have no hesi
tation in saying you must go. I feel
sure our Dear Lord in the Blessed
Sacrament has directed me to you,
so be ready at twelve o'clock.
It was hard work to get the boy
to go. He had grown careless, no
interest being taken In him, but the
lady persevered and the boy accom
panied her. It was as If a miracle
had been wrought. From that day
the boy attended to his religious
duties and was the means of bring
ing other Negro boys into the fold.
The moral is, that an opportunity
comes across a case of this kind. If
one has not the time to follow it up,
it should be put in the hands of Rev.
John E. Burke, Director-General of
Catholic Colored Missions, with
Natiq*al Headquarters in the Metro
polliVkBulldlng, 1 Madison Ave.,
New York City. It is bis special mis
sion The conversion of the negro in
America and to help keep the faith
In those already converted. A line
to him in any special case might be
the means of helping on this great
work.
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CARDINAL GIBBONS DENOUNCES
THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS.
An organization which should be
met with distrust and opposition, es
pecially in this country, he said, was
the Industrial Workers of the World.
It is a dangerous element, and should
be put down, he said. Some of its
adherents, he thinks, have no doubt
been deceived and misled concern
ing its purposes, but the leaders are
guilty of open defiance of law and
justice, and are without respect for
the rights of individuals and proper
ty, not hesitating to resort to viol
ence to promote their purposes.
NEPHEW OF IRISH LEADER
MARRIED.
In St. James' Cathedral, Montreal,
Canada, a fortnight ago, Edith
Shaughnessy, daughter of Sir
Thomas Shaughnessy, president of
the Canadian Pacific railway, was
married to W. H. Redmond of Vic
toria, B. C., who is a son of tlie late
W. H. Redmond and a nephew of
John E. Redmond, the Irish Nation
alist leader. The ceremony, was per
formed by Bishop Gauthier. Ihe
bride was given away by her father.
The happy couple sailed on the Al
satian next day to spend their hon
eymoon in Europe.
RECENT ANARCHIST AGITA
TIONS INSPIRED BY MEN WHO
SCOFF AT GOD AND RELIGION.
New York City has been Infested
with a host of revolutionary dema
gogues. Radical organizations are
holding public meetings and attack
ing the fundamental principles upon
which the American Republic is es
tablished. There is the "Free
Speech League," the "Anti-Militarist
League," the "Ferrer Association,"
and anarchistic I. W. W. branches.
They are controlled by an interlock
ing directorate, consisting of a group
of anarchists, including such nota
bles as Emma Goldman, Alexander
Berkman, Ben Reltman, Leonard
Abbott, Upton Sinclair and others,
says the Live Issue.
On the whole the public is little
acquainted with the philosophy of
life these men hold. As anarchists,
they are against all restraints, moral
or civil. They are obessed with the
notion that man's impulses a*e all
good and that one has a right to give
fuU vent to natural inclinations. The
Ten Commondmenets they discord as
an imposition on the world by de
signing priests. The State they hate
as an institution shackling individ
ual freedom. Property rights they
scorn as based on might and exploit
ation.
In 1912, "Mother Earth," printed
a proclamation by one W. Curtis
Swabey, which adequately sets forth
the anarchist position. It is as fol
lows:
To all States, kings and
priests to all governments and
capitalists to all men and
women—yea, to all thinking be
ings, I proclaim that I respect
nothing. I respect no moral
duty, no property rights, no
"rights of man," no humanity,
no god, and no devil. I respect
not a single thing. I bow to no
idol of gas or iron. I respect
no rights of a fellow ego. I
know that all moral codes are
frauds that all moral teachers
are liars. I am absolutely alone
in my moral world.
That there is no wall that
there are no chains. I am my
own—and so is all else which
I can get which I crave. I have
no superiors, no equals, and no
inferiors. My ego is the center
of the universe. No spider-web
net of wordy moralities binds
me. I have no affairs save my
own. I obey no ideals I kneel
to no conscience. I am unprin
cipled, unscrupulous, an'i con
scienceless. I am not immortal,
but without morals. I clearly
percleve that moral principles
have just as little existence as
god. Both are nothing clad in
something's clothes. Neither
exists. Both are lies. I am
entirely selfish and revere noth
ing. No one can influence me
an inch to the right nor the left,
without appealing to my ego
ism. You moralists! I have
dissolved myself out of your
world, and you cannot touch
me! I am beyond your laws—
your good and bad. Only a lov
er of man, and I resent these
injuries. Alfred the Great
wrote us a law: "Injure ye not
the stepchildren, nor hurt them
anywhere for if you do other
wise, they will cry unto me, and
I will hear them and I will slay
you with my sword, and I will
cause that your own wives shall
be widows and your children
shall be stepchildren." This is
the attitude of the egoist. He
appeals to no right he denoun
ces no wrong. He simply says:
I will slay you.
For thy laws, O State! I
have absolutely no respect. I
will dodge them if I do not like
them—if I can. Thy will, eves
if it were the voice of the will
of the world, I would not wor
ship. I would probably do what
you say from live humanity
fgRprrr^t
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but from respect—never! No
will can be greater than mine
is to me. Nay, no other will can
ever even exist as a moral duty
to me.
On the State I will lay with
Nietzsche an ev'erlasting curse:
"The State! Whatever the State
saith is a lie whatever it hath
is a theft all is counterfeit in
it gnawing, sanguinary, insati
ate Monster it even bites with
stolen teeth—its very bowels
are counterfeit."
Property, rights cannot be de
stroyed. They do not exist and
never have existed. They are
simply delusions. They at
be washed from your minds.
Gray mist-figures all they dis
solve in the sun. Using the
words in another sense—-all
property rests on might. Might
of three kinds— ivilitary and
physical force, th.- forces of pity
and sympathy, and the force of
superstition.
O ye men! Arouse ye! Let
all bells toll the glad news!
May all men hear! Lc-t Liberty
rejoice! Hear ye all:
Property is a lie!
One might mistake this diatribe
for the padded cell ravings cf a
maniac,* but no, the/ are the notions
of men allowed at large in our cities
and given the privilege of making
propaganda in public places for their
vicious theories. That is what they
call upholding the right of "Free
Speech."
ANGELS OF THE BATTLEFIELD,
The following letter was written
to the Ladies Auxiliary of the An
cient Order of Hibernians by the
National President, Ellen Ryan
Jolly. The history of the "angels
of the battlefield" has been written
by Mrs. Jolly in her appeil for funds
for a monument to the memory of
the heroic Sisters. Mrs. Jolly
writes:
"Dear Sisters: History has done
Scant justice to the Irish Soldiers
whose swords and bayonets helped
to establish and preserve this great
nation, and whosj blood has'Sancti
fied every battlefield since Lexing
ton, s:!. which Cap!. James Parker,
thj son of an -rish mothor from
County Claire, was in command. He
was wounded at the first fire, and,
continuing to discharge his gun, was
bayoneted to death by the English
Barrett, in command at Concord. Thi
This record of Irish loyalty and
Aravery has been repeated a million
times, p.nd recently again in the
death of the young Irish Catholic,
Daniel Haggerty, the first to fall in
the present Mexican difficulty. I
hope future writers may do justice
to his memory. In the Civil War
our Irish soldiers sustained the
glory of their ancient and brave
race, and again is history almost sil
ent, or'else Its voice is so low and
indistinct that the true story re
mains buried in the soil of forget
fulness, awaiting some resurrective
force. This is our own fault. At
least our own children should have
in their hands histories written by
those who will "give honor to whom
honor is due.' Ask the children of
our race to-day who was Meagher?
What is his war record? Ask about
Shields, Meade, Shereidan, Mulligan,
Case. Kelly, Keraev and others of
our race, and note the reply. Again
we- are to blame. Ask them about
Barry, Moylan, Fitzgerald, Carroll
and other Catholic patriots, and then
blush for having allowed this con
dition to exist so long. In our mil
lions we have strength, and if we de
mand for proper historical recogni
tion were made, conditions would
Improve and our children would be
given an opportunity to learn the
history of the Irish race in America's
establishment and development.
"All honor to Mary A. Liver more
and Clara Barton and their glorious
bands of heroic women, who braved
death In a thousand ways in their
womanly and tender devotion to the
sick and the wounded of our Civil
War. History has been generous in
its praise of them, and Justly so, and
we rejoice. A statue of Florence
Willard occupies a well-deserved
place In Statuary Hall In the Capitol
at Washington. When shall we be
able to do a similar honor to the Nun
of the Battlefield? It should be soon.
Here let me ask a question. Have
you ever read in any school history
any reference to the heroic bands of
Catholic nuns who in hundreds, too,
did noble duty as army nurses? Who
shall tell to future generations the
history of the gentle "Angel of the
Battlefield,' whose very identity was
concealed by her religious name?
The sisters left their quiet convent
for the field of battle, and their
tenderness and sweetest womanly
sympathy have been the admiration
of even Protestant gentlemen who
were eye-witnesses of sacrifices.
These gentle souls knew no North,
no South blue and gray shared
their attention alike. They received
again and aghin the official recogni
tion and thanks of President Lin
coln and thanks of Jefferson Davis,
president of the Confederate states.
The men of the South still hold in
holiest and grateful reverence the
memory of the gentle nun, for whom
no task was too menial, no duty too
heavy. If a poor soldier lad, either In
blue or gray, might be comforted.
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Many a last and loving message to
wife, sister, mother, was written by
the kindly nun, and many brave
lad found at last a soldiers grave be
side his own at home through the
efforts of the sister whose heart
bled in sympathy for the poor soldier
breathing his last for the 'cause he
thought right.'
"This is a matter, sisters, yes, and
brother Hibernians, the injustice of
which for years has grieved the
hearts of this Auxiliary National
President, who dreams by night and
thinks by day of the hour in which
the members of this order will erect
suitable memorial to the Catholic
nun of the battlefield, a memorial
worthy of them and worthy of our
great order. In passing, I may say
that in a future letter I shall give
the names in religion of the nuns
who did long and actual service. In
addition to this I shall give the fam
ily names of the nuns, obtained by
request from superiors of several
orders, and which read like the roll
call of our Auxiliary. Irish in the
large majority, many of them were
members of families of distinction.
On memorial Day, when we epltice
our garlands above the hearts of our
soldiers dear, let us entwine with a
few blossoms the crosses beneath
which rest all that is mortal of our
Sisters of the Holy Cross, the 'White
Caps,' or Corvette Sisters of Charity
the 'black Caps' of Mother Sleton's
daughters, the Sisters of St. Joseph,
and though last, not least, our Irish
Sisters of Mercy, daughters of Cath
erine McAuley. May the sods rest
lightly above their honored remains,
and many the kinswomen of most of
them write their names in characters
of gold, which the future generation
may read with pride of race."
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