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Volume 12
PISTR ACTIONS ADVANTAGES
POSSESSED BY RELIGIOUS.
When I graduated from Villa Maria
academy some years ago, I had been
there as a day pupil ten years.
Through the impressionable years of
childhood and through the trying age
of adolescence, I had the good fortune
to be under the gentle, kindly in
fluence of the nuns. I enjoyed it, but
now, looking back, I can at last fully
appreciate it, writes Elsie M. Hu
bachek in the Catholic Educational
Review.
It is taken for granted by the world
as a whole, that girls of your faith
should be convent educated, but I
have seen people of every faith look
astonished when I or any other non
Catholic upheld the convent school.
What value has a convent, stripped of
its religious aspect? they want to
know. What is it aside from religious
training that the convent school of
fers which secular schools, private and
public, do not? I was not converted
to the Roman Catholic Church. 1 was
given my religious training outside of
the school, and yet I am grateful that
circumstances and a broad-minded
mother sent me there. You who send
your girls to the nuns because they
can instill in the young minds the
ideas which, as Catholic parents, you
are under obligations to foster may,
because of the religious aspect involv
ed, overlook some of the advantages
which a non-believer can easily see.
Convent School Charm.
To me it is the atmosphere of the
convent school which is its chief
charm. I do not mean the religious
atmosphere—that is invaluable to you
and meant nothing to me—but the
calm, the peacefulness that comes
from the discipline, the ideals and the
sacrifices which make up the daily life
of the community. The nuns, with
their soft tread, their quiet voices and
unquestioning submission to a Higher
Will, have such poise, such character,
that daily association with them
leaves its stamp on the young minds
111 their care.
Veil of Mystery.
The nuns can command a respect
and veneration that the best of secu
lar teachers must strive to win and
then strive even harder to hold. The
mere fact that the nuns have sacri
ficed all worldly things and ambitions
for an ideal, for their faith, compels
a certain deference. The important
fact that their pupils know nothing of
their lives, their family, their friends
and their experiences, keeps them on
a pedestal as nothing else can. "Fa
miliarity breeds contempt" is never
more true than when applied to teach
er and pupil. I have seen many ex
amples of this in the past few years.
In city schools it is not so difficult a
problem, but In small towns, where
the pupils know all the social engage
ments, the personal affairs and ambi
tions of the teacher, it is very serious.
The best of women must run the dan
ger of appearing a "prig" if she is
home-loving, and "gay" if 'she is fun
loving, when youthful critics watch
her after school hours. A teacher
must be beyond criticism to hold the
respect of her pupils, and for that rea:
son it. is not wise for her to be too
well known even though she be a ver
itable saint on earth.
Not Bothered by Styles.
••other big item that has a subtle
influence for the best is the matter
of dress. The garb of an order im
parts a certain dignity—the similarity
of appearance prevents criticism, jibes
and emulation. A child becomes so
accustomed to the dress of the nuns
that it is never consciously thought of
and helps again to make the reverend
teacher "one set apart," which at cer
tain ages of girlhood is most import
ant. Then vital, indeed, is the fact
that the teachers are living under the
visible signs of a strict discipline. It
helps one to submit to rules and reg
ulations to know that the maker of
the rules is herself submissive to an
other. It is an inspiration at the age
when one begins to reason out things
for oneself but long before that time,
children, who are like sheep in that
they follow a leader, unconsciously
feel the impetus that comes from liv
ing with a good example.
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Plans for the reception of delegates
to the Superior Council of the St. Vin
cent de Paul Society, which will be
held at the Catholic University Sep
tember 37 to 21, were made at a meet
ing of Washington members of the or
ganization last week. A banquet and
an automobile trip will be arranged for
the visitors. Following the resigna
tion of Judge William H. De Lacey,
tlje Particular Council elected £, H.
Fallen to succeed him as president.
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Tribute To Convent Schools
N O N -C A O I A U A E
WRITES INTERESTING AND
GLOWING EULOGY OF SISTERS'
METHODS OF TRAINING AT
MOSPHERE OF STUDY—GENTLE
DEMEANOR OF NUNS IMPRESS
ES PUPILS—LIFE DEVOTED TO
•TEACHING OBVIATES OUTSIDE
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Lives of Sacrifice.
Btit, for the practical standards that
will help one face fearlessly an exact
ing world there is nothing finer than
the example the nuns set. Their lives
are a constant reminder of the peace
that is born of sacrifice. Their sur
roundings show" the beauty of simplici
ty, and because their unselfish devo
tion to duty makes the routine of their
lives not only bearable but pleasant,
it soon proves that what we want to
do is not as important as what we
have to do, a lesson that, well learn
ed, saves^one many unhappy hours.
Then to do with little is not a hard
ship for nuns but a happy possibility,
something which we ourselves can ex
perience.
Excel as Teachers.'
So much for the nuns themselves.
There are some people who will rec
ognize the charm, the good influence
of the nuns and yet cannot consider
them successful educators. So often
I hear the criticism that, shut away
from the world, they cannot keep up
with the trend of things sufficiently
to successfully teach the higher
grades. Personally, I believe that col
lege or a finishing school after con
vent training is good for a girl, but
I feel confident that she loses little of
what is timely or necessary for her to
know while she is under the nuns.
Convent schools are careful that their
teachers have had thorough training,
they keep up with the times, though
not with the scandals of the grim old
world, and see to it that the best ed
ucational methods are tested and
used. One of the most broad-minded
and up-to-date women I ever met was
our teacher in the higher grades. She
had traveled, she studied a wide scope
of subjects before she made her vows,
and she has kept up her Iceen-minded
interest in all vital matters ever
since. She is a great educator with
a personality that holds her pupils
even after graduation. Of course, not
all convent teachers can equal her,
but secular teachers, too, vary in abil
ity.
One important point is this—the
nuns spend their entire time on re
ligious and class duties. No other
aims, ambitions or interests come to
detract from the time and energy put
on these. The result is a concentra
tion and effort such as no other teach
ers interested in their own affairs
could possibly give. No hurry, no
envy, no rivalry, no home cares, no
financial worries, no social duties can
sap their mental forces and their
strength. The day holds no other ob
ligation beyond that first great duty
of prayer to and veneration of the
Lord for love of Whom they renounced
the world. Their teaching is done
with a thoroughness and concentra
tion which cannot be excelled.
But I want to say a word about that
more vital thing—the ideals and Ideas
that give the convent school a unique
place among institutions of learning.
In a school where the teachers are liv
ing examples of genuine faith, where
statues, small altars and holy pic
tures are constantly in sight, one must
remember that there is a God, a
promise of eternal life and nobler
things than the world can offer.
Religion Not Imposed.
I was not present during the reli
gious instruction hour, but I heard the
roon prayers, the grace at meals, the
prayers with which all entertain
ments, all special occasions, were be
gun. I did not say the prayers, but
the fact that others were praying
made me think of the Divine Hand,
the Eternal God who leads us through
life. That had its effect. Ten years
of it made it ,a "habit" to ask for and
thank for blessings daily received.
Environment has its effect upon the
subconscious mind, and environment
therefore does much to mould us.
There, were five in. our class, three
non-Catholics, two Catholics. One of
the latter is now a nun of the order
under which we studied, but the rest
of us still hold reunions, and our hap
piest days are those when we can go
back to our Alma Mater.
We go to that peaceful, calm home
because it shuts out the rushing world
and brings us again in touch with the
firm, unfailing peace of which the an
gels sang and yet lets in that human
touch of understanding.
Undisturbed by the tearing, trying,
harrowing throes of unsatisfied ambi
tions, the striving, tiring forces of
work and living, the happy, contented
community of nuns always bids us wel
come. Here strife is unknown, dis
content not allowed to grow, and In
its atmosphere of Faith and Hope and
Charity one can rise again in thought
and feeling above the tumult of a
twentieth-century existence.
BRITISH TBCEMB
A nation-wide celebration of the
tercentenary of Propaganda and the
centenary of the Association for the
Propagation of the Faith is planned
the Archbishops and Bishops of
Great Britain, to take place at West
minster at the end of September and
the beginning of October. The cele
brations will be held on an ambitious
scale, and will surpass anything of a
like nature that, h$s ever, been seen
in Great Britain,
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CHESTERTON RECEIVED INTO
CHURCH BY FATHER
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A letter received in (Chicago this
week from a Benedictine priest in
London is authority for the statement
that Mr. Gilbert K. Chesterton was
received into the Church on Wednes
day, August 2.
The priest who baptized him, Fa
ther O'Connor, a secular engaged in
parish work, is said to be the ori
ginal of Mr. Chesterton's two series
of stories, "The Innocence of Father
Brown," and "The Wisdom of Fa
ther Brown." These stories were wide
ly read in America. The Father
Brown stories were designed to off
set the materialistic viewpoint with
which Sherlock Holmes and Watson,
Conan Doyle's fictional characters, ap
proached detection of crime. Mr.
Chesterton succeeded in proving that
deductions based upon Christian, mor
ality were quite as effective and far
more convincing. ...
FATHER WHAN ILL
Father Bernard Vaughan, the noted
London Jesuit, who recently return
ed from a voyage to South Africa for
Lis health, has been seized with
paralysis while visiting Viscount
Fitzalan at the Tatter's country home
in England. Father Vaughan's condi
tion is pronounced grave by the doc
tors.
PROPOSE JORCE BILL
ARGENTINA TO VOTE. ON MAR
BlAGE LAWS.
In the Argentina Congress the Com
mittee on Divorce is composed of
seven members, four of whom already
have made favorable pronouncements
on the proposed divorce bills, while
three are decidedly against the meas
ure. From this it may be judged that
the measure will come before Congress
and in all probability to a vote. The
small group who are sponsoring the
bill take this as an important step and
are preparing to make a strong fight
far its passage. Since the first legis
lative fight to enact a divorce law in
1902 the divorce evil has not gained
much headway.
IBID MM*
The Rev. Henry A. Buchholtz, Vicar
General of the diocese of Marquette,
Mich., has been appointed administra
tor until a successor to the Bishop is
chosen by the Pope.
Bishop Eis resigned last month on
ccount of age.
POPE KiUfS AUTO
EXPECTS TO USE IT WITHIN
VATICAN GARDENS—WILL CON
VEY STATUE TO\ SHRINE AT
fcORETO.
Pope Pius is to have an automo
bile. The people of Milan, where the
Tloly Father was Archbishop before
his election to the
Papacy,
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have pre­
sented him with a machine of the
latest Italian model. It bears the
Papal coat of arms, surmounted by
the triple crown and the Pontifical
Leys, on the doors. The Pope, it is
said, will use the car within the Vati
can gardens, which he now circles
twice daily in his walk, a distance of
three,and a quarter miles.
"We will use it first to transport
the statue of the Madonna of Loreto,"
ne said, meaning that the car would
be utilized September 6 to carry the
copy of*the famous statue, which he
is to bless that day, from the Vatican
to Loreto. The statue is a small,
•Jack image of the Blessed Virgin and
Child, carved from Lebanon cedar.
NEW, ENDEAVOR MADE TO NAME
OCTOBER 12 A NATIONAL"
HOLIDAY.
The proposal to make the anniver
sary of the discovery of America by
Columbus a national holiday has been
again brought before Congress. A res
olution introduced in the House of
Representatives August 21 by Rep
resentative W. F. James of Michigan
provides: "That October 12 in each
year, being the day on which Chris
topher Columbus discovered America,
is hereby made a legal public holiday,
to all intents and purposes, in the
same manner as the first day of Jan
uary, the twenty-second day of Feb
ruary, the thirtieth of May, the Fourth
of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day
and Christmas and such holiday shall
be known as Columbus Day."
The resolution was referred to the
House committee on the judiciary of
which Representative Volstead of Min
nesota is chairman.
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ST. PAUL, MINN., SEPTEMBER 2, 1922
WARNING TO PRIESTS
A certain person, giving his
name as Moran (sometimes it is a
different name), is going about the
Twin Cities with a story involving
a murder, escape from justice, etc.
Usually he calls upon a priest and
asks to go to confession. He tells
the details of a supposed crime he
has committed (this is told outside
the confessional, perhaps also in
side, for all we know), and then he
makes the "touch" in order "that
he might return East and face the
Courts."
Suspecting this individual, we
have taken up itie" matter and in
vestigated it. Briefly, he gives as
references a local attorney and two
priests of Philadelphia. It was a
matter of but a few ,hours and we
ran the whole story to earth.
The attorney knows nothing at
all about him. One of the Philadel
phia priests wired us: "We do not
know the. man. Have recently
written the same to ttwo inquiries
from priests in the West. Same
story but different name."
All priests should be on the look
out for this man and-refer the mat
ter to th^ local authorities. Ap
parently he is "workihg" the West
pretty well.
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TWO MIRACULOUS CASES RE
PORTED AT SHRINE IN PAST
MONTH.
More extraordinary cures are re
ported from Lourdes in one week.
Mademoiselle Jeanne Dibon, 25
years old, a resident of Romorantin,
had suffered from lung trouble for five
years, and in January of this year
she developed tubercular peritonitis.
Carried to the basin, August 2, on a
stretcher, she came out of the water
completely cured. On August 2 and
she was examined by four doctors
who found not a single trace of her
former serious trouble. Her lungs were
also found to be quite
vsound.
Mademoiselle Marguerite Descamps,
22 years old, had suffered ever since
1916 from tubercular peritonitis. In
1920 abscesses developed along the
vertebrae. She was brought to Lourdes
on August 7 in a state of coma.
Upon leaving the basin she felt no
pain and was able to walk alone. The
X-ray examination showed that the
Bpinal column was healing by the in
Btantaneous binding of the three af
fected vertebrae. The physicians were
unanimous in declarii% that ther cure
could be explained by no natural pro
cess.
BISHOP AT BIRTHPLACE
Rt. Rev. William Turner, bishop of
Buffalo, is on a visit to his relatives
who reside near Kilmallock, County
Limerick, Ireland, where he was born
in 1871. After his ordination in 1893
he left for America. Kilmallock is
the theater of one of the severest en
gagements between the. Free State
and Republican forces..
WALES PASSION PLAY
The Prince of Wales, traveling in
cognito, was among the recent visi
tors to the Passion Play at Oberam
mergau. An accident to his automo
bile caused the identity of the Prince
to be discovered. Among other re
cent visitors was former Vice-Presi
dent Marshall of the United States.
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HUNGARIAN PRELATE QUOTES
HIM REGARDING VOTES OF
WOMEN.
Motf»!gtt6r Gelsswein, chafrtnan of
the Hungarian Peace Society and a
[nember of the Hungarian Parliament,
has been attending the International
Peace Congress in London, and dur
ing his visit was entertained at a
banquet given in his honor by the
Catholic Women's Suffrage Society.
One of the Monsignor's heroes is
the late Archbishop Ireland, from
whom the Monsignor quoted a telling
passage in which Catholic America's
great orator spoke of the value of
the women's vote in the promotion of
morality.
Mgr. Geisgwein maintained that the
great disasters of the past have been
entirely due tp the fapt that women
have been shut off from the vote, and
in the fact that women now have their
place in the parliaments he saw the
hope of the future—for Europe at all
events.
DELEGATETO CHINA
Miosignor Celso Constantini, apos
tolic administrator of Fiume, has been
named apostolic delegate to China.
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ARCHBISHOP DOWLING TO IN
STALL PRELATE ON OC
TOBER 4.
October 4 has been set as the date
for the installation of Bishop Bernard
J. Mahoney as Bishop of the diocese
of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., to succeed the
late Bishop Thomas O'Gorman, an
cording to an announcement made by
Monsignor Flynn of Madison, S. Dal
Hundreds of priests from the dio
cese and several bishops from eastein
and western states are expected to at
tend the services which will be con
ducted by Most Reverend Austin
Dowling, D. D., of St. Paul.
CHIHICIIJSBIESSEO
OSSEO IS SCENE OF BEAUTIFUL
CEREMONY—MOST REVEREND
ARCHBISHOP PRESIDES.
The new church of St. Vincent de
Paul, recently finished at Osseo,
Minn., was solemnly dedicated last
Sunday in the presence of a very large
gathering. Most Reverend Archbish
op Dowling performed the ceremony.
The structure, described in these
columns last week, cost $63,000. It
Was erected by a parish that had its
beginning in a log cabin in 1855. The
exercises began at 9:30 A. M. with a
Solemn High Mass celebrated by the
pastor, Rev. H. J. Boerboom. He was
assisted by the Rev. Wm. Blum and
the Rev. Anton Miks. Archbishop
Dowling delivered the address of the
occasion, ...
The women of th§ parish served
dinner on the church grounds after
the exercises, and there were games
and. a band concert throughout the
afternoon.
SITS OREGON K S
KLANSMEN SUED BY ATTORNEY
WHO SAYS HE IS VICTIM
OF LIBEL.
Suit for damages of $50,00$ against
Charles Hall, defeated candidate for
the Republican nomination for gov
ernor R. R. Coster and the Ku Klux
Klan, "a political co-partnership," has
been filed by Thomas L. Garland,
a Portland, Ore., attorney, as a result
of the recount of ballots brought about
by the Ku Klux forces.
Garland asserts that his name was
among those listed by the Hall forces
as having voted illegally in the pri
maries, and that Hall, Coster and the
Ku Klux Klan caused the publication
of the "false and libelous" assertioif
that he was not a legal voter.
Answering the charge that he "bal
loted illegally" or as "an alien and
not entitled to vote," Garland asserts
be is 100 per cent American, born in
Mississippi and a direct descendant of
Patrick Henry.
PURSE FOR POPE
ITALIAN SOCIETIES PLAN TO PRE
SENT BIG GIFT.
The Italian Co-operative Federation,
which is one of the most powerful
agencies of Catholic social action in
Italy, is engaged in making prepara
tions for the presentation of a sub
stantial purse to Pope Pius XI. Col
lections are being taken up in all the
affiliated organizations.
The strength of these organizations
and their influence on the economic
life of the country may be judged
from the fact that there are 3,500 lo
cals identified with the Consumers'
Co-operatives, 600 locals in the Farm
ers' Union, 1,148 locals in the Labor
Co-operatives, and 2,280 branches of
the Italian Federated Rural Banks,
which have a capital of more than
1,5©0,#00,000 lire.
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Michael Collins, late commander in
chief of the Free State army, was
buried in Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin,
last Monday, alongside of other noted
Irish patriots while all Ireland mourn
ed. The funeral was one of the largest
and most impressive in the history of
Ireland. The great pro-cathedral was
crowded with mourners from all parts
of Ireland as Archbishop Byres cele
brated the requiem Mass.
HSSHISDEiD
The Rev. Patrick J. Mulhall, one of
the most prominent members of the
jledemptorist Order in the United
jBtates, died last week at Saratoga
Springs, N. Y. Father Mulhall was^di
rector of the Redemptorist mission
land with headquarters at St Clem
ent's College, Saratoga Springs. He
was born in New York and educated
at St. Mary's College, Northeast, Pa.
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NOTED CITIZEN, LAWYER AND
CATHOLIC IS LAID TO REST—
DISTINGUISHED FOR HALF CEN­
TURY AS STERLING LEADER
RUGGED CHRISTIAN OF OLD
TYPE —ARCHBISHOP AT OB
SEQUIES.
Mr. Christopher Dillon O'Brien, Sr$
former Mayor of St. Paul, and noted
leader in city and state affairs, died
at his home on Portland avenue, this
city last Sunday night.
For more than half a century. Mr.
O'Brien had been one 'of the most
prominent members of the Bai
throughout the whole Northwest. He
was at the same time a practical,
sterling Catholic of the old school.
Ever a close friend of the late Arch
bishop Ireland, Mr. O'Brien was a
staunch upholder both in private and
jiublic life of the genuine principles
of Catholic morality and conduct.
Mr. €. D. O'Brien was born in Coun
ty Galway, Ireland, December 4, 1848,
coming to the United States when a
child. The family at first took up
their home in a small mixed settle
ment of Indians and whites near Ash
land, Wis. He came to Minnesota
when a boy, he and his father, the
well-known Dillon O'Brien, walking
CHARLES SCHWAB TO RESTORE
SEAT OF CATHOLICITY IN WEST
ERN PENNSYLVANIA.
According to plans now in prepara
tion, the home and chapel of Father
Gallitzin, Prince-Priest and Apostle of
the Alleghenies, are to be saved from
decay and the ravages of time. The
two small buildings are off the high
way where the Cresson Road meets
the main street of Loretto, Pa.
Charles M. Schwab is to finance the
restoration of the home and first
ehapel of the great priest who found
ed and named the little town. Mr.
Schwab noticed* with regret that the
environs of the old church were being
much neglected, and decided to save
A communique issued by the Aus
trian Foreign Office, on the conference
between Benes and Chancellor Seipel,
quotes the latter as having asked the
Czecho-Slovakian premier whether
there is a possibility of "twelfth hour"
VENERABLE FATHER JEROME
HAS LABORED AMONG INDIANS
OF NORTH DAKOTA SINCE 1878
—ALL CLASSES REJOICE.
Regardless 6t religious faith men
and women of Devils Lake, N. D., on
Tuesday of last week, honored Father
Jerome, whose fiftieth anniversary of
ordination to the priesthood marks the
forty-fourth year of his work among
the Sioux Indians on the Fort Totten
reservation.
Two bishops, clergymen from over
the state, and the community en masse
gathered at St. Michael's mission at
the Narrows, seven miles south of
Devils Lake, to-assist in the celebra
tion and make public recognition of
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SAVE GALLITZIN HOME
TO SAVE AUSTRIA
PRIEST-PREMIER STRIVES TO
AVERT DISASTER—PLEADS FOR
MONETARY AID FROM THE
LEAGUE OF NATIOttt.
(Bi? N. C. W. C. News Service.)
In an attempt to avert the total
collapse with which Austria is appar
ntly threatened, Chancellor Seipel
has indicated to Premier Benes of
Czecho-Slovakia that salvation for the
former Hapsburg state lies between
the altei natives of monetary aid from
the League of Nations or political and
economic union with ones or more
neighboring states.
FATHER JEROME'S JUBILEff
FRENCH BEN|RHL DIES
GEN. MAISTRE WAS NOTED LEAD
ER AND DEVOTED CATHOLIC.
Gen. Maistre, one of France's great
officers and a devoted son of the Cath
olic Church, died recently. He was
born in 1858 and made a brilliant rec
ord at the military schools, at which
he prepared himself for a career which
was to be notable among those of the
leaders of the great war. He com
manded the 21st Corps, which partici
pated in the Battle of the Marne, and
in 1917 was made commander of the
Sixth^Army, at the head of which he
won the battle of La Malmaison, which
the whole distance. Mr. O'Brien re
ceived his first education in the early
frontier schools and from his father
who was a teacher in the government
service.
At the age of 18 years C. D. O'Brien
took up the study of law in St. Paul.
From 1870, when he was admitted to
the Bar, down to the time of his death,
the name C. D. O'Brien has been one
of the most revered both in the legal
profession as well as in all matters
pertaining to Church and state.
The distinguished attorney filled
many positions of honor, including
that of County Attorney, in 1875, and
that of Mayor of St. Paul, in 1883.
Older members of the State Bar de
clare that Mr. O'Brien personally and
unaided had tried more cases before
the courts of the state and the nation
than any other one attorney in the
history of Minnesota.
The funeral of the lamented leader
took place from the Cathedral last
Wednesday morning with a Mass of
Requiem celebrated by the rector,
Rev. L. F. Ryan. City, county and
state officials, together with a number
of priests and a large gathering of
the laity, were present at the ob
sequies. The final absolution was
given by His Graoe Most Reverend
Austin Dowling, D. D. Burial was in
Calvary cemetery.
the cradle of Catholicity in West Pettft*
sylvania.
Prince Gallitzin was the only son of
a Russian prince. He landed in Balti
more in 1792, and was ordained to the
priesthood on March 18, 1795. The
first log church was built in 1799. In
1817 a more pretentious building was
erected and was used until 1854. The
first home of Prince Gallitzin at Loret
to was a log cabin, 14x16 feet. In or
der to induce Catholics to settle near
the church, Father Gallitzin became a
land agent, bought land at four dollars
an acre and sold it to settlers for one
dollar. In 1799 the prince-priest
planned the town of Loretto, naming
the settlement after the town of Lor
etto in Italy. Since that time, Lor
etto has been the parent parish of
hundreds of other parishes of tfee
Pittsburgh and Altoona dioceses.
help from the League of Nations in
the form of pledges of funds suffi
cient to enable Austria to stabilize her
finances. As an alternative, Seipel is
said to have asked how neighbor na
tions, particularly Czecho-Slovakia,
would regard a fusion of Austria with
one or another or several contiguous
nations.
Chancellor Seipel was planning to
surrender himself and his government
to the Allied High Commission at
Paris and turn Austria over to the
commission's management. It was
planned that an Italian army should
be sent into Austria and an Italian
administration set up to take charge
of governmental affairs. Rumors
were current to the effect that the
Czechs expressed a desire to take
part in the administration of Austrian
affairs, but that this suggestion Wfui
looked upon with disfavor by the Al
lied High Commission.
the work of the aged missionary
among the red men.
Coming to the wilderness while the
tribe known as the Cutyhead Sioux
were yet rebelling against the white
man's rule, Father Jerome won thsit:
confidence by adopting as far as pos
sible their modes of living and he has
administered to three generations ot
the Indians, caring for their material
and mental as well as spiritual needs.
Among his accomplishments has
been the erection of two missions, one
at the Fort, the other at the Narrows.
At the latter place a school was con
ducted for a number of years. The
bible has been translated into the
Sioux, and through co-operation of
Brother Charles, member of the Do
minican order, a weekly paper is Is
sued in the Indian language.
drove the enemy from the Chemin rfes
Dames.
For some time he served on the Ital
ian front. In June, 1918, he was placet
at the head of a group of armies which
took a conspicuous part in the second
Battle of the Marne.
E1HDE110 TEACH
Punishment of forced labor up to
one year for those giving religious
instruction to children or minors in
educational institutions, either nation
al or private, will be administered by
the Russian Soviet Government. Ac
cording tb a Moscow despatch just re
ceived, such a provision has been in
serted in tbe Soviet's new criminal
code.
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