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JANUARY 9, 1926.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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FORTUNE GIVEN CHURCH
BY FRIEND OF DICKENS
Percy Fitzgerald, Noted Au-
thor-Bequeathes $150,000
to Catholic Activities.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
London—Percy FitzGerald, friend
of Dickens for twenty years, who
died a few days ago at the age of
95, left $150,000, practically the
whole of his fortune, to Catholic
dharities.
His piety is revealed by a legacy
of L3,500 for Masses. He directs his
executors to have these said for the
repose of his soul as soon as possible
after his death “and I wish some
of such Masses to be said for me
by priests in the poorer parts of
France,”
The Catholic Truth society of Ire
land gets LI5,000 under the will, the
Catholic University of Ireland, L5,-
000, the English branch of the So
ciety for the Proparagation of the
Faith L‘2,500. The Little Sisters of
the Poor and other charitable insti
tutions are given bequests.
Apart from these and other speci
fied bequests Percy FitzGerald leaves
all his residuary, persohal and real
estate to Cardinal Bourne, Bishop
Gary-Evans (Northampton) and
Bishop Brown (Southwark auxili
ary.)
Percy FitzGerald wrote about 200
books during his long life of activi
ty. During his friendship with the
Dickens family he wrote five serial
stories for “Household Words” which
Dickens edited. He was also a sculp
tor of note, his best known work in
that direction being the statue of
Dr. Samuel Johnson which stands
outside the church of St. Clement
Dane in the Strand.
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Rare Vacations
SL John, N. B.—Rev. Gerard Ben-
netrau and Brother Lewis, of tire
Sacred Heart Order, arrived here
recently en roulc to resume their
missionary labors in Hawaii. Bro
ther Lewis engaged in caring for
the lepers at Molokai, is enjoying
hi s first vacation in thirty-one years
Father Bennctrau visited his mother
in Germany for the first time in
eighteen years. ,
Cardinal Lcrretti Remains
Paris—Monsignor Cerretti, Papal
Nuncio to Paris, who recently was
elected to the Sacred College of
Cardinals at Rome, will continue as
Papal Nuncio at Paris, it is announc
ed, despite reports to the. contray.
London Needs Churches
London—The pressing need ot
more churches to consolidate the
Catholic strength in England and
to cater to the earnest euquircr js
the dominant note of the Advent
pastoral letters from the bishops
to the people. The war held up the
ordination of priests, but the clergy
situation is straightening itself out.
A new church set up nearly any
where in London, where there are
already 200 Catholic churches, can
attract a congregation without detri
ment to neighboring churches.
Prelate Settles Quebeck Strike
Quebec.—The intervention of
Msgr. Langlois, administrator of
the Archdiocese, in a shoe factory
strike which lasted three weeks, re
sulted in a temporary settlement
welcomed by workmen aud employ
ers alike, and as a result the four
teen shoe factories of the city have
resumed work.
Thanksgiving at Innsburck
. .Innsbruck, Austria.—The Golden
Jubilee of the first Innsbruck Amer
ican Thanksgiving Day banquet was
Observed this .year toy [thirty-six
American seminarians at the little
village of Rotholz near here. A
regular Thanksgiving dinner was-scr-
ved, from turkey with cranberry
sauce lo pumpkin pie. The semi
narians attended Mass before the
banquet,
Carthusians Back in Holland
Louvain—The Carthusians, after
an absence of 177 years, when the
last of four settlements were sup
pressed, are coming back to Hol
land, land having been secured for
a new foundation to be peopled toy
a colony of Carthusians from Switz
erland.
Compulsory Voting in Ireland?
Dublin—At the recent Senate ele
ction of the Irish Free State only
one-fourtli of those qualified to vote
took the trouble to do so, and the
question of compulsory voting, a
law in Australia at the recent gen
eral election, the penalty being a
fine of $10, is being discussed.
English Guild Effective
London—The Catholic Evidence
Guild sponsored 4630 addresses at
open air “pitches” during the past
year, an increase of 1,000 in a year,
the report of the Guild says. The
Cardinal Archbishop of Westminis
ter, al the annual meeting declared
that the development of the work,
which he considers the most im
portant event in the recent Catholic
history of England, has surpassed
his highest expectation. Seventeen
branches outside London were a-
mong those reporting.
Irish Education Results
Dublin—Conducted entirely by
priests and religious communities,
the secondary education in Ireland
has jusl been described as “better
than that of any other country in
Europe”. A noted educator says
that the system in Ireland develops
self-reliance, self-training, self dis
cipline, coupled- with intellectual
training which is “turning out as
fine a product as was ever put on
the human market.”
Oratorians Expanding
London—The influence »f the Con
gregation of the Oratory, founded
by St. Philip Neri and established
here by Cardinal Newman, is being
extended to Germany and Japan,
German clerics now studying at Bir-
rn Ingham w [ll soon open up the
work in their country and Father
Francis Xavier Iwashita, a Japanese
priest, has received* permisison to
found an oratory in Japan.
Louvain Rector Honored
Louvain—lit. Rev. Msgr. J. de Bec
ker, Rector of the American College
of Louvain with which he has been
connected for forty-one years, was
recently invested with the insignia
of the dignity of Protouotary Apos
tolic by Cardinal Mercier, after the
honor had been conferred on him
by Pope Pius. Monsignor dc Becker
was guest of honor at a banquet in
the unique students’ dining room of
the college he has headed for the
past thirty years, and from which
he has sent forth numerous mis
sionaries for the Church in Ameri
ca.
Scholarly Priest Honored
Paris—Abbe Chabot has been elec
ted president for the coming year
of the Academy of Inscriptions and
Belle-Lettres. To this scholarly
priest the world is indebted for
some valuable works ou Semitic in
scriptions.
Priest Scientific Director
Paris—The inventor of the photo
graphy of sound, Canon Rousselot,
had been appointed dire.tor of the
laboratory of experimental phone
tics of the College of France, the
highest scietific institution of the
nation. The post left vacant by the
appointment of Canon Rousselot has
been awarded to another priest. The
new director is Canon Meunier. Pro
fessor of experimental jihonelics at
the Catholic Institute, the collabora
tor of the late Canon Rousselot.
Chinese In Europe.
Paris—Father Lebbe, of the Laza-
rist Order, who has devoted himself
to the apostolate of the Chinese, has
given out the following statistics in
regard to the number of Chinese
students in Europe:
In Germany there arc 600 Chi
nese, of whom one is a Catholic;
in Holland there are 150, of whom
one is a Catholic; of the 180 in Bel
gium 120 are Catholics; there are
two Catholic among the 300 Chiuesc
students in England; France leads
in the number of Chinese with 800
of whom 120 are Cathodes. There
are 100 Chinese students in Russia.
HEART TRAINING STOPS
CRIME SAYS N. Y. JUDGE
Magistrate McAdoo and
Archbishop Curley Em
phasize Need in Education.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Washington.—The need for relig
ious training for children was em
phasized in addresses delivered by
William McAdoo, Chief City Magis
trate of New York and Archbishop
Curley, of Baltimore, at the. annual
dinner of the Catholic Charities of
Washington. Magistrate McAdoo
said in part.
“If we concentrate the education
of the child solely as to the head,
leaving out the heart, wc cannot
hope for any results in making him
a good citizen. I have been told by
some fathers that they attribute the
fact that their children were suc
cessful aud law-abiding to the ex
treme rigor with which they were
brought up, in fear of their parents,
and this induced by corporal punish
ment. It is quite possible you can
take a child or a young boy, culti
vate his head only, hold out the re
ward of economic success in money
getting either in business or in a
profession, narrow down his vision
of life, make him a machine, press
out of him his humanity, smother
the soul, and produce some kind of
a successful monetary automaton,
but not a real human being with a
big heart and a clean conscience and
a sympathetic outlook on the broth
erhood of man.”
• Archbishop Curley, speaking im
mediately after Judge McAdoo’s ad-'
dress, recalled the latter’s state
ments as to the need for religious
training and pointed out that it is
to that principle the people of the
Archdiocese of Baltimore are strong
ly committed.
' “As evidence of our belief in the
need of a Christian education,” he
said, “let me recall that we have
spent more than $9,000,000 on edu
cation in the Archdiocese of Balti
more during the past three years.”
D. J, Callahan, Supreme Treasurer
of the Knights of Columbus, was the
toastmaster at the dinner.
Christmas Ship, Laden With
Gifts, Brings Lepers Cheer
(By N. C. W. <’,. News Service)
Woodstock, Md.—Word has just
arrived at the Jesuit House of Stu
dies here that the annual “Christ
mas ship,” laden with gifts for the
unfortunate dwellers on the little
island of Culion, left Manila early
enough to reach the isle by Christ
mas.
Culion which lies south of Manila
in the Philippines, holds the largest
letier group in the world. Its colony
is 19 years old, and in that time
it has received 15.000 lepers. At
present it lias 5,300. The “Campo
Santo,” or “God’s Acre.” contains
the mortal remains of the rest.
Noble Work of Religion
Culion has been called the “Isle
of Living Death.” But devotion and
sacrifice on the part of workers
there have caused many of its suf-,
ferers to term it the “Gateway to
Eternal Life.” For Culion has hs
Damiens as well as Molokai. From
the inception of the colony two Je
suit Fathers, a lay Brother and a de
voted band of Sisters of St. Paul
d c Chartres have labored among its
unfortunates. There are now 10
Sisters, and one of them, who comes
.from France, has never left the
island since she went there 19 years
ago. Father Millan, S. J. the super
ior, has been iu the colony 10 years.
Mother of Four Nuns and
Two Priests Dies in Iowa
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Westphalia, Iowa.—Mrs. Ber
tha Zimmerman, who died here
recently, had the supreme hap
piness of seeing six of her elev
en children embrace the religi
ous life, two sons entering the
Society of Jesus in St. Louis,
and four daughters the Com
munity of the Franciscan Sisters
in Milwaukee.. The youngest
daughter is still at home.. Those
in religion are: The Rev. Jo
seph Zimmerman, S. J., superior
of SL Francis Indian Mission, S.
D.; Rev. Bernard Zimmerman,
S. J, St. Louis Uniyersity; Sister
Jerome, Baner, Iowa; Sister Be
ni ta, Sacred Heart Sanitarium,
Milwaukee; Sister Emilie, Camp-
bellsport, Wis.; and Sister Man
ia, Kelvenville, Wis. Another
son is associate editor of the
Catholic Press Union, Ind., which
publishes five Catholic weeklies,
including the Catholic Bulletin,
Cleveland, and the Lake SJiore
Visitor, Evie, Pa.
It was the modest boast of
Mrs. Zimmerman that, besides
her own six children who had
entered the religious life, twen
ty-three of her immediate rela
tives have also left the world to
enter the seminary or convent.
The Dutch Jansenists are in many
ways an interesting body. Unlike
most other sects, they remain just
where they were on thejr separation
from Rome. They have retained
valid orders,s the celibacy of the
clergy, the Mass and other services
in Latin. They arc known in Hol
land as “old Roman” (Oud-
Roomsch for they profess not only
to be Catholics but Roman Catho
lics, and they acknowledge the Pope
as the visible head of the church.
One of their own synods condemned
the dpetrine that the schismatic
Greeks pre part of the Church of
Christ. The Blessed Sacrament is
reserved in their churches.
SISTERS’ HOSPITAL IN
MONTANA DYNAMITED
Religious and Patients Es
cape Injury—Police Sus
pect Lunatic of Deed
(By N. C. W. C. News Service )
Kalispell, MonL—Unknown per
sons dynamited a part of the Sisters
of Mercy Hospital here December 12.
Several of'the Sisters escaped death
as if by a miracle.
Officials have been unable to de
termine the prepetrators or the
cause of the crime, although their
search is continuing. Half a dozen
men taken to police headquarters on
suspicion have been released. Police
arc now convinced that the deed
was that of a lnnatic.
If the intent was to injure the Sis
ters themselves, tthe dynamiter de
feated his own purpose. The stick
of explosive was placed on a sill
outside a window. Smoko from the
burning fuse caused several of the
Sisters to go to the basement in the
belief that the furnave was out of or
der. Had they been in the office or
dining room, it is believed that sev
eral of them would have been killed
by the blast.
The explosion damaged the room
where the stick of dynamite was
placed, and shattered windows in the
whole wing of the building. The re
port was heard all over the city, and
sent the townspeople fleeing from
their homes. As soon as it was
learned that the explosion was at
the hospital, several persons having
relatives in the institution took
them away in ambulances.
Actual damage, however, was esti
mated at only about $200. Other pa
tients were taken to rooms where the
windows were still intact. SisFers
and nurses all remained at their
posts and turned their attention im
mediately to quieting the more nerv
ous patients. Repairs are now being
made.
The sheriff has placed a deputy oil
guard at the hospital to reassure pa
tients and their relatives.
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