ECCLESIASTICAL NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 56, 23 May 1874, Page 12

ECCLESIASTICAL NEWS.

MiS3 Rosa Sands, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sands, United State Navy, now iv charge of the Naval Observatory at Washington on January 30 received the white veil of the Nuns of the Order of the Visitation, at Mount de Sales Convent, Baltimore county. A very large assemblage witnessed the ceremony. The Q-erman-epeakinjf residents of Chicago number nearly or quite one hundred thousand. Of these (he Catholics claim forty-five thousand, /or religious accommodation of which there are provided eigh'J church edifices and thirty prksts. Fifiy-five are found iv the several .Protestant sects and societies, for over ona-half of which no chuich buildings are provided Consecration of the Republic of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart. President Moreno, by a decree, consecrates the Republic of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, fixes a certain day of the year as a holiday in honor of this conseciation, and adds that in all the churches of the Republic the remembrance shall be perpetuated by means of an inscription in letters of gold. The Synod of the French Protestant Church has just declared that " those persons who do not recognise its doctrines, morally cease, by that fact, to form part of the Church." How very convenient and natural appears excommunication by a sect or secret society, and how extremely reprehensible by the Catholic Church ! A Russian prince named William Hadzinel has become a Catholic. In. Russia all converts to Catholicity forfeit their property and lose all prospects of favors from the Government. The Catholic Church is growing apace in the Southern States. In the little town of Meridian, Miss., there were not twenty Catholics seven rears ago ; now thcie are over two hundred, having a very neat church, with a bell uf 1,000 pounds. There aro now in the City of Boston fwenry-seren Catholic chuiches and about a dozen chapels. Six congregations are building ik-w churches. This showing is not surpassed by any Catholic popi - lalion in the Union. There are also in Boston and vicinity about, sxleen Catholic schools and educational institutions, with a half-a-dozen more in prospect. In the diocese there are now representud six religious orders oi' men, and eight o' women. Sister Mary Frames Ciarc Hely, Presentation Convent, Kilkenny, died on Christmas 1< vo, at Ilie advanced age oi' Bs. She had entered her solemn profession ol years since, and during almost all that period she had devoteil her o clf to the education of the poorer children of her natiw city, Kilkenny. On the 10th February, the ceremony of the profession of a young nun took place at the Convent of Meicy, at Enms. The Coadjutor Bishop ot' iC'llaioe, llic Right Rev l)r ii\an, presided. The name of the lady wu-> Miss Isabella ALag'':ilh, in religion dister Mary Alovsius, seeon i daughter or J. F. Mngiatb, E=q , holicitor, Ncua,gh. There wi* M largo number ot'lhe priests oi Oh re and lifSperary present. The Company of Jesus has now ten canonized saints, and one hunched and two beaMfied Viscouut St. Asapb, the eldest son'of the Earl of Ashburnham, lias become a convert io ihc C.Uholic Church, lln Lordship is m his 35th[yeav, and is deputy-Mcutcuant of the Couuty of Brecon.