TWO IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 351, 9 January 1880, Page 5

TWO IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS.

The Holy Father "has just confirmed the unanimous election of the Reverend Favher Bonaventure Soldatisch, a Dalmatian, and Rector of the Church of Padua, to the charge of General of the Conventual Minors of Bt. Francis; also the election that has taken place at Rome, of the new Master General of the Older of St. Dominic, in the person of the Rev. Fr. Joseph Mary Larroca, a Spaniard, of the Convent of Bt. John the Baptist of Corias, ex-Socius of the Vicar General and Provincial of Greece, actually Visitor of the Dominican Province in the Philippine Islands. Father Larroca was born in 1813 ; has had the Dominican habit for 49 years : and is the 75th Master General of the Order after St. Dominic. Let the enemies of Christ's Church take note of these elections, whereby duly constituted Heads are given to two of the oldest and most illustrious Orders of workmen that help her in her divine Mission of teaching all nations. Each of these Orders looks back to an ancestry that dates from the beginning of the thirteenth century ; from the first year of their existence up to the present they have each proved themselves true servants of God and benefactors of mankind. As in 1878 the whole Church rejoiced when a Head was given to it by the election of Pope Leo XIIL, so now all the children of the Church rejoice in the election of Heads to each of the two great Orders in the Church, founded respectively by St. Francis and St. Dominic. — Bombay Cutlwlio Examiner,