CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 26, 21 October 1887, Page 31

CATHOLIC NEWS.

About 4,000 Catholics proceeded on Thursday, August 11, to Holy Island, twelve miles south of Berwick, on a pilgrimage to celebrate the twelfth centenary of the death of St. Cuthbert. The pilgrims had to cross a stretch of sands, and those who walked waded kneedeep in the water to get to their destination. During the journey the pilgrims recited the fifteen mysteries of the Bosary. At the island the choir at the head of the procession intoned the Litany of the Saints, and all moved towards the ruins of Holy Island Abbey wkere " Faith of Our Fathers " was sung and Mass celebrated with full choral effects. A discourse, the Te Dewn, and St. Cuthbert's hymn followed, and the proceedings terminated. The Rev. Edward O'Keilly, of St. Stephen's parish, is the only convert among the Brooklyn pastors. He renounced Protestantism in his 19th year. Before he came to Brooklyn, 21 years ago, he Berved as Vicar-General of the Bahamas. He is a native of the County Westmeath, Ireland. Among his otber accomplishments is that of electrical science. He devised the illuminated cross, the only one of its kind, that tops the steeple of St Stephen's Church: Princess Clotilde has just finished a mantle, she has embroidered for the Pope, at her seat at Moncalieri. The mantle is of white Batin embroidered with golden flowers. Among the saloon passengers on board the Inman and International steamer, the City of Chicago, which arrived off Queenstown on August 22, from New York, en route for Liverpool, was the Rev. M. Kelleher, who landed at Queenstown. The rev. gentleman has been travelling for tbe past three years in America and the Colonies, collecting funds for the above-mentioned church. He speaks highly of the reception he received in all places where the children of Ireland are to be found, and brings back very substantial proofs of their undying love for their mother land, and of their veneration for rthe name of the great Liberator. Mgr. Anzino, almoner to the Italian Court, has been charged by their Majesties tbe King and Queen with tbe task of discovering if the Holy Father will accept a gift which they would like to make him on the occasion of his Jubilee. Is His Holiness will allow the offering to be made, the example of their Majesties will be followed by their Royal Highnesses the Due d'Aosta and his children, the Due de Genes and the Prince of Carignan. Cardinal Lavigerie, Archbishop of Algiers, has returned from Brussels to Paris. It appears that he is inclined to value very highly the labours of female missionaries among the women of Africa. He has founded in Limburg a convent for nuns, who, after a certain period devoted to s'udy, will go to evangelise the women of Africa. The inauguration of the Exposition at Lourdes of the gifts destined for the Holy Father has just taken place. There was a very numerous attendance. A beautiful cantata composed in honour of Leo XIII. was performed. Last week great pilgrimages arrived from Albi, Perpignan, and Vannes, having in their train the A T ~V bishop of Albi, and the Bishop of Perpignan. A eermon on death was preached lately by the Rev. ~faft-izr Hansleman, of Williamsburg, N. V., whose unusual eloqi^Tn elicited congratulations from many of his parishoners after «prvic\ He told them then, it is stated, that he would himself be soon numbered with the dead, and that evening he was seized with a hemorrhage at the vesper service and died in a short time. Archbishop Gross has just completed an extended missionary tour in East Oreeron— tiavelline over 800 miles by buckboard and wagon. Ou several occasions the Archbishop and his paity wrapppd themselves in their blankets, and slept on the ground all night. In better settled districts, ihey were hospitably en'ertained by Irish and German families.

In consequence of incapacitating infirmities, Dr. Ullathorne, Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, who is in his eighty-second year, and the forty-second year of his episcopate, his asked and obtained the consent of the Pope to his release from the duties of his office. The Franciscans have been permitted to open two houses at Munster and Doraten, in Westphalia, to aid the parochial clecgy. Father Anger, of Montreal, his been appointed Provincial of the Oblate Order in Canada, his jurisdiction applying to Manitoba and the Northwest.

The 8.9 V. C. A. M'Bnvoy has been elected Provincial of the Augustinian Order of the United States.