CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 27, 28 October 1887, Page 29

CATHOLIC NEWS.

The Yen. Archdeacon Cavanagh, P.P., Knock, recently received the, letter from the Moßt Rev. Dr. Lynch, Ar ihbishop of ftoronto : — St. Michael's Palace, Toronto, Canada, July 2, 1887. My /Dear Archdeacon Cavanagh — Hjw often I have thought of you since I had the pleasure of visiting the holy shrine of Kuock. W are using the plaster of Knock constantly, and it has never failed t work a miracle . No wonder, considering the faith of our dear peopl at home and abroad. The last of these wonders to come under ou notice, was the case of one of our brothers of the Christian Schools in Torento. An excellent young man, one of our best teachers, very pious, and devoted to his work — he had become subject to epileptic fits, which, besides causing him great pain, deranged the Community, for his place inthe school had frequently to be filled by one of the others. He came to me some time ago, and with great faith asked me to cure him. I gave him a piece of the plaster of Knock to put in water of which he should take some three times a day, with pious inrocations of the Holy Mother of God and other prayers. Since the first time he took the water he has not had a fit. The other day he came to me quite a changed man of fine, healthy appearance, and full of gratitude to the Mother of God for the cure. Of course I came in for some of his prayers. Our good Lady of Knock, my dear Archdeacon, is the same as Our Lady of Lourdes or our Lady of Montsalet and we would be surprised if the loving Mother of our dear Redeemer would neglect to visit poor Ireland in her awful struggle to preserve the faith and the lives of the people. With the highest respect for you and your blessed mission, 1 am, my dear Arcddeacon, yours very faithfully in Christ, f JoHtf Joseph Lynch, Archbishop of Toronto. Rev. John B. Slattery, of Richmond V<t, is coming to England, to consult Bishop Vaughan, of Salford, about the details of a new church work which is about to be instituted in Baltimore — the establishment of a seminary for the special instruction of priests for the coloured missious in the S mth. The missions also mantain schools which are under the care of various sisterhoods. The missions hive been so successful that it becomes desireab'e to have priest 9 specially prepared for the extension of me work, an 1 it is for the purpose of educating young men for the missions that the new seminary will be. opened. The Rev. John R. Hlattery is rector of the new institution. Two of the oldest priests in the world reside in Pennsylvania One is the Benedictine Archabb^t Wimtner, of Vincent's Monastery, Westmoreland County, aud the otaer Rev. Anthony Schwarze pastor of the Church of our Lady of Mount Carmel, Minersville. They were both ordained in 1831, in Germauy. The clergy of Pueblo, Mexico, have collected over 200,000 dols for the coronation of the Virgin of Guadaloupe ntxt December. The Church is acquiring much valuable property in Rome. The Congregation de Propaganda Fide baa purchased the Mignanelli Palace, at a cose of a million francs ; the Christian Brothers have bought and fitted up Hotel Serney, at an expenditure of half a million francs ; a similar sum has been invested by the Sisters of the Holy Cross ; aud the Hotel Costanzt haa been bought by the German Hungarian College for two million francs. All these properties are being used as schools. A monument to the eminent astronomer, Father Secchi, is to bo erected in tbe Rigio Emilia, Rome. Fifty thousand lire have already been subscribed. The Little Sisters of the Poor have just received their first mission in Canada. Nine thousand pilgrims from Northern Spain and Western France have arrived at Lourdes. The Bishop of Luchon headed the Vendeans. Sixteen thousand Catalans have sent as their offering to the shrine a handsome banner to the Bacred Heart. On August 7 the Urauline nuns celebrated tbe one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of their arrival in New Orleans, La. The Cardinal Archbishop of Wi sirninster on July 15 celebrated the seventy -ninth anniversary of his binhday. The Jesuit Father Ferrari, a pupil of the renowned Father Secchi ot the same Order, has been sent by Pope Leo X[II. on a scientific mibsiou to Moscow — to observe the solar eclipse visible from that city. He is the bearer of an autograph |letter from the Pope to the Czar. In a population of 250,000, Buffalo, N.Y., has 90,000 Catholics. The Provincial of the German Franciscans of America has been summoned by the Father-General of his Order to return to Fulda, to negotiate the return to Germany of the religious under his sway. Madame O'Rorke, the new Mother Superior of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Elmhurst, Providence, R.1., is the widow of the brave Colonel O'fiorke, of Rochester, N.Y., who fell on the battlefield in the war for the Union. The Catholic people of New York and Brooklyn will celebrate the Pope's jubilee by a procession and public meeting. ' Over ninety bishops have sent relics to be placed on the altar to be offered to tbe Pope for his Jubilee Mass. Queen Victoria was much interested during her recent visit to ' the monastery of La Grande Chartreuse to fiud no fewer than four English m nks there, all of whom had been well known in London society as the very fastest of the fast. Close upon 40,000 persons took part in the annual festival of the League of the Cross, of which tardindl Manning is the founder and president, held at the London Crystal Palace recently. Most of the members of the League wore its insignia, and the 5,000 to 6,000 children present had green roseites or small crosses on their dresses. The great majority were people of the labouring classes as distinguished from the .artisan classes, with a large number of young women from factories. Tbe Central Catholic Advocate informs us that a gentleman of the Hebrew race, the bon of a rabbi in Pruasia. who became a convert to our holy religion and was driven from his father's house in consequence, was for some time paßt an ecclesiastical student at St. Mienrad's, Indiana. Siuce the conflagration took place there, liv has goue as a student to the Seminary at Preston Park.