TOMBS OF THE APOSTLES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 21, 20 February 1891, Page 15

TOMBS OF THE APOSTLES.

We have, no doubt, moat of the readers of the Chimes will be glad tv know where the remain of the twelve Apostles now are. Of the body of St. John trie Evangelist there are no tidings. Not a bone of the body of this Holy Apostle and beloved Disciple of Our Lord can bj found. St. Jamee, the Greater, is at St. James de ComposteHo, in Spain, That is the far-iaraed pilgrimage that tikes its name form this ADoPtle. The ten remaining Apostles are in Italy, without cuuntiug St. Paul, who was not one of the twelve. As most of the Apostles are in Home, we shall dispose of the 0 hers first. There are in the Kingdom of Naples: St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, at Salerno ; c-t. Andrew at Auialfi, near Naples, and St. Thomas at Ottona. Kome haß seven of the Apostles, namely, SS. Peter, Paul, Philip, James the Lesser, Jude, Bartholomew and Matthias, who filled up the place left vacant by the apostacy of Judas. St. Peter is, of course, in the church that is called after him, precisely on account of his tomb being there. Jn St. Peter's are also Saints Simon and Jude. St. Jude is sometimes called St. Tbaddeus — for instance in the Church of St. John of LUeran, where you see the statues of all the Apostles, with the name of each carved beneath. In the Church of the Holy Apostles are James the Lesser and St. Philip. In the Island of St. Bartholomew, iv the Tiber, is tbe Saint of that name in the church dedicated to the same Holy Apostle. St. Matthias is in St. Mary Major. The body of this Apostle is under the great altar of the basilica. Sa one Apostle is in Spain, and all the rest in Italy, except St. John the Evangelist, whose mysterious disappearance we have alluded to. Home pos-esses no less than seven Apostles. Besides the two Evangelists (not Apostlesj are also id Italy, St. Mark at Venice, and St Luke at Padu i. May all thsse Holy Apostles and Evangelists pray that tn^ Church in Italy may be delivered from the tribulations that dow afflic: her, and uißy tbe myr.ads of taints, whose relied ire in that beautiful peninsula, unite also their praters fjr Italy, a id especially for Rome, the hallowed metropolis of the Catholic World. It is said the Indians of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show are largely instrumental in securing a peaceable settlement among the uneasy Sioux. Mrs. Jacobs living in Youngstown, 0., left her house for a few moments. On returning she found a pie missing and a note on a pack of cards saying : " My Dear Lady, I cams here a Btranger and found nobody a' home. I was hungry and took a pie and will piy you some day. Keep the cards till 1 return. A Tramp." The London Star publishes tbe following letter : — We publish the following without comment: ''Last Friday evpning I was a pas-enger by the Banshee from Dublin to Holyhead. On the same boat was a gentleman travelling from Cork to Euston, and who was pointed out as a personal friend ot Mr. Farnell. This gentleman, after requesting of the steward a Great Northern time-table anil a 1 Bradshaw,' asked me if I had a c< py of the latter in my posses-ion. Fortunately 1 had, but unfortunately for the gentleman ' Biadshaw ' was a puzzle to him, and he cun'onUd to allow me to find what he required, viz :— l. Time, of arrival at Euston. 2 Time ot tir-t tiain from Kirig's-cross to Hatfield. Comment is neidless. I enc'ose my card, and beg to subscribe myself — Yours tiul>, Comuehcial Traveller. " The statement that the Indians who have been travelling with Buffalo Bill are working for peace, while graduates of the Carlisle school are working for war, bug^tsts that it might be wise as well as economical to civilise the Indians by the inexpensive <'o,iy method, rather than to give them a coating uf school hypocrisy. Travelled savages, the world over, almost mvaiiab y make good tubil missionaiies. — Pilot. J. Appleton Morgan, writing in the Popular Science Monthly, inquires: "What shall we do with the ' dagoes '?" Stop calling them names for one thing. It used to be said that no man who spelled " negro " with two ''gV would be President of the United States. The Italian labourers increase in numbers so rapidly that they may yet hold the balance of power in some States and then woe be to the man who has snid "dago" to thorn, or cf them — PiUt. Charles A. Sanger, of Peabody, Massachusetts, has in his possession a handsome cane composed of East India U ak, taken Irom tbe old British man-of-war Somerset, ref-ricd to in " Paul ilevere'a Uule." Tbe ship went down off Provincetown in 1777. Ihe old hull came ashore two years ago, and tne cane in question was made from a part of the wood. It has a head made out of a whale's tooth. The wood takes a fine polish, an J no one would ever dreim that it Lad been under water for 111 years. It appears ihat a schism is imminent, if indeed a has not already taken place, among tl c adherents of the Protestant missions on the Niger. There a considerable number of native missionaries have been supported by the Church Missionaiy Socuty ; and for some reason or othir the committee in London have become so dissatieled with their coloured agouti?, that they have dismissid them enmtLSic. Among the clergy thus turned adrift are two sable gentlemen who have assumed the title of " Venerable." The West African Press seems to take the side of the negrors, ascnbir.g the wholesale eviction of native ministers to " racial antagonism " ; and we are not surprised to hear that the negroes have determined to form a new sect of their own. An Evangelical journal, commenting on these facts, remarks that a Church which is ihe oifsi rin^ ot «i rif ■* and unhappy temper cannot have before it a promising future. True ; and we would suggest to the critic that the observation ".pplies with ten-fold force to certain uligious organisations ninth were founded some three or four centuries ago.