CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 20, 14 September 1894, Page 9

CATHOLIC NEWS.

(From Exchanges ) Alfonso Xtll. a few days ago received from the hands of the M >st Rev Dr Cos, Bishop of Sion, at the Mass celebrated in the Royal Chapel, the Cro9S of Celador of the Guard of Honour cf the Sacred Heart of Jesu c , in the confraternity established io the parish of 8t Martin, Madrid, making the same act of consecration as all the Celadores make, protesting that he will never allay himself with or become affiliated wito any sect, Masonic, heretic, schismatic, but as far as he can seek to propagate the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Messrs Digby Lon? and Co have issaed a new novel by Agnes Goldwin, entitled " la Dae Season," w re i is attracting a considerable amount of public favour. ' Agnes Goldwin " is the norn de plume of a young Irish Catholic lady. The novel possesses marked merits on account of its quiet, pure tone. The conspicuous merit of the work is its naturalness, which will be as much appreciated by the general reader as by the critic. At the presen'ation of the Cbari y Cup to the Celtic Footba 1 Olub on Thursday, June 21, in the Municipal Buildings, Glasgow, Colonel Merry, in asking the Lord Provost to muka the presentation uttered an eulogistic encomium on the presence of the Catholic clergy at football matches, and especially whjre the Cel'ic Club was one of the contestants. The coloael thought 'he presence of the clerey tended to repress rowdyism, and ha also thought it had a good effect on those to whom the clergy ministered, as by their presence they showed tLat in any legitimate spirt there was n >tbing harmful. He only wished the Protestants mm ; sters would follow the same course. Ah, but what would become of the " Cult of the Long Face" if this were done 1 Amongst the six new Cardinals created recently tha persona 1 appearance of Cardinal S/ampa, the newly-apDointed Archbishop of Bilogna, i 8 60 remarkable that he attracts every eye. He is in his 43rd year, tall, handsome, with a face like an Apollo, black curly locks fringe a noble head. He is, perhaps, the best looking person io th a Sacred College. Ooe of these st Ties that arise, no one knows whera or how, was whispered about him in the vicinity of the Sala Rigia on the morning of his elevation to the Sacred College. An old priest, it is said, predicted th*t the youttful Svampa would be a *riesr, at a time when no one tlse thought of such a thiog. Then he "vas ordained to the priesthood ; the same old priest Baid that in the course of time he woald become a bishop and fioally a cjrdinal. The old piiest is dead years a?o, and this last piat of his prediction is now fu'filled. But it is further added that when I , the Pope told him he was to be appointed to Bologna, he said th<t although he sentb'm to ba Archbishop he would return to Rome and become its Bishop. The Trappißt General is thus described by a Protestant writer who wag pretent recently at an ecclesiastical function at the Vatican in which the distinguished cleric took part :— " An unintelligible

call is utter by an cffl:er of the Palatine Guard, and the men salute 48 a shaven monk (the whole head shaven), dressed in cream -col on red robes that fall in majestic folds, comep, accompanied by another monk similarly arrayed. An enamelled cross— ciim«on and gold— hangs from his neck by a silken cord. He is the Father-Gteneral of the Trappists, the severest order in the Churcb. The officer of the Pa'atine Guards is profoundly respectful to him, and a solemn inclinntim of the shaven head recognises the attention. When he has pawed, the officer says a'oud to a Geim-m Cameriere Segreto that be and the solemn-lookm? Trappist were soldiers together in the Papal army over a quarter of a centu'y ago. The change is great, indeed, from the noisy life of camp and barrack, with its sounds of drum and trumpet and ea'-piercing pipe, and loud words of command or the laughter of the bivouac, to the awful stillness of lif« in a Trapp-V monastery, where, save the chant of prayers or p9alma, the hnman voice is never heard uttering other sounds but the lugubrious truism : " Brother, we must die I" It is true that a feeling of pe^cefalneee is associated with the very presence of this silent gen ral in his white robes and golden cross, and his calm face and bright gentle eyes. He is rotund and healthy-looking, yet he and all his order ara the strictest of vegetarians. This tells well for a vegetable diet and a silent life. Ani bo he passes by, to ie-appeai soan after in the procession that accompanies the Pope.

The Catholic Indians of British Columbia, under the dirfc ion of their piiests, have made rapid advance in civilisa ion. There are several excellent brass bands among them, and two or three newspapers Bet up entirely in shorthand. Shorthand is taught exclusively in the mission schools, so that the majority cf adult Catholic Indiani in British Columbia are good stenographers. They will 1 o'd a grea". re-union— the largest ever known in the province— at St Mary's Missi nin June. The Indians will come from all the Frazer River reserres, Squamish, Schell, Cowichan, Victoria, NaDaimo Nonhß nrt, Kamloops, and other places. Particular honours are to be paid Bishop Durien by the Indims. A battery of ten cannon will be massed to herald his arrival.

On Sunday evening. June 24, the Bunday within the octave of St Win«fride's martyrdom, a ceremony of a very remarkable and picturesque character took pkca at Winefride'B Well at Holywell After Benediction in the Catholic Church, the congregation, some hundreds in number, proceeded dowa to the Wei', where a service was held. After the 6inging of the hymn of St Winefride, a procession of all present wended its wav several times round the Well and precincts, The relic of St Winefiide was afterwards venerated Father Betuclerk, before dismissing the congregation, addrened to them a few words upon the holy nature of the place, and mentioned thdt another miracle had been performed the day previously. A poor man came there, he saii, suffering from a cancer or tumour of the tongue, which prevented him from speaking or eating, and the doctors had declared th*t the tongue would have to be cut out. Upon entering the water of the Well blood gushed from bis month, and he was afterwards able to speak and to partake of food, On Sunday about 500 Catholic excursionists froa Liverpool visited tha Well.