The Catholic World.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 15, 12 April 1900, Page 27

The Catholic World.

ENGLAND.— Profession and Reception of Nuns.— About the middle of February interesting ceremonies of profession and reception took place at Nazareth House, Hammersmith, London, when Miss Carolina de Macedo (Sister Maria Antonio), third daughter of Mr. Joachim Antonio de Macedo, Portuguese viceconsul, Leventhorpe Hall, Leeds, Yorkshire ; Miss Frances Gadd (Sister Maria Alphonso), fourth daughter of Mr. E. Gadd, of Manchester ; Miss Selina Bradley (Sister Mary Reginald), second daughter of Mr. H. Bradley ; and Miss Agnes Moore (Sister Mary Sylvia), fourth daughter of Mr. E. Moore, took the veil. Sister Herman Joseph Weir, Sister M. Alexander Harbison, and Sister Bernard Joseph Bagnall made their profession of first vows. The Very Rev. Father Dominic (Provincial), 0.D.C., Kensington, assisted by the chaplain, Rev. W. Burns, and Very Rev. Father Aidan, 0.F.M., performed the ceremony Amongst those present were Mr. and Madame de Macedo, the Misses A. M. and L. de Macedo, and Messrs. Q. F. and Louis de Macedo, Mr. West, and a few other frienda. FRANCE —The work of the Assumptionist Fathers — A French paper gives an account of the labours of the Assumptionist Fathers among the poor and the working classes. In addition to the numerous orphanages conducted by them, in which they train up abandoned children and fit them for trades, and the asylums in which they receive and support aged and infirm artisans, they instituted and carry on another unique and meritorious work of charity. This work is to relieve the temporal and spiritual wants of poor mariners (fishermen and seamen of every kind), by fitting out hospital ships which go in search of poor seamen on the coasts of France, Belgium, Newfoundland, and other countries. These poor seafarem are obliged often to spend their lives on the waves or on the storm-beaten coasts of the Atlantic, where they remain abandoned and without any oportunity of religious succour. The Assumptionists have succeeded in uniting into a directive committee the leading personages of the French marine and by the diffusion of their paper La Croix, and by the subscriptions obtained through this means they have fitted out two hospital ships (the St. Peter and St. Paul), containing a chapel, a medicine store, an infirmary, and a library of good books. With these two ships the Fathers, at the risk of their lives, bring help to the thousands of barques scattered over the cold and perilous seas*. Twice these ships were utterly wrecked, but the Fathers, undaunted and hopeful, fitted out new ones, and have continued to this hour their heroic mission. ITALY.— The Closing Century Commemorated —Colossal memorial crosses are to be erected this year on 19 Italian mountain peaks in commemoration of the closing century. This work is being done by the International Committee of Homage to the Redeemer of the World, aud the peaks chosen for the crosses are Saluzzo and Ivrea, in Piedmont ; Brescia, in Lombardy ; TJdine, in Venetia ; Genoa, in Liguria ; Faenza, in the Romagna ; Pistoia and Grosetto, in Tuscany ; Norcia, in Umbria ; Aquila and Sulmona, in the Abruzzi ; Fossombrone, in the Marches ; Cimino, in Viterbo ; Montorella or San Gennaro, near Tivoli and Rome ; Maranola, near Gateta ; Otranto, Reggio di Calabria, Caltanin&etta and Nuora. Two crosses have already been erected near Rome — the English College in Rome having erected one on Tusculum and the Irish College one at Tivoli. These memorial crosses will be of varied designs cut from granite, marble or whatever stone characterises each region, and each will bear the inscription : ' Jesus Christus, Dene Homo, Vivit, Regnat, Imperat.' ROME— The Anniversary Requiem Mass for Pius IX. —The twenty-second anniversary Requiem Ma>-s for Pope Pius IX. ■was celebrated in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, February 8. Cardinal Vanutelli pontificated and the Holy Father presided on the throne and gave the absolution. There assisted at the ceremony, at the Sacred College, Prince Coluna, the archbishops and bishops assisting at the throne, the members of the Curia, the Dignitaries and others attached to the noble court of his Holiness, the various colleges of the Roman prelacy, the generals and heads of religious Orders. In the tribunes were the members of the Diplomatic Body accredited to the Holy See, many members of the Roman nobility, together with numerous Italian and foreign ladies and gentlemen. Funeral of the late Vicar-General.— The funeral of Cardinal Jacobini, late Vicar-General of Rome, drew forth the most extraordinary manifestation of esteem and affection ever witnessed in Rome. A very large concourse of people accompanied his venerated remains to the Church of the Twelve Apostles, whilst a very long, compact crowd followed the bier reciting aloud prayers or the Rosary for the deceased. The streets were thronged with a reverent crowd, whilst the cortege was passing, and the ascent of Trinitad dl Monti, thronged to its very top, presented a grand sight. The evidence of pnblic sorrow towards the beneficent, learned, meritorious, and beloved Roman Cardinal, could not be more solemn or more significant. All classes, from the noble to the operative, from the artistic and learned to the humblest laborer, were found mixed together. The immense Basilica was thronged with a crowd sf the faithful. Mons. Ceppetelli, Vicegerent of Rome, pontificated, And there were present all the Catholic societies of Rome, the colleges, seminaries, religious orders, the academies, the Cardinals, and the Diplomatic body. No Cardinal after death ever received so spontaneous, so sincere, and so universal a manifestation of sorrow and affection as the late laborious, good, and beloved Cardinal Jocobini.