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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 25, 21 June 1900, Page 27

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Don Jujm Rule, a wealthy mine owner, was received into the Church recently in Mexico. He was baptised on March 18 by the Archbi-hop of Mexico. It was announced a short time ago that Lady Catherine Manners, the oldest daughter of the Duke of Rutland, was received into the Catholic Church at the Oratory, Brompton, London. On the Feast of St Joseph, at St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., Dr. Alfred Roulot. ot St. .Mary's Hospital, was confirmed in Archbishop Kain's private chapel Archbishop Keane, late rector of the Catholic University of America, read the Mass, and assisted Archbishop Kain, who administered the sacrament of Confirmation. There were present only Dr. and Mix Roulet, Mrs., Miss, and Mr. J. Lindsay, and Mr. Guunnersbaeh. Dr. Roulet was instructed by Rev' Father knisella, S .1 The conversion, baptism, and confirmation of Captain Arthur S. McKinley. hr-t cousin of President McKinley, is announced. The Lontto Ma, /nun muk-s the following statement of the facts in the case •— • At t!i< >\ iv o'clock Ma^ in the chapel of the Sisters of l.nretto St. Marj a At .idemy. Denver, February 2t>, Captain Arthur S MtKuiley fir-t 1 1 u-ui ot the President, leceived his First Communioi). The V;i\ tan \\.i-> baptised in tne Denver Cathedral a few days previous and mmi -ml the piivilegeof making his First Comtnunic nin tlie chapk 1 ot the Loretto .">isters. The Sisters invited the nentleman and hi- w,f c to breakta-t with the chaplain in the academy parlor after Ma-*, an 1 during breakfast a Sister smilingly asked it the conversion \\a- not a returning id the faith of his forelathers. The Captai » lephed ' Yes, my grandfather, and, of cour.se, the Presidents, for our fathes were brothers, was a staunch. old Cuthohc ot Ikltast, Inland. But our fathers came to America whilst \ ( rj young and man nd non-Catholica, then fell from the f.uth tbem-tht-. I -itei tin v -ent for our grandparents, and they came to the old hiniesU.id in Canton, Ohio, where the President and 1 were rai-td. 1 was but a child at the time, but I was present at my gramllathei'- death bed, and. though we were 100 miles from a Catholic chinch, he rt quested my father and uncle to bend for a priest. The pi iest did not arrive in time to a-si.-t the old gentleman, but when his vvih.our grandmother McKinley, died, she had a Catholic priest w ith her. Captain McKinley attended the mission given at the Denver Cathedral m October, and determined at its close to become a Catholic. He accompanied a Catholic fiiend at first only to hear the sermons of the Pas-ioui-t Fathers, who, he heard, had a reputation tor eloquence ; but God touched his heart, and now he rejoices in the pot-session of the Catholic faith. 1 The Protestant Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Mahratti inhabitants of Poona (writes The liomharj Catholic j:.r<imtn< /•), which, under the direction of the Cowley Fathers, is greatly helped by the Wantage Sisters, has suffered a considerable loss by the conversion of one of its members to the Catholic Church. Miss Mary Rowley or Si-ter Piisca, as she was railed in the Order, was a fervent Rituali-t all her life-time, just like her brother, who is a clergymen in England, and all her relatives at Wantage. About 17 years ago she joined the Wantage Sisters, a religious community in conntction with the Cowley Fathers ; during the last 13 years she was employed at Poona. In every respect an accomplished lady, refined and highly educated, with a perfect knowledge of French and Muhratti, she was headmistress of a school for native girls. She enjoyed the full confidence ot her superiors in England and in India, and had endeared herself to the members of the whole community, as it became cleai lrcm the many letters, written to her after her conversion had been made known. According to her own statement, it was last Whit-Sunday, IM>l>, whilst at Mass (as Ritualists call their celebration of the Holy Eucharist) when an interior voice told her to become a real Catholic by openly entering the Church which is t btablished by Christ. That voice she had of ten-times heard on former occasions, but never with Buch a force and overwhelming power.