RETURNING TO THE FOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 41, 13 October 1904, Page 6

RETURNING TO THE FOLD

The Banoncss Mabel Schwenk, an English lady, has been received into the Church in Rome, after which she had. an audience with the Holy Father. Miss Mary Martha Derry had the happiness to be received recently into the Church at St Catharine's, Firomp, by the Rev. James J. A. Lonergan, Rectoi of tiha-ti mission. Mr. Mark W. Carr, late Consulting Engineer for Natal, Soulh Africa, has been leceived into the Catholic Church at Cimie7, Nice, by the Rev. John Fitzpatrick, O.MvI. Mibs Stella Collins, for twelve years a member of the Episcopal Sisterhood at Peeks'ldll, New York, has bedu received into the Church at Albany, New York, by Rev., Ferdinand Pinau»d. On June 19 Mrs. Van Langenberg, the wife of Dr. Van Liangenberg, medical officer to the G-oVernment of Ceylon, Tuticorin, was received into the Catholic Church by Rev. Father L. Paranjothy, S.J. The Htoly FatJher sent a special blessing, through Ca/rflinal Me^rty del Val, to Mrs. Lindsay Clarke (formerly Mrs. Dudley Baxter) and Mrs. Stiaflonl S. Baxter, upon tlhe recent occasion of their Confirmation by ArchbLS'hJap Bourne at Kelvedon, Essex. The Rpv. W. Wingate, lately Rector of St. John-in-Cornwall, Mrs. Wingate, Miss Wingate, and Miss M. G. M. Wingate have been received intto the Catholic Church at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm street, by Father Vaughan, S.J. A brass tablet to the memory of Colonel G. F. R. tßandetsoin, C.8., a son of the Dean of Carlisle, is to be unveiled at Leeds Grammar Sthool by General Sir Leslie Rundle Colonel Henderson, before he became a Catihiolic, was headmaster of the school. Among recent notable converts to the Catholic Faith are Mr. HjaroM E. T. 'Gibbs, an authority on church rniusic,, ,and Mr. Melton Boyce, son of the vicar of Ecchimswell. Both were received int/o the Church at Nottingham on July 2, and confirmed by Bishop Brindle on Sunday, July 10. On Saturday, September 10, Mr. Wyinn-Williams (s/ays the ' Catholic Press ') sailed for Naples, whence he iintends going to Rome t 0 study for the priesthood He is a ctfnvort to the Catholic Faitih, being the son of an Anglican clergyman. He is a highly educated young man, and was received into the Church some time ago by tlhe Roy. Father J. Roney, of North Sydney. The ' Glasgow Observer ' announces that the Rev. J, F. Sch'olfield, lately incumbent of St. Michael's Episcolpal Congregation, Edinburgh, has been received into the Catholic Church at Edinburgh by Father Widkiowson, S.J. Mr. Scholfield, who was confirmed a few days later by the Archbishop of St. Andrews au'd Edinburgh, was preceded into tihe Catholic Church by his wife, "wftio was received a fortnight befoire. During his visit to St. Louis some time ago, Archbk»hpp Ryan enjoyed the happy privilege of administering the: siacrameiit of Baptism to an old friend anld distinguished conve-t in the .person of the Hon. Sotßi W. Cobb* (Dormer President of the Merchants' Exchange, St. Louis. Mr. Cobb has always been identified prominently with the business and social life of his home city. It is a pleasure (says the London ' Tablet ') to add the name of Miss Susan Strong, the American primadontaa, to the goodly list of musicians of note who h,a\e become Catholics. Miss Susan Strong has stung at Covent Gralrden in Wagjner opera— she was the Vetnus in ' TanhaAiser '—and slie is known as one of the most brilliant amopg contemporary concert singers. The anti-Catholic press of Italy are annoyed because a young doctor of medicine from M^an, by name F\dward Ge-melli, has entered the Franciscan Order. Dr. G^emelh, while pursuing his studies at the University of Pajvia, was 1-nown as an ardent propagator of socialism. I-Ite former companions say his conversion is due to a derangement of mind. Undoubtedly a g.reat change of mind has taken place with Dr. C^emelli, because from socialism to religious life is quite a step. A letter written by Dr. Gemelli to the ' Osservatorc Caiholico,' setting ftorth the history of his conversion and the motives for embracing the Order of the ' Poverello ' of Assisi, ' the sincere f-iend of the people,' shows that his mind is as sane as ever. In religion he now has the name Augustin of Milan. We have to record the death (says the ' Tablet ') of Mr. Charles E. Vertue, of Gray&lhott, Hants, and honorary Chamberlain of his Holiness the Pope. Mr. Vertue •fras born in Edinburgh in the year 1842 of a good old Scotch 'family. Educated at the High School of Ihis native city and the University of Glasgow, he procee-

■ ' -j- v j--- -p, — „,. .... -'* /"p. r— v- , dad to! Oxford, w"he,re his scholastic* career" was a very distinguished one. He was for nearly 30 years one of her Majesty's .Inspectors of Schools, and only retired from this position by reason of faifosg healtfflk"vla !890 he became a CatWolic, and it was due toTtfbjlHfeAt the faithful round Grayshott and H<aslerne,r#' efrjoyed the services of a permanent .priest,-, artd the%riKfi&ge. i of Holy Mass at the pretty . littjeohapel ■ whi|.lr #t.. ' Vertue erected alongside' his residence at the. Ob-urt^.G? agshott. The American - { Messenger' ' fras ' iJbefejjS "\ informed by a, . correspondent,, iv r ifueaioisV^Ajfres of a remarkable conversion .w^h took* '■'place Uieie towards the end-Vof "Vast" year. The brother of the President of the TfeptiblitV^eineral Roca, (says the writer), had been for many years a grand. master of the Freemasons and a practical Wfidel, biti he fell dangerously ill, and it was then seen that" the fait/h was not dead within him, but only-^leepfes^ii^He, roused by the fear .of the Judgment 6fGcM. *W&eV death seomed to be approaching he seht for the Archbiahop, miafcle his general confession, and then asked to have as many persons a;T possible' present at his solemn retractation, not only to make it as public as possible, but that there might be many witnesses to the fact that iie made it in his sound mind and wit(h the deepest humility and submission to 1 oiir'H'oly- Motfoer'^tne Church, for he knew well the Freemasons would be capable of saying that he had been influence*^ and -was not in full possession of his mental faculties He received Holy Communion several times. The Afohbisbm) and the Nuncio and different member's of ' tHPeferev yisitdd him often. The former assisted him at tfte last His death was holy and peaceful, 'add his conversion has dome a gr*at deal of goad, I have no dotibt, is he was well known all over the country, having hefd several high offices. 6