People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 14 August 1913, Page 41

People We Hear About

Mme. Susanna Cole, .vocalist and colleague of Jenny; Lind, has just died at the age of, 83. -During Cardinal Wiseman's lifetime, Mme. Cole had many important appointments. She sang I regularly '''■ at St. • Patrick's, Soho, at the Church of the Jesuit Fathers in Farm street, at St. Mary's, Moorfields, and at the Sardinian Chapel, London. >-.; -•; .;r-l' ■':':' : - . ; IV- r / ; :' ! ■ Cardinal Gibbons, was fifty-two years a priest on June 30, and twenty-seven years a- Cardinal. - He ; spent the day quietly in retreat and said his anniversary Mass in a small chapel. On July 23 he entered on his 80th year. With advancing years the Cardinal still retains his vigor and delights to take part in 1 ecclesiastical exercises. He will always accept an invitation to a commencement or a celebration in honor of some priest or Sister with pleasure. In June he had attended a dozen or more commencements and had awarded hundreds of diplomas and. prizes in many parts of the State. He never misses his daily walk, and he steps along the street or across the fields with the same quick step as he did when he celebrated his fortieth year in the priesthood. His health is excellent at this,time, and prospects are that it will continue so for some time. Writing to the Cathblic Union and Times, a Washington correspondent has this to say of Mrs. White, wife of the Catholic Chief Justice of the United States: ' Perhaps there is in Washington no higher type of the proper official hostess than Mrs. White, and her position as wife of- the Chief Justice has not in any sense changed her established order. She is, to begin with, an accomplished housekeeper, one who attends scrupulously to every detail of her home; and is, in the language of one of her intimates, "one of the very few who take full responsibility for the moral and material welfare of every one in her home, servants included." That last circumstance (remarks the Ave Maria) is worth noting. It is characteristic of the valiant woman eulogised in Holy Writ to look after the moral, not less than the material, well-being of her whole household servants included'; and Mrs. White is setting 'a laudable example, which, it is to be hoped, will be generally followed. ..' . ..." :.;.-.-t'.':;.""-,- -." : -.•'• .r y J Current reports from Rome of the serious illness of Cardinal Vives y Tuto recall the fact that he is one of the eight foreign Cardinals who have visited the United States. The incident of his brief stay here in 1872 is not generally known (says America). The Cardinal, who was born in Spain, February 15, 1854 joined the Capuchin Order in early manhood, in which he took the name of Father Joseph Calasanctius. Before ordination, he was sent at his own request to the missions of his Order in Guatemala, Central America, and while there was expelled from the country with 38 others of his brethren on June 8, 1872. They were not given an hour's time to prepare for exile and were driven from their convent between files of soldiers to the seaport, where they embarked for San Francisco. 1 hey landed there on July 1, and were charitably received by the Jesuit Fathers and taken to St. Ignatius' College. One of them, Father Francis, died a few days alter from the privations he had to endure. Brother Calasanctius returned to France, where he was ordained a priest, May 26, 1877, and soon became Father guardian of the Convent of Perpignan. Expelled from France m 1880, he went to Spain, whence in 1884 he was commissioned to go to Rome on important business of his Order. There he remained until Leo XIII appreciating his great ability, raised him to the Sacred College June 19, 1899, as Joseph Calasanctius Cardinal Deacon Vives y Tuto, of St. Adrian.