Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 21 January 1915, Page 19

Intercolonial

The fine new chapel attached to the Nudgee College, Brisbane, is in course of erection.

Victoria s contribution to the Patriotic and Belgian funds is £400,000. His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne has sent to Cardinal Logue £IOOO for the Belgian fund, and £SOO will be sent in a few days. The Sisters of St. Joseph, whose mother-house is in Mount street. North Sydney, reach the 50th year of their establishment at the close of this year, and the occasion is to be marked with religious and other celebrations.

The foundation stone of the new church attached to the Rcdemptorist Monastery, Ballarat, was laid a few Sundays ago by the Bishop of Ballarat. The new church, with sacristies and oratory, will involve an Outlay of £IO,OOO.

The Right Rev. Mgr. Neven, of Adelaide, recently waited on his Grace, the Coadjutor-Archbishop (Most Rev. R. W. Spence, 0.P.), and, on behalf of the priests of the city and of the two city parishes, presented him with a complete set of vestments and sacred vessels for the use of his private secretary. An address also accompanied the gifts.

The new Christian Brothers’ College on St. Kilian’s Hill, South Brisbane, is nearing completion, and the contractor will be able to hand over the building complete in time for schoolwork. The building is on one of the finest sites in Queensland, having a commanding view of the city of Brisbane and suburbs, and is an ideal position for an educational establishment. In a letter received by the Very Rev. Father Curran, Adm., Sale, his Lordship Bishop Phelan states that he had a special audience with his Holiness Benedict XV., who received him most cordially. He also had an interview with the Prefect of the Propaganda. Dr. Phelan expressed his surprise at the extensive and accurate knowledge possessed by his Holiness of the progress of the Catholic Church in Australia. Dr. Phelan will probably leave for Australia about January 22, and is expected at Sale about March 1.

His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne delivered an important address when blessing and opening a new church at Chelsea. His Grace said he had very strong ideas about the war. He did not believe it had happened by accident, or the chance action of some king or emperor. He believed that the great God Who provided for all human creatures through the war was punishing sin that had prevailed for a long time, particularly in the shape of infidelity. The Roman Empire had been attacked by Attila, and Attila was called ‘ the scourge of God.’

Just inside the picturesque grounds of the Monte Sant’ Angelo Convent, North Sydney, stands the beautiful chapel erected to the memory of Mother M. Ignatius McQuoin, who founded the Sisters of Mercy in Sydney in 1865, and died at North Sydney in 1893. A few Sundays ago, his Grace the Archbishop of Sydney solemnly blessed and opened the newly-completed structure. Mother Ignatius McQuoin was trained by the foundress of the Order, Mother Catherine McAuley, and came to Sydney from St. Ethelburga’s Convent, Mt. Vernon, Liverpool, at the invitation of Archbishop Folding (says the Catholic Press). The beginning of her work was indeed humble. After her arrival in 1865, her first convent was a poor garret in a house kept by a Mrs. Sadlier at Wynyard Square. A year later Archdeacon McEncroe asked Mother Ignatius to take charge of the new convent which had been erected alongside St. Patrick’s, Church Hill. At present there are over 180 • Sisters of Mercy working in the archdiocese.