ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 8, 4 March 1925, Page 19

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Anxious.—St.- Cajetan, the son of .wealthy parents in the north of Italy, was remarkable for his charity to the poor. "On the death of bis parents lie expended a great part of his patrimony in the establishment of hospitals and pious associations for tho relief of the sick and the indigent; 'theremainder lie divided between• the jpoor and those of hrs .relations who were '.in straitened circumstances. In conjunction with Archbishop Oaraffa, afterwards: Pop* Paul IV, be founded the religious Congregation of Thcatines. He died in Id 17, worn out by labors and austerities..''.... * A LfSTKNiut writes 'complaining of the unseemly noises made by many of the congre--coughing, shuffling, etc.—at tho time when the priest is about to or is actually engaged giving out. the notices,, with the result that if one asked another coming from Mass what the priest said about "so-and-so," the invariable answer would be, "I don't know, I didn't catch it.'-- He suggests that a preliminary re- * quest he-made for silence, as was doiie with lasting beneficial effect by a priest of his acquaintance. '■ ■ ■