Here and There

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 24, 1 July 1925, Page 45

Here and There

jl Chevalier Sister Julie.—Sister Julie, - for-< merly Mother Superior of Gerbeviller (Lor- ’ raine) Hospital, who for ( her, bra-:-u very .and devotion when . the Germans , pillaged the village and massacred the in- : ( j habitants was made a Chevalier of the Legion ■of Honor, has died at Nancy at the age of .71. . . . • • • • Admiral Ordained Priest. — great number of French naval officers assisted at the . ordination of Admiral Malcor, performed by the Bishop of Carthage. The new priest was for 1 many ''years, Commander of the Port at ; Bizerta, arid owned large estates in Tunisia which he has now made over, to the Church, 5 } ■ A reserve officer, formerly a lawyer at Nancy, was ordained at the same time. ■ sy : .r- - v . *■■ » • ■ ■ ... - ' Lord Fitz Alan, K.G.—The Right Hon. -Viscount Fitz Alan of Derwent has just been appointed a Knight of the Garter.-. Formerly known as Lord Edmund Talbot, the > . new K.G. is a brother of the late Duke of Norfolk and an uncle of the present Duke, He is also the Acting Earl Marshal of Eng- ; land, and will hold that office until the young ~ Duke of Norfolk comes of age. Lord Fitz- • Alan was the last English Viceroy in Ire- • ‘land, and he is the only Catholic among the . , non-Royal Knights of the Garter. , » » * v A Catholic Evidence Neophyte.—“ Newsman,” writing in the Daily News of recent date, says:—“Walking through Hyde Park the other evening I came on a dark-hairdd, ... dark-eyed, striking-looking young man, v perched on a rostrum and earnestly address- , ' ing a crowd on behalf of the Catholic Evid- -- ence Guild. His accent bespoke the public \~i\' school, his crisp, careful enunciation be-

brought back. One of the bells was cast in 1799, and the other in 1808. It is said -the larger bell could be heard in Monterey, five miles away ' over wooded hills, when it was tolled in the old days to call the Indians to prayer. ■ ' ' • ■‘ r ' V. * • •. • Letters of Mary Queen of Scots. The Catholics of Scotland will have heard with ■ pleasure that there has just been acquired , for the National Library a unique collection of i letters written by Mary Queen of Scots, < Scotland’s martyred Catholic Queen, as well as others written •by prominent persons closely' connected with the Queen, including :■ her husband, her mother, and her son. This priceless collection of letters, which has hitherto been in private hands, has been purchased for the nation by public subscription, through the patriotic efforts of Dr. Walter Seton of Abercorn, who had 'previously secured for the , Scots National Museum a number of Queen Mary’s jewels. ’ Dr. Seton, who is secretary, and also professor of University College, London, is a brother of Sir Bruce Seton, Bart., of Abercorn, whose claim to the very ancient Scottish barony of, , Seton is at present before the House of Lords. Another ‘ brother is Dom Benedict r Seton, 0.5.8., a member of the Benedictine Community at Fort-Augustus. ♦ * * A Famous Walker Joins the Church.—An American exchange, under date May 19, says:—“At the age of eight-eight as a climax to his sensational career as the world’s greatest pedestrian, Edward Payson Weston, is to be received into the Church at the Shrine 'of the Little Flower, St. Helena’s Church, Centre Square, Philadelphia. His record is 127 miles for 24 hours, 562 miles in 6 days, 1326 miles in 25 days, 3500 miles in 77 days, and 495 miles in 29 days, at the

agO of eighty-four. Mr. Weston is a .world- / famous character. He has walked more’than ■ 100.000: miles, and demonstrated to millions of ' 7 ■ 7 , ... . -a . , . • , ' -A;.rv- f people the necessity- of, this simple form of exercise as the greatest asset to health., In ;/ speaking of his conversion, Mr. Weston says: ; . “Truly the ways of the Lord are wonderful. r .1 have walked many, 'many miles in my life and have seen more cities and towns than any living man. Last winter I walked into A a little country shrine at Centre Square, outside of Norristown. They told me it was ' the Shrine of the Little Flower. By some A impulse, I know not what, I prayed that I 1 would see the . truth.' The winter in the : 'country ..was as hard as any'l have known; the roads were impassable and. covered with 'l ice and snow, but every Sunday: I crossed V the fields to pray at, the shrine of the .little ? saint, and before long I found myself kneel- • ing for benediction. I was becoming a Catholic almost in spite of myself., Many menhave wondered at my life as a pedestrian, , but I have walked not in vain. I see it all now. I regret that the shadows are growing f: longer. I am beyond the scriptural age; | four score and eight makes a difference and a my hair has. long been whitened with the snow that never melts. I wish I could borrow from the past. I know ; my Bible. In 1889 for the i Church of England 1 I walked -; 5000 miles through Great Britain and preach- ' ed against the evils of intemperance. I wish I could now start that distance once / again, I could find many a Nathaniel under the fig tree searching for light. Like Philip < I could tell , him how I found the Messias, arid relate to him a great miracle of grace —how the youngest of God’s pure saints, my own Little Teresa,* took by the hand an old man ,and at a little country shrine led him to the blessed feet of Him, Who, too, was / a wanderer among men and had not a place ;} to lay His head. • Truly I have finished my ■ course, but I have found Faith.”

; trayed tuition in the art of public speaking. •' I wonder how many of his audience recogfA nised. in him Mr. Romilly John, son of Mr. Augustus John, the artist. The contrast with a wild-eyed orator on a neighboring rostrum was indeed a strange one,, even among, the many varieties of Hyde Park orators.” The energies of the Catholic Evi- .. dence Guild in attracting and training Catholic young men to carry on its open-air : propaganda in England are evidently V; a. decided impression on public attention. i :x'-. c.. . • • . •• ■ ■ • • .. < * Vi;\- :*■ -J'- : f * 'V,. * * * N ' , ; Stolen Bells Returned to. Mission. Two historic bells, brought from Spain in the days of the Spanish Occupation, have been, . restored to the old Carmel Mission Church ; lat Monterey, U.S.A., after having been ■ missing since .1830. The bells were stolen . during the Mexican regime, and one was . sent to Soledad, and the other; to San . .Antonio. Monsignor Mestres, pastor of the , : parish, which includes the Carmel Mission, \ } heard of the bells and, . when an investigaItion of their history disclosed ,that they had Sheen stolen , from the Mission, had them v : . ■