Cures at Lourdes Arouse World
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CURES AT LOURDES AROUSE WORLD e in ^ I D E t o SEHINARY TO Pray for the Success of the Catholic Press HOPELESS YEiKS OF SUFFERING \ n W Given by Friends to Help Educate W m Win W kl looldiig like Ceriise Local Priests R elu n s Ho k t e l l Although no formal campaign lias to have thirty or more. London.— Carried to Lourdes only the spectacle of this wonder wrought yet been announced for the erection The place to educate men for the Practically All the National and International News Articles Appearing in This Paper, as recently, paralyzed and incapable of through the interces-sion of the of a new building at St. Thomas’ Western priesthood is in the West, Well as Many Features Frequently Printed, Are Compiled from the N. C. W . C. News Service. helping himself, William Traynor, a Blessed Virgin. seminary, Denver, the Catholic pub There are special problems facing Liverpool Catholic, is at this moment It is not wise to generalize: but a lic realizes the necessity of it and the Church in this section and the one of the most striking instances of very great change seems to be taking gifts have already started to come! in sacerdotal students can be prepared $2.00 Yr. on Renewnls the miracles of Lourdes that the place in British non-Catholic public for this purpose. The Very Rev. pr. for them if they study here. Because VOL. XIX. No. 3. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1923. $2.50 Yr. on New Subs. world has ever seen. opinion in regard to Lourdes. This William Brennan, C.M., president :of of the pioneer conditions still exist For five years this Catholic man change of attitude is being helped by the institution, has announced the ing in most parishes of this diocese, was moved about from hospital to the tale of the wonders wrought in following gifts, as the nucelus ot a the priest must be prepared to work hospital, undergoing no fewer than Scotland, where at the Lourdes shrine SEMINARY BUILDING FUND. a great deal harder than the average sixteen operations, to save him from erected by the Catholic miners in the Miss Margaret Moore, $1,500; Mirs. American priest, if he is to be suc the disastrous effects of wounds ree village of Carfin, remarkable answers Anna Stall, $1,000; Mrs. L. C. Gr4n- cessful. The place to instill this ceived at the Dardanelles during the to prayer are reported. All this is field, $100. spirit of sacrifice is in a seminary war. aiding in breaking down the old ma '' The gift of Mrs. Stall was made’to right on the home grounds, where The surgeons were unable to help terialistic ideas, and it must inevi th&. seminary at the suggestion of the the necessity is realized. him, and at last, carried helplessly in tably have an important bearing on Rt. Rev. J. Henry Tihen, D.D., Bishjop The building up of a large semi H O lSTEi OVER TO MSiPTiHiTOBESnEOF wheeled chair, Traynor went to the immediate future of tke Catholic of Denver, when she went to him and nary means much to the scholarship Lourdes with the great pilgrimage Church. offered $1,000 for some Catho|lic of the Church: A seminary is a from Lancashire. He was carried work. ' i fountainhead of enlightenment not down to the healing waters, and af Paris.— Practically the entire city One of the next great Catholic En only to its students, but also to its I ter the ninth immersion he was able of Blois on the Loire is celebrating terprises that Colorado must face 1 is alumni and to other priests living in to walk out of the waters without the miraculous cure at Lourdes of a the provision of better seminary fa the vicinity. Parish priests, busy any assistance whatever. local dressqiaker, Germaine Rossig- cilities. The present building ;at with their congregations, no matter Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Mullen on Tues family that has been so generous in work on the new church will be- At Liverpool, when the pilgrimage nol, who returned from the famous Louisiana and South Cook has al how studious they may be naturally, day turned over their old family Its gifts to the Catholic Church should diately. Father William returned, a vast crowd thronged the shrine recently in perfect health. ready outgrown its capacity. It i is cannot possibly find the time for homestead, at Ninth and Lawreilte, to be the site of a temple of the true O’Ryan, at''^hose home the Theatine platform where the pilgrim train was When she left a few weeks ago on necessary for students to room to scholarly research that the seminary tee Rt. Rev. J. Henry Tihen, D.D., faith. Among the other gifts of Mr. Fathers have been staying while inau to draw up; for news of the marvel a pilgrims’ train, she had to be con gether in most of the rooms, instead priest can give, for this is the lat Bishop of Denver, for the site of the and Mrs. Mullen were the erection of gurating the new church, declared lad been flashed from Lourdes to veyed on a stretcher. Her friends of privately. Dy the time all tjie ter’s chief duty in life. Many prob- proposed Spanish-American church. the J. K. Mullqn home for the aged, that the site was the best possible one Liverpool. Spellbound by the sight say she looked like a “ corpse on the pupils are in this year, it is expected (Continued on Page 6) Mr. Mullen, who is a Knight of St. the lifting of over $125,000 of the for tea, Spanish-Americans. of the once paralyzed man walking w'ay to the cemetery.” She is twen Gregory, with his good wife has fre Cathedral debt (making possible the There are two houses on the lots, freely and easily across the platform, ty-six years old and had b e ^ suffer quently shown generosity to Catholic consecration of that edifice) and the the numbers of which are 1156 and the crowd broke out into cheers, at ing from pulmonary tuberculosis. works. The Mullens for some years remaining debt on St. Leo’s church 1170 Ninth street. The lots are No. have lived at 896 Pennsylvania street, (about $2,600). 6 and the north half of No. 5, block Denver Boys Leave to Study Vitb Hope but all their children were born at Bishop Tihen announced Wednes 65, West Denver addition. One of Ninth and Lawrence. It is fitting day that the property would be avail the houses will be allowed to stand as of Becflining Priesb in C.SS.R. and C l . in many ways that the old home of a able within a month, when construc- a residence for the Theatine Fathers. Visiting Nun Says Oregon School Law is Uniting Catholics o[ That State Three young men of St. Joseph’s to take up his studies at Perryville, Priest Promises to Educate Boy G. K. Chesterton parish, Ernest Berberich of 421 W^st Mo., hoping to prepare for the priest 6th avenue, Walter Canavan of 601 hood in the Congregation of the Mis Sister Beatrice, of the Sisters of The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Fox an d'cen n et Hammons of .5!25 sion. He is a member of the little Charity of Nazareth, Ky., stopped at a famous community, wear habits Fox, left on Monday for the Re- congregation that worships in St. [or Missiou Work A m i Mexicans Raps Historians somewhat similar to those pf the Cin St. Rosa’s home, 952 Tenth street, demptorist preparatory college, Kirk Thomas’ seminary chapel, composed cinnati Sisters of Charity, but their wood, Mo., to begin study for the of families living in that neighbor over last Sunday, on her way to the caps are white instead of black. priesthood. hood, and has been a student at St. The first response in tee campaign from other races by their color and motherhouse. She has been superior Sister Beatrice’s remarks about the Francis de Sales’ school. The semi Martin, Sharpe, son of Mr. and Mbs. just opened by the Diocese of Denver the traits of their face. Ckurck of a parish and boarding school at effect of persecution on the Cath nary is in charge of the Congregation D. E. Sharpe of, 1312 South Joseph to raise funds for the education of Usually, they are timid, chivalrous, Klamath Falls, Ore., for the last six olics of Oregon recall a statement ine street, leaves within a few days of the Mission. boys in Spain to work as mission polite and religious, have a great years and was there when the state made recently'by the Rev. William London.— Probably the most se aries of tee Theatine Order among respect for a person holding office law forcing the closing of all parish O’Ryan of Denver. He was speaking our own Spanish-speaking population regardless of his race, and many a vere criticism of anti-Catholic his schoofs by 1926 was passed. The of old A. P. A. days in Depver, and came from a Colorado priest who time this respect has been shame tory ever made was the address of G. sister said that the law was working- said they “ were the best mission tee has been very successful himself in lessly abused by peo^e without con K. Chesterton, the distinguished au good among the Catholics of Oregon, Catholics ever had.” Catholics who Large Crowd Sees Dedication o[ Chapel dealing with these people and who science.