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••• ■■ *J: ^ ' W ■ The Denver Catholic Register celebrated its tenth anniversary last week. Coloradd needs a strong, fearless journalistic chainpion of God’s Church and Catholic truth, and The Register is supplying that need in a most gratifying manner. A d multos annosl— Dr. Thomas P.,Hart, Editor, T he Catholic Telegraph, Cincinnati, Ohio CATHOLIC REGISTER ON SALE AT NEWS-STANDS AND CHURCH SUPPLY HOUSES ALL OVER COLORADO AND IN MANY OUTSIDE TOWNS. V VOL. X. NO. 4. r" ^ DENVER, COLORADO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 7 , 1914. 11.50 PES YEAS, IN ADYAITCB. PRICE FIVE CENTS. COLORADO'S PRESS, PRIESTS, EVEN MINISTERS LOUD IN PRAISE DF DECEASED ROPE PIUS X- ST. MALACHY ‘PROPHECY’ SAYS NEXT PONTIFF WILL SEE ‘RELIGION DESPOILED’; CONCLAVE OPENS MONDAY LONG FORGOTTEN VISION SERVITE8 BLESS BREAD, WATER SAINTLY LIFE OF LATE PONTIFF THEME r - OF MARY IN OUR ROCKIES RECALL ST. PmLLIP’S MIRACLES OF MANY PENS AND ELOQUENT TONGUES; Sunday, August 23, Our Lady o f Mount in the livery of the order throughout REVEALED BY OLD PAPER Carmel church celebrated the feast of St. Italy, France, Germany and Austria. 2;000 A t DIOCESE’S OFFICIAL SERVICE Phillip Benizi, of the Order of th e'“Serv The Sernte Fathers; therefore, call the ants of Mary.” The saint was bom in saint their “propagator.” Florence, Italy, in 1233, the year and On the day of ■ his feast bread and Solemn High Masses Sung Sunday in Several Local Churches; Blessed Virgin Appeared to Flat-Head Indian place of the origin of the same order.^ St. water are blessed in his honor, to recall Phillip was first to call the foimders of two»of his miracles, camely, the miracu Requiems All Over State; Columns of Space Boy; Story Told By Pioneer Priest, this order “Servants of Mary,” when he lous production of bread in behalf of a was but SIX' months old. In after years monastery of the order, which he found Given to Death by Newspapers Father De Smedt, in 1843 he joined the order and became its supe completely without food; and causing rior general. By his constant labors the water to issue from a rock, by striking it order received a phenomenal growth. At with his rod, in behalf of those shepherds CHURCHES DRAPED IN BLACK, WHITE, PURPLE, GOLD the time of his entrance, it consisted of who fed him whilst he was hidden in H E ' s a i d WYOMING’S FIRST M A S S a small number of monks living at the the mountains of Tuscany to avoid bis top of a mountain called Monte Senario, election to the papacy. 'This fountain ”* Colorado’s press and pulpits have rung ■with praise for Pope Pius X, since the news of his death ( and before the saint was called to his flows to this day, forming miraculous was received here last week. Special requiem masses were offered all over the diocese by order' of the Letters of rare historic importance self incapable of learning the prayers, eternal bliss, ten thousand were dressed baths. Rt. Rev. Bishop Nicholas C. Matz last Sunday, therabeing solemn high masses in the Annunciation, the ■written by the Rev. P. J. De Smedt, the gave up in despair and discontinued the priest who on July 4, 1840, celebrated, attendance. On the eve of Christmas Redemptorists’, the Sacred Heart, and the Cathedral parishes, while requiem masses for the repose of the at Green River, the first mass ever said his mother said to him: ‘Paul, the Great PRESBYTERIANS DENVER BISHOP pontiff’s soul were sung in all the other Denver churches, -with the exception of Our Lady of Mount in Wyoming, have come to light in an Spirit will be angry with you and will Carmel’s, which'will hold its memorial services next Sunday. The diocese formally paid its tribute to the old file of The United States Catholic never admit, you into heaven if you do FORMALLY DENY SEES POPE GET pope with a pontifical high mass in the Cathedral last Friday morning. Nearly half the priests in the not learn yOur prayers.’ ‘Mother,' an iMagazine, published in 1843 at Balti diocese were present. more. The file is now at The Denver swered the boy, ‘the Great Spirit will BIGOTRY RUMOR ASSASSIN NEWS ■ The daily and weekly press of the state has been loud in its laudations of the glorious pontiff. Register office. Father De Smedt take pity on me—I tried to learn my The Post, Express, News and Times in Denver all devoted many columns to his passing, while in worked in many of the Western states, prayers, and I have been unable to do Fort Collins Church Shows ‘Split’ Rt. Rev. N. C. Matz Says He Was giving much time to Wyoming and also, it. However, I will go again and try.' Pueblo The Chieftain and Star-Journal and at Colorado Springs The Gazette and Telegraph were aa Over Contract to Catholic With Pius When Austria’s probably, to Colorado. In his letters he He then directed his steps toward the liberal in their notices. In the other Colorado cities and in all the Wyoming towns the same conditions tells of a wonderful heavenly vision lodge of one of the catechists. On open Is Mere Fiction. Loss Was Made Known. * ------------ prevailed. The fact that the papers devoted so much space to his passing, at a time when war news was given to an Indian boy, to whom the ing the door he saw a person standing making such demands on their columns, shows that the Catholic Church is recognized as a tremendous pleased Virgin revealed herself. This ap about two feet from the ground, in the STATEMENT MADE PUBLIC TRAGEDY STARTED BIG WAR parition is an important event in W est midst of bright rays of light, dressed all force in the West. Among the particularly strong secular editorial comments on his life may be men ern Catholicity that had been forgotten. in white; under'the person’s feet was a tioned those of The Boulder Camera, The Rocky Mountain News and The Grand'Junction Sentinel. Gene Job of Painting Given Because of Prelate from Altar Mourns Blow Father De Smedt also describes that lit sphere, a half moon and .a serpent, with Fowler, the gifted young poet, a member of The Rocky Mountain News staff, paid a glowing tribute in Receiver’s Ability and Low to World in Death of Illus tle Western pest, the prairie dog, com a strange fruit in its mouth. Above verse to the pope’s memory. Unusually fine tributes were paid to the pope by a number of leading Den paring it to a squirrel, and he ventures the person’s head was a bright star— Prices. trious Pontiff. ver Protestant ministers, in interviews given to one of the local papers. the opinion that the wandering Indian the heart was visible and rays of light tribes would become like the nomads of pjoceeded from it. At first he was The First Presbyterian church at Fort ' The Rt. Rev. Bishop Nicholas C. Matz, ------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <$> One of the best sermons on the pope’s northern Asia and be a constant menace afraid, and was on the point of running Collins, Colo., has issued an official state head of the Church in Colorado, was with life last Sunday was that of the Rev. G. to the United States. away. But on taking a second glance ment, denying that a split has been the late Pius X when word came an P I U S ’ S U C C E S S O R WYOMING BISHOP M. McDonnell, S J., in the Sacred Heart Father De Smedt was working among at the person he perceived a smile threatened in the congregation because nouncing the assassination of Archduke church. the Flat-Head Indians when the vision on his countenance, which filled him the contract for painting the new church Ferdinand and his wife. This murder TO BE CHOSEN SAYS POPE W ILL “ tVe look in vain for a thing in F < ^ occurred. He was at Pends-d’Oreilles, with confidence; he kneeled and begged building had been let to a Catholic. One was the immediate cause of the terrible Fius X’s life that be need be ashamed according to his letter, and baptized 160 of the person to teach him his prayers. of the members of the congregation European war now waging. The Holy N E X T W E E K B E I T A L I A N of,” said the eloquent Jesuit. > ' persona on the Feast of St. Francis Suddenly he felt his mind clear and his seemingly was responsible for an article Father, on, receiving the news, retired to Father McDonnell reviewed Pius’ life, heart warm— such are the child’s own published in The Fort Collins Review showing how he had been born of poor Xavier, December 3, baptizing 150 oth his apartments and remained in prayer Conclave for Election of New Pon Rt. Rev. Patrick A. McGovern ers on Christmas day. expressions—and he recited the whole that such a condition of affairs existed. for hours. Bishop Matz was having his peasant parents, and had given so much tiff Opens Monday; Nobody Dispels Newspapers’ Hope of the prayers without- difficulty. He The pastor of the church, on behalf of audience with the McOrane pilgrimage to charity that he remained poor even “‘Tision oh Christma’sT returned immediately, and told his the building committee, issued the fol when the news arrived. At the Cathe Able to Foretell Results. of American in Chair.