Pittate®!) fattoli*? VOL LXX. PITTSBURGH, THURSDAY, JUNE 1,- /13. NO. 25 PIONEER PRIESTS. THE SCHOOLS THE i^L ACHIEVED EDUCATIONAL. After Two Hundred Fifty Years Hon- v o ADDRESS OF THE RT. REV. BISHOP Gathering at New Orleans Will Be or Will Be Conferred. FOR MAN » EARS AN ACTOR, MAR- REGIS CANEVIN, D.D., TO THE Large. RIED AND WIDOWED, NOW OR- GRADUATES '13 OF DUQUESNE We are pleased to note that the Catholics of Western Illinois are taking measures to DAINED TO THE PRIESTHOOD. UNIVERSITY. perpetuate the memory of the pioneer priests of the state. Rt. Rev. Btshoo Garvey, of the diocese fie tenth annual meeting ofthe Cathnb I he celebrated natural monument Lducafonal Association at New Orleans Ater the conferring of diplomas and de- Oi Altoona, on Tuesday, June 17, in the on June 30, would nm h. uriean;, grees at the graduating exercises of Du- known as "Starved Rock" has been pur- pro-Cathedral of St. John, Altoona, raised quesne University in Memorial hall, Tues- chased by the state and will be dedicated to the priesthood Michael J. Byrne, day, June 17, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Cane- in August as a state park. It is proposed known to almost all theatre goers in con- vin made the following address: to erect shortly before that time, a short nection with the play "Eight Bells." distance west, at what is known as Kas- It is indeed most gratifying to see the "Michael J. Byrne was born in Norwich, e great interest of Pittsburghers in the kaskia, a large cross in memory of the Conn., in the year 1856, and lived there , meetings of this association IS pioneer priests, the first white men that work of education. There is no better and went to school until he went to Pitts- r Ct e r evidence of civilization than interest in the come to what is now La Salle county, 111. burgh at the age of 15 or 16 to prepare neve« Cr r beeb ne Faanyl entertainmen" t of visitorhas It was on Starved Rock that Marquette schools. After all, nothing is of such im- for the priesthood. When he had studied P thiS yt ar cal,s celebrated Mass before the Kaskaskia In- 1 ual Xrt" ° r ; io/Tnn. portance as the education of the young for two years his spiritual director" ad- g C apphcatlon and the graduation from higher schools dians. vised him to abandon his ambition and he members ' the of young men and women. The greatest It was in 1673 when Marquette entered the left. Soon afterward he went on the stage. Eight hundred Sisters from Catholic production of the world is a good man, Mississippi at Prairie du Chien, floated He was an actor in "Eight Bells'' when down the river, which he called Concep- Cnited States ^^ attend the 1 S greater by far than any product of our it was first brought from England by The Sister« i convention. mills and factories; they are the one thing tion, as far as the Arkansas. On his re- Primrose and West and continued in that Mf ?lsterf> will be entertained at the dif that secures the stability of the family turn he ascended the Illinois and visited capacity for two years. Then he and his lerent convents and over 100 will be the these Indians, to whom he returned two guests of the Ursuline« Ti,„ • and society. The family and the state de- three brothers bought the show and he will be Ii«.l i ,, v. he convention pend on the schools. The state is never years afterwards and established a mission became manager continuing until shortly a arquettc among them. nriJ . H University. In stronger than its chief element, the fami • before he entered St. Francis College, order to arrange tor their entertainment a ly. The history of civilization has been 1 his whole country recalls memories of Loretto, making a show career of 22 years, committee of Catholic ladies has be™ the history of progress in schools and Allouez, Marquette, Hennepin, Joliet and and a remarkably successful one. He was formed, made up of representatives of the scholars. So it was in ancient times; so La Salle. priests and soldiers—they have married early in 1880 to Miss Mary E different C athohc women's organizations it has been in the best periods of the mod- left their names to mark the places where Scanlon, of Norwich, and they had five ern world. they labored and planted the cross and children, of whom three are living. The COMING CATHOLIC~EVENTS the banner of France. Jesuits and Recol- death of Mrs. Byrne, about five years ago, We read of the immense crowds at the n ju Cathol ic lects, they were the first to bring the is what led to the re-awakening of an soda tion°" -fe *!r , Educational As- graduation contests of the intellectual ath- a Ual leties of the schools of ancient times. And kn owledge of Christianity to the Indians abandoned ambition. Orleans" La "" meting at New and now, 250 years after, it is fitting that ic is a commentary on the empty boast- Rev. John S. Dunn, of Providence, R. I , J ly 5 25 FoUrth trien the Catholics of Illinois should mark with tn fi! J " 7 <?iSl and elev- ing of. our own day to read that in the .ame in close contact with Mr. Byrne af- enth convention of the Ladies' Catho'ic the cross the scene of their labors, that >r the death of his wife and he urged middle ages, miscalled the Dark Ages, no future generations may be led to investi- Benevolent Association at Atlantic City, hall in a university city would hold the the grief-stricken man to take up his stud- gate the work they did and the influence ies and prepare himself for the priesthood. St populace who filled the great streets and they exerted in the history and upbuild- tionT 5-9_Fifteenth biennial interna- squares, so eager were they to witness the During all these years Michael had kept n f the Catholi ing of the Church in the west. on studying because he liked it, particu- of Fores|l ° ° < Order larly in Latin, and he had become a Latin (Continued on Page Nine.) Km\!hlt,f ,r?r.Sup,remC convontion of the NO SURPRISE IN ROME. scholar. This fact has stood him in good i L olu , lbus ASS in* , I 1 l -at Boston, Mass. To nobody in Rome, least of all to the stead and greatly shortened his course in Fed!»rati ' -2 '¿-The American VATICAN LOSES SUIT. Vatican, does the news regarding the de- the college at Loretto. iat i °n 01 Societies—Twelfth For the first time since the downfall of cision of the house of delegates at Lisbon When Mr. Byrne left New England Foi national convention at Milwaukee, Wis. the Pope's temporal power the Vatican to abolish the Portuguese legation to the Brooklyn bather Dunn enjoined him to has formally essayed a light in the Italian Holy See come as a surprise. The so-call- call on Dr. Doyle then associate rector of NEW ROMAN COLLEGE. law courts and has been defeated. Seven ed separation law was repudiated by the Our Lady of the Angels church of that Uith the termination of the present years ago Cardinal Tripepi died in Rome Pope; the Vatican nuncio has not resided city. I)r. Doyle too urged him to study academic year the Roman Seminary, and leaving his large fortune to the "Pontiff in Lisbon since the outbreak of the revo- and aided him in doing so until he (Dr. of Uinare Pius IX or his eventual successor." lution; and every semblance of diplomatic Doyle) decided to leave the secular priest hi T, t^ AP° will be closed hood and to enter the Third Order Reg- I . " y l a,hl'r has decided that the The Cardinal's heirs, defying the Papal communication between the Holy See and , U ,g ou rse of the government has disappeared. Now the ular at St. Francis in May, 1910. At his Iw < ! | '" 1, u f . completion on excommunication against those who cite the Coelian HiII, beside the Basilica of St ecclesiastics before civil tribunals, claim* last weak tie is severed and the Grand earnest solicitation his pupil followed him ed that the terms of the will indicated the Orient rejoices. However, it is commonly thither in June of that year and began his John Lateran will open in August to re- bequest was not a personal gift to the held on the continent that inasmuch as studies regularly in the college. sfiM,Vi,e st-r, ts and staffs Of those in- Holy See, which, being in the eyes of the France, a stronger nation, regrets having ahJ h hC "eW C.°llege wiI1 ^ cap- able of housing five hundred students as Italian law, a moral corporation, is ob- broken off relations with the lloly See, TO HONOR IRISH HEROES. well as providing them with class-halls. liged to seek and obtain royal authoriza- a great length of time w-ll not be neces- Governor Sulzer, of New York, "has tion through the council of state in order sary to open the eyes of the Portuguese BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. to enjoy any inheritance. to the folly of the step that has been just signed the bill granting an appropriation taken. for a memorial to Meagher's Irish Brig- I'our town councillors of Somma Vesuv- The Roman court upheld this conten- iana, near Naples, at the foot of the Ve- tion, whereupon Pius A., while trying to ade and the Corcoran Legion, to be erect- ed in Manhattan.