PITT0BWGL) "PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE MARK XVI, 15. VOL. LXII PITTSBURGH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1905. NO. 3 ing, which will cost $200,000, is to be entirely separated AN INTERESTING CENTENARY from the Papal residence. A LETTER FROM IRELAND. One of the reasons which has pursuaded the Pope to take this step is the danger of fire, which would do incal- Annual Mass Said on Croagh Patrick—Charm- The Jesuits in the United States Celebrate the culable damage to the precious works of art and to the valuable library contained in the Vatican. The living ing Picture by Archbishop Healy—Ancient Restoration of the Order—A Century's apartments of the several employes adjoiu, in most cases, Progress in Church and School. the museums, the galleries and the library, and in one such Pilgrimages of Ireland as To-day's. apartment there was a fire recently. Pius X. had also noticed that the provisioning of the [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC.] On August 18. 1805, a little band of survivors of the many families caused an army of butcher boys, milkmen, The Irish nature is ever fond of the romantic and Jesuit Order renewed their vows at the Manor House in coal sellers and other merchants to invade the private picturesque. The annual Mass said upon the apex of the Maryland, that served as a headquarters, and began anew staircases and passages of the palace at all hours, destroy- ing its privacy. The late Pope asked the Italian postal mountain peak of Croagh Patrick attracts a vast concourse the life of the society in the United States. A short time authorities to establish a telegraph station just outside the of pilgrims. This year an oratory was at great trouble before, on June 21, 1805, Bishop Carroll, by virtue of a bronze portals of the palace. Before tlris, the messengers and expense, erected upon the top. The workmen used to letter from Father Gruber, general of the Jesuits, who had charged with the delivery of telegrams to persons living in live in tents there from Sunday evening till Saturday by the patronage of the Empress Catherine survived in the Vatican insisted in presenting the messages in person to the addressees, ami often causes much disturabnce at evening. They descended to the phi ins on Saturday night Kussia, appointed Father Robert Molyneux Superior of the the apartments of the prelates and of the Pope himself. tor the purpose of attending Sunday Mass, and returned restored Society of Jesus in the United States. Now all telegrams for the Vatican art' transmitted to the to the summit on Sunday evening again. The consecra- Quietly, and without notice almost, preparations have special station from the central office in Rome, and a tion of this oratory the other day drew great hosts of people special messenger delivers them. been going on in the houses of the order in the United from all over the country, and a vast crowd of humanity States to commemorate the century of the great Teaching covered the mountain top, <anl lined its sides for the con- Order which has had such effect on the progress of the ORPHANS' CARE. secration ceremony. Archibshop Healy, of Tuam, officiated. Church and education here. The Archbishop, by the way, is a beautiful writer, and When the Jesuits were suppressed in 177:5 by Pope liis own description of Groagh Patrick is worth quoting: Clement XIV., neither Frederick the Great of Prussia nor A New Plan in Charitable Institutions—Adopted "it is the proudest and the most beautiful of the everlast- the Empress Catherine of Russia would permit the Brief ing hills that are the crown and glory of this western laud to be published within their dominions, and insisted on by Archbishop Farley, of New tfork. of ours. When the skies are clear and the soaring cone can the Jesuits there retaining their organizations. From this be seen in its solitary grandeur, no eye will turn to gaze on source the society took new life and a bull of Pope Pius A new plan, which will make an entire change in the it without delight. Even when the rain-clouds sliroud its VII., on March 6, 1801, fully re-established it in the Russian brow we know that it is still there, ami that when the empire. fccope and character of each of the twenty-eight Catholic stornis have swept over it, it will reveal itself once more There were in the United States fourteen surviving institutions taking care of children in the Greater New in all its calm beauty and majestic strength." On top of members of the society who kept together in Maryland York, is about to be introduced by Archbishop Farley in Croagh Patrick St. Patrick had prayed. Hence the annual and Pennsylvania, preserving intact the property formerly the charitable institutions In this city. The New system pilgrimage for prayer and penance that has for ages un- told been made to its summit. belonging to the society. Under the inspiration and leader- of classification will, according to Dr. H. C. Potter, head ship of Bishop Carroll, of Baltimore, and his coadjutor. This is the season of pilgrimage in Ireland. All over Bishop Neals, who were themselves ex-members, these sur- of the Charities Division of the Department of Finance, the country we have scattered our holy wells and sacred vivors applied for re-admission into the ranks, when they entirely revolutionize the present methods of charity ad- places of pilgrimage and penance, and in the beautiful heard of the restoration of the society in Russia. On May ministration in tliis country. The plan proposed is that summer season our pious people, on days appointed, throng 25, 1803, they wrote this request formally to the General instead of merely separating the children by sexes they to one or the other place to put to God their pious petitions. in Russia. Father Gabriel Gruber. It took so long then for In these days of materialism it is an edifying sight to come letters to pass between the two countries that it was not shall, in addition to this division, be apportioned in five across a party of pilgrims among the moors of Ireland, until March 12, 1S04. that Father Gruber wrote back a general classes, according to their age and fitness. threading the pebbly path around the penitential cairns, favorable answer from St. Petersburg. The first class will go to an institution for small chil- murmuriug from their hearts' depths their prayers as they In accordance with this, Bishops Carroll and Ne'ale, dren, to be known as the Foundling Home. The second go. or drinking the three liging draughts from the Holy fimulfllirttmt gushes pure and plentiful at their feet; or entering the ranks with their former associates, summoned eta ss wilt goto what will be called the FHmary*~Tnst i tu tion, which will take care of children between the ages of kneeling by the old, moss-grown altar, liftiug their souls them in conference at St. Thomas's Manor, Maryland. to God; or laving hands and feet in the waters of the holy Fathers John Bolton, Charles Sewall, Sylvester Boarman, five and ten years. The third class will go to intermediate loch, washing away their sins as they pray toward the Charles Neale, Baker Brooke, iand Robert Molyneux re- or grammar school institutions that will care for children East from whence came the light of salvation. If one sponded and expressed their desire to re-unite with the between the ages of 10 and 12. The fourth class will in- may judge from the extent to which these pilgrimages are society. clude the children between the ages of 14 and 16. These patronized, the piety of our Irish people is certainly not on By the authority given him by the General. Bishop will be placed in special trade schools. The fifth class the wase. Carroll then, on June 21, 1805, appointed Father Robert will be sent to an institution that will be known as the One of tile greatest and most remarkable pilgrimages Molyneux Provincial of the Society in the United States. School for Defectives. It will take care of children of all in Ireland is that of St. Patrick's Purgatory, on Station Father Molyneux was born in England in 1738, and while ages who are physically unsound or whose mental devel- Island, in Loch Dearg. Loch Dearg is a large mountain a professor at St Omer's college, in Bruges. Bishop Carroll opment lags behind the growth of their bodies. lake situate far among the barren moors of Donegal. The had been one of his pupils. He was pastor of St. Joseph's. Archbishop Farley is the first to undertake the re- foot of man seldom treads by this lake during nine months Philadelphia, during the Revolutionary war. The Jesuit sponsibility of putting the plan into practical operation in of the year, but from the first of June till the fifteenth body in Maryland which had commenced with the two connection with a chain of institutions large enough and of August its distant shores are populous. Thousands chaplains on the Ark and the Dove now began a new life numerous enough to give it an efiicient test. There is no throng to It annually, not merely from Ulster, nor yet, after an extinction of about thirty years. To aid the new doubt that the progress of the work in the Catholic insti- merely from Ireland, but from England, Scotland, America, community the General sent over five priests from Europe, tutions of the city will be watched with the keenest in- Australia, they come there to do penance many times a among them the famous Anthony Kolhmann, who had so terest on all sides.