700 ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



ROSEBERY, EARL OF. 



sonal attack from the pulpit by Bishop McQuaid, 

 of Rochester an act for which that prelate was 

 later called to account by Rome. 



Seven new bishops have been created since 

 the last issue of this "Annual," viz.: Rt. Rev. 

 A. T. Glorieaux, Boise City, Ida. ; Rt. Rev. Ed. 

 J. Dunne, born in Tipperary. Ireland, 1848, suc- 

 ceeds to the see of Dallas. Texas ; Rt. Rev. P. S. 

 Laroque, canon and rector of St. Hyacinthe's 

 Cathedral, as second Bishop of Sherbrooke, Que- 

 bec ; Rt. Rev. Michael Tierney, native of Kilkenny, 

 Ireland, consecrated sixth Bishop of Hartford, 

 Conn., Feb. 22, 1894; Rt. Rev. Patrick J. Dona- 

 hue, born in England, 1849, consecrated Bishop 

 of Wheeling. W. Va., at the Baltimore cathe- 

 dral, April 8; Rt. Rev. Thomas M. A. Burke, 

 born in Ireland, 1840, consecrated Bishop of Al- 

 bany, June 30; Rt. Rev. Thomas S. Byrne, con- 

 secrated Bishop of Nashville, Tenn., July 25, 

 born in Hamilton, Ohio, 1841. 



Seton Hospital for Consumptives, at Spuyten 

 Duyvil, New York city, one of the most important 

 additions to America's Catholic charities, was 

 opened at Christmas for 250 patients. It is the 

 only institution, with one exception, of its char- 

 acter in the metropolis, and is under the Sisters 

 of Charity. Mother Irene, founder of the Foun- 

 dling Asylum, originated and carried out the idea. 



The third session of the Catholic Summer 

 School was opened at Plattsburg, N. Y., July 15, 

 and closed Aug. 13. It was honored by the pres- 

 ence of Mgr. Satolli and 5 bishops. The per- 

 manent buildings will be ready for 1895. A West- 

 ern and also a Pacific coast school are proposed. 

 The Catholic Young Men's National Union, rep- 

 resenting 25,000 members, held its convention at 

 Plattsburg, July 31 and Aug. 1. 



The most important convention of the Catholic 

 Total Abstinence Union was held in St. Paul, Aug. 

 1, 2, and 3. There were 763 societies, with a 

 membership of 55,455, represented. Archbishop 

 Ireland made an address, and the enlistment of 

 women as auxiliaries was discussed. Miss Frances 

 E. Willard was one of the speakers. 



The Priests' Eucharistic League, whose object 

 is to devise means for increasing devotion to the 

 blessed sacrament, held its first convention at 

 Notre Dame, Ind., in August. 



A pilgrimage to Lourdes and Rome, composed 

 chiefly of Catholics from Brooklyn, sailed July 

 18, and all returned safely in September. Pope 

 Leo gave the pilgrims a special reception, and 

 blessed them and the land " with which," he 

 said, " were bound up the hopes of man and the 

 cause of God." 



Rev. P. J. Harth. C. S. C., President of St. 

 Edward's College, Austin, Texas, was consecrated 

 Bishop of Dacca, Eastern Bengal, India, at Notre 

 Dame University, Sept. 16. 



Arch bishop Sal pointe, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 

 resigning, Rt. Rev. P. L. Chapelle, D. D., his 

 <-(i;uljutor, succeeded him. 



Rt. Rev. Joseph Rademacher was transferred 

 to the see of Fort Wayne, Ind.. in May. 



Rev. Walter J. Elliott's "missions 'to Protes- 

 tants," conducted under the direction of the 

 Paulist Fathers, proved successful in its experi- 

 mental field, for which the diocese of Detroit 

 was chosen. Father Elliott went among the peo- 

 ple in the smaller settlements of Michigan preach- 

 ing and answering questions, and concludes in 



his report that the real work for the conversion 

 of America will begin when the Church is able 

 to appoint secular priests for the propagation of 

 the faith among non-Catholics. 



The Dominicans chose Very Rev. A. V. Hig- 

 gins, 0. P., founder of the order in New Haven, 

 and prior of St. Joseph's, Perry County, Ohio, as 

 provincial for the United States. 



Mrs. Kate Johnson, of San Francisco, be- 

 queathed one third of her estate, valued at $2,- 

 000,000, to Archbishop Riordan, in trust for the 

 founding of a free hospital. 



Rev. Peter Havermans celebrated his fiftieth 

 year as pastor in Troy, N. Y., June 7, and Mgr. 

 Satolli graced the occasion by his presence. 

 Father Havermans was ordained sixty-two years 

 ago, and when he was ordered to Troy there was 

 no church there, and he had to cover all the ter- 

 ritory from Saratoga Springs to Massachusetts, 

 and from Lebanon Springs to Salem, Washington 

 County, ministering to a scattered flock of 2,000. 

 In Troy alone there are now 9 churches and 

 40,000 Catholics, while as many more churches 

 are filled by an equal number of communicants 

 in the rest of the original parish. Father Haver- 

 mans is eighty-four. 



A grand monument was erected May 7 by the 

 Montreal Historical Society in St. Ann's Market 

 Square, to mark the spot on which the first mass 

 was celebrated in Canada. The Canadian Cath- 

 olic hierarchy appealed in May to England against 

 the Manitoban anti-Catholic school policy. 



South America. A new Father Damien ap- 

 pears among the lepers of Auga de Dios in the 

 person of Father Unia, a Salesian priest, native 

 of Cuneo, who bids fair to follow the hero of 

 Molokai to a martyr's grave. 



Pope Leo was selected as arbitrator in the dis- 

 pute between Chili and Peru over the nitrate 

 beds. 



ROSEBERY, ARCHIBALD PHILIP 

 PRIMROSE, Earl of. a British statesman, 

 born May 7. 1847. He is descended from a 

 Scottish family distinguished in the law and 

 official life in the time of the Stuarts, one 

 Archibald Primrose becoming a baronet of 

 Nova Scotia in 1651, and his son being elevated 

 to the Scottish peerage as Lord Dalmeny and 

 Primrose and Viscount Rosebery in 1700 and 

 created Earl of Rosebery in 1703. Lord Dal- 

 meny, son of the fourth earl, who was created a 

 baron of the United Kingdom, married the only 

 daughter of the fourth Earl Stanhope, and their 

 eldest son succeeded his grandfather in 1868. He 

 was educated at Eton and Christ Church. Ox- 

 ford. He devoted himself to the turf and to 

 social duties and pleasures, delighted in travel, 

 and exercised a fine literary talent only for 

 amusement. In 1871 Mr. Gladstone selected 

 the young peer to second the address in reply to 

 the speech from the throne in the House of 

 Lords. Gradually he was drawn into the dis- 

 cussions of the Lords on social legislation, and 

 after a while he came to be known as the Rad- 

 ical peer. He moved an amendment to the 

 ministerial educational bill for Scotland, by 

 which he sought to exclude the catechism from 

 the public schools. He was appointed a com- 

 missioner to investigate endowments in Scot- 

 land. In 1873 he moved an inquiry regarding 

 the supply of horses in Great Britain, and was 



