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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 15 February 1900, Page 10

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The London Tablet announces that Lady Primrose, wife of Sir Henry Primrose, chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, has been received into the Catholic Church.

Karl Minati, late professor of the University of Pisa, an active Freemason, renounced Freemasonry when he fell ill, returning all his diplomas to the lodge. Mgr. Cipponi took the Holy Viaticum to him publicly and he died an edifying death.

The Right Rev. Dr. Patterson, Bishop of Emmaus, who is now quite recovered from his recent indisposition, administered the Sacrament of Confirmation on a Sunday recently at St. Mary's, Cadogan street, Chelsea, S.W., to 11 adult converts — 12 ladies and two gentlemen.

Baron d'Eete, son-in-law of the late General Harney, renounced Protestantism on December 4th, and was admitted into the Catholic Church in the Chapel of the Visitation, St. Louis, by the Rev. Father Sullivan, S.J., of the St. Louis University. Baron d'Este was an Episcopalian.

Hon. Walter J. Hoffmann, D.D., honorary curator of the Catholic university museum of ethnology, Washington, and United States consul at Manheim, Germany, D.C., has died at his home in Reading, Pennsylvania. He was received into the Catholic Church some time before his death.

Mr. James S. A Purcell, formerly of New York, wan baptized and received into the Catholic Church at Quebec recently. The ceremony took place in St Patrick's Church. Rev. Father Francis Gutherbutt, C. SS. R., received the abjuration and conferred the Sacrament of Baptism. The sponsors were Senator Jo-eph Arthur Paquette. Maria Georg'ana Paquette, his wife ; Caroline Angers Larue, Maria P. Angers, and Felix Larue, N.P.

Mrs. Stanhope Sprigg. who is a well-known black and white artist under the uaire ot ' Jps<> C.,' and who was for some years on the permanent staff of the J.ady's Pictorial, and has since been connected with the Daily Mail ami the )! inJuor Jlai/aznic (founded and lately edited by her husband), was, on the eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception received into the Church by the Rev. 1,. Kenefick at the Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea, Staithes, Yorkshire. On the feast day itself Mr. and Mrs. Sprigg made their first communion at the same church from the same priest.

Rev. Dr Benjamin F. De Costa, of New York, who resigned the Protestant Episcopal ministry in September last, and afterward save up altogether his membership in the Episcopal body, was on Sunday, December 3, received into the Catholic Church. The ceremony took place in the chapel of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, New York. Rev. Father Thomas McLoughlin, pastor of the Church of the Tiansfiguration, officiated. Among the few present was, by fpecial invitation, the Key Father O'Connor, SJ., of St Francis Xavier's Church. The chapel h;id been elaborately decorated with roses and 'he altar-* \v< re brilliant with many candles. It is understood that the c-mdi, Lite's Piotestant baptism being accepted as valid, the baptism w.is not conditionally repeated, as is done in doubtful cases. This action on the part of Dr. De Costa will not' come as a surprise, for it has been long predicted. The majority of those who havH huherto lelt the Episcopal for the Catholic Church have been Ritualist*, but Dr. De Costa has never had much to do with Rituali.-m. At one time the Ritualists expected that he would join them, but he pronounced the movement ' unreal, hopeless and uncatholic in its spirit and method.' Ritualists, he declared, were merely imitators doomed to extinction in the near future by the broad church movement. He is a descendant of a Huguenot family who settled in Doston seven generations since. He was for many years engaged in journalism, and later on was ordained a minister of the Protestant Episcop.il Church. Dr. Da Costa devoted many years to study mid trav.pl in Europe, and had always taken a prominent ptrr in all social questions affecting the well-being of the iuuusti ial eki..s.s<. *.

Dmntiin Tiini t says .—". — " Mps«rs W, Gawne and Co have forwarded u~ a bottle of their Worcestershire Sauce. The sauce ia (juito equ il in qu. lily to Lea and Perrin's, and is only half the cost of the imp Tted article. It h.is aKo a delicate piquancy all its own, w him must make it an epicm an's delight and a joy for ever. We asl'ei :i nuuilxr of people to sin. pie the Sauce sent us, and they were charmed with it. Our readers should ask for the Sauce and try it i\.r themselves. — *„*