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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 21 February 1907, Page 15

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Mrs. W.illie Heaven, of . Ashfield, Queen's County, Ireland, -and The__ Old^ Hall, near Chester^ was recently received into "'the Church.;

Miss Florence Lister-Kaye, youngest daughter of Mr. Oecil and Lady Beatrice-. Lister-Kaye, niece of the Duke of -Newcastle, and sister to Lady Oxmantown, has received into the Church. - Mrs, -Elizabeth Thurman. McCormick, daughter of the late Senator Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, and wife of the late R. C. McCoriniok, former governor of Arizona, has become a convert to the Catholic Church, in New York. - • Mrs. C. Templar Davies, moihet of Mr. E. Wyatt Davies, the well-known Catholic -historian/ was received , into the Church on Tuesday, November .20, by the Very Rev. Prior O' Gorman, 0.5.A., in lhe Church of the Virgin Mother of Good Counsel, Hythe, Kent. ' The Rev. ~ Herbert Leslie Hart, till recently curate of .St. Andrew's, Worthing,' 'and formerly, chaplain "of the Worcester Diocesan House of Mercy/ Malvern, wias . received into the~ Church 'at St. Joseph's, Kingswood, Bristol, on December 17, by the Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips, of Bishop's Stortford.

The London ' Catholic Times" ' states that the Rev.. A. J. Bratt, who for , some time past has' occupied the senior .curacy at ihe -Anglican Parish Choirch, St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, has resigned his appointment and joined the Catholic Church. He intends to become a Jesuit.

The Rome correspondent of" the ' Glasgow Observer,' writing under' date December 8," says : A Jewish gentleman of Modena, Signor Amerigo Namias, with Mswife and ifamily, have iust been "received into' theChurch. They were baptised in St. Peter's- here a few - days ago.

At the Church of „ St. Ignatius, Galway, on November lil, the Rev. Henry Foley, S.J., with the authorisation of the Most Rev. F. J. MacCormack, Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh, received into the Church Miss Evelyn V. Ferriss, of London, Miss Ferriss was confirmed on November 13 tat St. " Patrick's Church by Dr. MacCormack.

The Rev. A. H. Lang, M.A., "one of the Six Preachers of Canterbury Cathedral, and for twentyyears connected with the Archbishop's mission to the Assyrians, both m Persia, and as -organising secretary ., under three Archbishops of Canterbury, has been received into the Catholic Church at Erdingto'n Abbey by Dom Bede Camm, 0.5.8.

The ' Glasgow Observer ' announces that the Rev. Henry Grey Graham,, formerly Church of Scotland minister of Avonjjale, Slrathaven, who became a- Catholic some years ago, has just been ordained in Rome as a priest of the Catholic Church. Father Graham • will probably remain in Rome folk some time' yet before returning for mjssionary duty in Glasgow.

Mr. HeniA Beaugrand, founder of 'La Patrie,' Montreal, Canada, and who in his day was one of the best, known French Canadian journalists and politicians in the Province of Quebec, died at his home at Montreal on .October 14, after a long illness, aged : 58 years. He was perhaps most widely known as a freethinker, but before he died he recanted and sent for Archbishop Bruchesi, who administered to him" the last rites "of the Church. ' On the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle (says the Madras 'Catholic Register') Rev. Father 8.. Mascarenhas received into the Church Mr. Thomas William Latimer, who was formerly a member of the Church of England. On the same day Father Mascarenhas baptised Luia Faik Choon, a Chinese lady. Mr.W. ,J- Fonseca and his two daughters -have 'been re; ceived into the Church by the Very Rev. J. N," Xi Mesquita, vicar of -the Catholic church at Trichinopoly.

Samuel J. Kitson, the sculptor, was buried from Blessed Sacrament Church, New x York, on -November" 26/ Mr. Kitson was converted to the . Catholic Church in" 1887," and "since , then much of his sculpture was of a religious character. He completed ,a bust representing Christ and l a Blessed Virgin statue, for the Richmond Cathedral erected by Mr. and Mrs. Thos. F. 'Ryan, which was blessed on Thanksgiving Day. His Cardinal Gibbons bust, at the Catholic University, also - received favorable comment. Mr. Kitson was born in Huddersfield, England, in 1848.

The ' Catholic Times 'of December 628 says : Dr. Sa-ah Hackett Stevenson, of Chicago, has become & Catholic.

It was learned that just before Justice and Mrs. Keogh, of Mew York, depaited for Europe, Mrs, Keogh became a member .; of the Church: ~ Her baptism took place, in the Church of St. Francis Xavier. Rev. James Campbell, S.J., oluciated. Mrs. Keogh before hear . marriage was Miss • Katherine Emmet, daughter of Richard' Stockton Emmet, the lawyer, lhe Emmet family, with a few exceptions,- have been Protestants.' - -. ' " , The-, Rev. Richaad George Braikenridge Lilly, Master of Arts, of Selwyn, College, Cambridge, Licensed . Stipendiary Curate of , Gonng-on-Tharnes, Oxon, was, says- the • Reading Observer, ' - received^ by Father McDonnell, of.. the Presbytery, Caversiham, into the ..Church on December 13. Mr. Lilly resigned his curacy last October, meaning to go as chaplain - and secretary to the Anglican Primate of New Zealand. He ' has been in ill-health in, Devonshire and Cornwall N for three months, and . has been studying the evidences of the- Faith. -.',.., [ ' ' Among prominent American converts to the Faith is • Judge Walter Acker, of =» Lampasas, Texas, who was recently received into the" Church and" baptised.. Judge 1 s Atfker is one of_ "the foremost lawyers of Texas.' >, He served as a judge on the Supreme Bench of the' State, and, has been Mayor of Lampasas; for., a, .number of years. The coming of the Dominican. listers to Lam- . pasas has " done much to disarm prejudice .against,, and destroy ignorance of, the Church/ and the first fruit of this enlarging liberality .and knowledge was the .conversion of the" city's. Mayor. , The Benedictine Fathers, at Fort Augustus havere'cently received into the Church two notable 'converts/ ,' Colonel Angus and Dr. Gordon Watson. Colonel Angus is the brother "of the Rev. George Angus, M.A., of St. Andrews, himself convert or many years' ' standing,, one 'of the, fruits of the Oxford Movement, whose reminiscences of that period and its personnel ' make the most entertaining and informative reading. Dr. Gordon Watson is a South African physician, at present resident in Scotland. His wife is a member of a well known Catholic family in the Highlands, a fact which no doubt smoothed his way into the ■Church.

The Rev. J. H. . Girdlestone," late Vicar of St. An-, drew's, Worthing, who has been received into the

Church, has (says the ' Catholic Herald _') in this respect followed tlyj .example of the former curate of Worthing, Rev. H. L. Hart. During Mr. " Girdlestone's vicariate a controversy arose .regarding Confession before Confirmation, with which .the Rev. H.* L. Hart was prominently associated,' and in connection with which an ecclesiastical commission held a local-inquiry. Mr. Gir-

dlestome resigned the living of St. Andrew's in Sep--tember, 1905,. the serious illness , of his wife making it -necessary for both cf . them to go abroad. During his connection with Worthing,' Mr. Girdlestbhe was regarded as one of the most powerful preachers of the town.

American .exchanges report, the reception into the , Church of " The Rev. Henry "C. Granger,- for eight years rector of " St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Evahstown, Illinois. Pressed for an explanation 1 of the step he had taiken., Mr. Granger made the following formal statement : — ' To- whom it may concern,— ln making, the change from the Protestant Episcopalian to the Qatholic Church, I- have^ acted simply in obedience to my conviction's, the result of many years of careful study. When- I' reached the position that I could no; longer honorably, remain in the Episcopal Church I withdrew. With only the kindest thoughts towards those with, whom I have .been associated so long, and with faiith'

in God for the future.' :

Miss Hersey Wauchope, youngest .daughter "of the late .Mr. Andrew Wauchope, of Niddne-^larisohal, Midlothian, was received into the Church recently, in London." Miss TVauchopc" is a sister of General An»drew Wa.uchope, who, fell at Magersfontein 'in December, 1899, and -of Lady Ventry, whose death" was announced early in December, the Marchioness of Linlithgow and the widowed Marchioness Conyngha-m are her nieces. Together with Miss Wauchope, the Hon. Mary Thesiger, youngest daughter of the" first Lord Ohelmsfond, and late lady-in-waiting to 'H.R.H. the Duchess of Teck, had also' Ihe happiness of being received into the Church., Miss Wauchope and Miss Thesiger have lived together for many years in London, occupyi/njg themselves with w.orks of benevolence and charity. 1 -

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