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New Zealand Tablet, 27 March 1913, Page 22

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Miss Katrina Page-Brown, the New York social leader, and granddaughter of Justice Roger A. Pry or, has been received into the Church. Madame Etienne de Szymanski, of Riverside Drive, New York, has been received into the Church, at tho new Spanish Church of Our Lady of Grace. A young Japanese nobleman, Baron Montono, was recently baptised, and made his First Communion in Tokio. He is the son of the Japanese Ambassador to Spain. Mr. W. B. Luke, J.P. for Willesde'n, has been received into the Church at Farm street by Father Charles Nicholson, S.J. Mr. Luke on two 6ccasions contested the Honiton Parliamentary Division in the Liberal interest. On December 18, 1912, Rev. Dr. Driscoll, rector of St. Gabriel's, New Rochelle, N.Y., received into the Church Lieut.-Col. William C. Dawson, Paymaster United States Marine Corps, his wife, and four children. Col. Dawson's father was a prominent Episcopal clergyman. . It is reported from. Newport, R.l.,;December 21, that Mrs. Etta Dahlgren Rhett has embraced the Catholic faith and had been received into the Church by the Rev. P. J. Sullivan, the pastor of St. Mark's Church, Jamestown, R.I. Her husband, Dr. Henry J. Rhett, a short time prior to his death last summer, also embraced the Catholic faith. Mrs, Rhett is a niece of Mother Katherine Drexel. In the Catholic Banner, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, which is edited by William H. Sloan, a convert after thirty years' service as a Baptist minister in Mexico, is chronicled the reception into the true Church of Mr. John F. Wilkinson, a retired United States army officer, a resident of Mesilla, N.M., and one of the best known citizens of that section. Mr. Wilkinson made his First Communion on Christmas Day. There took place recently in Germany the conversion to Catholicity of Baron Cramer-Klett, a Bavarian Senator. The 'entry of the Baton, into the Church surprised nobody, inasmuch as he has been for years most liberal in his attitude towards Catholicity, particularly in the Bavarian Senate. He has been a great benefactor of churches and convents, and restored to the Benedictines the Abbey of Ettel, which had been granted almost gratuitously to his ancestors by King Maximilian I. at the time of the secularisation of religious institutions. Robert Adams-Buell, a well-known musician, was received into the Church on December 6 by one of the Jesuit Fathers of the Church of the Gesu, Milwaukee, and made his First Communion the following Sunday. Miss Alice Lever, daughter of the la,te Mr. J. F. Lever, who, with his brother, Sir William, founded the great Port Sunlight business, has entered the Church. She has just married Mr. ifohn Fitzgerald Crean, J.P., and although Sir William Lever is a strict Congregationalist, it is with his sanction that his niece has changed her religion. The remains of the Rev. John Cooper, formerly rector of Beaumont-cum-Mose, Essex, who died at Clacton, were interred irt Beaumont churchyard on January 17, the service at the graveside being per<| formed by Father Gane, 0.5. C., Clacton-on-Sea (says K the London Universe). The report that the deceased just prior to his death had been received into the Church caused great surprise. The following' statement was issued by the relatives: —' It was a great shock to his relatives and friends when, three days only before his death, he (the Rev. John Cooper) expressed a. wish to be received into the Roman Catholic Church. He had given no previous hint of this to anyone, but had apparently arrived at his decision, in which he was firmly convinced he was right, solely on the question of authority, which, during his residence at Clacton, he had spent much time in studying, and also the writings of Cardinal Newman and others, and he left behind him the material for a pamphlet . which he

directed to be printed and circulated privately among his friends, explaining his position, and making it plain that the conclusion 'he had reached was simply the result of his own study of the subject. He was received by the Rev. Father Gane, 0.5. C., a few hours before his death.' The following cable message from London appeared in the daily papers the other day: —' Sixtyfour of the Caldy Island Anglican Benedictine monks have seceded to the Catholic Church. Bishop Gore insisted on the Brotherhood eliminating from its Breviary and Missal the doctrines of the Immaculate Conception and Corporeal Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the discontinuance of the Exposition of the Host at the Benediction. All the Anglican nuns at St. Bride's, Milford Haven, except two, are joining the Catholic Church.' A contributor to a Sydney paper says that the Anglican Benedictine Order is very modern. Less than twenty years back a young medical student devoted much time in the slums of London to the care of young working boys. Mr. Carlyle, for such is his name, recognised the weak spot in the Church of England. He formed the opinion that the monastery was wanted; because in the East End of London many clever young men flourished, who, owing to their poverty and general surroundings, had no scope for* their talents. In 1895 he made a start in the Isle of Dog, not a choice name, yet the name of the locality. Each separate member of the simple community was expected to develop his particular talent. In 1898 Mr. Carlyle resolved to take the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. He applied to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the late Dr. Temple, who authorised the chaplain •of Mailing Abbey to receive the vows, and vest Mr. Carlyle in the black garb of . a Benedictine monk, and thenceforth he was known as Dom Aelred.