Plan for Ratcliffe Chapel

Archbishop dies
Archbishop Clement Michael Bakhaohe. titular Archbishop of Chaleedon of the Syrians and Patriarchal Vicar for Syrians in Egypt, died in Egypt last Friday at the age of 92. Born in Aleppo in 1865, he became Archbishop of Damascus of the Syrians in 1900, and was transferred to Chalcedon in 1922. He was one of the oldest Archbishops in the Church.
Honorary Canon
Fr. Philip Webb, Chancellor of the diocese of Menevia, has been made an Honorary Canon of the diocese.
Three generations
A solemn High Mass of thanksgiving, followed by the Te Deum, last week commemorated the completion of 100 years as organists at St. John's, Banhury, by three generations of one family. Mr. James Ausin Hutchings, who died in 1915, was organist for over 50 years. He was succeeded by his son, Mr. William Hutchings, and his grandaughter, Miss Winifred Hutchings, and later by grandson. Mr. Thomas Hutchings, the present organist.
ARCHBISHOP GODFREY OF WESTMINSTER will be the principal speaker at the annual general meeting of the Catholic Prisoners' Aid Society, to be held on Monday. July 21. at S p.m. in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, London.
THE NEXT MEETING of the newly formed St. Bernadette Philatelic Club will take place tomorrow (Saturday) at St. Mary MoorfieIds, Eldon Street, London, E.C.2, starting with a short talk on stamps and religion by Mr. V. Nevard.
Our picture shows the architect's design for the new chapel to be built at Ratcliffe College, Leicester. Work is to be begun at once to the plans of Mr. E. Bower Norris,
F.R.I.B.A.
The present school chapel dates from 1870 and was intended for a school of 100 boys. There are now over throe times that number at the college, and the existing building cannot be enlarged.
The cost of the chapel will be in the region of £60,000. Since the war the school has been engaged, and Is still engaged, In a very extensive building programme, including modernising the older parts of the college and building extensions.
The New Chapel Sub-committee of the Ratcliffian Association is appealing to old boys,
parents, and friends for funds
to build the chapel. The names of all donors-irrespective of the amount of their contributions will be inscribed in a book to be kept in the Lady Chapel.
31 years' service Mrs. Elisabeth Ridley, of St. Peter and Si. Edward, Westminster. London, has been awarded the Bene Merenti medal in recognition of her services to the Church. Mrs. Ridley, who will be 90 on August 2 this year, and who was christened in St. Peter and St.
Edward's, has looked after the church in general for the past 31 years, cleaning the church, looking after the altar linen and vestments, etc.
Chelsea hears
'St. Pius X' A new bell, named after St. Pius X, was blessed at the church of the Holy Redeemer, Chelsea, London, recently by Bishop Craven, auxiliary of Westminster, who was at one time an assistant priest at the church for a few months after the first world war.
The bell had been given to the church by Professor George Catlin. It rang out for the first time at the end of the service of blessing from the tripod in which it was hung for the ceremony. The next day it
was hoisted in a belfry adjoining the church.
Weston centenary
The church of St. Joseph, Weston-super-Mare, will be consecrated on Wednesday, October 22, with the High Mass of Dedication beginning about 6 p.m. The following Sunday, the centenary celebrations of the parish will take place. Solemn High Mass will be sung in the presence of Bishop Rudderham of Clifton. The Mayor and Mayoress and members of the Council of Weston will attend.
In thanksgiving
Nearly two years ago many people attending Mass at the Sacred Heart church, Exeter, had a narrow escape when several tons of masonry crashed from the porch parapet. No one was injured, and in thanksgiving the parishioners presented the church with a new monstrance, which was used for the first time recently in the procession of the Blessed Sacrament on the feast of the Sacred Heart.