Ecclesiastical and Local information

BISHOPS' ENGAGEMENTS
Westminster For Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster: June 15, Cathedral. Sings None and Solemn Pontifical Mass and holds Ordination, 9 a.m. June 16, St Joseph's, Wealdstone, Canonical Visitation and Confirmation, 6.30 p.m. June 18. Visits St. David's Home, Ealing, 3 p.m. . June 19, Cathedral. Sings First Vespers of Corpus Christi, 3.15 p.m. Clarklges. Attends dinner given by the XN/th Club. 8 p.m. June 20, Cathedral. Presides at the Capitte lam Mass and procession of the Blessed Saciament, 10.30 a.m Cathedral Hail. Presides at meeting of Oxford and Cambridge Catholic Education Board, 5.30 p.m.
Clifton
For Mgr. Lee, Bishop of Clifton: Sunday, June 16. Confirmations at Chipping Campden, 3.30 p.m.
Nottingham For Mgr. Ellis, Bishop of Nottingham: Saturday, June 15. Distributes prizes at the Presentation Convent School, Matlock, Derbyshire. Sunday. June 16. Visitation and Confirmation, St. Anne's, Buxton, Derbyshire.
JUBILEE Fr. P. Canning, P.S.M.
On June 6 a gathering of clergy and parishioners presented Fr. P. Canning, P.S.M. rector at New Barking, with an illuminated address, a spiritual bouquet and a cheque for £280, on the occasion of his silver jubilee in the priesthood.
AN NOUNCEMENTS S.O.S. Conference
A Sword of the Spirit Conference on " Our Responsibility to Germany " will be held at the Holy Child Convent, Cavendish Square, W.2, on Sunday, June 30, opening with Mass at It a.m Brigadier R. L. Sedgcwick, the late Controller of the General Religious affairs Branch of the Control Commission in Germany; Dr. Eric Vermehren ; and Priest Director. Fr Gerdon Albion. will he Among the speakers. All wishing to attend should apply before June 24 to the Sword of the Spirit. 24, Dorset Square, N.W.1, the fee being 5s., which includes lunch and tea,
Travelling Mission The centres to be visited this weekend by the Southwark Travelling Mission are: Downe, parish of Orpington, Kent. Mass will be said at Terry's Field, Luxted Lane, on Sunday. June
16. at 8.30. Sidlesham, parish of Chichester, Sussex. Services will be held at the Oratory, Keycroft Farm, Highleigh. On Sunday there will be Mass at 8.30, Rosary, sermon and Benediction at 3.30 and on Monday, Mass at 8. Mass will also be said on Sunday at Mile End House, Westbourne. at 10.
Jubilee Meeting A public meeting to commemorate the golden jubilee of Oxford and Cambridge Education Board (founded by the Holy See in 1895) will be held in Westminster Cathedral Hall on June 20, at 5.30 p.m. The speakers will include the Cardinal-Archbishop, Mgr. R. A. Knox, the university chaplains, Lord Rankeillour and Lord Pakenham. The Bishop of Northampton will preside.
Virgil Society Fr. John Murray, Si., will speak at a meeting of the Virgil Society on Saturday. June 15, at 3 p.m., at the City Literary Institute, Stukeley Street, Drury Lane, on " Memories of Virgire country near Naples." Non-members welcomed.
Soli House Mgr. Bright, Bishop and Vicar Capitular of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, will officially open Soli House, Birmingham Diocesan Youth Holiday House on Monday, June 17. The Bishop will bless the house at 12 noon.
SOCIETIES Prior Park The annual general meeting of the Old Boys' Association was held at Prior Park College, Bath, on Sunday, June 2. Mr. II. Berme& president of the Association, was in the chair. The hon. secretary's report showed the Association to be in a flourishing condition and the finances also were flourishing. The funds of the Association have lately been formed into a charitable Trust. Mr. B. L. Bisgood was elected president for the ensuing three years; the Rev. F. J. Grimshaw, DD., was elected chaplain; while the Rev. H. L. illsborrow was confirmed in his offices of hon. secretary and treasurer. The president of the college (the Rev. Bro. Roche) entertained the members to lunch, and the Past v. Present cricket match was played afterwaids.
U.C.M.
Organised by the Union of Catholic Mothers a national pilgrimage of mothers to Watsinghain will take place on July 16. Persons who are not members of the Union but wish to make the pilgrimage should apply immediately IO the pilgrimage secretary. The final date for all bookings is July 1. The address of the pilgrimage secretary
is 3, Oakhill Road, Pinney, S.W.15, Tel. No. Putney 7478.
Catholic Teachers
The quarterly meeting of the Metropolitan Catholic Teachers' Association will he held at the Notre Dame Convent, Southwark, on Friday, June 21, at 6 p.m. Before the ordinary business of the meeting there will be an address by the Archbishop. Bishop of Southwark.
Douai Society Bishop King, of Portsmouth, was elected president of the Douai Society at the first post-war meeting at Douai School on Whit-Monday. All Old Dowegians are asked to get in touch with Wilfred Devitt, Lanherne, Hawkshill Mount, Esher, who is the new hon. secretary.
R.I.P.
RT. REV. MGR. DEY
The Right Rev. James Dey, D.S.O., Titular Bishop of Sebestopolis and Bishop-in-Ordinary to His Majesty's Forces, died at Barton-on-Sca on the morning of June 8, in the seventyeighth year of his age.
The late Bishop was born at Walsall and educated at °scone where he was ordained priest in 1894. In that year he joined the teaching staff at Cotton College, where he remained until 1900, when he took up a similar position at St. Edmund's College, Ware, under Monsignor (afterwards Bishop) Ward. When Dr. Hopwood became President of Cotton College, Fr. Dey returned there as Head Master. In the following year, however, Dr. Hopwood resigned the Presidency and the clerical members of his staff whom he had recruited left with him. Fr. Dey joined the Royal A my Chaplains Department, with which he remained until the date of his retirement in 1929. Between 1903 and 1913 he did a tour of duty in South Africa and in the latter year he was promoted to 3rd Cless. When the first World War broke out he went out to France with the 2nd Division as Chaplain to the Connaught Rangers. After the retreat from Mons, which he always spoke of as " the hest retreat he had ever made In his life." and the war had settled down to the stalemate of trench warfare, Fr. Dry spent sometime iii charge of the base hospitals at W;mereux. Then he was sent as Senior R.C. Chaplain to General Smuts' force which conquered German East Afr1ca, Returning to England at the conclusion of this expedition, he was made Principal Staff Chaplain and VicarGeneral to the Army Bishop, Bishop Keatinge. He was granted the D.S.O. and was mentioned in despatches. At Me end of hostilities he was made
Principal Catholic Chaplain to the RAI., a position he held until he retired in 1929. In the previous year the Holy Father had created him a Domestic Prelate.
In 1929 his life-long friend, the Most Rev. Thomas Williams, was made Archbishop of Birmingham. Mgr, Dey immediately offered his services to the new Archbishop and by him was chosen as Rector of Oscott. There he remained for six years and then, on the death of Bishop Keminge, he succeeded him as Army Bishop in 1935. The new Bishop had no illusions about what was in store for his country and for him; it was his duty to prepare his department for the coming struggle. When it came, so far as human effort could go, he was prepared His first concern was the recruitment of chaplains. Bishops were naturally chary of releasing mere but Bishop Dey's persistence overcame most of the difficulties and, helped by three VicarsGeneral of outstanding ability, the Catholic chaplains moved quietly and efficiently to their work. The anx"cies and the stress of' work of the war years had their inevitable effect, but the Bishop carried on, and died, as he would have wished, in harness.
The Apostolic Delegate was represented at the funeral at Oseott College, Birmingham, of the Right Rev. Bishop James Dey, D.S.O., Bishop-in-Ordinary of H.M. Forces. by the Right Rev. Mgr. John Roskell. Archbishop Godfrey visited Bishop Dey in his last illness and conveyed to him the Apostolic Blessing.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster was represented at the funeral by Mgr. J. Clarke.
FR. FL VAN KEULEN
We regret to announce the death of Er, lienry van Ketilen, C.SS.R., at Bois-le-Due, Hertogenbosch, llolland. A month before he died Fr. van Keulen received in his monastery a visit from the Papal Nuncio at The Hague, who brought him a letter from the Prefect of the Roman Congregation, Pro Act-feria Orientall, expressing his approval of the priest's life-work, the foundation and propagation of the Apostolate of Reunion. In 1931 there were 21,000 members of the apostolate praying for reunion: to-day there are 200,000
BRO. W. D0131)INS, 0.P.
The death of Brother Wilfrid Dobbins on Friday morning, June 7, robs the English Dominicans of their oldest laybrother. Born in London on November 9, 1866, he had joined the Order at Woodchester, Glos., where on August 28, 1895, he received the Dominican habit. More than half his religious life was passed at Hawkesyard Priory, Staffs., where he died, and where on Tuesday, June 11, he was buried. A most conscientious and hardworking religious, he endeared himself to his brethren by his neverfailing cheerfulness and ready service.