TERESA ilIGGINSON

To promote the Cause of Teresa Higginson, a meeting has been arranged for the 11th inst., in St. Mary's Hall at Clapham. The rector. Fr. Peter Decry, C.SS.R., is to preside, and the teaching profession will be strongly represented on the platform. The speakers announced are Fr. Kevin Cronin, CM., MA., of St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill; Fr. Henry Blake, 0.S.C., rector of St. Frsuicirs's, Notting Hill; Mr. J. F. Parker, headmaster at Woolwich and vice-president of the London Teachers' Committee; and Miss E. Billing, secondary school mistress, of Finchley, N. Eleven parishes, and many schools and colleges are taking interest in the gathering, to which Catholics generally, in the neighbourhood, have been invited.
Teresa Higginson's Cause is now under consideration by the Sacred Congregation of Rites. The lateSt reports from Rome are most favourable. In support of the Cause the professors of the Theological and Philosophical Faculties of the Society of Jesus have sent a private petition to Rome, and it is confidently expected that Teresa Higginson will be beatified as Patron of Teacher. In that event her glorification will be the first recognition by Rome of an Englisb saint (other than our martyrs) for upwards of five hundred years: St. John of Bridlington was canonised by Pope Bonifece IX at the beginning of the fifteenth century.