(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Catholics in the United States have determined upon a course of assisting the Catholics in Palestine, following the visit of Cardinal Barlassina, the Latin Patriarch of Palestine, to the United States last February.
This news was published in a report of the Arab newspaper, “Falastin,” according to which the Cardinal was given the sum of £100,000 by American Catholics for distribution among the Palestine Catholics in the form of credit for purchasing land and building houses, particularly in the neighborhood of Jerusalem.
The loans are to be repaid within twenty years.
When Cardinal Barlassina visited the United States, it was reported that the purpose of his journey was to establish an American chapter of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. The Order of the Holy Sepulchre was founded as a military Order for the protection of the Holy Sepulchre by Alexander VI in 1496. The right to nominate to the Order was shared with the pope as grand master by the guardian of the Patres Minores in Jerusalem, later by the Franciscans, and then by the Latin patriarch in Jerusalem. In 1905 the latter was nominated grand master, but the pope reserves the joint right of nomination.
Mgr. Barlassina is known to be one of the leaders of anti-Zionist propaganda in Palestine.
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