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in life and after death. At the solicitation of Bishop Bentivoglio Pope Celestine III canonized him in 1192. His power, as we read in the Office for his feast, is chiefly manifested over the evil spirits, and the faithful are instructed to have recourse to him "contra omnes diabolicas nequitias".

The life of the saint was written by Blessed Theo- baldus, his immediate successor in the episcopal see, and from this source is derived all the information given by his numerous biograpliers. The body of the holy man, which had at first been buried in the cathe- di'al church by the Bishops of Perugia and Cagli, at the time of his canonization was found flexible and incorrupt, and w;us then placed in a small oratory on the top of the hill overlooking the city, where in 1508, at the wish of the Duke of Urbino, the canons regular built a beautiful church, frequented to this day by numerous pilgrims, who come to visit the relics of their heavenly protector from near and far. The devotion to the saint is verj' popular throughout Um- bria, but es[)ecially at Gubbio, where in every family at least one member is called Ubaldus. The feast of their patron saint is celebrated by the inhabitants of the country- round with great solemnity, there being religious and civil processions which call to mind the famous festivities of tlio Middle Ages in Ital)-.

Pennotto, Hist, tripart. (Home. 1642); Picinelli, A?inotat. in Off. CC. RR. (Venice, 16721; Suricb, IV; Giampaoli. Grande- memoria slorica di S. Ubaldo Vescovo di Gubbio (Prato. 1884).

A. Allari.\.

Ubaldus a Sancto Cajetano. See GiK.'iLDi,

Uh.^ujo.

Ubanghi, Prefectuke Apostolic of Belgian, in Belgian Congo, separated on 7 April, 1911, from the Vicariate of the Belgian Congo and entrusted to the Capuchins. Its boundaries are: west and north, the river Ubanghi from 1° 30' N. lat. to the meeting of the Mbomu and the Uelle at Yakoma; east, a line drawn from that point towards the junc- tion of the Itimbri (Rubi) and the Congo, as far as the southern limits of the village of Abuniomba.si; south, the parallel passing through Abumombasi, then the watersheds of the Ubanghi and the Congo, and of the Ubanghi and the Ngiri to 1° .30' N. lat., and thence to the Ubanghi. R. P. Fulgence de G^rard- Montes was appointed first prefect Apostolic, 11 .luly, 1911.

.\cta .ipostolicw Sedis (Rome, 1911).

A. A. MacErlean.

Ubanghi (Upper French Congo), Vicarute .\i'STOLic OF, formerly part of the Vicariate of French Congo, erected on 14Oct.,1890; it has an area of about 3S,(X)0 sc|. miles, and is bounded south and ea.st by the Congo and the l"banghi; north by the Prefecture .\postolic of LHianghi-Chari; west by the Vicariates of T/oanga, (Jabon, and Camerun; the mission of Linzolo lying south-west of Brazzaville was tranisferred from Loanga to Ubanghi on 14 Feb., 1911. The principal tribes in the vicariate are the Batekes, Bayanzis, and Bondjos, the Last two being cannibals. The French representatives, e.speciiilly M. de Chavannes and M. Dolisie, have greatly aided in the establishment and development of the mission. The first attempt to gain a foothold in the territory of the vicariate was made by Father (now Bishop) .\ugouard in 1SS3 at Brazzaville, but it failed owing to the unhappy experiences of the natives at the hands of .Stanley; in .July, 1K87, however, Mgr Carrie .succeeded, owing to the help of M. de Chavannes. The Sisters of St. .lo.seph of Cluny arrived at Brazzaville on 21 .\ugust, 1.S92, and have a convent, chapel, and school there on a site prp.sented by the French (Joverninenl. Brazzaville, the centre of French interests in the Congo and in which the bishop resides, is situated on a plateau I'JO ft. high at the phwe where the Congo leaves Stanley Pool. Its cathedral, 37 metres long, 12

broad, and 9 high, surmounted by a steeple and cross rising 20 metres, was dedicated on 3 May,

1894. In 1895 the first two Christian marriages in Ubanghi w'ere solemnized before the vicar Apos- tolic. The mission spread to the surrounding vil- lages and later to the .\lima, 300 kilometres up the Congo; still higher up are the stations at Liranga (at the junction of the Congo and the Ubanghi), founded by Fathers Paris and Allaire on 3 April, 1889; at Bangui (1125 miles from the coast), established among t he cannibal Bondjos and Buzerus and pastoral Ndris, by Fathers Sallaz and Rcmy, in .January, 1894; and at Sainte-Famille among the Banziris, in

1895, by Father Moreau, — this is now the head- quarters of the Prefecture of I'banghi Chari. Near these stations have been established "free villages" where natives escaping from the clutches of the canni- bal or slave owners can reside in safety. Bishop Augouard was awarded a prize of $30{K) in April, 1912, by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in appreciation of his work during thirty- four years in French Congo. Mis.-iiin statistics: The vicariate, of which Bishop Philipijc-Prosper Augouard, titular Bishop of Sinidos (b. 1(5 Sept., 18.52; joined the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, to whom the mission is entrusted; and was con- secrated, 23 November, 1890), is in charge, has 12 priests; 25 lay brothers; 12 Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny; 8 churches; 4 .stations; 23 chapels; 23 .schools with 1534 children; 7 orphanages with 902 orjjhans; 8 hospitals; 5 workshops; Catholic jidpulation, 3500; 2500 catechumens; and 5,000,000 jiagaiis. The hot damp climate is very severe, and in one year (1897-8)

14 of the 31 missionaries died.

.Augouard, Mission de VOubanghi (Poitiers, 1890); Idem, Dernier voyaoe dans VOubanghi et VAlima (Ligug6, 1899); Vie du R. P. Allaire, missionaire au Congo (Paris, 1899); I,E Roy in Piglet, Missions cath. fram;. au XIX siide. V (Paris, 1902).

A. A. MacErlean.

Ubanghi- Chari, Prefecture Apostolic of, in Equatorial .Vfrica, lies west of the Bahr-el-Ghazal territorv and .south of the Tchad district, and extends from 4° .30' to 10° N. lat., and from 12° to 26° 30' E. longitude. This region was formerly part of the Vicariate .\postolic of Ubanghi or T'pper French Congo; its fir.st mission po.st was establi.shed at Sainte- Famille on the Upi)er I'banghi, about 1375 miles from the western coast by river, by R. P. Moreau, CS.Sp., in 1895, among the Banzus or Banziris, in an almost unknown country. At the request of Mgr Philippe- Prosper .Augouard, C.S.Sp., titular Bishop of Sinide and Vicar Apostolic of Ubanghi, Ubanghi-Chari was withdrawn from his jurisdiction in May, 1909, and formed into a new prefecture Apostolic under the care of the Fathers of the Holy Ghost, R. P. Pierre C.atel, C.S.Sp., being appointed prefect Apostolic. He resides at Sainte-Famille. The mission contains: 23 priests; 14 lay brothers; 11 nuns; IS catechists;

15 stations; 17 churches and chapels; 22 schools, with 17.5(i pupils and 902 orphans; 3.")0 Catholics; and 2.500 caterhuTncns; Bouiuhirics: north and east, the Vicariate of the .Sudan; south, the Prefectures of Uelle and Belgian Ubanghi, the Vicariate of Upper French Congo; west, the Vicariate of Camerun and the Pre- fecture of Northern Nigeria.

.\. A. MacErlean.

Uberaba, Diocese of (de I'beraba), sufTrag.an of .M.iriann:!, in Brazil, cniited by IheConsistorial Decree of29Se])temher, l'.l07,si'i>;ii'ating it from the Diocese of Goyaz, and placing under its jurisdiction the portion of Minas Geracs known as Trianunln Miiiciro;ind the following parishes which formerly belonged totheDio- cesi' of Diamanlinii: Urcuia or Hiirily, Capim Branco or Rio i'reto, Paracatu, .\legres, S;inta Kitade Patos, Capao Redondo, and Sao Romao. The dioce.se is bounded: on the north bj' the Urucuia River; east,