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resident priests (3 for Indians); 53 missions with churches ^5 for Indians); 43 stations without churches (2 for Indians); S parochial schools; 3 Cathohc hos- pitals; 2 Catholic Indian boardiiig-srho<ils; about 27,000 Catholics (1200 Indians), In IDl 1 there were 2596 confirmations and 1012 baptisms (83 of adults). The Sisters of St. Benedict (4S in all) have houses at Bismarck, Dickinson, Fort Yates, Glen Ullin, Rich- ardton, and Elbow Woods. The Ursuline Sisters (11) have a convent at St. Anthony, and the Fran- ciscan Sisters (4) have charge of the hospital at Minot.

Catholic Directory (New York, 1912); and bibliography to North Dakota.

MoiRA K. COTLE.

Bore, EuGjfcNE, Orientalist, b. at Angers, 15 Aug., 1809; d. at Paris, 3 May, 1878. From the college of Anger he went to the College Stanislas in Paris, where at eighteen he won the prize in philosophy in a com- petition of all the colleges of France, one rival being Alfred de Musset. .\fter a year at law he devoted himself to the s t]u d y of 1 a n - gu'ages. In 1829 with his brother Leon, also a lin- guist and a noted translator, he joined the coterie of the Abb6 F61i- oite de Lamen- luiis (q. v.), to which he intro- duced his college- mate, Maurice de G u e r i n. With Montalambert he tried to persuade Lamennais to sub- mit and did not give up hope of the latter's return to the Church until 1851.

Member of the Asiatic Society in 1833, he won fame in the "Journal Asiatique". He was professor of .\rmenian (1833-34) at the CoD^ge de France. Sent to Venice, he published the results of his literary labours there in the convent of the Mechitarists. Spending six months of 1837 in study at Constanti- nople, he went with Father Scaffi, C. M., to Erzerum in .\rmenia. At Tauris he started a school as an opening wedge for Christ ianit3', whose service was always his chief concern. The Shah of Persia hon- oured him for the excellence of his school. In addi- tion to many learned studies sent to France, his interesting letters were pubUshed as "The Cor- respondence of a Traveller in the Orient". In 1841 he secured Lazarist missioners for Persia. For ser- vices to France in that land he was given the cross of the Legion of Honour. Gregory XVI made him Knight of the Golden Mihtia in 1842 and Knight of St. Gregory the Great in 1843. Knowing forty Ori- ental idioms, most of them thoroughlj', he published in some of these tongues excellent controversial works. He was eager for the return of the schismatics to the Church and was aided in his apostolate by his wide acquaintance with the most learned and influential men of France and Italy. He published an illumi- nating report of the condition of the Holy Land whither hewaasent by France toinvestigatein 1847. Entering the Congregation of the Mission in Jan., 1849, at Constantinople, he was ordained there, 7 April, 1850, and made his vows in Paris in Jan., 1851. Sent to Constantinople, as head of the College of Bebek.he remained fifteen j-ears doing zealous work for Mus.sul- mans as well as Christians especially on the battle-

field during the Crimean War. In Paris in 1866 he was made secretary general, and was elected superior general of the Congregation of the Mission, 11 Sept., 1874. His incumbency of the latter office w.is cut short at the end of four years by a mi I ' i'li s.

De la Rallwe, Eugine Bore et les i>i lion

d'ftrient (Paris et. L,vons, 1894); Eiiijene Bor^. hi que

auivic d'exlrails de son journal et de sa cori^ \muila

of the Cong, of the Mission, no. 68 (Emmitsburji, M<l., llilO).

B. Randolph.

Borgluiu (Burglanum), Ancient See of (Bur- GLANENSis), in Denmark, embraced the ancient dis- tricts of Vendsyssel and Thy, that is, the whole of the extreme north of Jutland beyond the Limfjord. The see was first at Vestervig, the diocese liaving been formed out of that of Viborg, which then included the whole of Jutland, on the death of Bishop Val in 1059. Magnus, first Bishop of Vestervig, was drowned in the Elbe about 1060, when returning home after his con- secration by Adalbert I, Archbishop of Hamburg. Albrik, Dean of Bremen, was the second bishop (1066-85). Vestervig was the residence of St. Thoger, a missionary from Thuringia and chaplain to St. Olaf. .•Vfter tha't king's death in 1030 Thoger re- tired to Vestervig, where he built a church of thatch and wattle, and preached Christianity to the inhabi- tants of the surrounding district. He died on 24 June, 1067, and was canonized in spite of the opposition of King Svend Estridsen and Bishop Albrik. Eventu- ally St. Thoger became the patron saint of the diocese. Albrik's successor. Bishop Henry, was chaplain to King St. Canute, and was with him during_his stay in Vendsyssel in June, 1086. Bishop Sylvester (1134- 36) transferred the see to the Preraonstratensian Ab- bey of Borglum. It became the cathedral of.the new diocese, and its canons formed the diocesan chapter with power to elect the bishop. The last two bishops led very inconsistent hves. Their names were Niels Stygge (Rosenkrantz) and his nephew, Stygge Krumpen. Niels Stygge (b. 1455) was Bishop of Borglum from 1486-1533. Stygge Ivrumpen became coadjutor bishop in 1519, and diocesan bishop in 1533. He made some efforts to stay .the progress of Protestantism, but he was imprisoned from 1536 to 1542. He was then endowed with the property of the nunnery of Asmild near Viborg, though obliged to maintain the nuns; he died there in 1.551. In the territory of the former Diocese of Borglum there are fine old churches at Vestervig and Borglum, the former dating from the beginning of the twelfth century. Besides the Abbey of Borglum (founded 1128) the dioce-se contained the following Benedictine nunneries: Vreilef (1268-1554), Hundslund (1268- 1536), and Oekloster (1160-1542). There were also the Abbey of Vestervig (Augustinian canons), which lasted from 1110 to 1526, the Commandery of the Knights of St. John at Dueholm (1351-1539), and the Carmelite Priory at Sa-by (Klaristed), which lasted from about 1460 to 1536.

JoRGENSEN, Den nordiske Kirkes Grundlceggelse, II (Copen- hagen, 1878): Nielsen. Kirke-leksikon for Norden. I (.\arhue, 1900). 4.38-39: Dacoaard. Danske Klostre (Copenhagen, 1830); Trap, Danmnrk, IV (Copenhagen, 1902): Scriplores rerum Dani- carum, VI (Copenhagen, 1786), 545-51; Aarbdger for iiordiak Oldkyndifjhfd, XI (Copenhagen, 1876). 1-55; Bricka, Dansk biografisk Leksikon (Copenhagen, 1887-1905), IX, 555-57, XIV, 276. 277; Gertz, Vilm sanctorum danorum, pt. I (Copenhagen, 1900), 1-26.

A. W. Tatlor.

Bourke, Ulick Joseph, Irish scholar and writer, b. 29 Dec, 1829, at Castlebar, Co. Mayo; d. there, 22 Nov., 1887; son of Uhck Bourke and (iecilia Sheridan, a cousin of John MacHale, Archbishop of Tuam. He was educated first at an academy in Castlebar fiy Matthew Archdeacon, the author of " Connaught in '98"; next at Errew Monastery near Castlebar, where ho studied Irish under the eminent Irish scholar and historian, James Hardiman. He entered St. Jarlath'a College, Tuam, in May, 1846, and Maynooth in 1849.