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try to assist the Sisters of the Holy Family, already of Sydney. Rt. Rev. John Dunn, who came to this established there. The work of conversion nas been see as its third bishop, 8 September, 1901, died 22 ably carried on by eighteen missionaiy priests, and August, 1919, and was succeeded by the present althou^ more workers are required and despite incumbent, Rt. Rev. Michael OTarrell, consecrated the difficulty of obtaining fimds, the record of con- 30 November, 1920. The religious orders who con- versions is very encouraging. Particularly impor- duct the educational and charitable institutions of tant was the conversion of Griffith, high chief of the diocese are: the Vincentian Fathers, Brothers the Basutos, in 1912, and of three lesser chiefs — of St. Patrick, Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of St. Brigid, Soko (1916), Maama (1921), and Peete (1921). In and Sisters of St. Joseph. St. Stanislaus College, 1910 one of the missionaries, Rev. Father Lebihan, one of the foremost institutions of learning in Aus- discovered a beautiful waterfall which flows over tralia, is imder the direction of the Vincentian a precipice 650 feet high, and which now bears his Fathers. The Sisters of Mercy conduct an orpluui- name. Father Lebihan died in 1916. Rev. J. J. age at Bathurst with 65 orphans. The diocese now Gerard, one of the founders of this mission, died (1921) comprises 17 parochial districts, 93 churches, here in 1914, and the natives have erected a monu- 29 secular and 7 regular clergy, 9 religious brothers, ment to his memory, bearing the inscription 'To 231 nuns, 3 training colleges, 3 novitiates, 1 college, the beloved missionaiy of the Basutos." 9 boarding schools for girls, 13 secondary day The entire population of this territory comprises schools, 35 primary schools, and 1 orphanage. The 543,078 natives (Basutos), 1,241 colored people, and total number of children receiving Catholic educa- 1,603 whites; of these 31,698 are baptized and 11,229 tion in these schools is 4,573, the total Catholic catechumens. Only 5 whites, besides the mis- population about 26,0(X). sionaries and Sisters, are Catholic. According to

1922 statistics the mission has 30 churches, 15 mis- Battandier, Albert, priest and scholar, b at St.

sions and 42 mission stations, 2 convents of men, F^licien, Ardeche, 11 April, 1850; d. there 25 May,

18 missionary priests (Oblates of Maiy Immacu- 1921. His father was notary and later mayor of the

late), 5 Brothers of the Oblates of Mary and 8 neighboring canton of Satellien, and sent his son

Marist Brothers, 54 white and 35 native Sisters, to the Jesuit College of Mongre, near Lyons. After

2 training schools with 188 teachers and 6,716 pupils, finishing his studies he entered the Jesuit novitiate,

2 industrial schools with 7 teachers and attendance but owing to ill health was obliged to leave. In

of 202. The priests are permitted to minister in 1871 he entered the Seminary of Viviers, was or-

the public hospital, leper settlement and jail, and dained four years later, and continued his ecclesias-

all the schools are aided by government grants. The tical studies at the French seminary in Rome, where

League of the Sacred Heart is organized among the he was a brilliant student and won his de^jee in

laity. theology and canon law (1879). At this time he

Batavla, Vicariate Apostouc op (Batavi^; cf. !;J^X''*!l*^L*i^^^^

C. E., II-346C), comprises the Island of JavaW ^.^ffj^^^'"^^^^^^^

in 1855^ he was ordained in 1879, and appointed S.'l^i^'LS^?, h « ^^In"^^ t W ^^

bishop knd vicar apostolic 21 May, 1898. The 1920 P'^MonnrJi ^L^K^S^TL^^^^^^^ ^f ^

statistics credit thi^ territory with 30,500 European, "^^L^^'^^I^Z fcnt InS PoilTt^K^PLl.^^

13,650 native and 185 Oriental Catholics. The fol^ S°°flf I'^^pIhS^?^^^^

lowing statistics for the year 1921 show the recent S^t^ws^o? rd^^^^^^^

girls) ; non-Catholic pupils, 3104 bovs and 2296 copal chancellenes m matters of church legislation. Initio/, *iw« vyavM^itv, L/«i^i*o, «*urc "^.yo »"»^ **iw j^^ j^g "Guide canomque pour les constitutions

fni' ^frll,^''in?if ^Sk f«Il« 9^^^?.^^ d«» «="« a ^«« Simples'^ went through mW ?iL.h!i iS ' hit Iwi! Jf» i^t,fc/K; K «lMo'«- la 1882 he became a prothon6t^ty Apoi

Franciscan Sisters. Ursuline Sistere, St. Vincent de '^m iSr^mS? nXLtr^J .^Lfn^fTi" ™»™ Paul Society, and the Sodality 'of St Francis be^o X^^ci2*^£irfo??hfa?p^b^on

children 637, first communions 14/9, confirmations ^j ^j^ g^j^^^ g^n6rale de librairie catholique. Mgr. 412, Catechumens 10,052. general commumons 415,- Battandier acqliired it, published two volumes, a^ 998, Easter commumons ".6?7, 122 CMiversions of then resigned ft to the Augustiniana of the Assimp- heretics. 403 conversions of infidels, M6 marriages ^j ^j^ ^,,„^ ^^ was actively associated as a of Catholics, 157 mixed marriages and 318 receiv- collaborator in their many literai^r works. He con- ing the last sacraments. There are 35 pubhc chapels tributed to many literar^ and scientific reviews in ??♦Kir''^T'*•" '*l'<P{?"s houses, and a number of R^me and was a resident member of the Societi Catholic libraries puMc lerture bureaux, musical y g^ ^ gjyj j ^^g„^

societies, chantable works and penodicals are estab- ^ j^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ conceived, edited and

published at the Maison de Bonne Presse, with the

Bathurst, Diocese of (Bathurstensis; cf. C. E., encouragement and co-operation of Pfere Vincent

I-349b), in New South Wales, Australia, is suffragan de Paul Bailly, the work that has made him famous^