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tered to their spiritual needs and assisted the local The Bee is now filled (1022) by Rt. Rev. John priests wherever possible. They received a testi- Gallasher, born in Castelbery, 1846, appointed 29 mony of commendation from the ordinaries of the March, 1895, titular Bishop of Aorassus and various places. coadjutor at Goulbum, where he succeeded Bishop The archdiocese has a Catholic population of Lanigan, 13 June, 1900. The religious orders es- 260,000 inhabitants, of whom two-fifths are Italians tablished in the diocese include the Passionist and three-fifths Slovenes. It contains 86 parishes, Fathers, Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer 44 curacies, 63 vicariates, 78 chaplaincies, 316 Christian Brothers, De La Salle Brothere, Sisters churches, 1 mission station, 8 monasteries for men, of Mercy, Presentation Nuns, Sisters of St/ Joseph, 6 for women with 180 Sisters and 47 lay sisters. Nursing Sisters of the Sacred Heart, Nursing Sisters 263 secular priests, 35 regulars and 66 lav brothers, of St. John of God, Sisters of St. Joseph of the There is a diocesan seminary with 18 stuaents. The Sacred Heart, Sisters of St. Brigid, of Charity and latter institution is destitute, which accoimts for of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St. Bene- the small number of students. Two colleges for diet. By latest statistics the diocese is divided women with 18 teachers and 280 students have been into 30 districts, and comprises 113 churches, 54 established in the archdiocese. All the schools and secular and 12 regular clergy, 21 Brothers, 374 Sis- institutions are in the hands of the Government ters, 7 novitiates, 2 secondary schools,' 8 girls' and religious instruction is prohibited in private boarding schools, 7 superior day schools, 76 primary schools. There exists four associations among the schools, 3 orphanages, and 2 hospitals. The total clergy and 220 among the laity. The following number of children receiving Catholic education charitable institutions have been founded: 4 or- is 5720, out of a Catholic population of 43,077 (1911 phanages, 2 shelters, 3 asylums, 3 hospitals, 4 census).

hospices. The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de OAnnii t>^,a / r ^-i -n -trr ««^. v r«.

Paul have left Gorizia and have been replaced by «f ^i? T^^JSl^,.^®^* ^ ^i' X^f^^^'-:^^ ^"^

the Sisters of Providence of St. Cajetan, who have ZJ^t beatification was introduced at Rome 9

charge of the orphan asylum at Contavalle. The '^^*^' **^-

Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross are no longer Cteyau, Lucib Fibux-Faubb, author and lecturer,

in charge of the domestic management of the b. at Amboise in Touraine, France, in 1866; d. at

archiepiscopal seminary, but minister to the sick Paris in June, 1913. She was the daughter of a

in their homes. modest merchant who had settled in Havre, but

CH5r«, Archdiocese op. See Gorizia. Jl^'' }Sj^^^ ^®^™? Resident of the French Repub-

V. vv, u. wcc vwBxxoA. j^^ gjjg received a very careful private education

Qottl, GiROLAMO Maru, Cardinal-Prefect of and soon revealed her two most striking character- Propaganda, b. at Genoa on 29 March, 1834; d. at istics, a deep religious instinct and a love of letters. Rome on 19 March, 1916. He was the son of a At the age of eight she was enchanted with dock-laborer of Genoa, and after his ordination as ''Esther" and "Athalie." In 1881 her father was a Carmelite he taught mathematics and the sciences appointed assistant secretary of the Foreign Ofiice, at the Genoa Naval Academy. His knowledge of and this brousht her to Paris, where she studied theology may be appreciated by the fact that he the ancient Classics and the chief modern tongues was at the Vatican Council as theologian of the of Europe, gainine a deep knowledge of their lead- General of his Order, to whose place he succeeded ing writers. Her favorite authors were Shakespeare, in 1881, and by special dispensation was reelected Pascal, Dante, and h Kempis. She traveled through to the same post in 1889. He was given charge of Europe and with her father visited Algeria, Egypt, the Oriental Missions, and was consecrated Arch- Palestine, and Greece. Her impressions are partly bishop of Petra in 1892, when he was sent as Inter- recorded in '*Une excursion en Afrique," "Prome- nuncio to Brazil. In 1895 he was elevated to the nades florentines," ''Mediterranee": her visit to cardinalate. Subsequently he was Prefect of the Greece inspired her '^Melancholie ae Nausicaa," a Institute of Simple Vows, which was composed of romance foimded on the seventh canto of the members of unusual learning and experience ; he Odyssey. In 1895 her father became president, and also presided over the Consregation of Relics and she utilized the new opportunities offered to engage Indulgences which, under his direction, issued a in social work. Felix Faure was assassinated in series of decrees of the utmost importance. In 1899 February, 1899, and his daughter for nearly three he passed to the Congregation of Bishops and years recorded ner inner life in her "journal intime/' Regulars, and while there settled the very grave In writing her "Newman, b& vie, ses ceuvres" (1900) controvert between Annecy and Bourges, which and in meetings connected with the patriotic and might have had grave consequences in the Church, social League aes enfants de France, she made the At the death of Cardinal Ledochowski he was acc^uaintance of M. Georges Goyau, the distin- given the prefectship of the Propaganda, and it guished Catholic publicist and historian of modern was probably he who induced Pius A to withdraw Germany, whom she married in 1903. Later ^e England, the United States, and Canada from the wrote "Les femmes dans Tceuvre de Dante" and jurisdiction of Propaganda. Amid all his ecclesias- a volume of poetry, "La vie nuanc6e" (1905). tical dignities he remained preeminently a friar, After her marriage Mme Goyau took a prominent observing the rules of his Order almost as if he part in the Continental feminist movement, which were in a monastery. He received a certain num- she inspired with Christian principles; she delivered ber of votes as the successor of Leo XIII, who numerous confirencea dealing with family lijfe and .•-j-_j _ — J .1. r_i_ .^. . .L. ,, woman under Christianity: such (e.g.) as "La cul-

ture de la femme au moyen age," "Les femmei de la Renaissance," "Sainte Gertrude," "Saint< Mechtilde." Her conference "Sainte Radegonde'

iin^n.^^ T^, /n V. !J",**J? ^"* delivered by a woman in the Institut

Oonlbiiiii, Diocese op (GoutBURNENSis) m Catholique of Paris. In 1908 she wrote "Ames Austraha, suffragan of Sydney. The limits of the paiennes, ames chretiennes," a little book in praise chocese were somewhat changed by a decree of of the despised Christian virtues of obedience, the Consistory 28 July, 1917, which cut off fifteen humility, patience, and self-denial, which was veiy parishes to form the new diocese of Wagga-Wagga. weU received. In 1910 she published "La vie et la