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Holy Ohost, Congregations of the.— I. Congrb- Dutch E. Indies. Up to 1918 the congregation waa

GATioN or TUB HoLY Ghost AND OP THE Immaculatb represented also in the mission of Togo, West

^ABT or Mary (cf. C. E., VII-416d) .— The mother- Africa, and in Mozambique, on the east coast of

house and house of (general administration of the Africa. These two missions, comprising four and

congregation is at Paris, where the superior general three stations respectively, are forsaken at the

lesides. Mgr, Le Roy, Archbishop of Alinda, has present time, by reason of the deportation and

been superior since 1896. At Rome the Fathers direct repatriation of the priests as well as the Sisters,

the French Seminary. The congregation numbers six At the first General Chapter of the congregation,

provinces: France, Ireland, Germany, Portugal, the which convened in 1910 at Steyl, Holland^ Mother

United States, and Belgium-Holland, and the vice- Theresia was elected Superior General. At this

province of England. The dioceses, vicariates apos- time the first constitutions were revised and

tolic, and prefectures apostolic confided to it number adapted according to the then published decrees

25. They are, in Africa: Angola and Congo, Lower of the Sacred Congregation of the Affairs of the

Con^o, Senegal and Senegambia, Sierra Leone, Religious. A change was made in the color of IJie

Zanzibar, Upper Cimbebasia, Lower Niger, Loango, religious garb from li^t blue to dark blue, except

Gaboon, Kamerun, Ubanghi, French Guinea, Baga- for the missionaries m the tropics, who continue

moyo, Ubanghi-Shari, ICilimarNajaro, Southern to wear white habits. In 1920 the formation of

Katanga ; near the African continent : Diego the European houses into provinces took place, and

Suarez (Northern Madagascar), Mayotte Islands the following provinces were erected: Holland, Ger-

and Nossi-Be and Comoro, Reunion, Port Louis many, and Austria. The next General Chapter is

(Mauritius); in America: Saint-Pierre and Mique- in preparation for May, 1922, when the Superior

Ion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and General will be elected and another revision of the

Teff6. The congregation also has important col- constitution will be made to conform to the new

leges near Ottawa, Canada, at Port au Prince, Haiti, Canon Law.

and at Port of Spain, Trinidad, and directs at« The first provincial superior of the United States

Pittsburgh, Penn., the Duquesne University with was Sister Leonarda. The present Provincial

more than 2000 students. In the United States Superior is Sister Willibalda. The Holy Ghost

the Fathers are establi^ed in 15 dioceses and have Institute, Techny, HI., is the provincial house, the

3& houses, of which 16 are especially devoted to seat of the novitiate and postulate. Connected

work among the colored people. The preparatory with it is a boarding school for girls. The number

college is at Comwells Heights, Penn., and the of religious in the United States is 199, including

novitiate is at Femdale, Conn. According to the 169 professed Sisters, 19 novices, and 11 postulants,

latest statistics (1921) the congregation comprises The Sisters conduct five schools for colored chil-

2888 members, of whom 1726 are professed and 1162 dren in Jackson, Meridian, Vicksburs, Greenville,

aspirants, with a total of 272 houses. In March, Miss., and in Little Rock, Ark. They have an

1922, the Hol}^ Ghost Order was officially recognized average of 1500 pupils in the elementarv grades, in

by the Colonial Office of the British Government, highr school, commercial and music departments.

n. CoKQBBQATioN OF THB DAUGHTERS OF THE The community is in charge of two hospitals, at

Holy Ghost (cf. C. E., VII-417d).— At the death Watertown, Wis., with a training school for nurses

of Mother Saint George, Superior General from in connection, and at New Hampton, Iowa, with

1913 to 1919, her predecessor, Mother Marie-Alvarez, 500 and 300 patients per annum. At the St. Ann's

was re-elected and actually governs the congrega- Home at Techny, 111., 130 aged people are cared

tion. Previous to the publication, in 1918, of the for. Since 1910 up to 15 Sisters left Techny to

new Code of Canon Law, the Daughters of the Holy eo to the missions among the Igorots on the island

Ghost made perpetual vows after having completed Luzon, F. I. On 24 November, 1921, the first four

two years of religious novitiate. Now the duration American Sisters departed from Techny for the

of the probation is one year, at the completion of mission among the Papuans, in New Guinea,

which they make temporanr vows for three years Oceania.

^lvlr«S^*"^ *""• '"^^ "^ °'*"°''^"' Holy BmniUty of Mary. Institutb of Sisms or

"m KoNABT Sisters. Servants or thb Holy Z^„i^L^;„ ^K, yi^;:*^«>Vjl'^l-^v ^'^If •*^^°*:f

Gho« (rf. C. E., yn-ll8a).-This congregation tefll^Ki^SJ,^^ ^ Jl.}}!^^^^:. °F}^'.,^Jtt was founded at Steyl, Holland, in the by the late Very Rev. Arnold Janasen,

the Society of the Divine Word. Its principal aim „ ;^t:^^ ^t *i.„- *u o- * i i.

is work in home and foreign missioM. es^ially t^ Tkf J^^f^ ^^^1^- ^f ^n™*^? V^rpetml

in those which are in charge of the above mentioned ^"'^ rl p „ j '^ '^ ** ^'"*. ^*"*A ^"J

society. Its chartered title is "Missionary Sisters, I!''?L^^y „ ;V% ^^ 5°"*?"%*^, « »t^2?«<l

Servants of the Holy Ghost." It numbere (1920) ^„ *K ^"^f^ "^ Cleveland. In 1911 the Sisters

1034 professed Sisters, 119 novices. 67 postulants, were g'ven charge of a new diocesan hospital opened

and TO candidates. The congregation possesses 7 fLllT^^l '™' -^k ' ^^ P?"^"* ^* i?'^J?oSf? novitiates, as follows: 2 in Bollind. at Steyl and T^f^^^K ""'^ The congregation numbers (1921)

at Uden; 1 in Germany, at Vallendar, Rid; 1 in "^5"! ^11 '"?"?•'"• ^^1?,S°°**"?l *T» '^ ^'*'i?^

Austria, at Stockerau, near Vienna; 1 in Argentina, *™ ? ^''^^fl ^°i P°<"" «l>»Wren, the latter situated

at Cr«i)o; 1 in the U. S. A., at fechny, 111; 1 in ^* *^« mother-house, and also have under their

Yen-chou-K South Shantung, China. In the home f^^f- P!!r.^!f] schools one hospital, the cUocwan

and foreign missions the Silters take up all kinds ^^''^' """^ ^*- Anthony's Home for Working

of work suitable to their state: the teaching in ■°"y°*

schools for elementary and higher education, the Holy Savior, Sisters of thb Most. — This con- conducting of hospitals, dispensaries, orphanages, gregation, called also the Daughters of the Divine boarding schools, homes for the aged, asylums. Redeemer or Sisters of Niederbronn, was founded sanatoria, etc. They have 14 houses in Holland, in 1849 for the care of the sick and poor at Nieder- 9 in Germany, 6 in Austria, 19 in Argentina, 10 in bronn (Alsace) by Elizabeth Eppinger, a peasant Brazil, 14 in the U. S. A., 3 in the Philippine Islands, girl. The foundress was in poor health and thirty- 5 in China, 4 in New Guinea, 2 in Japan, 2 in five years of age. She was aided in her work by