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tinctions such as the Legion of Honor, Academic depending in a direct way upon the Holy See and

Palms, Gold and Silver Medal decorations, etc. engaged exclusively in laboring for the conversion of

The mother-house is at Marseilles. The institute the negro race. The Society is governed by a superior

is governed by a mother fpeneral and four assistants, general who is elected for a period of six years by a

and is divided into provinces with a mother pro- general chapter, apd is assisted by a council of four

vincial for each. The constitutions of the order are consultors. The present superior general, the Very

adapted to the Rule of St. Augustine and were Rev. Louis B. Pastorelli, was elected in June, 1918.

mooified according to the new Code of Canon Law Since the American foundation in 1892, the Society,

when they were finally approved in Januanr. 1910. then few in numbers, has developed steadily m

The present superior general is Mother Celine J. membership and in influence in the work for which it

Le Bouffo, unanimously re-elected for the fourth was established. At present there is a member^p

time. of 73 priests, in charge of 47 parishes and 24 attached

Sisters of St. Joseph of the Most Sacred missions. Tiiese are scattered throughout 15 dioceses. Heart of Jesus (cf. C. E., VIII — 518c). — ^The situated for the most part in the ^uth. There are rules and constitutions of this community were 6 missions in Alabama, 1 in Arkansas, 2 in Delaware, approv^ by Pope Pius IX in 1874, Sister Mary 1 in the District of Columbia, 2 in Florida, 11 in (Mackillop) having gone to Rome in the preceding Louisiana, 4 in Maryland, 4 in Mississippi, 2 in North year to obtain papal approbation. In 1881 Pope Carolina, 1 in New York, at Buffalo, 3 m Tennessee, Leo XIII sent a rescript authorizing the establish- 7 in Texas, and 3 in Virginia. Their missionary ment of the mother-house in Sydney and in 1888 he activities extend to all Southern States with the raised the institute to a congregation. Final approba- exception of Georgia and South Carolina. Efforts are tion of the constitutions of the congregation was made to build up an educational system in both granted by Pope Benedict XV, 18 January, 1920. urban and rural communities. Besicies conducting The first mother general was Mother Mary of the 51 parochial grammar schools, there has been a Cross (Mackillop), who was succeeded by Mother recent development of high school departments of Bernard and re-elected upon the latter 's death in which at present there are four. At this date there 1898. Mother Mary had not completed her second is an enrollment of 8606 colored pupils. In addition term as superior when she died in 1909, and was to activities in the mission field itself, St. Joseph's succeeded by Mother M. Batista (d. 1918). The Society conducts St. Joseph's Seminary, the mother- present mother general is Mother M. Laurence, house, in Baltimore, where aspirants are trained for elected 1918. The congregation is spread thoughout the colored missions; Epiphany Apostolic College, Australia and New Zealand, and numbers: 1219 Walbrook, Baltimore, a preparatorv college for Sisters, 183 houses, 11 charitable institutions with St. Joseph's Seminary; St. Joseph's Industrial 2409 inmates, 209 schools with 26,401 pupils. School, Clayton, Delaware; an agricultural and

trade school for colored boys; and St. Joseph's

Saint Joseph, Sons op (cf. C. E., VIII— 519c).— Orphanage, Wilmington. Delaware, for colored boys.

The centenary of the foundation of the institute was The "Colored Harvest," bi-monthlv. is the official

celebrated privately because of the war, on 1 May, organ of the Josephite Fathers^ published in Balti-

1917. The term of the present superior general, more. "St. Anthony's Guide!' is the monthly organ

Pr. Felix de Vli^he, expires in 1922. The rules of St. Joseph's Industrial School, Clayton, Del.

of the congregation, revised to conform with the Code Louis B. Pastorelli.

of Canon Law, have been submitted to the Holy ^ galnt Joseph's Society for Foreign Missions,

for approval. The Fathers have as their special See Foreign Missions, Saint Joseph's Society for. work the education of boys of the high and middle

classes in boarding and day schools. They have Saint Louis, Archdiocese op (Sancti Ludovici;

four institutions as follows: Gramraont, with an at- cf. C. E., XIII — 357c), in Missouri. Among the

tendance of 450 boys; Molle, with 330 boys; Louvain, Catholics in the Archdiocese of St. Louis there are

with 600 boys; Weybridge, with 150 boys; making many and various nationalities; aside from the

a total of 1530 boys under their instruction. The descendants of the early Irish and German people

Belgian houses suffered much during the World we find those of Polish extraction and Polish immigra-

War, but the^r are still maintained and in repair, tion, many of French extraction, and a decided

The congregation numbers 100 members, of wnom number of Italians, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Bohem-

54 are priests. ians, and some few from Spain, Mexico, Austria,

and Servia. During the past few vears many notable

Saint Joseph's Society for Colored Missions (cf. clergymen and laymen have departed this life.

C. E., VIII — 521c), commonlv called the Josephite Among the clercy were: Rt. Rev. P. W. Tallon,

Fathers, had its origin in the foundation of St. president of the ICenrick Seminary Board and pastor

Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society, established at of the Visitation Church, St. Louis, Mo.; Rev.

Mill Hill, England, 1866, by Herbert Cardinal David S. Phelan, editor of the "Western Watchman,"

Vaughan. In 1871 the first band of missionaries a man as brave as he was learned, and one who ac-

to set out from Mill Hill came to Baltimore and was complished much for Catholic journalism during his

assigned to St. Francis Xavier's church. Afterwards days. Amons the laymen were: Wm. J. Kinsella,

missions were established in Louisville, Charleston, the vice-president of the Calvary Cemetery board;

Norfolk, Richmond, Washington, and other places Edward Devoy, thepresident of the St. Vincent de

in the South. Some years later, the bishops who Paul Society; and Tneophile Papin, Jr., a member

assembledintbeThirdrlenaryCoimcil of Baltimore, of the Cathedral Association. Many events of im-

expressed the necessity of providing for an oiganiza- portance have transpired since 1912; among them

tion of priests who should labor exclusively for the were the visits of Their Excellencies, Cardinal

conversion of the colored people of the United States. Vannutelli and Cardinal Mercier. There have been

of Mul Hill and, under the title of St. Joseph's Centennial of the coming to St. Louis of the Rt. Rev.

Societv of the Sacred Heart for Colored Missions, Bishop DuBourg. Pontifical High Mass was cele-

established its mother-house in Baltimore. St. bratea at the Old Cathedral Church with the Most

Joseph's Society is a congregation of secular priests Rev. Jeremiah Harty, Archbishop of Omaha, as