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of a total population of 2,000,000 this diocese counts now numbers over 665 religious and 52 novices.

15,000 Coptic GathoUcs. It comprises 36 priests, Mother Augustine Fleck was elected prioress general

36 schools. 28 churches and chapels and 81 Christian for six years in 1913, and re-elected in 1919 for

communities. another term of six years. She celebrated the golden

i'ubilee of her profession in September, 1921, and was lonored by the Holy Father with an autograph lett-er

one of the Cyclades Islands in 'the Greek Archi- of felicitation. The constitution of the congregation

pelago, is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Naxos is being revised in conformity with the new Code of

and Tinos. The present incumbent, Rt. Rev. Michel Canon Law. New foundations have been made as

Camilleri, bom at Corfu, in 1864, was appointed follows: St. Agnes' Parochial School. Rockville

bishop of this see 1 July, 1907. There are only Centre, L. I.: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parochial

about 150 Catholics on the island and these are School, Linaenhurst, L. I.; St. Mary Magdalen

mostly descended from the Spanish or Italian cm- Parochial School, Springfield, L. I.; St. Thomas'

saders. The diocese lost a prominent benefactor Parochial School, Woodhaven. L. I.; Normal School

ift the recent years through the death of Rev. for Tinining of Novices opened at Amity ville in 1920;

Alberto Issaverdens, Superior of the Lazarist Con- St. Martiirs Parochial School, Amityville, L. I.:

vent, whc? foimded and endowed an elementary Corpus Christi School, Mineola, L. I., to be opened

school. During the World War none of the clergy in September. 1922. At present the congregation

from this diocese went to the Front, but several numbers 48 aependent houses in New York, Long

of the lay brothers, who all won the admiration of Island, and Porto Rico, including 44 schools, 1

their non-Catholic compatriots. sanitarium, 1 infirmary tor incurables, 2 hospitals.

The diocese comprises 1 parish, 13 churches, 2 Four of the schools are for orphans with a total

monasteries for men (Lazarist and Dominican attendance of 700. Other school children number

Fathers), and 2 for women (Dominican nuns and 16,000. Sanatorium patients number at least 50

Sisters of Charity), 5 secular and 3 regular clergy, and the infirmary has usually 100 patients. The

2 lay brothers, 1 secondary school for boys, with hospital has cared for about 5QO0 patients in six years.

6 teachers and 25 pupils and 1 for girls with 6 St. Catherine's Hospital, BrooKlyn, celebrated its

teachers and 30 pupils, 1 elementary school with 1 golden jubilee in 1920.

teacher and 8 pupils, 1 home for the destitute, Fall Rivera Mass, — ^These Sisters have houses in

1 orphanage, 1 hospital,' and 1 settlement house, the Dioceses of Albany, Fall River, and Fargo, with

The Children of Mary are organized in the diocese, mother-house at Fall River. In 1915, they took

charge of St. Anne's Parochial School, Cohoes, New

Thessaloniaiis, I Epistle to. — For the decision York, and in 1920 they opened an academy and

of the Biblical Commission on the Pauline doctrine boaraing school for girls in Grafton, North Dakota.

of Parousia see Parousia and Dmm in '^Ecclesiastical The foundress of the congi^egation. Mother M.

Review," LIII (1915), 472-82. Bertrand Sheridan, died 20 March, 1915. The

congregation numbers 73 professed Sisters, 8 novices, Third Orders, Regular. — ^Third Order of St. and 6 postulants, in charge of 2 academies, 1 hi^h Dominic (cf. C.E.,XIV — 638b). — A further develop- school (academic and commercial), and 4 parochial ment of the Dominican Third Order has come in the schools, with a total attendance of 1660 children. Oblates of the Blessed Sacrament begun in Corpus Grand RavidSf Mich. — The Congregation of Our Christi House, Leicester, En^and, in Januarv, 1909, Lady of the Sacred Heart was established in Michigan, under Miss EUerker and Miss Fortey. It nad the 22 October, 1877, at Traverse City, by Mother approval of Bishop Brindle of Nottin^am, tiie Aquinata and five Sisters from the Dominican Con- diocesan, and was guided by the inspiration of vent on East Second Street, New York, and was Father McNabb, O.P., then Prior of Holy Cross, formed into an independent congregation in 1894. Leicester. The aim of this society is "an attempt to The mother-house was transferredf to Grand Rapids meet new wants in a new way" — ("Some Children of where St. John's Orphan Home was establishea in S. Donjinic," by Marie St. S. EUerker, C.T.S., 1889. At the first general chapter of the congrega- England, 1916, p. 3) — i.e., by combining community tion in 1897, Mother Aquinata was elected mother life with the life of women in the world engaged in ^ood general, which office she held for eighteen years, works of all kinds. The Sisters, though not religious, At her death, 1 May, 1915, the community numbered take vows for three years and tnen for life, recite the 300 Sisters who were conducting 40 mission schools, Divine Office, and have the usual round of religious 2 academies, 1 orphan asylum, and 1 high school for exercises but without the formalities necessarily girls. She was succeeded by Mother Mary Gonsalva, belonging to conventual rule. Their work is "to the mother assistant and councillor^ who died 23 refuse no work which might be needed and which we Februarv, 1921. In 1919 the erection of a new were asked by authority to imdertake^' (ibid. p. 6), mother-house was begun in the suburbs of Grand and in pr^tctice this has been found to include teach- Rapids, and the cornerstone was laid 15 June, 1921. ing, assisting in parochial missions and missions to Mother M. Gonsalva was succeeded by the present non-Catholics, instructing children and converts, superior, Mother Mary Benedictn. The member- catechising, taking part in the organization of retreat ship has (p*own from 5 to 383 professed religious, work, in social work, in local government, in direct- together with 42 novices and 11 postulants; 45 of the ing study-clubs. Moreover of late years, they have congre^ation*have died. The Sisters now conduct 60 been engaged in missionary work among the East parochial schools, 2 academies, 1 high school for Indians in Trinidad and in extensive labors in the boys, 1 high school for ^irls, 1 orphan asylum, and 1 Diocese of Duluth, U. S. A., where Bishop McNich- nursery. The academies and high schools are olas, O.P., has become also a second founoer. They affiliated to the University of Michigan and the number at present only about fifty. State Normal Schools. jABRBTT,£n0<i«ADomimcarw (London, 1021). 208-13. KenoshOj Wis. — The Portuguese Congregation of

Bede Jarrbtt. St. Cathenne of Sienna, driven from Portugal by the

Third Order Reoxtlar op St. Dobanic in the revolution in 1910. founded a house in Ontario,

United States (cf. C. E., XIV— 640b).— BrooWj/n, Diocese of Baker City, Oregon, where they built a

N. Y, The Dominican Congregation of the Holy much needed hospital. The novitiate was canonicaJly

Cross, with mother-house at Holy Cross Convent, opened in October, 1912, and in June, 1920, wa,

Brooklyn, N. Y., and novitiate at AmityyiUe, L. I., transferred to Kenosha, Diocese of Milwaukees