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Catholics drifted away from the Church. Another difiBculty is the lack of priests, over a hundred vacan- cies existing in the parishes. The language spoken in twenty of me vicariates is German, in six Czech, and in two is mixed." More than a third of the priests are Czech. There are 309 German parishes, 95 Czech, and the rest mixed. The cathedral chapter possesses a provost, a dean, five capitulary, and six honor- ary canons. The clergy are trained in the episcopal seminary and in the theological training school at Leitmeritz. The Catholic intermediate schools of the diocese are the private gymnasium of the Jesuits at Mariaschein, which is at the same time the diocesan school for boys, and five seminaries, of which two are in Reichenberg and one each at Leitmeritz, Teplitz- Schonau, and Jungbunzlau. In the pubUc primary and secondary schools the Church has very little op- portunity to impart religious instruction. For girls, nowever, there are several institutions for instruction and training conducted by sisters: 8 boarding schools, 10 primary schools, 2 secondary schools, and 20 ad- vanced and industrial schools.

The following orders have foundations in the dio- cese (1909): Cistercians at Ossegg, 1 abbey (founded in 1293), with an extensive library and galleiy of paint- ings; the fathers teach in the Gymnasium of Komotau; Jesuits, 1 college in Mariaschein; Piarists; Redemp- torists; Dominicans; Aueustinians; Reformed Fran- ciscans; Minorites; Capuchins; Order of Malta; Crosier Fathers; Premonstratensians; the Congregation of the Sacred Heart. In 1909 the female orders and congre- gations in the diocese had 68 foundations, with 654 sisters, 93 novices, and 15 postulants: Congregation of St. Elizabeth, 1; Ursulines, 1; Borromeans, 23; Sisters of the Cross, 22; Poor School Sisters of Our Lady, 5; Daughters of Divine Charity, 2; Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, 4; Franciscan Sisters, 3; Sisters of Char- ity of St. Vincent de Paul, 5; and Sisters of Christian Cnarity, 1 foundation. Among the charitable insti- tutions of the diocese under religious management are 20 orphan asylums, 7 asylums for children, 14 kinder-

Sartens, 1 reformatory, and 20 infant asylums; the iocese conducts also its own institute for the deaf and dumb at Leitmeritz. Of the many associations, the following are worthy of mention: Cficilienverein (As- sociation of St. Cecina), the Apostleship of Prayer, the Marian Confraternities, the Catholic Teachers' Asso- ciation, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the Gesel- lonvereine, the Catholic People's Unions (60), and others. There are 55 shrines and places of pilgrimage in the diocese, the most popular being Mariaschein, Bohmisch-Kamenitz, Ossegs, Philippsdorf, and Krie- Bchitz. The principal church of the diocese is the ca- thedral, built in 1671 in Renaissance style. The most ancient is St. Clement's in Levy-Hradec. Among others, the beautiful churches of Melnik, Nimburg, Aussig and Saaz, the chief churches of their respective deaneries, and the iovm church of Brux daXe from Gothic times, and the cathedral, the collegiate church of Ossegg, and the pilgrimage church of Mariaschein from the Renaissance perioof. The churches of Eich- wald, Philippsdorf, St. Vincent in Reichenberg, the church of St. Elizabeth in Tcplitz-Schonau, and others, were built in the nineteenth century.

Bretkeld, UmrxM finer kunen Ge»eh. dea Leitmeritzer Bis- turns (Vienna, 181 l)j Frind, Die Kirchengeach. Bdhmens im allgemeinen und in xhrer btaonderen Beziehung auf die jeUige IjeitmeriUer Didcew (4 vols., PraRue. 1864-78): Sbipert, Die Lritmeriizer Diticese nach ihren ffeschichtl., kirchl. u. topograph, Brziehunqen (Saax, 1899); Endlkr, Dae eoziale Wirken der kathol. Kirehe in Oesterreich, XI: Die Didcene Leitmeritz (Vienna, 1903): Directorium divini officii et calalogua univerti deri diceceaani Litomericensia (Leitmeritz, 1910).

Joseph Lins.

Lejeune, Jean, b. at Poligny in 1592 ; d. at Li- moges, 19 Aug., 1672: member of the Oratory of Jesus, founded by de B^'ruUe in 1611. He was dis- tinguishi^d by the siinotity of his life, but l^s reputa-

tion mainly depends upon his renown as a preacher. The eneigy witn which he conducted his apostolate, gained for him the name of ''The Missionary of the Oratory" and the blindness which overtook him at the age of thirty-five, the further appellation of "The Blind Father ". He was the son of a lawyer at D61e, of a family, which during the previous century had at- tained to a high position in the magistracy and was renowned for the piety and virtue of its members. Owing to the early loss of his father, his education de- volved upon his mother who devoted herself to his spiritual advancement. Having studied theology at tte University of Dole, he fell imder the influence of de B^ruUe and entered the Oratory in 1614. He was appointed director of the seminary at Lan^res but soon manifested his vocation to mission work amone the poor, and henceforward all his effort was directed to tnis. His life was unmarked by any external event except the loss of sight which occurred in 1627, while he was preaching the Lenten course at Rouen, but this caused no cessation in his apostolic work. The bishops employed him in preaching the Lent and Ad- vent courses and the Government in the conversion of Protestants. He avoided the custom of treating controversial matter in the pulpit and confincKl him- self to the exposition of fundamental truths. It was a novel idea of his to introduce after his discourses an abridgement of Christian doctrine. He also held con- ferences for the instruction of the cleigy in his methods and was recoinmended by Massillon to young eccle- siastics for their imitation. The French Oratory was suspected of Jansenism, and he was himself criticized on the ground that his preaching led to unsatisfactory results. In 1660 he appealed for advice to Amauld, who ascribed these results to the laxity of imprudent confessors imder the influence of casuistry, and dis- suaded him from the design of abandoning his mission work. His sermons in twelve volumes w^ere pub- lished at Toulouse, Paris, and Rouen before his death, and a Latin translation at Mainz in 1667. There is an edition published at Lyons in 1826, but the latest and best edition is that of Peltier in ten volumes issued in 1889. Four volumes of extracts also appeared at Avignon in 1825 under title of ** Pens^esdu P. Lejeune".

Cloyseault, Recueil de^ Viea de auelquea prftrea de VChatoire; PcRRAUD, VOratoire de France (runs, 1866); Rbnoux, Vie du P. Lejeune (Paris, 1875); Tabaraud, Vie du P. Lejeune (Limoges, 1830). and Life in Vol. XII of Lyons edition of

Henry Tristram.

sermons.

LeUiSfCAMiLLUs of. See Camillus de Lellis, Saint.

Lelong, Jacques, French bibliographer, b. at Pars, 19 April, 1665; d. there, 13 Aug.. 1721. As a bov of ten, he entered the Order of the Knishts of St. John of Malta, and, after a very brief and unhappy sojourn in Malta, made his studies at Paris. He left the Order of the Knights and entered the Oratory in 1686. He then taught at the college of Juilly in the Diocese of Meaux, where he was ordained priest in 1689, and was later librarian at the seminary of Notre- Dame des Vertus in Aubervilliers near Paris. He was transferred in 1699 to the Oratory of St-Honor^ at Paris, and remained there as librarian till his death twenty-two years later. The title of the first work which brought him fame indicates its contents fairly completely: **Bibliotheca Sacra in binos Syllabos dis- tincta quffi (I) omnes sive Textus sacri sive Versionum ejusdem qua vis lingua expressarum Editiones, necnon prsBstantiores MSS. Codices cum notis historicis et criticis, (II) omnia eorum opera quovis idiomate con- scnpta, qui hucusque in s. Scripturam quidpiam edid- erunt, et grammaticas et I^xica linguarum prsesertim orientalium, quae ad illustrandas sacras paginas all- quid adjumenti conferre possunt, continct (2 vols. 8vo, Paris, 1709; — ^Vigouroux, contradicting other authorities, says 1702;2nded., 1709); edited by Boer- ner with additions chiefly of German works (Ant- werp, 1709); folio edition by the author (Paris, 1719);