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imperial coronatioD, and the depo«itioQ of John Xn. (3) "Relatio de lemUone Constantiiiopolitana ad Nicephorum Fhocam, the account of bia misEion in 968 {ed. Pert*, op. cit., 347-63; P. L., loc. cit.,

909-38). nisworkswereeditoibyDanimler, "Liut- prandi opera omnia" (Hanover, 1877). Liutprand's writings are a. very important historical source for the teath century, but it is necessary to eift his nar- rativea cautiously; he ia ever » Htning partisaa and is freqiictitiy unfair tov;it' ■ ■ i

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of Mercy at Idverpool: and of the Holy Child Jeens at PreetoQ and Blackpool. The great training oolle^ of

the Bisters of Notre Dame at Mount Pleasant, Lirer-

under the Irish Christian Brothers, and St. Francis Xavier's College imder the Jesuit Fathers, who have also a Catholic College in Preston, whilst in St. Helen's there is a Catholic Grammar School under the aecutsr clergy and lay masters. St. Pet«r's College, Freah- fieloT trains boys in the humanities, before tiiey enter the Foreign Missionan College eetabliahed by the late Cardinal Vaughan at Mill HiU, London. The ecclMJ- aaticol students for the dioceae make their preparatory studies at St. Edward's CoUece, Liverpool (estabtished

IJTsrpool (Liverpolium), DiorESE of (Livxrpou- tana), one of the tiurteon dioceses into which Pius IX divided Catholic England, 28 September, 1850, when he re-established the Catholic hierarchy. In addition to the Isle of Man it contains all North Lanca* shire (Amounderneas ajid Lonsdale Hundreds), and the weatem portion of South Lancashire (Weat Derby and Leyland Hundreds), whilst the eastern portion of South Lancashire (Salford and Blackburn Hundreds), constitutea the Diocese of Salford. The dioceae at present (1910) has a Catholic population of 366,611 souls. There are 1S4 public churches and chapela and 172 public elementary schools containing 74,100 children and 1720 teachers. There are 458 priests, 332 secular and 126 regulars including 59 Jesuits, 36 Benedictines, 10 Redcmptorists, 7 Passionists, 7 members of St. Joaeph's Society for Foreign Missions, 4 Fathers of the Holy Ghoat, and 3 Oblat«a of Mary Immaculate. There are also the Irish Christian Brothers and the Brothers of Charity and in some 70 convents there are 1000 nuns belonging to the various orders or congregations of the Sisters of Mercy, Faithful Companions of Jesus, Sisters of Notre Dame, Good Shepherd Sistera, Sisters of Charity, Little Sis- ters of tjie Poor, Sisters of Nocarcth, Carmelites, eto. In various institutions provision ia made for the blind, the aged poor, unemployed servants, penitents and fallen women, whilst for boys and girls there are or- phanages, homes and refuges, poor-taw achoola, in- dustrial and reformatory schools, etc. The following table contains statistics of the principal towns of the

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Edvcalian. — Elcmentarv education is provided in 172 Catholic schools attended by 74,000 children. Higher education for girls is given in the convents of the Slaters of Notre Dame in Liverpool, St. Helen's. Birkdale, and Wiean ; of the Faithful Companions of Jesus in Livcrpod and Preston; of the Siaters erf the

Hutory since 18^.— From 1688 to 1840 Lancashire was subject to the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District of England. In 1S40 the Northern District was divided into three districts: the Northern District

f Northumberland, Cumt>crtand, Westmoreland, and )urham, now the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle), the Yorkshire District, now the Dioceses of Middles- brough and Leeds, and the Lancashire District contain- ing with all Lancaster, the Isle of Man, and C3ieshire. The first Ticar Apostolic of thenew Lancashire Diatrict waa Bishop George Hilary Brown (b. 13 Jan., 1786), who after being for twenty-one years rector of St. Peter's, Lancaster, was consecrated on 24 Auguat, ' 1840, at Liverpool, by Bishop John Brie^, with the title of Bishop of Bugia in partibut, whicDin 1842 was changed to Bishop of Tloa in parlibut. In 1S43 Dr. James Sharpies was consecrated coadjutor, but died in August, 1850. The following month the Lancashire District was broken into three parts, Cheshire became

Crt of Shrewsbury Diocese, South-eastern Lancashire came the Salford Diocese, and the rest of Lancaahire with the Tale of Man became the Liverpool Diocese, of which Bishop Brown remained bishop. In 1853 he obtained another coadjutor. Canon Alexander Gosa, of St, Edward's College (b. 5 July, 1814, atOrmskirk), who was consecrated by Cardinal Wiseman aa Bishop of Gerra. Bishop Brown died, 25 Januan*, 1856, and waa succeeded by Bitthop Gobs, who rulea as ordinary for seventeen years and died, 3 October, 1872. After an interval of five months Canon Beniard O'Reilly (b. 10 January, 1824, at BallybejC, County_ Meath, Ire- land), was consecrated by Cardmai Manning 19 March, 1873. During his long episcopacy of twenty -one years he opened some twenty-two churchea in Liver- pool city and the immediate neighbourhood, but his special work was the dioceean seminary of St. Joaeph, at Upholland, of which the foundation stone was laia on the feast of the Pfflronage of St. Joseph, 18 April, 1880, the college being ready to receive the students on 22 Septera!>er, 1883. Two years hiter, on Trinity eve, 30 May, 1886, the first body of students were raisied to the priesthood within its walls. It« second rector,Mgr Jonn Bi Is borrow, was taken from it in 1892 to become Bishop of Salford. Bishop O'Reilly died on 9 April, 1894, and was buriedin the seminary.

Canon 'Thomaa Whiteside (b. at Lancaster on 17 April, 1857; ordained priest in Rome, 30 May, 1885), who was the third president of the seminary, waa, at the age of thirty-seven years, consecrated fourth Bidiop ofLiverpool by Cardinal Vaughan. Tbcinoreaseinthe number of clergy since bis accession baa made possible more thorough pastoral work. During Uie years 1S90 to 1905, the numlKr approaching Eaater Communion increased from 146,000 to 186,000; those attending Sunday school from 138,000 to 180,000. some 16,000 non-Catbolica were received into tie Church, whilst about two million communions are received in the course of the year by about 250,000, who have made