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STATumos. — Frieata 204 (142 (Hooesan, 62 rcgulur); ehurdiea Ifij; seminary 1; colleges 3, pupils 718; academies 16, pupils 1621; purochial schools 70, pupils 11,225; Ifknaergartens D. pupils l-ir); industrial andnformsdiools'l, ininates225; orplian asylums:j, orphans 272; hospitals 4; homes for &geil poor i; inm»t«t 301; Catholic population 135,421. The coloured Catholics number 4251, and have 4 churches and 7 achoi^ with ,S65 pupiU.

Rdigunu Comtnurtities. — (Men); Benedictines 2; Dominioana 17 (14 priests}; Franciscan Friiira Minor, professed 24, clergy 18; Mi nor Conventual, professed Ci priests; Passionists in community 24; Fathers of the Resurrcotion, professed 5, total 12; Refortned Cis- tercian, profe^ed 32, total 87; Brothers of Mary 7; Xaverian Brothers 21) professed.

(Women); Sisters of Charity; mother-house at Nai- areth, Ky 22 houses in the diocese and establish- ments in States of Ohio, Teniiessce, Arkansas, Miit- sisaippi, Maryland, Virginia and Massocbuaetts; total relinMi9,800. Sisters of Lointto at the Foot of the Cross: mother-house at Ne- riockx. Nelson Co., Ky., 700 members, conducting 23 acade- mies and 42 parochial schools in the Dio- ceses of Louisville, Covington, Cleve- land, Columbus, lL[obik, Belleville, l^t. Louis, Kansas City, Lincoln, Den- veT, Dallas, Tucson, and Santa P6. Sis- ters 0* Third Order of St. Dominic: mother-house, St. Catherine near Springfield, Ky., pro- fessaa nsters, 04, total number, 79. Good Shepherd Sisters: 2 convents, professed choir sisteta 24, 18 lay, 9 out-door sisters having in charj^ 55 professed magdalcnes, 39 penitents, 170 in reform- atory class, and 170 children from 5 to 12 years of age in St. Philomena's Industrial School. Ursuline nuns: mother-house irt Louisville, local houses, 7. academics, 3, 20 parochial schools, and 1 orphan asylum, and establishments in Maryland and Indiana, total sub- ject to mother-house, 247. Sisters of Mercy; mother- Douse at Louisville, academy hi)u.se and parochial scliool, professed tiO. Franciscan Kistcra; St. Anthony's hospital, 23 sisters. Little Sisters of the Poor: home for the ageil, iH sisters in charp: of 225 aeed poor.

H. J. Spaldiho, Life. Timet anrf rtiaranrr of Uentdict Joiph naoet (Louisville, 1852); Idkh, Ukrlrhn ol.Ar Earlu CtUMie Wiwioiu in Ktntucku. ITaT-lSlT (LouJBvillc. IftM): Shea.Hu-

MalCaAalie ClmrA in aeUniuaSlaUtltivti York, 1886-03); . SPALDmo. lAfiof ArehbiiAop liaaUinii (N«w York. 1873); Wen, Cailtmm of CaOatieUy in Kmtvtkfi (Loiiiaville, 18S4); Dbtun, LmiMSt Ouiilt lloimvUh, IHSTj; CatMie OrjAm'a Smmmir (Uxiuvilla. IBOl): SIm of Catholtc Admaate, CaOoUe (hmtimt mud CatMie Rtard.

P. M. J. Rock.

ZiOurdas, BROTnERSOFOriiLADY or (abbreviation C.N.D.L. — Corigr^ationde Not re-Damp dcI.ourdcH), a community devoted to the education of youth ami the care of the sick and intirtu. 1r wdm fijiindcil at Renaix, Flanders, in 1830, l)y Etieiuic Moilcste Glo- rieux, a Belgian prieet, and approval in 1S02 by Leo XIII. The cor^regatioo, numbenn" 51S members, has its mother-house at Ooetacker, lielgium, and 30 HliaJ houses, ona in tiie United StatM and the othen in Beleiiim and Holland. The Amprican house is at South Park, in the Diocese of Seattle, Washing-

ton, where there arc 13 Brothers in charge of a house

of studies and day- and boardinf;-school for boys.

Heiubucheii, nitOrdmundKonarroiUianm. Ill a>a(Ierbinii, 10O8), 360; Catholic Dirtdorv (Milwaukee, IBIO).

Leo a, Kkllt. Lourdes, NontK-DAMt: de, in the Department of llautos Pyrenees, France, is far-famed for the pil- Krimafte of which it is a cnntro and for the extraordi- nary- events that have occurrcii and still occur there. Hijttori^The pilErimagc of Lourdes is founded on the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin toa poor, four- teen-year-old girl, Bemudctte Soubiroux. The first apparition occurred 11 February, 18.">S. There were eighteen in all; the lu-'st took iilacc IQ July, of the same year. Bemailette often fell into an ecstasy. The myslcrious vision slie saw in the hollow of the rock Massabiellc was that of a young anil iicautiful lady. " Loi-e!icr thin I have ever seen" said the child. But the girl was the only one who saw the vision, although sometimes many stood there witbher. Now and then the appa- rition spoke to the seer who also was the only one who hoard the voice. Thus, she one d!iv told her to drink of a mj'stcrious fountiiin, in the grot- I to itnelf. the existence of which was un- known, and of which there witsnosign, but which immediately gushed forth. On another occasion the appuri tion bade Bemadctte go and tell the priests she wished 11 chapel to be built on tike spot and procctwioos to be made to this grotto. At first the clerpj' were incredu- lous. It was onlv four j-ears later, in 1802, thiit the bishop of the ■liocese drciared the faithful "justi- fied in lielieving the reality of the apparition . A tiasilica was built upon the rock of MassaMclle by M. PeyraniolCj the parish priest. In 1873 the great "national" French pilKrimagcs were inaugurated. Three yea'rs later the liasilicu was consecrated and the statue solemnly crownetl. In l.S8,'i the foundation stone of another church was laid, as the Rnt was no longer large enough. It was built at the foot of the basilica and was consecrated in 1001 and called the Church of the Rosiiry- Pope Leo XIII authorized a special office and a Mass, in commemoration of the apparition, and in 1907 I'iua X extended the observ- ance of this feast to the entire Church; it is now observed on 1 1 Ichruary.

Never has a sancluarv attracted such throngs. At the end of the year VMS, when the fiftieth anni- versary of the apparition was celebrated, althou^ the rMord really only licgan from 1867, 5297 pil- grimages had been repstcred and these had brought 4,019,000 pilgrims. Inilividiuil pilgrims arc more numerous by far tlian those who come in groups. To their numl)er Toast lie added the \Tsitor8 who do not come OS pilitrinis. but who are attracted by a religious feeling or sometimes merely by tlic desire to see this far-famed spot. The Company of the Chernins de Per du Midi estimates that the I>ourdes station re- ceives over one million travellers per annum. Every nation in the world furnishes its contingent. Out of the total of pilgrimages given n1>ove, four hundred and sixty-four c:inii' fiimi coiiiitrieH other tlv?L^ 'S^wss*- They arc sent by ttt t;\i:\\.«ii'^W\«^»,'-',«TOiS!.-o^v'%^-