The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-10-18

CATHOLIC MISSIONS IN CHINA.-We (says
a Hong Kong paper) have been endeavoring
to obtain some authentic statistics of the mis-
sions of all denominations in China. The
following respecting the Roman Catholic
missions has been courteously communi-
Gated by good authority. 1t is the first
compilation of the sort in modern days:
The whole of China has been divided
into twenty-four Catholic missions, directed
by nineteen bishops and five projects apos-
tolic of different nationalities, viz: Italian,
French, Spanish and Belgian. Each bishop
has under him not less than four European
missionaries, and some of them have up
wards of twenty. Each mission is divided
into so many districts, according to the
number of European missionaries.
The number of Christians varies in each
mission from two thousand, which is the
| lowest, up to ten thousand.
Coileges.--1n each mission a college for
natives is kept, where they are taught
Latin, philosophy and theology. There
are also schools and orphanages, which
abound in every mission. The most impor-
tant is the college kept by the Germans
and Italians at Si-ka-wi, distant from
Shanghae three or four miles. There are
nearly three hundred pupils, who are taught
trades, painting, drawing and Chinese lit
erature, and several of them are sent up to
Pekin to take the degrees.
Printing'-In several of the missions
there is printing office, directed by the
missionaries. That at shanghae is worthy
of mention. Several works have been
composed and printed in Chinese, among
which may be mentioned the Gospels, with
explanatory notes, tive editions y works
on mathematics, theological books, which,
as far as regards the idioms, are kept as
classics by the Chinese. Several parts of
the Bible have been translated into Chi
nese, but always with explanatory notes to
adapt them to the natives mental capacity,
with dictionary in Latin and Mandarin.
A new one has been printed at Paris in
Chinese and French by French mission
airy; Different maps Of China are printed
! at Naples, in Italy, under the Italian ME
sionary in the Chinese College; and map
OF the See-nOn district, near Hong Kong.
has been printed at Leipsic, having been
drawn by an Italian missionary.
Sisters Of Charity in China.-They have
where they direct an asylum for foundlings
and orphans; two in Hong Kong, with an
asylum for foundlings, day and boarding
schools, and an orphanage; one in Ningpo,
with orphanage; one in Shanghae, where
they direct hospital one out of shang-
one in Tiensin, where they have an orphan,
age, schools and hospital; one in Pekin,
with hospital and orphanage.. Two more
are going to be opened this year, one in
Hankow, branch Of Italian Sisters in
Hong Kong, and one in Han-chow, a branch
from Pekin.
The twenty-four Catholic missions in
China are: 1. Kwantung and Kuanfu. |
2. Hong Kong, with the adjacent islands
and part of the mainland. 3. Yunnan.
4. Tibet. 5. Kwei-cheou. 6. Szechuen,
East; z. Szechuen, West. 8. Szechuen,
South. 8. Holman. 10. Hu-pe. IL, Shan-si. |
IL: Human. ID. Kiang-wan. IA. Pei
chilli, East. Is. Pei-chihli, North.
49, Pei-chihli, South. IL. The Kiang.
70. kiang-si. 10. Shen-si. 90. Shan-tunS,
~. Fo-kien. %. Cores. %. Manchuria.
"a. Mongolia.
0ne should never be ashamed to own that
ne mas been in the wrong; which is but say