Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10

longer intervals he, in his turn, sends
similar report to the Father General The
provinces are governed by provincial who
is assisted by consultors and by an admoni-
tor named by the General, and each house
is governed by superior, who also has his
cohsultors and an admonitor. The great
law of obedience is the secret of the perfect
discipline that pervades this vast organiza-
tion.
The coming election of the Father Gen
eral is, therefore, a very important event,
and it will be conducted in the following
democratic manner: At the death of Father
Anderledy his Office was taken by the vicar,
Father Luis Martin, an accomplished theo-
logiar and writer of very high repute and
an able administrator. He was born in
Spain in 1916, and has been rector of the
Jesuit Seminary at Salamanca and Provin-
cial of Castillo He will summon, probably
in May, general congregation of the order
to meet at the German Hungarian College
in Rome
The delegates to this convention will con-
sist of the provincial and two associates
from each of the q provinces of the society
all over the world The associate delegates
will be previously elected in each province
at a convention made up of 80 members, in
cluding the rectors and senior professed
fathers. The provincials vote ex oficio, as
also do the Vicar General, the Procurator
General, the secretary and the five "assist-
ants to the General These latter are Father
Grandidier, for France; Father Hoevel, for
Germany; Father de la Tore, for Spain, and
Father Whitty, a famous Irishman, for the
English speaking provinces. Besides these
assistants the curia of the General is
composed of eight other protessed fathers
and ten coadjutors.
The Delegation From the United States.
The Provincial of the New Mary
land Province is the Very Rev. Thomas j.
Campbell, one of the ablest and most popu-
lar and respected of the younger generation
of the American Jesuits He was educated
at St Francis Xavier's, afterwards taught
there and at st. Johns, Fordham, and was
made rector of that college seven years ago.
The Provincial of the Missouri Province is
the Very Rev John P. Frieden, s. j., of
ST. Louis, and of the New Orleans Pro-
vince, Very Rev. William Kennedy, S. j.
The six associates, who, with these three,
will make up the full delegation from the
United States will be chosen in few days
When the different delegations are all as
sembled in Rome the election will be pre-
ceded by prayer, fasting and corporal au-
sterities. All ambition for one self or
others is forbidden by the severest ecclesi-
astical penalties.
The election is made after general recep-
tion of the holy eucharist in communion,
each vote being deposited in the name of
Jesus Christ before crucifx. The General
may be of any nationality and is not al
lowed to refuse the position to which he
has been elected. So far among the gener-
ais there have been II Italians Span
iards, 8 Belgians and l German, Swiss,
Pole, Bohemian and Hollander, "a in all.
The Jesuits are not allowed to accept
ecclesiastical dignities. The professed
fathers take an oath not to accept any bish-
opric or other post OF honor in the Church
unless at the express command of the Pope
Hence the small number ever promoted
from their ranks. At the first sign of anv
danger of this kind prayers are ordered all
over the society to prevent it. The most
notable honor lately received by q Jesuit
was perhaps tine elevation to the College of
Cardinals of one of their most famous
theologians, Father Camillus Mazella
A Famous Son of the States.
He is citizen of the United States, and
enjoys the distinction of being its resident
representative in the College of Cardinals
at Rome. Cardinal Mazella was born near
Naples, in Italy, in 1888, and with his twin
brother Ernest and a younger brother,
Peter, devoted himself to the Church. He
joined the Jesuits in 1857. When they
revolutionary government he went to Lyons
to teach theology, and in 1867 was sent
here to the great house of studies which the
society maintains for its members, at Wood
stock, Md.
Here be was made professor of dogma
and published four luminous and exhaust
i've volumes of his course of scholastic the
ology. 1t was during his stay there that he
became an American citizen. In 1878 he
was recalled to Rome to take the place of
Father Franzelin, who had been made
Cardinal Much to the regret of his fellow
members and against his own wish, the
Pope made him Cardinal also on June z,
1856, and he was thus lost to the order, of
which he had been so long been one of the
brightest ornaments. He resides ct the
Gregorian University, of which be is the Pre-
feet of Studies.
The "House of Studies" at Woodstock,
Nd, is one of the chief educational institu-
tions of the order in the world. Only men,
bers are trained there. The present num-
ber of students includes 30 in the class of
philosophy and 80 in the class Of theology.
s. j.