The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-08-25
nTERMoUNTAN AND CATHOLIC: u.s.

ern Chill; Northern Ho-nan, Manchu-
| ria, and Northern, Central, Eastern
and Western Mongolia.
The second comprises the Vicariates
Apostolic of Kan-su. Northern and
Southern Chien-see, Northern and
Southern Chian-see, and Northern and
Southern Chian-tong.
The third comprises the Vicariates
Apostolic of Chi-Chiang, Northern Ho-
nan, Northern and Southern Human,
Eastern, Northwestern and Southwest
ern Hu-pee. Kiang-nan and Northern
Southern and Eastern Kiang-see.
The fourth comprises the Vicariates
Apostolic of Northern, Southern and
Eastern Sechuen, Tibet and Yun-nan.
The fifth comprises the Vicariates of
Annoy Fo-kien, HON. Kom, and the
Prefectures Apostolic of Kuangse and
Kanton.
Southern Chien-see is under the
charge of the Seminary of SITS. Peter
and Paul of Acme, Annoy and Fo-kien
belong to the Dominicans, Northern
Human to the Augustinians, Southern
Chilli and Kiang-nan to the Jesuits,
Eastern, Western and Southwestern
| Mongolia and Kiang-su to the Congre-
CATION of the Sacred Heart of Mary;
Northern and Southwestern Chill, Chi
! Kiang, Northern Kiang-see, Southern
| Kiang-see, Western Kiang-see and
Southern Kfang-see to the Congrega-
ton of the Mission; Northern Chan
| see. Southern Chian-see, Northern and
Southern Chiang-tung, Southern HUI
nan, Eastern Hu-pee. Northwestern
Hu-pee and Southwestern Hu-pee to
the Franciscans; Manchuria. Southern
Chiang--tung, Kiu-chu Northwestern
Se-chuen, Eastern Se-chuen, Southern
Se-chuen, Tibet. Yunnan, Kiam-se,
Kiam-tung to the Seminary of For
eign Missions at Paris, and lastly |
Northern Ho-nan, Southern Ho-nan
and Hong Kong to the Seminary of !
San Calcero at Milan.
In connection with this subject the |
following, clipped from our Protestant
contemporary, the Catholic Champion
Episcopalian), will prove interesting:
THE Roman Church has been re-
markably successful in its missions in
China. A good idea of the great
change which has taken place since
the early years of this century can
be obtained by reading the Able HUGS
charming Voyages in China and Tar
tary' With these few scattered.
struggling Christians may be COM
pared the fourishing condition of
things described below.
Some idea of the work of the Cath
Ole missions in China may be gathered
from the facts furnished by Father
Scully. In one province alone, that of
Kiang-Nan, not including Shanghai
the French Fathers of the order min
lister to fifty millions of population.
These are divided into nineteen sec
tons, which are sub divided into
eight districts. There is one
Vicar Apostolic, 1856 priests, twenty
one of whom are natives; nineteen
seven of whom are Chi
lese; twenty-seven brother coadjutors,
welve of whom are Cinnamon. In all
about two hundred Jesuit religions. In
he same district there are twenty-five |
secular priests, twenty-nine seminar
SITS and thirty-seven students. The
are represented by twenty
i've Carmelttes, eighty-one Helpers of
he Holy Souls, twenty-five Sisters of
'harity and 116 Presentation Nuns.
he missionaries are also assisted by
Sc catechists, 552 masters and Gil mis- c.
resses of schools. These masters and Il
listresses. teach in the chools, baptize Il
wing infants, take charge of orphan II
sylums and keep the churches and .,
MISSIONS in order. During the last 81
ear the Christians increased 5000 in II
ne province, and the number receiv- al
ng instruction for entrance into the -
hurch was 15,t There were 1903 q,
dults baptized and $500 children of IL
lfdel parents. tn
cat Za-KaWei, eight kilometers ~ ~
ON Shanghai. is the central direc- al
,rate of all these missions There is
great seminary and college with 1914 OF
udents. Connected with it is mag "a
etc and meteorological observatory W,
I'd museum of natural history. A co
mi weekly newspaper in Chinese is pl
iblished and has $500 subscribers. ar
ne Messenger of the Sacred Heart, ~ -,
so in Chinese, is issued monthly, and
Is a subscription list of 1900 At We
)u-SeWe, half a kilometer from the an
rectorate, is a European Chinese ~ ~
hitting office, a foundry, carpenter an
op, scupltors' and painters studios, he
iloring and shoemaking shops, so mig
at an industrial education accom- ~
MES the religious and intellectual az
aiming. At Sen-Mon-Yeu there is a asl
lool of medicine, and over the en- of
e district there are orphan asyIums, -
spftals, homes for the aged and
day and boarding
lools, pious societies, including IS
members of rosary societies and 25,-
associates of the Apostleship of
aver. There are Conferences of St.
lcent de Paul throughout the re-
n
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