The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-06-14
PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH.
The Great Society Few Earnest
Women Inaugurated.

NOAASA AA1uS A4dICAs
Go ye into the whole world and
preach the gospel to every creature"
That splendid organization, the So
ciety for tie Propagation of the Faith
and the Assistance of Catholic Mis-
sions, has issued from its American
renter at Baltimore Md, a brief out
line of its work since its birth in 1922
in Lyons. France. Lyons and Paris
are still the sister hc<d centers of the
association with an auxiliary council
in Baltimore. To these centeres flow in
quietly the yearly contributions, small
but steady of the faithful and jealous
and charitable in all parts of Christen-
dom, and at The end of each year oil
the money so gathered is distributed
again to every corner of the globe
wherever the gospel is being preached
TO the poor. and the missionaries need
schools and churches in which TO
gather their converts.
Started in 1922 in the city of Lions
by a few women who, at the instance
of Bishop Dubourg of New Orleans,
were moved to help the pioneer
churc hin the United States it has
quietly worked and steadily grown un-
I'll today its members are to be found
in every Catholic community in Eu-
rope, Asia. Africa, America and
Oceanica. To be a member one must
say every day one Our Father and one
Hail Mary and the ejaculation, st.
Francis Xavior. pray for US" for the
success of the society. and contribute
> cents a month toward its funds.
One may give six dollars and be
counted a special member, or forty
dollars and be called a life member.
But the main financial support of the
grand work is the regular membership
paying five cents a month, which is
collected and sent by one in every
band of ten.
The society deserves to be better
sustained than ii is by American
Catholics. For the help of the strug-
Cling Catholics of New Orleans and
Kentucky in 1922 it was organized
In 1888 the Catholic missions SO help
ed began to show gratitude, and in
that year six dollars went to Lyons
from the United States to the funds
Of the society. In 1S43 one thousand
dollars for that purpose were freely
contributed from American Catholics.
And then il began to spread more
rapidly. The Catholic world has given
10 the society since 1922 almost
seventy millions of dollars 1865, $780,
O17). OF this s42.O76,9O5 came from
France alone.
The two great feast days OF the So
ciety are the Srd of May, the feast of
the Finding of the Holy Cross, which
is also the anniversary Of the found
ing of the society, and the 3rd of De-
cember. the feast of st. Francis
Xavier, that great missionary to
CNsna and Japan.
And other sheep I have which are
not Of this fold: them also must 1
bring and they shall hear my voice and
there shall be one fold and one shep-
herd"
The sacred congregation to Propa-
ganda Eide is the modern monument
TO their solicitude for the propagation
of the faith and the presentations of
the peoples from heresy. Pope Greg
ory Kill in 1872 deputed Cardinals
Caraffa, Medici and Santorio to give
special attention to the propagation
and maintenance of the faith among
the Maronites, Slavs, Greeks and
Egyptians.
The college was at first called
"Collegium de Propaganda Eide per
Universum Orbem." The edifice oc-
cupied by the congregation and the
college is quite imposing, occupying
an irregular quadrilateral in the shape
Of a trapese. 1t fronts on the Piazza
TO the church of st. Andrea dele
Fratte.