The San Francisco call., 1909-12-05

ordinary proficiency has been turned to
good account in researches into an
cient oriental Christian literature.
Among his discoveries is that of a
most interesting document of apocry-
phal literature: the Testament of Jesus
Christ frequently referred to in its
Greek text, and in various versions,
by ancient writer's; but hitherto known
to modern scholarship only by some
fragments preserved in a Latin codex
of the thirteenth century, at Treves.
The patriarch has published critico-
literary edition of the codex found by
him, which dates from the year SIS.
The patriarch's discovery has had
much 70 do with modifying modern
tical dependence of some Of the most
literature of the first centuries
Among the $50 inedited oodices in
the library he has collsted is a Syrian
version of the "Cronicon" of EusebiuS,
which has been useful IN correcting the
Armenian version in several points.
For instance, this latter version puts
the duration of the Roman pontificate
OF l. Peter at twenty years. whereas
Monsignor Rahmani's codex gives the
traditional period of twenty five years;
thus agreeing with st. Jerome, who
took his facts and figures from the
''Cronicon."
Very Rev. Don Pietro Pisana, pro-
fessor of philosophy in the Seminary of
Yercelli. Italy, has come to America
as the representative of a federation
proyal of the Italian government and
the support of Plus X, to promote a
movement for guiding the stream of
italian immigrants away from the
large cities to the agricultural districts
OF this country and Canada.
Father Pisani said: I'VE seek both to
get the resident Italians of the big
cities interested in agriculture, and to
persuade future immigrants from Italy
TO go to the country, rather than to the
big cities. The result of our endea-
vors undoubtedly will be that large
numbers of Italians will become Ameri-
can farmers"
Considerable progress has been made
in getting Italians to turn to agri-
culture, and the movement is expected
to gather enormous headway as it
grows older and better organized.
Meanwhile Monsignor Carlo Petrel-
luzi, another Italian priest, has been
sent to Australia by the society of the
Missionaries for immigration, to study
the conditions of Italian immigrants in
that country.
The Polish Catholic Union, having a
membership of $4,000. at its recent
convention in Cleveland. Ohio, voted
to join the Polish Alliance of Unity, an
organization that will attempt to eff
feet a combination of all Polish So
cieties in America
The alliance will seek to build and
maintain higher schools of learning,
to establish chairs of Polish language
and literature in American universities,
to better the educational system of
the Polish schools. to encourage the de-
sire for an education among Polish
American youth by instituting libraries
and free lectures in the Polish settle
ments of all large cities, and to es-
tablish a home for immigrants in New
York and other parts, together with
an employment agency. The latter,
under the direction of the alliance, will
endeavor to send the Polish immigrants
to the country instead of into the city.
Louis Pinderski Chicago attorney
who attended the convention, re-
marked: The Poles have always been
an agricultural people. We want them
to stay away from the great American
cities and take to farming"
So many wonders are being ascribeo
to the intercession of Father Leo, who
was assassinated some time ago in
Denver, that the church authorities
are holding an official inquiry. which
may lead to the introduction of his
cause Of beatiacation at Rome.