The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-01-14

ly one-third of the missionaries now
working under the direction of Bishop
Legrand are Americans.
The first American priests of the
Society of Mary to leave directly from
their studies for the mission fields
were the Rev. Joseph Diehl of Angus
ia, Ga, for Samoa, where the Right
Rev. Joseph Darnand has 10000 Catho.
lies under his care, and the Rev. Lofts
des Jardins, who was assigned to the
Fiji Islands, where there are $4,000
Catholics under the care Of the Right
Rev. Charles Nicolas.
The Holy Ghost Fathers sent forth
six priests. five of whom were ordain-
ed in October, to the West Indies. The
Fathers of La Salette dispatched two
priests to the Madagascar missions IN
January.
The first contingent from the Mis-
sionary Sisters, Servants of the Holy
Ghost of Techny, ILL.,, to be designated
for the mission field in New Guinea,
were named in October with orders to
sail before the end of the year.
The Society of the Divine Word Of
Techny, ILL.,, sent out four sisters dur
ing the year and two missionaries
have been designated to sail for New
Guinea in March. The Society was re-
Gently assigned district in Kansu,
one of the most western Chinese prov
inces, which has a population of FROM
100000 to 100000.
Three sisters, Mission Helpers Of
the Sacred Heart, left in September
for San Juan, Porto Rico, where the
! order has been labOring for twenty
years.
. Increase in Students.
Perhaps no less remarkable than the
great number of missionaries that
have been sent to the field afar is the
increase in the number of American
students preparing for this work
At Maryknoll, founded only ten
years ago. there are 16 priests, 90
brothers, lis sisters, &c seminarians
and IS preparatory students making
ready for foreign service. Twenty
seminarians of the Congregation of the
Holy Cross have taken the foreign
mission vow as we'll as Is brothers,
| many of whom are teachers. At st.
Columba's Mission House in Omaha
there are q priests. 4 brothers, l doc
tor, and lay workers making ready
for foreign fields. In addition there
are 103 students preparing for voca-
tons.
ST. Mary's Mission House of the
Society of the Divine Word, Techny,
Ill.,, founded in 1898, has now 80
priests and 60 brothers together
with $50 students, 8 novices and 40
seminarians, all of the latter being
destined for services in foreign fields.
Protestant missionaries from the
United States, however, far outnum-
Der the Catholics. The Methodist
Christian Advocate is authority for
the statement that 500 registered
students sailed for the foreign fields
under commission from the several
| mission boards in 1920, the largest
number of any year since, the begin
! ming in 1886. The Northern Baptists
alone are said to have 10000 mission
airy workers in the field.
The vast amount of missionary work
yet to be done is indicated by the esti-
| mate that of 1865 millions of people
on the earth there are $50 millions of
| Christians, taking the term in a gen.
eral sense, and including 279 million
Catholics. There are 179 million mem
bers of the Evangelical Protestant
denominations, 1872 million Oriental
Schismatics, 424 million Buddhists,
| Confucians and Shintoists, 235 million
Mohammedans, 23O million Hinduists,
174 million pagans and II million
Jews.