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The Oblates in South Africa Fathers C. Cox, Tom Ryan, and Don-
The recent visit of Archbishop us tenwill to West Australia reminis that the Oblates, of whom His Grace estabis the Superior -General, were the lished as a ('onegation by de saintly Charles Joseph Eugene Magent' in 1816. The Order was caused founded to repair the havoc revive by the French Fte;olution-to faith among rural and the spirit of industrial populations by means missions and retreats in which devof
P. O'Reilly, formerly of Fremantle
foundTransvaal. The Oblates have AposVicariates four occupy and ed tolic, of Natal, Orange River, Basutoland, and the Prefecture Apostolic Afof ('imbebasia or German West
rica, in addition to the Transvaal, ('ox, of which the Very Rev. C. 0.M.I., is Administrator, having suec:eded Bishop Miller, who resigned some time ago. Fathers Tom Ryan P. O'Reilly, who were aland well and favourably known so
at is surrounded by his staff of Johannesburg. In other portions Vicariate Father Tom Ryan and Fa-well ther P. 0:Reply, who are both no n at loreinsintle, are zealously carrying on the good work, and have of endeared themselves to the hearts the people among whom they have lal.oured. The Oblate Missionaries are fully alive to the vital importance of the apostolate of the press. In addition
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ty of Cambridge most of the prolessors have been in residence there, and prepare their pupils for the LonLodon matriculation and Cambridge cal Examinations. Father J. Who"ler was for many years engaged its the work of education in Ceylon ha. fore coming to Fremantle. The Catholic Encyclopedia gives the numLer of Oblate priests throughout the world as 1,195, and the number of lay lrothers 478-a total of 1,673. ;
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STREET CHURCH. HIS STAFF AT THE KIM{ THE NEW ADMINISTRATOR AND ('ox, Rev. X. Goodfriend. C. Rev. Very Soey, W. Porte, H. Conroy, Rev. .}:ev. I'. Ryan, Rev. F. Go \ ERNM I.:NT RETURNS LAST des ((Al.," printCENSUS (1911). are doing great t the "Missi-ns the Con.tregat: on on'Fremantle, in to and for ,. I at Rome the Sacred Heart Bisti' n l'nion of the Transvaal. in the (Belin Po,'ulation Poor:: Liege Total at papers they i rint South Africa. Lilliaculate is recommended as ho. Matthew Gaughren, who was ly, I, Winfield (New Bruns sick), St. th. ium .d in means of regenera- appointed Vicar Ala stolic of adds Bon.face, West Canada a s arm tura' Ca:ie of Good Hore ... 2,564,965 in 1902, Colony iiier 1,194,043 1.range ich pre a Catholic Gazette (PolNatal German), t:or.. 'He bath sent me to binds that fin ... 1,686,212 stn ,ther link to the ch established Yinrecently a Transvaal and ish), been of has Many the S nth Africa to Fremantle. th' (; sy I to the pear" 528,174 ... ((ranee Free State then'an J'ournal at Winnipeg, served as milia Mesienger in ..s the device of the Congre- the Calate Fathers Review, Heart S cred during on both sides North 5,973,394 Tot 1 in the Union gation. clerical students, Catholic tary chaplains which W Ish-English at Llaanrwst, are the memorable Boer War, the Ceylon Catholic Messen- Total brie tin Podul Akan in the Wales, Yo.:r.g Men's Societies and Clubs and to "staga:ered humanity." Union. ger (separate editions in English als( cared for. To adapt itself correspondent in- ('ingalese), and the "Jaffna GuardAfrican 389,271 South A arising white ... or Europeans the different circumstances nos Parochial ian" in English -Tamil ; forms as that Father ('ox has nes and non in people Coloured development rapid ' its e'c.v from down to his 307,591 Bulletins at Htt Joseph's, E iropeans ne- th rouvhly settled countries, the congregation has ri, and his (Acidly visited the Mattaa a (Ontario), and St. Peter's, acun696,862 ch ef m:ssions of the Tr nsvaal cessarily extended its sphere of Montreal. The "Missionary Record," was to the der his jurisdiction. which was discontinued in 1903, SOME DETAILS. tion to parochial organisation, of ain published at the Ieginning direction of industrial nr reformatory The Nuns who have schools in the a Total Christian Population (white year at Inchicore, Dublin. this Leederof the Sisters the Glendalough, are (like Transvaal and coloured). schools who Lytton, the Loreto The Very Rev. Father 134,557 .. ville of establishments of second- Holy Family (Bordeaux), Johannesburg Fremanto Nuns, two branches of Dominican accompanied His Grace Pretoria and suburbs ... 46,011 ary education in its principal ceneducationalSisthe Nuns, distinguished a is Ursuline the tle, Sisters, of Catholic Figures. tres, and of higher institutions the Sisters of the ist. The Colombo and Jaffna Colof ters of Mercy, and Cape of Good Hope .. ... 35,421 learning, such as the VniversIty The Reflematorist leges are occupied in ...he education Good Shepherd. 22,563 Natal Ottawa, of which Archbishop Don- Fathers are giving missions in ery of a native clergy, and have already ... 27,485(?) Transvaal ... imTwo priests. Vicariate. 90 over Transvaal the of graduate. rrovided district 5,576 ... tenwill is a Oran.ze Free State institutions at Colombo with In the accompanying illustration portant In this brief notice we are concerassobeen has Lytton Father which of 91,035 (kindly lent by the proprietors tied with the work of the Ob4ate4 are affiliated to the Universithe the Johannesburg "Star"), Father ciated in South Africa-especially in CI
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