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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 36, 3 January 1874, Page 13

The Lazariits in Persia. — While the Lazarist Fathers are being expelled from Germany— their house at Reuss lias just been shut up — they are being thanked and complimented by the Shah, with whom some of the Fathers have had an iaterview in P.iris. The congregation possess several establishments in Persia, at Tabriz, Ourmiah, ar*d other towns, and several thousand children are educated in the schools attached to them. The Shah is said to have expressed his satisfaction at their labours und his admiration of their dtvofceduess j and to have pso-miaed them his continued protection.