Necrology of the Missions

New Zealand Tablet, 29 June 1911, Page 1213

Necrology of the Missions

•,.:-i The Necrology of the Missions for 1910 forms a notable list of members of Christ's Legion of Honor called to'their reward (says the Sacred Heart Review); Last year the apostolate of the foreign field lost by death six Bishops and one hundred and eighty-one priests:H Of all, twenty-five were- of the Paris Society for Foreign Missions, -thirty-five Jesuits, twelve Lazarists, five Benedictines, sixteen "Franciscans (Friars Minor),- ten Capuchins,. five Redemptorists, ten :Oblates of Mary, five Marists, three Salesians, two insurrectionists; seventeen belonged to the Congregation /L ?N- oy Ghost > rom " to the Society of the Divine Word (bteyl), i seven to the Society of Belgian Foreign Missionaries , one. to the Pallotins, and one to the Fathers of the bacred. Heart; ten,; were , Algerian Missionaries (White leathers.), two English: Foreign Missionaries, three Missionaries, of the Sacred Heart, of Picpus six Dominicans, ; two Carmelites; one belonged "-to the Company of : Mary and five to the Lyons Society for African Missions. - .The various nationalities were represented as follows:—Among these missionaries were eighty-two French twenty-one Germans, four Austrians. twenty Italians, eleven Spaniards, fourteen Belgians, four Dutch; six Irish, five Swiss, two Tyroleans, one Polander, one Canadian, one Syrian, one Bulgarian, five East Indians, one Filipino, one American (U.S.), four South Americans, two AngloEgyptians. . ' fa : ;