The Catholic Club of New York has 1500 members and a library of 160,000 volumes. * Since its - foundation in Lyons in 1822 the Society for the Propagation of the Faith has been the abiding stay of the missionary the world over. The Society is administered by two central councils in Lyons, the other in Parisand all the work performed by their members is unpaid. / The Holy Father is having constructed at his own expense at Annecy an enormous bell, destined as a gift to the old Cathedral at Rouen, the city in which Jeanne D'Arc found martyrdom. It will weigh over 20,000 kilogrammes, will be the biggest church bell in France, and will bear the name of Jeanne D'Arc.
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New Zealand Tablet, 15 January 1914, Page 45
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119Untitled New Zealand Tablet, 15 January 1914, Page 45
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