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Editor's Note: Father De Angelis was born in Anagni (ancient capital city of the Hernici), situated thirty 'Seven miles southeast of Rome. He received his early education at the Gymnasium (Grammar and High School) and at the Seminary of Anagni. In 1904 he went to Rome to pursue his studies in Philosophy and Canon Law at the Gregorian University. He remained in that Institution for eight years during which he received the degree of Ph.D. and the Doctor's degree in Theology. Father De Angelis was ordained by Cardinal Respighi in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in 1908. In 1912 he was appointed pastor of the largest parish in Anagni and held that position until he was called to Rome to establish the new parish of Monte Sacro. Father De Angelis had for his teachers such renowned professors as Canon Zapponi, Rector of the Seminary in Anagni and Professor of Greek and Latin; Canon Professor Anelli and Monsignor Verghetti (renowned Latin scholar and Hymnographer of the Sacred Congregation of Rites), both students of the CoUegio Pio at Rome, and Doctors in Theolog}^ After almost a decade of service in Rome, Father De Angelis came to the United States at the request of the Most Reverend Thomas J. Walsh, Bishop of Newark, N. J. He occupied the post of Professor of Latin, Itahan and Liturgy at the Immacu- late Conception Seminary, Darlington, N. J., and at Seton Hall College, South Orange, N. J., for some years. He was chaplain of Villa Lucia for six years and w^as Professor of Latin and Apologetics at the same Institution. He was also instructor of Latin at the Newark Diocesan Institute of Sacred Music. He has conducted special classes for the teachers of Latin in the Diocesan Schools, Academies and Colleges and as a result, greater uniformity has been achieved in the pronunciation of Latin throughout the entire Diocese of Newark. At the present time he is Rector of St. Joseph's Church, Lodi, N. J. The publication of this work is timely and acquires particular importance in view^ of the repeated requests on the part of the Holy See for the universal adoption of the Roman pronunciation of Latin in speaking and singing the Liturgical text in Ecclesiastical functions. It is issued in response to a general demand on the part of scholars, teachers, choirmasters, organists and singers who desire to obtain the opinion of a qualified authority on the much-debated question of the true Roman pronunciation of Latin.