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first as lay helpers, and now as reco^zed religious,
known officially as the Foreign Mission Sisters of
St. Dominic, Inc. These Sisters devote themselves
exclusively to work for foreign missions. The Maiy-
knoU Preparatory College, The Venard, at Clark's
Summit, near Scranton, Pa., admits to a five year
classical course foreign mission aspirants who nave
completed the ei|;ht grammar grades. Connected
with this institution is a group of the Maryknoll
Sisters. Their convent is dedicated to Our Lady
of the Missions. The Maryknoll Medical Bureau,
New York City, was founded in 1020 to interest
the medical profession in mission needs, to secure
the services of physicians and nurses, and to pro-
vide medical supphes for hospitals and dispensaries
in the missions. The Maryknoll Procure in San
Francisco, Cal., is the center of Maryknoll activities
on the western coast, and the depot of supplies
for the missioners in China. It is also the head-
2uarterB of the Maryknoll Society of the Pacific, nc. The Maryknoll Japanese Missions at Los Angeles, Cal., and Seattle, Wash., are conducted by the Maryknoll Sisters for the education and religious instruction of the Japanese in those cities. The personnel of the Society in 1922 consisted of 38 priests, 162 students, 23 auxiliary Brothers and 128 Sisters, of whom 38 were profesed, 64 novices, and 26 postulants, making a total ^f 351.
in September, 1018. There are now 16 priests and
1 auxiliary brother in the Maryknoll Mission. In
the fall of 1921 the first mission sroup of Mary-
knoll Sisters arrived at their Chinese convent,
Kowloon, Hongkong. The Maryknoll Procure at
Kau-limg is the center of communications and sup-
plies for the missions at Wu-chou, Yeung-kong,
Tung-chan, Kao-chau, Loting, Shi-lung, Tungon,
Chetung, Dosing, and Ping-nam, in the provinces
of Kwang-tuns and Kwang-ei. Kau-lung is on the
mainland, a few moments by ferry from Hong-
kong. The mission was visited in 1921 by the
founder and superior of the Society, Very Rev.
James A. Walsh, who arrived in China in Novem-
ber and ST>ent six weeks stud3ring conditions and
conferring on plans for mission development. A
report for 1921 of the mission gives a population
of 6,000,000 pagans and 2010 Catholics, adminis-
tered to by 16 American missionaries, 1 auxiliary
brother (Ainerican), 6 Sisters (American), 4 semi-
narians, 50 men catechists and 30 women catechists.
There were 2018 catechumens. 111 baptisms of
adults, 723 baptisms of children, 2196 annual con-
fessions, 5236 confessions of devotion, 2093 annual
communions, 7008 communions of devotion, 7 who
received Extreme Unction, and 46 marriages. The
Maryknoll missionaries had the followine estab-
lishments : 8 districts staffed, 70 stations, 7 churches^
Districts
Yeung-kong
Ft. Ford
Fr. Vogel
fV. Taggart Kao-chau
Fr. Meyer
Fr. Paschang Tung-chan
Fr. Diets
Fr. Meehan Loting
¥i. McShane
Fr. Sweeney Tungon
Attended from Wu-chou Wu-chou
Fi-. O'Shea
F^. Donovan Ping-nam
Fr. Wiseman
Fr. Murray Shi-lung
Fr. Hodgins
Christiana
618
807
432
43
100
10
2010
Catechu*
mena
405
395
302
408
97
107
96
208
2018
CoofeB-
nons
Com-
miinionn
1500
997
2385
258
42
50
2464
972
3200
280
42
50
Adulta
17
24
35
35
(Mission opened this year)
(Mission opened this year)
5232
7008
111
Baptians
Infantji
549
42
28
101
723
Total
000
66
63
136
834
The work of the Society is maintained and
developed by the co-operation of its associate or
spiritual" members. For these members weekly
Masses are offered by the priests, and they are
remembered in the communions and prayers of the
students and Sisters. The same spiritual benefits
may, if desired, be applied to departed souls.
Spiritual membership in the Society, with a per-
sonal share in its good works and merits, is secured
by all benefactors and by subscribers to the Mary-
knoll mission monthly, "The Field Afar." Asso-
ciate membership for one year is fifty cents; in
perpetuity, fifty dollars, payable on enrolment or
witnin two years.
A mission of 25,000 square miles in South China has been assigned to the Maryknoll Society by the Sacred College of Propaganda Fide, Rome. The first band of Maryknoll priests left for this field
30 chapels, 4 infant asylums and orphanages, 20
schools for boys with 359 pupils, 8 schools for girls
with 124 pupils, 1 industrial school, and 3 dis-
pensaries. It is proposed that in addition to the
industrial school Maryknoll conduct a boys' high
school and a university hostel at Hong-kong. A
catechist or normal school has been opened re-
cently at Kochow, with Fr. Meyer in charge. The
accompanying table gives the details of the districts
assigned to the Foreign Mission Society of
America.
Foreign BCisslons, Saint Joseph's Society fob (cf. C. E., Vin-521d) .—Besides St. Joseph's Mis- sionary College at Mill Hill; London, there are three branch colleges: St. Joseph's Missiehuis at Pozendaal, Holland (erected 1890) ; St. Josef's Mis- sionhaus at Brixen, Tyrol (1891); and St. Joseph's
