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Catholics, a few Protestants, 287 parishes, 465 1918, to succeed Most Rev. Angelo della Cioppa,
priests, 310 churches, 1144 public chapels and 110 appointed 22 June, 1896, d. 29 January, 1917. On
private oratories (1920 statistics). 11 March, 1919, Archbishop Piccirilli was named
Lamennais, Jban-Mabib-Robkrt db (cf. C. E., ^dnainistrator of Vasto. On 6 February, 1909, the
trTTT »iflc \ rru AvxAttiis-xwBifiBx "f./;i*'V. ^' J^'> cathcdral was erected into a minor basihca.
^?b^^^"i^^^ *^Sf li>?LI?*^on^^^^^ ^ According to 1920 statistics Lanciano counts 37,209
mtroduced at Rome 22 March, 1911. Catholics, Ortona, 60,400 Catholics; there are in
Iiamp, Thb, a Catholic monthly devoted to the two dioceses, 20 parishes, 100 secular and 8 Church unity and missions, founded under Anglican regular priests, 12 seminarians, 5 Brothers, 25 Sis- auspices by Very Rev. Paul James Francis, S.A., ters, ana 102 churches or chapels, and making its fi^ appearance on Candlemas, 1903. •^^.^^ t^ zt # ^ t^ When the Society of^the Atonement was received ,, *'"^^' Diocme of (Lingonbnsis; cf. C. E., into the Catholic Church on 30 October, 1909, with yill-780d), m the department of Haute-Marne,
its name and institute, "The Lamp" continued to Y^^^^k ^^^^^ ®1 V°^: ^*-^ ^7' ^^^
make its monthly appearance without interruption. Augustm de Durfort de Civrac de Lorge was
Its average circulation for the first six months of aPPomted to this see 9 February, 1911, to succeed
1921 was 160,000 monthly. "The Lamp" is the organ ?/fK*^P, ^^?f ¥?* ^J^^^^ 24 December, 1910). and
of the Society of the Atonement and of its activi- ?"ed it until his transfer to Poitiere 3 September,
ties, St. John's Atonement College which prepares }S}^'. The present mcumbent, Rt. Rev. TWophile-
for the friar-priesthood, the Rosary League of Our J^ane Louyard, bom m Radon Fronce, 1868, or-
Lady of the Atonement, the Union That Nothing ^^med 1882, was a prof ^or and then superior of
sat ion
to be i^teVSt^. *"Thr Ump" £ edi'tS by The ^^\^> K^^® *<^i^« cathedral chapter the dignity of
Friars of the Atonement, at Graymoor. Garrison, f deaconate; the nght of nomination is r^rved to j^ Y_ , ^"® H°^y See. Durmg the World War 158 pnests
and 29 seminarians were mobilized from this dio- Lamy, Etiennb-Marie-Victob, author and cese, and of this number 25 gave up their lives, secretaiy of the French Academy, b. at Cire, Jura. 4 were taken prisoners. 2 were decorated with the on 2 June, 1845; d. on 9 January, 1919. He studied Ugion d^honneur, 4 with the midaiUe militaire, 47 under the Dominicans at Sorreze, and later at the with the croix de guerre, a number with the Collie Stanislas. Subsequently he won his doc- midaille des ipidSmtes, and 84 with other citations, torate of law with a thesis on the Bourse in ancient, By 1920 statistics the diocese counts a Catholic medieval, and modern days. In his youth in- population of 214,785, 444 parishes, 3 archpreeby- spired by P^re Lacordaire he took the resolution, teries and 29 deaneries, 540 priests, of whom 307 which he carried out in later manhood, of serving are pastors, 29 vicars, 55 professors^ 23 vicars gen- France through the religion of Christ. Nominated eral, canons and chaplains, 58 priests serving in to the National Assembly at the age of twenty-five, other dioceses, 23 vicariates, 1 lower seminary, 1 he voted against the peace with Germany in 1871. upper seminary, 2 ecclesiastical institutes, and 16 By his gift of eloquence and especially by his re- rehgious communities.
markable Report on the Navy Budget, 1878, he ▼•—«*%- ^^a v«^i««-» t^ a -^
established hiS position as a parliamentarian of first I^«-8?a ^^ Kao-baiig, Prkfecturb Apostouc
rank and seemed to assure his early inclusion in ^^ ^^^ T^V^^ ?L CA0BANG).-;This prefecture
the Cabinet. But this was not to be. Lamy was ^^ ®^^*®? ^^ * ^^^^ f, ^^ December. 1913,
a Catholic; he stood for the liberty of higher edu- and comprises a vast mountainous terntory m the
cation and so fought the anti-Catholic monopolistic northeastern part of Tonkin, along the Chinese
school law of Jul^ Ferry in 1879. with the conse- ^^^°^'^^V ^ngmally the bed of a pnmitive sea,
guence that in 1881 he was defeated for re-election. ^J^°^^ *H^K"'^*^^n^*^^ W^'?*"!'^^' ^""^
Thereafter he fought his fight for Christian France ®^ ^^^ ^"^7^*°^ ^^ u i"^- ^\ ®^®°^ ^y^^
in the hteraiy field. He became editor of "Le ^^ *^^* ^^^^ s^' ^'^^,* ^^^ Tffi*?^*^ peculiM
Correspondant" and wrote for the "Journal des formation is very sparsely popidated the ^ot^
D^bats," "La Revue des Deux Mondes," and won a S-« ^ £j® . ^ * ^®^ old tribes such as the Thos,
great hterary reputation. In 1905 he was elected to l^^^^hw^'^J ^A^k ** ^alos, with a few thou-
the French Academy and on the death of Thureau- f^^ ^uj°f®„5l„^?°*'"i\!f*.,^^^^ ^'^^f- °^^?^^
Danein succeeded as perpetual secretary. Startled ^^""f China and Annam Until ite erection into a
by the increasing decline in French natality conse- P!;!f^l";i*^A^*^^^^^^ ^^'\^'^^ ^^"^ ^a ""^I^^a qiient on the spread of non-Catholic principles of f^^ three Domimcan Fathers^ who had worked
morality, he enibled the French Academy through ^^^.^J^T^f^^Yf J.^^^^^^^
his generosity to offer annually the two Etienne a community of 514 some of Uiem converts, but
Lamy prizes of 10,000 francs each, for large families. \l^ the most part Annamites who had come from
For mfny years he be^an his day^s workly hearing \^l ^^^;:,I«^nf Thp'^r^ ?v±"f^l,l?n
early Mass. Among his chief works are : "La France **^« Dominicans (of the provmce of Lyons), who
du Levant" (1898), "Le second Empire" (1895). now number 10 and are assisted by 4 secular
«La Femme du demain" (1899), "Aim6e de Coigny" Pn^-S^S' 1» catechists 45 student catechists. 27 semi-
(1900), "Fausses r^publiques," T^moins de jours °t".*?? *°^ ^? ^***v® Sisters. The number of
oass^s" (1909* 1913) Christians has increased remarkably considenng the
passe V , J. almost insurmountable difficulties, the total number
Lanciano, Abchdiocesb of (LANaANENSis; cf. C. now being 1854. About 200 of these, however, E., VIII-774d), in the province of Cheti, Southern are orphans or infirm people who are totally de- Italy, with the perpetual administration of Ortona pendent on the charity of the priests who are (Ortonensis). Tnis see is now filled (1922) by Most practically without resources. The first and present Rev. Nicola Piccirilli, bom in Chieti, 16 October, prefect apostolic is Rev. Bertrand Cothonay, ap- 1855, appointed Archbishop of Santa Severina, 30 pointed 7 January, 1914. Latest statistics creait May, 1^, transferred to Couzsl, 14 November, the mission with 10 quasi-parishes, 6 churches, 8 1904, and again transferred to this see 25 April, chapels, 15 mission stations, 1 seminary, 6 elemen-
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