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Mgr. Pie Joseph Passermi, fonner vicar apostolic, a for Catholic Sisters at the Catholic University in
zealous worker for the faith, founder of the cathedral, 1911, and was named its first dean, holding that
an orphanage, schools, ana a hospital, d. 16 April, post until his death. The immediate outcome of this
1918; Fr. Olinto Tomada, a zealous missionaiy^ d. foundation was the establishment of the Sister's
25 Jan., 1917; Mother Seraphine Battajola, a religious College, in October, 1911, for the professional training
of Canosa, d. 17 April, 1919, from an infection con- of members of the educating sisterhoods. He engaged
tracted while caring for the wounded. Of recent years actively in affiliating of Catholic schools and colleges
the vicariate has suffered from military anarchy and with the Catholic University^ and instituted a corre-
war^ invasion of soldiers, sieges, pillage^ floocl, and spondence school in education for the private in-
famme. Nevertheless, the progress of religion and its stniction and study of Catholic sisterhoods. He
moral influence among the highest classes, civilian and inaugurated a movement to restore music to the
military, is evident. The vicar apostolic, Rt. Rev. people, considering it a basic element in the develop-
Capettmi, was decorated 2 March, 1920, with the ment of intellect and the formation of character^ and
Stcur of the Tiger by the President of the Republic, in he developed complete system of musical instruction —
recognition for his devotion to the wounded and vocal and instrumental. In 1920, he undertook, with
refugees for two years. Mrs. Justine Ward, the construction of a building to be
devoted to the school of music of the Sisters' Collie.
Sherbrooke, Diocese of (Sherbrookiensis; cf. Dr. Shields founded "The Catholic Educational
C. E., XIII 756d), suffragan of Montreal. The Review," and "The Catholic Education Press," in
Present administrator of the diocese is the Rt. Rev. 1911. He contributed the "Notes on Education"
aul S. La Rocque, who celebrated the fiftieth anni- in "The Catholic University Bulletin," from 1907 to
versary of his ordination and the twenty-fifth of his 1910. In addition he is the author of "The Index
consecrationinMay 1919. A new community of Sisters Omnium" (1887); "The Nfaking and Unmaking of
known as the Missionairesde la Chine, have establish- a Dullard" (1908); "The Education of Our Girls"
ed a house at Sherbrooke. A new cathedral is in (1907); "The Teacher's Manual of Primary Methods"
course of construction and the episcopal residence has (1912): "The Psychology of Education" '(19(K^); and
lately been completed. The death in 1918 of the Rev. several treatises on ReUeion and Reading. He con-
J. C. Choquettewas a severe loss to the diocese. He tributed to "The Dolphin," "The Catholic World."
was a scientist of note, an indefatigable worker in the "The School Review," and "The Catholic University
cause of temperance and a leader of men. According Bulletin," and wrote a few articles for "The Catholic
to the statistics of 1922 the Catholic population Encyclopedia."
numbera 100,000. The diocese contains 87 parishes, Tke Catholic Bdueational Renew, (Waahingtoa, 1921), 193-302.
5 missions, 145 secular priests, 21 regulars, 560 *. »— /o n -« *
Sisters, and 30 seminarians who are being educated ^ ,^°X'^^J?^ ^}^S^h PRB"=ctx7Rb Apostolic of
in seminaries in other dioceses. The Benedictines, (jf- C; E., XIII--758b), comprises the Islwid of
Franciscans and Redemptorists have monasteries in Shi-koku, the smallest of the four islands of Japan,
the diocese. About 20,000 pupils attend the schools The population, according to 1920 statistics, is
which have been established in every parish. A 3,046,625. The prefecture is entrusted to the
weekhr review called "Le Messager" is printed at the Dominicans formerly in the Philippines. Rt. Rev.
cathedral. Joseph Marie Alvarez, O.P., b. at Burgos 16 March,
1871, professed 8 September, 1886, ordained 6 April, Shields, Thomas Edward, educationist; bom at 1895, was appointed first Prefect Apostolic of Shi- Mendota, Minnesota, on 9 May, 1862; died at koku, 2 October, 1904^ with residence at Tokushima. Washington, D. C, on 15 February, 1921. Though There are in the vicariate: 641 Catholics, 3 churches, as a young child he was rather bright, about the age 5 missions, 11 stations, 8 regular priests, 4 Brothers, 1 of ten he became backward and his youth was en seminary with 4. seminarians, lelementaury school with shrouded by a dullness that arose from alternating 69 students, 1 orphanage with 17 inmates, 1 ma- phases of physical and mental development. He temity school. In 1918 four high schools were op- seemed a hopeless dullard, but in his nineteenth year ened, one in each civil prefecture: that in Tokushima his normal capacities began to assert themselves, and is an industrial school, and that in Takamatsu is a in 1882 he entered St. Francis College at Milwaukee, commercial school. A housekeeping school, to be con- where he remained three years. In 1885 he entered ducted by Dominican Sisters, is under construction the Seminary of St. Thomas Aquinas at St. Paul, at Matsuyama. The Confraternity of the Holy Minnesota. He was ordained to the priesthood on Rosary is established at Kochi. 14 March, 1891, after which he spent fourteen months
as curate at the Cathedral of St. Paul. In 1892 he Shipman, Andrew Jackson, lawyer and Sla>
enrolled at St. Mary's Seminary at Baltimore, whence vonic scholar, b. in Springvale, Fairfax County,
he graduated as Master of Arts. In October of the Virginia, on 15 October, 1857; d. at New York on
sameyear, entered Johns Hopkins University, special- 17 October. 1915; son of John James and Priscilla
izing in biology and physiolojgy. He won his doctorate (Carroll) Snipman. His mother was a lineal de-
of miilosophy there with his thesis entitled, "Effect scendent of Thomas Carroll, who settled in Mary-
of Odors and Mental Work on the Blood Flow," in land in 1725, while the Shipmans came from Eiigbind
preparing for which he discovered an ingenious im- about a quarter of a century earlier. He studied at
was assigned to pastoral wori^ at St. Joseph's Church tant manager of a coal-mining company in Hock-
in St. Paul, where he seems to have remained until ing Valley, Ohio. There he acquired nis first knowl-
1902. when he became instructor of physiological edge of several Slavonic languages from the foreign-
psycnology at the Catholic University, becoming bom miners^ whose lay apostle he became. TfaMsy
associate professor of this science in 1905, and pro- had arrived in the United States only to find a com-
fessor of psychology and education in 1909. He plete absence of priests speaking their tongues or
joined the staff of Trinity College in 1904, and using their local rite; Shipman saw the danger in
organized there the department of education. In which they were and taking the matter up with the
1908 received the honorary degree of LL.D. from hierarchy had their needs attended to. In 1884 he
Manhattan College. He founded the summer school entered the United States customs service at New
