RELIGIOUS ORDERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 889, 12 May 1903, Page 2

RELIGIOUS ORDERS.

DISISANI)J,\(i Oh' .11'.SUITS. (Per it.AI.S. Sierra at Auckland.) ,SAN KHA NO l SCO. April TC The disbanding of the .Jesuits in France is being made diUicult and dangerous. A "despatch from Paris of April lltli says: The Very Pee.. Dr John Z.ahm, of Notre Dame, Indiana, Provincial id' the Holy Cross of the United States, has arrived here, after visiting the Order in France, which is among those ordered to disband When Father r /a)im was seen at ilie Academy of the. Holy Cross here, which is the second largest in France, the place showed signs ol confusion and disturbance. hollowing the liotilieation (o disperse, packers were hastily Idling tanks and taking down paintings of founders and other valuables, some of which Will he shipped to the United States. Dr Zalim spoke more ‘in pity than in I bitterness. He said that this and ' other academies represented the Ide i work of those who had been ordered to disband. The effect would he particularly severe on old men ami si - tors of formal orders. They {elan: ~nlv their persona! belongings,am. lose schools and properties and bitildpigs, and hereafter will he unable, to Wear the habit of the order and continue to work as members ol the ~ eongiegal ions. Those aide to I level will go lo the United Slates, India, anil Canada. As I lie result ol |)r ’ '/alim’s visit, one hundred brothers and priests, and the same number of sisters, are going 1o I lie United Stales, and about, that.- number (n Canada, lie says that, most of them speak French and Cerman, a,ml will be distributed among the colleges, and will teach.