THE EXPELLED FRENCH RELIGIOUS ORDERS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3025, 7 December 1882, Page 2

THE EXPELLED FRENCH RELIGIOUS ORDERS.

At the present lime there are a con- , eideruble number of ramibers of the French religious orders with their novices in England, where they have taken refuge, having been forced to leave their country through the operation of recent laws passed by the French Chambers. For these, writing on behalf of the Society for the Relief of expelled Religious Orders in France, Lady Ceorgiana Fullerton has issued an oaruest appeal, staling that the refugees are not only “ silently enduring great privations,” but that they find great difficulty “ in supporting their novices." The presence of these expatriated Eeople in England is scarcely at all nownj and yet Lady Georgians says in her appeal—' Some of the exiled

people now ia England are doing missionary work among our people,” and. she adds—“ Contributions iron England form a mark oE sympathy deeply valued in these days of persoen* tion by our French brethren.” The Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry is also taking much interest in the condition of the French exiled religious orders.