GENERAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 15 February 1900, Page 27

GENERAL.

Death of the Mitred Abbot of the Cistercians.— The death of Dom Sebastian Wyart, mitred abbot of the Cistercians, deprives modern monastioiam (says the Daily Chronicle) of one of its most illustrious chiefs. He was quite recently promoted to the office of Abbot-General holding jurisdiction over all Trappist monasteries as unified by Leo XIII. Dom Sebastian Wyart was a former officer in the Pontifical Zouaves, and was attached for some time to the Austrian general staff. A tender personal bereavement led him to the cloister, although his bearing remained martial to the last.

The Care Of the Orphans- — The Salesians have 400 Houses in Europe Africa, and Asia, from which every year are proceeding 30,000 well-educated orphans.

The Propagation of the Faith.— At the beginning of the century (says an American Catholic exchange), before the founding of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, the Propaganda numbered scarcely five million Catholics, under its jurisdiction. For the present century the number has risen to about twenty-six millions. Generations of missionaries have spent their lives in bringing about this happy result. The Propagation of the Faith has collected and distributed towards that end nearly £11,000,000 during the course of seventy years (1822-1891). The receipts of the Society last year were £267,662. Of this sum the Catholics in the United States contributed £10,700.