THE ASSUMPTIONISTS.

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

THE ASSUMPTIONISTS.

A Paris cable message informed us, a few weeks ago, that the A«9urnptionists, whoee house was raided some time ago by the Paris police, were fined a nominal sum, and that the Society was declared illegal. The Assumptionists are, comparatively speaking, a youthful congregation. The establishment of the community dates only from 1851. Its founder, Pere Alzon, received from Pope Pius IX. a npecial mission to labour for a religious revival in the East. The Assumptioni^ts took up their work with zeal, and they have done much for the propagation of the Faith from Rouotchouk on the Danube to Jerusalem, from Angora to the coast of Asia Minor. In the Patriarchal Vicariattf of Constantinople they have a number of important institutions, including a seminary. The yearly pilgrimages to the Holy Land which they have organised in France have been the means of extending the influence of the Catholic Church in Palestine, and the Russian Consul is stated to have said : 'If these pilgrimages had not restored the power of the Church and Latins in the East, we, the Orthodox Christians, would to-day bei absolute masters of the population.' Of the Assumptionist iniaaionarie<* 2.1 are in America. In Franoe th j Congregation has 11 houses. Father Picard is the Superior and the ProcuratorGeneral is the well-known Father Bailly, director of the Croix. The large circulation of the paper has been in a considerable measure due to 'circulation committees' which have been established in three-fourths of the French communei.

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