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number, but not so many as could have been wished. Paray had not seen such an afflux of visitors at its shrine since the great pilgrimage year of 1873, when English pilgrims there made such a good figure. The Authority Of the Church •— M. Ferdinand Brunetiere, the French academician, delivered an address some weeks ago at Besoncon on ' The Necessity of Belief.' For himself he said his sheet-anchor was the authority of the Church. GERMANY— The Passion Play Receipts and Expenditure— A statement of the receipts and expenditure in connection with the performance oi ibe Pat^iim Piay at Oberamniergau waa recently issued. As many as 173,78,"> visitors paid for admission, and these paymentß amounted to *„»2,u.>8 14s. After paying £12,000 for the erection and decoration of the hall. £2000 on certain structural improvements, which will make the hall available for practice during the next nine years, £7500 for new costumes, and distributing £12,500 among the performers of the play (779 in all), there remains the sum of £15,538 to be appropriated in grant towards the church and the schools (elementary and school for carving), the endowment of a hospital, the liquidation of the debt incurred over the new water supply, and various other local undertakings. From this it will be seen that the thrifty villagers put to very good account the large sums of money paid for the most part by English and American visitors. Pastoral Letter by the German Bishops —Almost simultaneously with the weighty pastoral letter of the Irish hierarchy a similar document was issued by all the bishops oi North Germany, the text of which appears in the German newspapers. There is this difference, however, that the German hierarchy devotes its letter almost entirely to social questions and chiefly to the question of workpeople's unions and guilds, urging the clergy to still further zeal in the creation of sach associations. The episcopal pastoral lays great weight on the extreme importance of Catholic workingmen's associations, and lays down the principles which must guide their creation and management. The document, which is dated 'at the tomb of St. Bonifice in Fulda,' is signed by Cardinal Kopp, Prince Bishop of Breslau (and also as proxy ifor the Bishop of Hildesheim), the Archbishops of Freiburg and Cologne, and the Bishops of Trier, Ermland, Munster, Limburg, Fulda, Oulm, Osnabruck, Paderborn, and the Auxiliary of Posen. A Centre for Catholic Pilgrimages.— Probably the next important centre for Catholic pilgrimages (says the London Monitor) will be Aix-la-Chapelle, or Aachen, as it is now officially known, 1902 being the year of the septennial exhibition of the sacred relics contained in the Cathedral shrine of this ancient city. When these relics were displayed to the public gaze in 1895 the flow of strangers was very great. At ordinary times visitors to the Cathedral have to be content with a view of the sarcophagus in which the remains of Charlemagne were deposited by the Emperor Otto 111. alter the opening of the original tomb in the year 1000

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