About 5000 Catholic parishes in all America have parochial schools, their number increasing by about 400 each year. In them are 1,500,000 students. Boston, Chicago, and Seattle have well established high schools for Catholic youths, and St. Louis, St. Paul, Detroit, and Denver have colleges ranking as high schools or that carry on high school work.
According to the Paris Univers, the oldest Catholic Bishop in the world is Monsignor, Abbati, a Franciscan, at present' dwelling In a convent of the Franciscans at Bordighera, Italy. Monsignor Abbati was born in Modena in 1820, entered the Franciscan Order while still very young, and was made a missionary Bishop in the Levant. Last March he celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his consecration. He has been in retirement at Bordighera for some years.
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New Zealand Tablet, 25 September 1913, Page 27
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130Untitled New Zealand Tablet, 25 September 1913, Page 27
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