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New Zealand Tablet, 8 July 1915, Page 13

There .are, at present fifteen missionary bishops working in the foreign field, who come from the single Province of Alsace. Besides these prelates, over 400 missionary priests, scattered all over the world, are natives of this province. The style of architecture called Byzantine, and the word Byzantium itself, come from a man called Byzas, who invented a new style of building in Greece. It was not until several centuries after his death that the work to which Byzas gave his name was recognised as denoting a distinct school of architecture.