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foundation of the congreffation in Europe and died tion of the best Catholic families of the eitv; in 1911,
there in 1918. Sister Imelda Teresa Swift, the noted a home for business women in New York City: in
convert from the Salvation Army, died in 1916 in 1912, a home for business women in Dayton, Onio.
this congregation as a professed novice. The con- In ail these houses the work of giving; spiritual
gr^ation now numbers 862 professed Sisters, 35 retreats is conducted. The congregation is steadily
novices, and 33 nostulants. There are 63 mission increasing in members and now numbers 89 professed
houses besides the mother-house. In 1917 the religious, 6 novices, and 5 postulants.
Sisters took charge of a school of social science and Third Order of St. Francis (cf. C. E., XIV —
modern languages in Fribourg, SwitzerUmd, Insti- 641a). — ^In recent years the Franciscan Third Order
tut des Hautes Etudes, Villa des Fougdres. Rosary has been the subject of several pontifical pronounce-
College in River Forest, Chicago, is now under ments. The most important of these are the latter
construction. of Pius X Tertium Franciscalium Ordinem, of 8
Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary, — ^These September. 1912; and the Encyclical Letter of Bene-
Sisters are a contemplative community, strictly diet XV "Sacra propediem" of 6 January, 1921.
cloistered. They chant the Divine Office in choir In the first of these two letters which was addressed
according to the Dominican Rite and support them- to the three ministers-episcopal of the First Order,
selves by making vestments, altar Imens, altar Pius X expressed his joy at the new evidences ol
breads^ etc. The first foundation was at Hoboken, activity amount the tertiaries tending to the propaga-
which IS regarded as the mother-house, though each tion of the Third Order. At the same time nowever,
house is independent and governed by the prioress he confessed to a fear that many tertiaries were in
of each community, there being no mower general or danger of losing; sight of the proper purpose and
provincial. They all observe the Rule of St. Aug- vocation of their order. The Third Order, he re-
ustine. The chief chan^ due to the new Code of minded them, is an order of penance, designed to
Canon Law is the wearing of the entire Dominican teach men the love of the Cross and the avoidance of
habit while collecting, m place of the black worldliness, and to lead its members in the way of
habit of outdoor Sisters iformerly worn, and ^e giving evangelical perfection. Hence, Tertiary fraternities,
of the white scapular to the lay Sisters in place of as such^ must not concern themselves with purely
the black. Two of the first four religious wno came economic or social questions: though individual
over from Belgium are recently deceased. Moilier tertiaries are encouraged to take part in the social
Mary of Jesus, prioress in Hoboken for twenty years, works. In virtue of their profession all tertiaries
died 4 October, 1917, at the age of seventy; Mother must avoid luxurious living and be ready to exercise
Mary Dominic, sub-prioress in Hoboken, died 2 the works of mercy, spiritual and corporal. In
November, 1920, at the age of seventy-eightr The regard to tertiary congresses, the pontiff laid down
present pnoress m Hoboken is Mother Mary Agnes, that such congresses may only be held with the
elected 1 October, 1919, to succeed Mother Mary approval of the superiors of the First Order and under
Imelda, who with thirteen other Sisters established their leadership; the congresses may only discuss
a new foundation at Summit, N. J. The Sisters matters properly pertaining to the order and must
have 7 houses in the United States at Hoboken, avoid purely economic and social 9uestions; the acts
N. J. (35 professed Sisters, 4 novices, 8 postulants); of the congress ma}r not be published without the
Hales Comers, near Milwaukee, Wis.; Catonsville, sanction of the superiors of the First Order,
near Baltimore, Md.; Camden, N. J. (38 perpetual The Encyclical Letter of Benedict XV, above
professed Sisters, 6 professed novices, 3 novices, 3 referred to, was published on the occasion of the
postulants, 1 outside Sister); Buffalo N. Y.; La seventh centenary celebration of the formal foundation
Crosse, Wis. (15 Sisters), and Summit, N. J. of the order. In this letter the pope again urged the
Dominican Nuns cf the Congregation of St. tertiaries to set an example of unworldliness and in
Cajherine of Ricci. — ^Tiiis congregation is devoted particular called upon them to cultivate modesty
to the work of retreats and to the spirit of adoration, m dress in opposition to the prevalent fashions of the
reparation, and thanksgiving. It was founded in day; but more especially he bade them emulate the
Glens Falls, Diocese of Albany, N. Y., in 1880, by example of the first tertiaries as apostles of fraternal
Lucy E2aton Smith who took in religion the name of charity and good will in a world inflamed by the
Sister Maria Catherine de Ricci. She was bom in passions of war.
Brooklyn, N. Y., 22 March, 1845, was deceived into The year 1921 witnessed a world-wide celebration
the Catiiolio Church 18 December, 1865, went to of the seventh centenary of the order, culminating
Europe seeking to fulfill her religious vocation, and in the international congress of the tertiaries held in
returned to the United States to found a new com- Rome in September of that year. The congress had
munity of the Dominican Order, in honor of St. 'been convoked to meet in Assisi, but such were the
Catherine of Ricci. The present mother-house in vast numbers attending it that it was found necessary
Albany^ N. Y.. was opened in May, 1887. Mother to transfer the congress to a city capable of providing
de Ricci died 24 May, 1894, in the new house founded accommodation for the delegates,
at Saratoga, and was succeeded as second provincial Of the Pontifical privileges granted to tertiaries in
by Mother Mary Loyola, who was bom 8 Februaiy, late years, the most notable is the concession contained
1854, and was received into the Church at Rome, 22 in the Letter of PiuxX, ^'Sodalium e Tertio Ordine,"
Jul3r, 1876. During Mother Loyola^s administjration of 5 May, 1909, whereby tertiaries by communication
an £lnglish-speaking boarding school and academy of privileges share in all the good works of the Firet
was founded at Havana, Cuba, in 1900, and a home Order and enjoy the same indulgences,
for business women was opened in Philadelphia, A movement to bring the local tertiary-fraternities
Penn., in 1901. Mother Loyola died 23 April, into closer cooperation with each other for their
1904, and was succeeded by Sister Mary Bertrand, mutual benefit and encouragement was approved by the present provincial, who was elected m January. Pius X in his Letter "Delectavit nos*' of 17 December,
1905, succe^ed by Mother M. Frances in 1915, and 1909, addressed to the federated fraternities in re-elected in 1918 and 1921. Under Mother M. Rome. The movement is but a return to the ancient Bertrand's administration the following foundations practice of the Third Order fraternities in Italy; and have been nuMie: in 1908, an Enuish-speaking were it carried out generally, would undoubtedly tend boarding school and academy at Cienfuegos, Cuba, to strengthening the Third, Order as a spiritual force and in connection therewith an orphan asylum sup- in the cnurch.
ported by the Daughters of the Rosary, an organisa- The most recent statistics give the number of
