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would (teem to have taken mi) their nenimiient abode OD the bonlerH of the Gulf uf Akabah, since there ex- isted there a town called Mb)i4hi (Ptolemy, "Geogr." VI, vii, 2; but' according to Flavius, Josephus, and Eiuebiua, MaSutr^), whose ruins have been described by the otplorer RQppel and, more recently, by Sir R. Burton (The Gold Mines of Midinn " and "The Land of Midian revisited", London, 1878 and 1876) now known as MdghdJrShuaib, not far from the abandoned harbour of Maqna, on the eaat«m shore of the Gulf of Akabah. If, as there is every reason to believe, it was the Hadianit«s whom Procopius had in mind under the somewhat distorted name of MnoSiiiwf (Peraian War, I, xix; ed. Niebuhr, Bonn, 1833, p. 100), the tribe still exiat^ exactly in the region mentioned un- der the reign of Justinian. But this document shows us in a manner the death-throea of the tribe which was then dependent on the Himyarites and doubtless Was soon tendered wholly extinct by absorption in the Islamite hordes.
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Hug DBS Vincent.
Madras (Madras- PATAM), Archdio- cese OP (Madras-
Its area h about 40,350 square miles, and the Catholic population about 50,000 out of a total
of
lions. The diocese
is under the caie of
secular clergy (Euro-
pean and native)
aftd the missionaries
of St. Joseph, Mill
Hill. There are in
the archdiocese 47
churches and 135
chapels in charge of 99 priests (of whom 39 are Euro-
peans, 18 nativea and 2 Eurasians), assisted by the
BrotheiB of St. Patrick and of St. Francis of Assisi.
Nuns of the Orders of the Presentation and the Good
Shepherd, the Sisters of Jesus, Mary, and Joeeph,
and the Native Sisterhoods of St. Anne, of St. Francis
of Assisi, of St. Fancis Xavier, numbering in all 262.
From the year 1606 the districts covered by the
present Diocese of Madras belonged to the Padroado
See of San Thom4. In 1642, however, a Capuchin
mission was started at Madras and erected mto a
prefecture Apostolic under Propaganda. This mis-
sion was kept up by the same order until the sub-
stitution of a vicariate Apostolic in 1832. The fre-
quent vacancies of the See of San Thom6 and other
reasons led the Holy See in 1832 to erect a new
vicariate Apostolic in place of the old prefecture Apos-
tolic, and, by the brief "Multa Prwclare" of 1838, to
withdraw entirely the jurisdiction of San ThomS as
well OS the other Padroado suffragan sees, transferring
this portion of it to the new Vicar Apostolic of Madras,
the other portions being assigned to the Vicars Apos-
tolic of Madura, of Bengal, and of the Coromandel
Coast (Pondicherry), eto. The Vicariate of Madras
was at first very eictensive, but was reduced by the
erection of new vicariates — those of Viiagapatam in
1849 and Hyderabad in 1851. On the eetablishment
of the hierarchy in 1886, Madras was made into an
archdiocescj with Viza^patam and Hyderabad as
suffragan dioceses, and the following year a third suf-
Wgan see was added at Nagpur by a nibdivision of
the territory of Viiagapatam. Subsequently the
Doab of Haichur wax ceded to Hydcral^ad, and thus
the present boundaries were arrived at. Within the
conbnes of the archdiocese there are five exempted
churches in Madras belonging to the jurisdiction <tf
San Thonu5, and on the other hand Adyar in the
Mylapore confines is under the jurisdiction of Madras.
The list of Capuchin prefects Apostolic from 1642 to
1832 is not accessible. Vicars Apoetolic; Joiin Bede
Poiding, O.S.B., nominated in 13^2, but declined;
Pedro D'AIcantara, O. Carm. Disc., Vic. Ap. of Bout-
bay, appointeii ad inimm 18ii4-35; Daniel O'CooneU,
O.S.A., 1835-^0: Patrick Joseph Carew, 1840-42; Joba
Fennelly, 1842-68; Stephen FenneUy, 1868-80; Joseph
Colgan, 1882, became archbishop in 1886, still living;
present coadjutor-bishop, John Aeten, since 18^.
The Mill Hill Fathers, who first entered the diocese in
1882, have St. Mary's European High School, Madras,
founded 1906,with 130 European pupils; St. Gabriel's
High School, Madras, founded 1839, with 200 native
pupils; St. Joseph's European School, Bellary, with
65 boarders and 20
day-scholara; Native
Higher Secondary
School, Bellary,with
100 Tftlugu pupils.
The Brothers of St.
Patrick, established
1875, have St. Pat-
rick's Orphanage,
Adyar, with 90 or-
tolans, also European
Boarding School with
60 pupils. TheTeiv
tiary Brothers of
St. Francis of Assisi,
founded 1889,estab-
lished at Bellary,
1899, have a school
with 52 boarders and
primary school with
117 boys.
The Presentation Nuns, established 1842, have the Pres- entation Convent College, Madras, with 200 boarders and 225 day scholar?, besides a branch school at Rovapuram, with 104 pupils; at Vepery, a convent school with 40 boarders and 91 day scholars, an orphanage with 22 inmates, and St. Joseph's High School (founded 1884) with 20 pupils. The Good Sbegy- herd Nuns, estabUshed in 1875 at Bellary: novi- ciate of the order, and also of Native Sisters of St. Frands Xavier; St. Philomena's High School for Europeans, with boarders and day-scholars (total 135); military orphanage; St, Joseph's Orphanage for European Girls, with 65 inmates; St. Xavier's Or- phanage, for native children, with 28 inmates; Mag- dalene asylum and widows' home opened in 1896, with 19 inmates. Sisters of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, estab- lished in 1904: dispensaries at Guntur and Vetapalem, and schools with about 140 pupils; novitiate with 6 novioea. Native Sisters of St. Anne, established at Kilacheri in 1863 (T^lugu caste nuns) : school with 03 pupils; school at Rovapuram, foundai 1885, with 148 pupils; school at N. George Town, founded 1900, with 150 pupils. Native Sisters of St. Francis Xavier: day-school at Phiranghipuram, with 120 pupils, and prtmaiy school, with 180 boys; teachers' training- school, orphanage and widows' home; school at Ren- tachintta, with 180 pupils, and at Patibandla, with 100 puptia; lower secondary school at Bellary. with 65 pupils; orphanage, with 20 inmates. Native Sisters of St. Francis of A^isi, founded 1884; fourschoobat Vepery, with 250 pupils; oiphanage, with 18 inmataa^ and foundling as}-lum.
