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Show CHURCH PROPERTIES WORTH $40,000,000. Some idea of the vastness of religious and educational edu-cational work by the Koman Catholic church in Philadelphia can be gained by scanning a recapitulation. recapitu-lation. T' ','ch contains convincing totals. Theic s at least $-10,000,000 invested in the city's Catholic churches, and there are .";7 priests in the diocese. In the different parochial schools .)4.)o7 pupils enjoy the benefit rf careful training. Here are the retails : Archbishop. ; bishop, 1 ; secular priests. 444 ; regulars, Y2'-. Total number of priests in the diocese. r-7. Churches, 270; chapels. S5; stations. .". Value of all church properties, upward of $40,-000.000. $40,-000.000. - Priests engaged in college, and ecclesiastical institutions. in-stitutions. 6.". , Total number of ecclesiastical students belong-iiiff belong-iiiff to Philadelphia. 110. Ecclesiastical institutions. 4; colleges. 3. Xumber of brothers of the Christian schools, 101 ; number of brothers of the Holy Ghost. H; number of seminarians ordained during scholastic year for Philadelphia. 13; number of religious orders or-ders for women. 19; number of religious women, novices and postulants. 2.318. Academies, parochial ' schools and institutions under the charge of the Christian brothers. tl2 ; academies and select schools for young women taught by religious women, 12; number of young women attending academies and select schools taught by religious wamen, 1.399. High school for boys, 1; high school centers for; girls, 4; parochial schools, 122; number attending boys. 24.894; number attending girls. 29,173; total. 54,0(57. , . Xumber of bovs taught bv Christian brothers. 2.027. Orphan asvlums, 12; number of orphan boys, 1.S15; number of orphan girls. 1.284; total. 3.099. Industrial school for boys. 1; industrial school for girls. 1; protectory for boys. 1; protectory for girls.. 1 ; houses for homeless boys. 2. Hospitals, 5; widows' asylums, 1 ; homes for aged poor. 3; homes for working girls, 2; conferences of St. Vincent de Paul. 63. Catholic population, about ."JOO.OOO. . Church services There are celebrated in the churches of the diocese 230,00 masses each year. 20.000 vespers. 4.000 Lenten masses. The number of retreats, novenas. sodality and mission services are so numerous it is not possible to compute them. Service of the mass is held daily in every, church, the doors of which are open from early morn until sundown and. in many instances, all evening. |
