ngs among his ancestors!"
Along with the month of the year devoted to the adoration of Mary, there
is another consecrated to Saint Joseph.]

[Footnote 5353: "Etat des congregations," etc. (1876). Eleven
congregations or communities of women are devoted to the Holy Family and
nineteen others to the Child-Jesus or to the Infancy of Jesus.]

[Footnote 5354: One of these bears the title of "Augustines de
l'interieur de Marie" and another is devoted to the "Coeuragonisant de
Jesus."]

[Footnote 5355: At Bourron (Seine-et-Marne), in 1789, which had 600
inhabitants, the number of communicants at Easter amounted to 300; at
the present day, out of 1200 inhabitants there are 94]

[Footnote 5356: Th. W. Allies, "Journal d'un voyage en France," III., p.
18: "M. Dufresne (July 1845) tells us that out of 1,000,000 inhabitants
in Paris 300,000 attend mass and 50,000 are practising Christians."--(A
conversation with Abbe Petitot, cure of Saint-Louis d'Antin, July
7.1847.) "2,000,000 out of 32,000,000 French are really Christians
and go to confession."--At the present day (April 1890) an eminent and
well-informed ecclesiastic writes: "I estimate the number of those who
observe Easter at Paris at about 100,000."--"The number of professing
Christians varies a great deal according to parishes: Madeleine, 4,500
out of 29,000 inhabitants; Saint Augustin, 6,500 out of 29,000; Saint
Eustache, 1,750 out of 20,000; Bellancourt, 500 out of 10,000; Grenelle,
1,500 out of 47,500; and Belleville, 1,500 out of 60,000 inhabitants."]

[Footnote 5357: Abbe Bougaud, "Le Grand Peril," etc., p.44: "I know a
bishop who, on reaching his diocese, tried to ascertain how many of the
400,000 souls entrusted to his keeping performed their Easter duties. He
found 37,000. At the present day, owing to twenty years of effort,
this number reaches 55,000. Thus, more than 300,000 are practically
unbelievers."--"Vie de Mgr. Dupanloup," by Abbe Lagrange, I., 5'.
(Pastoral letter by Mgr. Dupanloup, 1851.) "He considers that he is
answerable to God for nearly 350,000 souls, of which 200,000 at least
do not fulfill their Easter duties; scarcely 45,000 perform this great
duty."]

[Footnote 5358: "The Revolution," II.,390. (Ed. Laff. I., p. 177.)]

[Footnote 5359: Th.-W. Allies, "Journal," etc., p.240 (Aug. 2, 1848,
conversation with Abbe Petitot):" In 1830, the priests were obliged
for two years to abandon wearing their costume in the street, and only
recovered their