The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . , now comprises an area of more than 340,000sq. m., or more than the combined areas of the Ger-man Empire and Great Britain and Ireland. Theprincipal stations are: in Sumatra, Medan, in thenorth-east and Padang, in the west; in Java, Batavia(residence of the vicar Apostolic), Samerang, andSurabaya; in Timor, Fialarang; in Flores, Maumeriand Larantuk; in Celebes, Macassar and natives speak their own dialects, but in thecoast towns Dut
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . , now comprises an area of more than 340,000sq. m., or more than the combined areas of the Ger-man Empire and Great Britain and Ireland. Theprincipal stations are: in Sumatra, Medan, in thenorth-east and Padang, in the west; in Java, Batavia(residence of the vicar Apostolic), Samerang, andSurabaya; in Timor, Fialarang; in Flores, Maumeriand Larantuk; in Celebes, Macassar and natives speak their own dialects, but in thecoast towns Dutch and Malay are the languagescurrent. The Ursulines, established at Batavia andSurabaya, furnish the largest contingent of religiouswomen in the vicariate, amounting to 170. Analecta ord. min. cnpuc. for September, 1905; Streit,Atlas des missions; Mi^siones CathoHcw (Propaganda, Rome,1907), 263. Albert Battandiek. Bath Abbey.—The first religious house in Bathwas a monastery of nuns founded by King Osric,A. D. 676. This was followed by a community ofBenedictine monks, who were visited and reformedby St. Dunstan. King Edgar was solemnly crowned. Bath Abbey in the abbey church of St. Peter in 973, and a fewyears later the abbot was St. Elphege, afterwardsBishop of Winchester and Archbishop of Canterbury,who was killed by the Danes in 1012. ^Ifsige,who died in 1087, was the last Abbot of Bath; for in1088 William Rufus granted the abbey and its landsto John de Villula, Bishop of Wells, and the residentsuperior was henceforth a cathedral prior insteadof an abbot. This bishop later restored its lands tothe monastery, which was endowed also by otherbenefactors. A great fire, in 1137, destroyed nearlythe whole city, greatly damaging the abbey buildings,which were promptly rebuilt. In the followingcentury there was a warm dispute between themonks of Bath and the canons of Wells as to their respective rights in electing the bishop. Innocent IVdecreed, in 1245, that the election should
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