The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . years. That of Northern Mailagascar,extending from the northern extremit\ to the eight-eenth parallel, was given to the fathers of the Congre-gation of the Holy Ghost, under Mgr Corbet. MgrCazet kept the territory between 1S° and 22° S. lati-tude, forming the Vicariate of Central view of the development of his more densely popu-lated \dcariate and, consequently, of its needs, MgrCazet asked and obtained the help of the Missionary-
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . years. That of Northern Mailagascar,extending from the northern extremit\ to the eight-eenth parallel, was given to the fathers of the Congre-gation of the Holy Ghost, under Mgr Corbet. MgrCazet kept the territory between 1S° and 22° S. lati-tude, forming the Vicariate of Central view of the development of his more densely popu-lated \dcariate and, consequently, of its needs, MgrCazet asked and obtained the help of the Missionary-Fathers of Our Lady of La Salette and the Sisters ofProvidence of Corenc, to whom he committed theAakinankawitra district, while Betsileo was confidedto the .Jesuits of t he Champagne province. Mgr Henryde Saune was appointed his coadjutor. In the meantime the Protestants also have multi-plied. To the missionaries and material resources ofthe London Missionary Society ha\e, for some timepast, lieen added those of the Friends Foreign JILssionAssociation and the Society for the Propagation of theGospel, the Norwegian Mission, the Norwegian Luth-. eran Mission of America (United Church); also thoseof the Free Church and, lastly, of the Soci6t6 des Mis-sions E\ang61iques of Paris. At present (1906) thesedifferent societies number about 115 representatives,men and women, in Madagascar, while the workingstaff of the three Cathohc vicariates exceeds about nine-tenths of the inhabitants ofMadagascar remain pagans. Progress is slow owing tothe perplexity arising from a variety of Christian any pagan the spectacle of Christian preachersattributing contradictory doctrines to the same Mas-ter must prove confusing. Flacouht, Histoire de la grand He de Madagascar ^Paris,1658); Mtnioires de la Congregation de la Mission, IX (Paris,1867): DE Vassiere, Histi^ire de Madagascar (Paris, 1884);Abinal and de la Vassiere, Vingt ans a Madagascar (Paris,1884); RocviER,
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