. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . dition four bi-weeklies,ten weeklies, and several smaller publications. Communities and Churches.—There are three Bo-hemian religious communities in the United States. BOIANO 622 BOIARDO The first and oldest, the Bohemian Benedictine Orderof Chicago was founded in 18S7 by the Right \ S. B,. first Abbot of St. Vincents,Beatty, Pennsylvania. Tliis apostolic man. perceiv-ing the great dearth of priests among tlic Bohemiansin the Unite
. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . dition four bi-weeklies,ten weeklies, and several smaller publications. Communities and Churches.—There are three Bo-hemian religious communities in the United States. BOIANO 622 BOIARDO The first and oldest, the Bohemian Benedictine Orderof Chicago was founded in 18S7 by the Right \ S. B,. first Abbot of St. Vincents,Beatty, Pennsylvania. Tliis apostolic man. perceiv-ing the great dearth of priests among tlic Bohemiansin the United States, in\-ited Boliemian young mento his abbey, educated them free of cliarge. and fittedthem for exercising the ministry amongst their omicountrymen. At his request the pope granted per-mission for the estabhshnient of an independent orcanonical Bohemian priory, in St. Procopius Prioryof Chicago, which in 1S94 was raised by His Holi-ness Leo Xni to the dignity of an abbey; the RightRev. John Xepomuk Jaeger, O. S. B., was elected thefirst abbot. The Bohemian Benedictine Fathers havecharae of tliree Bohemian and two Slovak eonereea-. St. Procopius College, liiSLE, Illinois tions in the city of Chicago, amongst them the con-gregation of St. Procopius, the largest Bohemianparish in the United States, with a membership ofabout 10,000. They have likewise a large modernprinting plant in which four leading Bohemian Cath-olic newspapers are printed. The order has 13 priests,3 clerics. 3 novices, and 10 lay-brothers. The secondpurely Bohemian religious community is that of theBohemian Benedictine Sisters of the Sacred Heartat Chicago, estabUshed in 1894. These sisters arealso in cliarge of St. Josephs Orphanage at Lisle,Illinois. A second Bohemian orphanage is to beestablished at St. Louis, in connexion T\-it5i St. Jolmschurch, the oldest Bohemian parish in the UnitedStates. The Bohemian Benedictine Sisters have atpresent 27 sisters, 7 novices, and 1 candidate, andteach in several
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