. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress. His example the Catholic Church has extended her charity tothese afflicted people and has inaugurated their systematic edu-cation. There can be no doubt that the handicapped condition of thedeaf as regards faith and morals enlisted from the very dawnof Christianity the sympathy and zeal of priests and mission-aries, and that, by various ingenious devices, they succeeded inteaching them the essential truths of faith and disposed themfor the Sacraments; but history has left a meager record of theirgood work. The pitiful condition of the deaf awa
. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress. His example the Catholic Church has extended her charity tothese afflicted people and has inaugurated their systematic edu-cation. There can be no doubt that the handicapped condition of thedeaf as regards faith and morals enlisted from the very dawnof Christianity the sympathy and zeal of priests and mission-aries, and that, by various ingenious devices, they succeeded inteaching them the essential truths of faith and disposed themfor the Sacraments; but history has left a meager record of theirgood work. The pitiful condition of the deaf awakened the zealof St. John of Beverley; of Ponce de Leon, a Benedictine Monk;of Juan Pablo Bonet, a Spanish Priest. St. Francis de Sales, onhis missionary tour, having met a deaf-mute boy, took him intohis service and by a method of signs prepared him for confessionand Holy Communion. Lana Terzi, S. J., and Lorenzo Hervasy Panduro, a Spanish Jesuit missionary in America during thetime of the Suppression, wrote learned treatises in the interest 192. Pope HIS EXCELLENCYTHE MOST REV. DONATUS SBARETTI,
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