The Messenger of the Sacred Heart for India January 1919

The former site of the house and its renovated cavern-apartment are to-day included as a basement or crypt in the precincts of the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation a structure completed in 1730 the third church to ba built on the spot the first dating from the days of St. [...] The priest in his advice to her had said a few words about the gifts of the three Kings and their mystical meaning the almsgiving the mortifications and the third offering without which the other two were coparatively worthless the sacrifice of self-will more acceptable to God than the perfume of the finest frankincense. [...] 4. The Ecclesiastical Province of Calcutta.—In 1886 the Vicariate of Western Bengal became the Archdiocese of Calcutta with the following saffragan Sees—(1) The Diocese of Dacca constituted in 1886 out of the Vicariate of Eastern Bengal (2) the Diocese of Krishnagar erected in 1886 out of the Vicariate of Central Bengal and (3) the Prefecture Apotolic of Assam constituted in 1693 out of di [...] Of these the Archdiocese of Colombo and the Diocese of Jaffna were placed under the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and the Diocese of Kandy under the Benedictine : of the Congregation of St. [...] 9. The Vicariates Apostolic of the Syro-Malabar Rite.- The Catholics of the SyrMalabar Rite remained under the jurisdiction of Verapoly and Cranganore and after the supression of that See under Goa until Pope Leo XIII of imortal memory by the Brief Quod jam Pridein " of the 20th May 18871 separated the Churches of the Syrian rite on the Malabar coast from those of the Latin Dioceses