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28; in Segovia, 41; in Logrona, 66; in Zamora, 48; in Leon, 

 54 ; in Salamanca, 67 ; in Valladolid, 96 ; in Palencia, 53 ; in 

 Toledo, 96; in Cuenca, 41 ; in Ciudad Real, 49; in Guadalajara, 

 43; in Saragossa, 112; in Teruel, 48; in Huesca, 63; in Cas- 

 tellon, 68 ; in Valencia, 167 ; in Alicante, 92 ; in Pontevedra, 43 ; 

 in Lugo, 38; in Oviedo, 60; in the Balearic Islands, 164, and in 

 the Canaries, 32. 



"According to the above figures Spain has four thousand 

 three hundred and thirty monasteries of religious houses, and 

 near them exist many other members of religious orders some- 

 what secretly under various pretences, so that the government 

 and the people may be deceived. These statistics are sufficient 

 to justify the steps taken by Canalejas in the matter of the reli- 

 gious orders." 



I give this extract so that the readers of "America" may 

 recognize the source whenever they see them printed as newly- 

 made investigations in Spain. It is needless to say that they 

 are untrue, and that they are given with a prolixity and verisi- 

 militude that would deceive the average reader who has not the 

 requisite books on Spain and Spanish affairs with which to 

 elicit the truth. 



As a sample of what this unknown author has promulgated, 

 let us take the one upon which he places the most emphasis, 

 the Diocese of Barcelona. I have by me the statistics of the 

 religious houses in that diocese (1910) and an account of the 

 work they are doing. There are in the Barcelona diocese 388 

 religious communities. O'f these 72 are composed of men and 

 316 of women. There are 865 male members of the religious 

 communities and 3,974 women. There are besides, 1,194 

 priests at present in charge of 263 parishes. The population of 

 the Diocese of Barcelona is 1,054,540, of which 980,000 are 

 reckoned as Catholics. The amount of the population there 

 and the number of the clergy and members of religious com- 

 munities are about the same as for the Archdiocese of New 

 York, reckoning only the Catholic population. 



In Barcelona the male religious orders have communities de- 

 voted as follows : To contemplative life, 2 ; refuges, protec- 

 tories and manual training schools for children, 5 ; asylums for 

 old people, i ; charitable associations, 17; schools and colleges, 

 47. The female religious orders have the following communi- 

 ties : Contemplative life, 27 ; houses of refuge, protectories 



