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ooo ; making a total of 154,200.^ On the other hand, the Greek 

 Orthodox in Italy are given as amounting to 3,472. All of 

 these make but a small number in a total population of thirty- 

 three million. 



Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli, in his "Colonie Italo-Greche," 

 says large numbers of the Greek Catholics have emigrated 

 from Calabria and Sicily to America, and tells of having found 

 whole Calabrian villages nearly deserted, save for a few old 

 people, the younger generation having all emigrated to Amer- 

 ica. The Italian figures of emigration seem to show the same 

 thing. For example, in 1903, there were 230,622 emigrants 

 from Italy to the United States. Of these the chief provincial 

 figures were as follows: Sicily, 58,820; Calabria, 33,999 5 

 Abruzzi, 46,349; Apulia, 21,210; making a total of over two- 

 thirds of the whole emigration that year from Southern Italy. 

 The figures of Calabria are peculiarly suggestive. These emi- 

 grants went away forever, since only 878 are marked down 

 as intending to return. 



In and around Rome there are three Greek Catholic 

 churches, of which the fine Church of San Atanasio dei Greci, 

 at the corner of Via del Babuino and Via dei Greci, is the 

 largest and finest. It stands next to the famous Greek College, 

 where students, whether Pure Greek, Ruthenian Greek, Ru- 

 manian Greek, or Melchite Greek, are educated according to 

 their rite. This church has its greatest festival in the Solemn 

 High Mass according to the Greek Rite celebrated on Epiphany, 

 when the Greek ritual is seen at its best. In the College of the 

 Propaganda Fide, in the Piazzi di Spagna, Greek students are 

 also educated and have their own chapel. 



The most magnificent church near Rome is that of the Basi- 

 lian Monastery, at Grotta Ferrata, twelve miles from the city. 



In Calabria, Basilicata and Apulia, in Southern Italy, there 

 are some 34 churches, Greek-Catholic, and in several other 

 villages both the Latins and Greeks worship in the same 

 Roman church. - 



iThe Albanesi are given as distrib- 

 uted through Foggia, Avedino, Potenza, 

 Teramo, Campobasso, Lecce, Palermo, 

 Messina, Girgenti, and the Calabrian 

 mountains. The Greeks are in Calabria, 

 Basilicata, Consenza and Puglie. The 

 Slavic races (originally from Dalmatia, 

 Montenegro and other trans-Adriatic 

 sources) are in Larino, Campobasso, 

 Chieti, Abruzzi, Lanciano and Udine. 



2 The Greek churches are in the fol- 

 lowing localities: in Calabria, Vac- 

 carizzo, San Giorgio Albanese, San 

 Demetrio, San Cosmo, Macchia, San 

 Adriano, Santa Sophia d'Epiro, Spez- 

 zano, Lungro, San Benedetto Ullano, 

 Castroreggio, Acquaformosa, Farneta, 

 Rossano, Civita Firmo, Frassineto, 

 Marri, Percile, and San Basilio: in 

 Basilicata, San Paolo, San Constantino, 



