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churches or congregations in the United States and just across 

 the border in Canada. Besides these there are many mission 

 stations which the Melchite Greek priests visit periodically. 

 These churches are situated at the following places : New 

 York City ; Boston and Lawrence, Massachusetts ; Omaha, Ne- 

 braska ; Cleveland, Ohio; Dubois and Scranton, Pennsylvania; 

 Chicago and Joliet, Illinois ; Rockley, South Dakota ; La 

 Crosse, Wisconsin ; Pawtucket, Rhode Island ; and Montreal 

 and Toronto, Canada. So far they have erected four fair- 

 sized churches in Lawrence, Cleveland, Dubois and La Crosse. 

 The cost of land in the large cities has prevented them from 

 building, so that their congregations in the other places are 

 assembled either in the Latin churches or in rented premises. 

 The number of the Syrian Greek Catholics in the United States 

 (1909) is between 8,000 and 10,000, and they are to be found 

 chiefly in the New England States, Pennsylvania, Ohio and 

 Illinois. For their spiritual needs there are thirteen Syrian 

 Greek Catholic priests, seven of them Basilian monks of the 

 Congregation of the Holy Saviour from the Diocese of Zahleh 

 and Farzul, four of them Basilian monks of the Congregation 

 of St. John (Soarite) from the Dioceses of Aleppo and Zah- 

 leh, and two secular priests from the Diocese of Beirut. Ow- 

 ing to the poverty of most Syrian congregations, they have not 

 maintained any schools and have no Sunday-school instruction, 

 and the majority of the Syrian children attend the nearest 

 Latin parochial school, if there be one. They have a small 

 Arabic paper, "Al-Kown" (The Universe), published in New 

 York City, and have the church society of "St. George." 



IV. — Italian Greek Catholics 



In the extreme southern part of Italy and in the Island of 

 Sicily the Greek Rite has always flourished, even from Apos- 

 tolic times. Three of the Popes (Sts. Eusebius, Agatho and 

 Zacharias) were Greeks from that region. Many of the Greek 

 saints venerated by the Church were Southern Italians or Si- 

 cilians, and the great Greek monastery of Grottaferrata near 

 Rome was founded by St. Nilus, a native of Rossano in Ca- 

 labria. The Greek Rite in Southern Italy never fell into schism 

 or separated from unity with Rome at the time of the great 



