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400, where the Greek Rite in the Greek language is celebrated. 

 He has also various missionary stations in Brooklyn and on 

 Long Island, which he visits at regular intervals, but he has 

 been unable to do anything for the Italian Greek Catholics in 

 Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Other priests of their rite are 

 needed. There is a small school attached to the Greek Catho- 

 lic chapel in New York, where the Church Catechism and 

 Greek singing is taught, as well as several Italian and English 

 branches, and children are instructed in their church duties. 

 There is quite a large society of men, the "Fratellanza del San- 

 tissimo Crocefisso," a society for mutual benefit, religious in- 

 struction, and the building of an Italian Greek church. There 

 are some ten or twelve Italo-Albanese societies, having branches 

 in various parts of the United States, but devoted mostly to 

 secular objects. There is also a small weekly Italian paper, 

 ''L'Operaio," for the Italo-Albanese and their Greek Rite, but 

 it is also devoted to Socialism and the wildest labor theories, 

 so that its usefulness is doubtful. 



