The Associations vary in number from ten to three hundred sodalists, which gives us an average of eighty thousand young girls, courageously holding themselves aloof from satan's snares and pomps, and leading a life of purity and piety amidst the seductions of a corrupt world.
Surely this must be a miracle of God's right hand and Mary's bounty!
We have thought it would not be uninteresting to the readers, to give the statistics for the end of the year 1877, of the Sodalities of the Children of Mary, established in the houses of the Daughters of Charity throughout the world.
[LIST OF THE]
SODALITIES OF CHILDREN OF MARY.
| SODALITIES | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internal. | External and Mixed. | SUMMARY | |||
| France | 287 | 451 | } | Internal Sodalities | 287 |
| External and Mixed | 451 | ||||
| Europe | |||||
| (Exclusive of France) | |||||
| Belgium | 11 | 14 | } | ||
| Switzerland | 1 | 7 | |||
| Italy | 55 | 64 | |||
| Spain | 17 | 25 | |||
| Portugal | .. | 1 | Internal Sodalities | 100 | |
| Great Britain | 2 | 13 | External and Mixed | 153 | |
| Poland | 8 | 9 | |||
| Prussia | .. | 5 | |||
| Austria | 4 | 11 | |||
| Greece | .. | 1 | |||
| Turkey | 2 | 3 | |||
| Asia | |||||
| Turkey | 2 | 7 | } | Internal Sodalities | 2 |
| Persia | .. | 2 | External and Mixed | 10 | |
| China | .. | 1 | |||
| Africa | |||||
| Egypt | 3 | 2 | } | Internal Sodalities | 6 |
| Algeria | 3 | 17 | External and Mixed | 20 | |
| Canary Isles | .. | 1 | |||
| America. | |||||
| United States | 11 | 44 | } | ||
| Guatemala | 4 | 3 | |||
| Brazil | 11 | 9 | |||
| Peru | 9 | 6 | Internal Sodalities | 54 | |
| La Plata | 1 | 6 | External and Mixed | 81 | |
| Chile | 3 | 1 | |||
| Cuba | 5 | 4 | |||
| Mexico | 9 | 7 | |||
| Ecuador | 1 | 1 | |||
| Oceanica. | |||||
| Philippine Isles | 1 | 6 | } | Internal Sodalities | 1 |
| External and Mixed | 6 | ||||
| ---- | ---- | ------ | |||
| Total | 450 | 721 | Total | 1,171 | |
III.—Definition of the Immaculate Conception.
We have observed several times in the course of this work, that the principal end of the apparition of 1830, was to popularize belief in the Immaculate Conception. The facts we have related, prove most conclusively that, thanks to the Miraculous Medal, this object has been fully attained.