During the past ten years many churches and monasteries have been destroyed, and many more will probably be destroyed during the next decade. Last month the Italian authorities ordered the destruction of Santa Maria in Posterula, the home of the Irish Augustinian students, and a year was granted for the erection of a new residence. The compensation promised is barely sufficient to provide a new college in a healthy quarter of Rome, and as Pope Leo XIII has expressed the desire that a Church in honor of St. Patrick be built by the side of the new college, and was himself able to contribute only 4000 lira francs towards its erection, all the faithful throughout the world are asked to contribute generously. While more than four ? centuries have passed since St. Patrick received his commission to preach to the Irish, no Church has yet been dedicated to him in Rome. The present time is most fitting for such a project, and no Pope has loved the Irish race more than the present one. —- P.S. He gives his address in Ireland. This is a form letter, with the date, greeting and postscript filled in Cassell's writing Printed from letter. 4pp. 12mo. Second enclosure