BANGKOK – The royal pagoda.
61 catechists. Three-fifths of the Catholics of the diocese live in Bangalore, a city of 300,000 inhabitants. There are 45 elementary schools with 9,907 pupils, 18 middle schools with 3,440 pupils, 11 secondary schools with 1,431, and 2 normal schools with 23 pupils: many are pagans. There are also 3 hospitals with 224 beds and 7 orphanages with 665 children, as well as a printing press. The Messenger of the Little Flower is printed in Tamil in 1,000 copies. Since 1918 it had also been the seat
of the apostolic delegation of the East Indies, which, transformed into an apostolic internunciature in 1948, was transferred to Nuova Delhi.
BIBL.: AAS, 32 (1940), p. 345; MC, 1945, pp. 31-32.