GREAT FALLS, Diocese of. - City in the State of Montana in the United States. It comprises the following counties of the eastern part of the State of Montana: Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon, Carter, Cascade, Choteau, Custer, Dawson, Daniels, Fallon, Fergus, Hill, Garfield, Golden Valley, Judith Basin, Liberty, Mc Cone, Musselshell, Park, Petroleum, Phillips, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt, Rosebud, Sheridan, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Treasure, Valley, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. The name of the diocese is very appropriate because there the Missouri River makes a drop

I parentadi, L'arzigogolo) to the 3 unfinished cycles of novellas (Le cene, ca. 1540-50). Against Latinizing humanism and the canon of imitation, he defended the vernacular and wanted the representation of life. But in the comedies he did not succeed in freeing himself from the influence of tradition, nor in the novellas from that of Boccaccio; and although he lived in an era of Catholic reform, he paid no regard to moral propriety nor did he spare the religious.

By G. the following are on the Index: La seconda cena, decr. 7 Oct. 1746; Scelta di prose e poesie italiane (London 1765), decr. 26 Jan. 1767.

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BIBL.: G. M. Biscioni, La vita del Lasca, in the ed. of the Cene, Milan 1816; G. B. Magrini, Di A. F. G. detto il Lasca e delle sue opere in prosa e in rima, Imola 1879; G. Gentile, Delle commedie di A. F. G. detto il Lasca, Pisa 1896; A. Chiari, La fortuna del Boccaccio, in Questioni e correnti di storia letteraria a cura di A. Alberto Chiari

of about 28 m. in a series of waterfalls which are exploited for hydroelectric power and for irrigation. The region is very rich in minerals.

In 1850 the first to evangelize the area were the Jesuit De Smet with other companions, while in Montana the same fathers had established missions for the Indians from as early as 1841. The diocese was erected by Pius X on 18 May 1904, and its first bishop was Msgr. M. C. Lenihan (d. 1943). The diocese is a suffragan of Portland in Oregon. The cathedral of St. Anne was dedicated on 15 Dec. 1907.

The diocese has an area of 94,158 miles with a population of 288,600 inhabitants, of whom 40,200 are Catholics, distributed in 57 parishes, with 158 churches, 34 chapels, 104 missionaries, served by 83 diocesan priests and 21 regulars. In the diocese there are four male religious communities (Premonstratensians, Capuchins, Jesuits, Redemptorists) and ten female ones; for the education of youth there are: the College of Great Falls, 6 parochial High Schools and 2 private ones; 13 parochial elementary schools; in 1946 there were 261 conversions.

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BIBL.: J. Medin, s. v. in Cath. Enc., VI, pp. 734-35; The Official Catholic Directory 1947, New York 1947, pp. 476-80.

Enrico Josi

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