Excerpt from The Catholic World, Vol. 39: A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science; April, 1884, to September, 1884 Just at that moment - some {our years ago - the bishop of Grenoble was brooding anxiously over the moral condition of the enormous working population of silk-spinners and weavers that his diocese includes. The condition of this portion of his flock lay heavy on the bishop's heart, and he was casting about on all sides for some devoted souls to come and help him to ameliorate it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.