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availablg five of them, but possibly Bishop Malou had
questioned the advisability of permitting an increase in
membership, at lgast for the time being.
On November 23, Mr. Ryken completed the report on
the Xaverian Brothers as requested by Bishop Malou.
In it he set forth in capsule form the vital stitistics on
the nineteen Xaverians and also on the five postulants.
He listed the duties of each. He furnished periinent facts
in the history of the community: the appioval by seven
American bishops; the written authoriiition of Bishop
Boussen, dated October l, 1840, for the foundation of
the Congregation; the approval of the first little Rule
orally by the same authority in l84l; the approval in
writing of the second Rule and Constitution in Septem-
ber 26, 1847. He explained the school activiries of his
Brothers as being confined to three schools in Bruges
and one in Bury, England, with 445 pupils in attendance.
As an extension of their apostolate the Brothers had
charge of 405 boys in three sodalities in Bruges, These
groups met on Sundays and holy-days. In England they
taught a hundred boys in what was called over there
!'Sunday School," but it was similar in purpose to the
aim of the sodalities, although much more elemental.