In addition to this, secondary teaching, excepting in the colleges, exists but in name; and I should advise any father who wishes his son's education to extend beyond the catechism, to send him into Piedmont.
But on the other hand, I am bound to urge in the Pope's behalf that the colleges are numerous, well endowed, and provided with ample means for turning out mediocre priests.

The monasteries devote themselves to the education of little monks.

They are taught from an early age to hold a wax taper, wear a frock, cast down their eyes, and chant in Latin.

If you wish to admire the foresight of the Church, you should see the procession of Corpus Christi day.

All the convents walk in line one after the other, and each has its live nursery of little shavelings.