THE practice of the Month of the Souls in Purgatory is spreading more and more. It bids fair to become as popular as that of the month of Mary. Its origin is very ancient, and, under a different form, we find it among the Jewish people, long before the Christian era. The proof of this we find in religious journals of our period, and especially in the Opinion du Midi, a French paper. Some years ago, the Abbe Serre, director of an Archconfraternity for the relief of the souls in Purgatory, established at Ninles, thus expressed himself in the above-mentioned journal: "Under the ancient Law the...