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" When, upon the 24th of April last, a day sacred
to St. Fidelio of Sigmarinten, we bitterly deplored
at the College of the Propaganda the sad and
lamentable situation of the Kingdom of Poland, and
the inconsiderable revolution which had broken out
against the powerful Emperor of
Russia, we said
also that we had learnt from the newspapers the
rigorous measures taken by the Russian Governs
ment not only to repress the Polish insurrection but
also to extirpate the Catholic religion from that
kingdom. We added that -it was necessary to
verify these sad statements with the greatest care,
and by information derived from the most authentic
sources, because it is not well always to rely blindly
upon the press. But, venerable brethren, we have
now ascertained with profound sorrow, from abun-
dant testimony worthy of belief, which has been
transmitted to us, the truth of the rigour with which
the Russian Government does not cease to pursue
the Catholic Church in Poland, her members, and
the faithful. We have learnt, indeed, with certainty
that the Government, long since the enemy of the
Catholic Church, and animated by the desire of lead-
ing all its subjects into schism, has seized upon the
pretext of the revolution which has broken out
to persecute in every way all Catholics and-our holy
religion. Consequently, setting on one side the
Concordat agreed upon with us, and trampling
underfoot the public conventions which protect the
Catholic Church in Poland, it has promulgated a
host of laws and *decrees contrary to the Catholic
religion, prohibiting Catholic writings, and favour-
ing, upon the contrary, the diffusion of books and
newspapers opposed to Catholic doctrine, prints
filled with gross insults against the Vicar of Christ
upon earth and against the Apostolic chair, and
having for their principal object the perversion of
the Polish people. The Russian Government has
further never ceased to forbid communication with
us and with the Holy See, to prescribe oaths cons
trary to the Divine laws, to excite the people
against the Catholic priests, and to hinder the latter
from preaching, to teach the difference existing be-
tween Catholic truth and schism, forbidding under
serious penalties the abandonment of fatal heresy
and return to the bosom of the Catholic Church.
Ministers of religion have been expelled from their
convents, which have been converted into barracks.
Bishops have been removed from their diocesses and
sent into exile. An extraordinary number of Greek
Catholics already dragged into heresy by shameful
machinations have found themselves prevented from
returning, as they had wished, within the pale of
the Catholic Church. An incalculable number of
our brethren of the Latin Confession have been torn
from the Catholic Church, especially by means of
mixed marriages. Children left orphans have been
sent into distant countries under pretext of
tutelage, and taken from the Catholic Church.
Thus innumerable Catholics of every age, of
either sex, and of every rank, have been rigorously
persecuted and transported into remote regions.
Catholic churches have been profaned and converted
into non-Catholic temples or barracks. Priests
have been illtreated in a horrible manner, de-
spoiled of their property, reduced to frightful
misery, sent into exile cr thrown into prison, and
even put to death, for having conticu.9d to offer the
aid of their ministrations to the wounded and the
dying upon the field of battle. It must be added to
this that the priests and laymen sent into °Nile are
deprived of all the offices of our religion, and that
the Catholics of Lithuania have had to choose be-
tween exile into distant countries and apostacy.
All these measures, and others equally deplorable,
are unceasingly employed by the Russian Govern-
went against the Catholic Church. This causes us
profound sorrow, venerable brethren, and we are
unable to restrain our teen when we think of the
faithful who endure all the persecutions by which
the Russian Government endeavinodurs
of annihilate
in the other portions of its empire.
Poland
the Catholic religion in the N g
om
" In this cruel war which the Russian Govern-
ment has undertaken against the rights, the mina-
sters, and the property of the Catholic Church, we
are further obliged to deplore and to condemn another
attempt quite novel in the history of the Church,
and unheard of up to this day. Not only has this
same Government banished into distant regions our
venerable brother Sigisroued,
the noble and worthy
Archbishop of Warsaw, after having torn him from
his gee, but it has further note crupled to order that
he should be deprived of all authority and all epics
copal jurisdiction in his diocese, and has also not
hesitated to forbid all communications between him
and his diocese, declaring that Paul Kzevonski, his
Vicar-General and Bishop of Pruett in partibus, ap-
pointed by us suffragan of the Archbishop of War-
saw, will suffice to administer the diocese of our
dear son. Words fail us to qualify and reprove such
an act. Who will not be
profoundly astonished to
learn that the Russian Government has falsely
adopted
sstihone belief that tbhyatthite couldaoly Spirit of an deprive the bishops
autho-
rity received from God, and never subordinated to
lay authority, and could remove them from the
governinent and the administration of their
dioceses? While condemning and reproving this
error, we must at the same time declare plainly and
aloud that no one can obey these orders, bat that
to mind his
all must render faithful obedience to our venerable
brother Sigismund, who is the true and legitimate
Archbishop of Warsaw. We doubt not, also, that
our dear son Paul Kzevonski, calling
duty, and refusing to obey the orders of the Russian
Government, will continue to exercise the functions
of Vicar-General, which have been intrusted to him
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by his legitimate superior, the Archbishop of War-
-Bh3:ennattnoa while y hiswill
in alltd er things,
and in every way,
taking heaven and earth to witness,
oh, venerable brethren, we deplore and reprove the
persecution which the Russian Government does not
cease to exercise against the Church, we are very
far from aPPrnving in any way the revolutionary
movement inconsiderately carried out in Poland.
All the world, in fact, is aware with what care the
Catholic Church has always recommended and
that every person
taught should obey the consti-
tutedcivil power, so long at least as its orders
authorities, and that each should submit him-
selfareto the laws of God and of the
Church. For this reasen we deeply regret that the
Polish insurrection should have excited the Russian
Government; to persecute and oppress the Church
still further.
tnootthe
o While condemning and reproving this revolt, so
injurious to Christian and civil society, it is our
contrary
duty t
mstly
upon those who direct the
people to employ all their strength, lest the grave
words of the Book of Wisdom be addressed to them,
Ye have received this power and this dominion
from
sound the depth of your thoughts, for as
theo call
Most
who will ask of your works
and will
much as, being the ministers of His Kingdom, you
High,t
have not judged equitably, neither have re-
garded the law of justice, neither have walked
according to the will of God. He will manifest
himself unto you in a terrible manner, be-
cause they who govern other men shall be judged
with extreme rigour, for more compassion is felt for
the lowly, but the powerful shall be powerfully tor-
mented: (Wisdom, chap iv., 4,5, 6,7.)
if We pray, also, the great Princes of the earth,
and we call upon them to observe good faith, and to
understand that when nations are removed foamy

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holy religion, from its salutary doctrines, from the
obedience due to God and to the Church, and when
they are cut off from communication with the Holy
See, they are defiled by every error and by the most
pernicious vices. It results from this that these na-
tions, having lost the fear of and respect for God,
having shaken off the ties of gentle religion and
forgotten the obedience due to God and to the laws
of His Church, allow themselves to be carried away
by every licence and by a lawless life, and, acting
according to their caprices, despise honour, insult
authority, rise up against the Princes, and refuse to
obey them.
" But in the extreme grief caused by the immen-
sity of the evils which weigh, oh, v9nerable brethren,
upon you and upon the faithful confided to your
care, we are in no slight degree consoled by your
virtues, in your firmness in defending the Church,
and in enduring so many fatigues and tribulations
for the Catholic faith. And as you know that
blessed are they who are persecuted for justice sake,
that it is glorious to suffer for Jesus Christ. and that
they who persevere until the end shall be saved,
we are convinced that, relying upon the Lord and
upon the honour of His might, yon will continue
to fight with invincible courage for the defence of
His Church and for salvation of souls, calling to
mind, , Qaod non taunt condignre passiones hujus
temporis ad futuram gloriam 'lux revelabitur in
vobis.' (St Pavl to the Romans, c. viii., 18.)
"We send you, therefore, this letter to arouse more
and more your episcc.pal courage to support so many
sufferings, to watch over the flock intrusted to your
charge, and to spare neither care, nor advice, nor
fatigue, that the faithful under your jurisdiction
may abstain from all evil, and remain constantly
firm in the practice of the Catholic faith and religion
without ever allowing themselves to be conquered
and dragged into error by the enemies of both.
Consequently we pray, we conjure the faithful com-
mitted to your care, and who are so dear to us, with
all the affection of our heart, to remain constant to
the Catholic faith, religion, and doctrines which
they have received by the special grace of the Lord ;
that giving precedence thereto above all things they
may be firm in the way of the Lord, and in all the
works which affect the love of God and of their
neighbour, and which belong to the Catholic Church.
",Be persuaded that we, in the humility of our
' heart, do not cease to address day and night fervent
prayers to the most clement Father of Mercies, to
the God of consolation, that He may cover you with
His great virtue, that He may protect you with
His arm, that he may guard and defend you, that
He may take in hand your ways, that lie may deliver
the Church from the calamities that afflict her, that
He mey abate the pride and obstinacy of her enemies
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" Given in the 19th year of our Pontificate,
61 PIO PAPA IX."