The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-12 00:00:00

ROMAN CATHOLIC BURIALS.

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. After the extraordinary demands that have
been made upon the credulity of the public by
the wonder-working Prince Ilolienlohe, and die
account of smothering the poor child by a
in Ireland some months back, perhaps the follow-
ing relation may not astonish the word :-it is
communicated by a correspondent. It is suffi"
ciently notorious, that in former ages an absurd
custom prevailed in Popish countries of clothing
persons whose death seemed at hand, in the er
pearl or uniform of the various religious orders --
ensuring a
" black, white, and gray"—thereby
passport to another world ; to which that stard!
Protestant Millon refers in the third book of lot
Paradise Lost, where, describing the limb° °
Vanity, he speaks of some,
--- .. 'Who, to be sure of Paradise,
" Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic • priest
But perhaps it may not be generally
"Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised." , ,01
undersov-°
that a practice somewhat similar to this still obi'
tains, it is said, universally in Spain ; nor is
much probability that this important oerem°l
, will be discontinued, from the circumstane
its being a most fruitful source of profit t° the
church, for the following reason. Every gl:a
Catholic is consigned to his long home, tot f.,q,
in a shroud as with us, or in the garments wil!_';lt
he wore when alive, as in some countries, P,
clothed in the discarded vestments of "ine
the
Monk, which vestments are the perquisites °I: these
and thus War
Generals of the several orders ;
revered persons, ludicrous as it trey !Oleo
byttyfa,rthtatt)ehmis dealers .
to us, are literally very extensive
Franciscan:if
old clothes. The General of the
tdo. thrive so lucrative a trade in this elegant een"ed
whose reversui;
oisnt,conmume eisroaussgeortredderbyinsoSmpoeint:
eisli!sisLl:lee,l_r.e..
that of the Archbishop of Toledo,
were laid at 50,0001. per annum. The intrifinot
value of the worn-out garments of. Friars condo,
be great ; but it must be understood that.
.." to
price of a suit of grave-clothes is in proportiofltie
the wealth or pious liberally of the friefi(s
laLe the
deceased. In Cadiz, the custom is top it,
dead body in a coffin without a lid, tind ca,# nro.
uncovered, to the burial-ground. During I'S he
b the
gress thither, it is at intervals lowered by
bearers, and a short halt made, so that ittime :,
be viewed by those who are passing at the do of
hence a stranger, unacquainted witli'this nit:nsive
sculpture, naturally concludes that an es,cie,
sinstics,l, from seeing. every corpse than
This is one among innumerable
naortallity has occurred in the ranks of the e'd.',...-
Wle_ .h.
surdities that prevail in the Roman Cs! a 0(
church,and of state of min
a proof the gross ,
its members.—(Morning Paper.)
•
superstitiol ytc ,

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NARROW ESCAPE.—Sunday evening, be ad f
Thomas•court? in Thomas-street
six and seven o'clock, a gentleman passing near the cle 114.
joining Cathenne's church, which' had been artly Wen e•
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for the purpose of
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diatet alarmed a number of persons coming that "ith. en°
heal barely •
. time to escape the impending danger9l/diiimlsn Cro-11:„ i
tire gable-end fell into the street with, a treol,...,e"7l:popf"
fortunately without doing any further injury.-41"- _....
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perceived an 01d...0u
qme•

Lion-street,
BIRTHS. of Heti
On the 11th inst., Mary, the wife of Thomas WelL,, of it
Wapping, a of Plaistow, attorcrat"'"'
daughter.
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On Tuesday, the 9th inst., CI h m the lady of
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Joseph Simpson, of a son aP
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Lioghnt
Tuesday,
to Amelia, eldest daughter ° '
the 9th in.st., at 0, han y. •
Brasseyt, Clarkson,
,i Esq., of trlhelEStiOlc.il;°llbcridgbe' Su.finbnikelsjtrorbe:
On 1 e nesuay last, at his house In Queen .c. .
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rttifeyst
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gitl'esi
sovneargc, I:l:rtiegaoiormdusee
Ilenewir.leiechirtici I, i .nms -
to n -re. '
, colon"
liuldlesex, Aide-de-Camp olGentral Montilla, ot t
bian service.
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