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commencement of his mission he constantly remained in
Ireland."---Eccles. Hist. vol. 1, pp. 181, 319.
This is declared by Dr. Lanigan, the Romish historian :
so much then for St. Patrick being a Roman Catholic.
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"First, therefore, I begin with the years 1172-7, when
Henry II conquered Ireland through the dissension and
treachery of our own countrymen ; and from this time down
to 1573, for nearly 400 years, there was continual
between England and Ireland; and during
years they were never able to conquer 'rel..— ,
pass Lcinster, so that the three northern counties were never
conquered."
Mark that ; the counties in Ireland now Protestara-

conquered, said the lecturer. He proceeded

four hundred
never able to

"and in these times the most barbarous cruelties were
practised on the people. It is scarcely sinful to say that never
was the Protestant cruelty of England surpassed uy the
Catholic cruelty of Ireland."

There is an admission coming from Dr. Cahill

"Amongst other instances, he would mention that the
English soldiers were not allowed to deal with us—not to
spread even what civilisation they might boast. Never were
the conquered treated with greater cruelty than from the
reign of Henry 11. to that of Henry VIII. The execution of
Clare we would allude to, when British soldiers outraged the
wives and daughters of the Irish before their face, and shot
them, or tossed them over the rocks, if they complained.
Five hundred lashes was the punishment if a British soldier
married an Irish girl; and, I am happy to say to you, to the
credit of the gallantry and taste of some of those men, the
beauty of the lasses of Limerick tempted many of them, in
spite of the five hundred lashes."

(Laughter.) Now, my dear friends, suppose we admit
that what Dr. Cahill states there is true, England was
then Popish, and acted, as I shall show you, under the
direction and at the discretion of the Pope. (Cheers.)
First, however, is it true that Ireland was in perfect peace
from the sixth century to 1162 ? No ; Ireland was not.
Ireland was invaded by the Danes at the commencement
of the tenth century ; that continued for a century; and
at last, at the battle of Clontarf, they were completely
defeated, only they were allowed to hold possession of
Dublin, Waterford, and Limerick. After the Danes had
been quieted in Ireland, then the Norman conquest suc-
ceeded in England. The Danes and the Normans were a
people of the same race, and the Pope seeing this, at once
took advantage of what would enable him, by intrigue and
cunning, to introduce his religion into Ireland ; for up to
that period Ireland had an Apostolic Church planted in
her, and she continued true to that church until Popery
was introduced into that country, by intrigue and cunning;
and when that did not succeed, by the armed missionaries
of. Henry 11., bearing the imprimatur of the Pope of
Rome. These are facts Dr. Cahill kept hick from his
audience. He dare not bring before them the letter or
bull of Adrian to Henry 11., but I will place it before
you now :

" Adrian, Bibhop, servant of the servants of God, to his
dearest son in Christ, the illustrious King of England, sends
greeting and apostolical benediction.

"The desire your magnificence expresses to extend your
glorious name upon earth, and crown yourself with the great
reward of eternal felicity in Heaven, is very laudable, and
abundantly profitable to you; while as a good Catholic Prince,
you purpose to enlarge the bounds of the Church, to declare
the true Christian faith to rude and barbarous tribes, and to
pull up by the roots the nurseries of vice from the field of the
Lord; which to execute the more becomingly, you require
the encouragement and support of the apostolic see. That,
in the accomplishing of this work, you will have a success
proportioned to the depth of counsel and wisdom with which
you proceed, we are fully confident; God performing it for
you ; because, whatever takes its rise from ardour of faith
and love of religion, is always wont to have a good and pros-
perous issue. Of course, that Ireland, and all the islands on
which Christ the Sun of Righteousness hath shone, and
which have received the rudiments of the Christian faith,
belong of right to St. Peter and the most holy Roman Church
(a right which your own nobility acknowledges), there is no
manner of doubt. And hence it is that we so much the more
gladly plant in them the nurseries of faith, and sow that seed
therein which is acceptable to God; as we foresee it will be
the more strictly required of us in the last judgment.
"Since, then, you have signified to us, most dear son,
that you desire to enter into the island of Ireland, in order to
subdue that people to the obedience of laws, and extirpate
thence the nurseries of vice; and since you are willing also
to pay an annual pension to St. Peter of one penny from every
house therein, and to preserve the rights of the Church in
that land inviolate and entire; therefore we, seconding your
pious and praise-worthy intention with the favour it deserves,
and granting a gracious assent to your petition, are thankful
and are well pleased, that, for the enlargement of the bounds
of the Church, for the restraint of vice, the correction of
evil, and the planting of good manners, and for the advance-
ment of the Christian religion, you do enter into that island,
and execute there whatever may tend to the honour of God
and the health of that land; and that the people of that
country receive you with honour, and reverence you as their
Lord; provided, as I have said, that the ecclesiastical rights
therein remain inviolate and entire, and that to St. Peter and
the most holy Roman Church the annual pension of a dena-
rius from every house be reserved.
If, therefore, you will
follow up your design to full completion, let it be your aim to
instruct that nation in good morals, and to do your utmost,
as well personally, as by those whom you know to be fit for
that work, in faith, and word, and life, that the Church may
there be adorned, the Christian religion planted and made to
grow ,• and that whatsoever appertains to the honour of God
and the salvation of souls be so ordered by you, that it may
entitle you to an eternal reward from God, and a glorious
name upon earth for ever. Given at Rome, anno 1155."

Here is the diabolical compact that existed between the
Pope of Rome and the mopien hang henry 11. ; for England
had been previously, as it were, sunk by the Chu,rch of
Rome just in the same way in which she was then attempt-
ing to sink Ireland, namely, by the introduction of what
is called Christianity—but what ought properly to be
termed Mariolatry. (Cheers.) Well, what does Dr.
Cahill say ? He says here that Henry 11. conquered
Ireland through the dissension and treachery of the
Irishmen, or his own countrymen ; but he had not the
honesty to come forward and say that the Pope was the
man who made the bargain with Henry 11. Well,
Malachie, the great reformer (so called) of the Irish
Church, what does he say ? a man who was sent amongst
them after being educated in a most peculiar way in order
to fit him for the office of a reformer, or in order to be
fitted by Jesuitry to introduce into Ireland Papal
Christianity—for it was not there at that time. The fol-
lowing passage proves with what determination the
Church of Ireland opposed the innovations of the Papacy.
We take this from St. Bernard's account of the Life of
Malachie

" Then this man of God" [this is when he was appointed
Bishop of Connaw] " felt that he was appointed, not over
men, but over beasts. Never before had he met with men in
such barbarity ; never before had he found men so stubborn
against morals, so deadly to rites, so impious against faith,
so savage to laws, so stiffnecked against discipline."
Just exactly as Protestants of the present day are against
the Church of Rome : that is exactly the way they repre-
sent us :

" Christians in name, pagans in reality. Not one could be
found who would pay tithes or first-fruits; make confessions;
ask for penance*, or give them; or contract lawful mar-
riages."
They did not believe in them : they were not the doctrines
of the Irish Christian Church. It is true that they would
not make what were called lawful marriages in the Church
of Rome, because you must know the. Church of Rome
looks upon every man and woman married without her
pale to be living in sin. Then we pass on from the
statement made by Dr. Cahill upon this subject, to the
time when Pope Adrian died ; for the war had been carried
on by Henry the Second, and the armed missionaries of
the Church of Rome were devastating the land, and Irish-
men were fighting for their country and for the religion
that was planted in their country at a very early age, as
I could show, before St. Patrick. While these Romish
missionaries were carrying on the work of slaughter
amongst them, for it is thus that the Church of Rome
succeeds in her missions—by shedding the blood of inno-
cent men, women, and children, because they object to
have any other laws than their own, either of a
religious character or otherwise, introduced amongst
them. For this purpose Henry 11. attacked the land
under the express sanction of the Pope, and for seventeen
years continued to slaughter the poor Irish. Aye, and
when the Pope died, what do we find P We find that his
successor, Alexander, established the bull, the horrible
compact that had been previously made between Henry
and Adrian ; and that he introduced exactly the same
bargain—namely, that he would support Henry if the
latter would still continue to pay the one penny for every
house—" Peter's pence." Dr. Cahill did not say anything
about this. No ;it did not suit his purpose. He kept
these historical facts back, and in the dark. He dare not
bring them before his Roman Catholic subjects; for the
are his subjects to all intents and purposes. (Cheers)
He then went on to state that Ireland had suffered much
under Catholic rulers, such as King John ; and after he
had spoken of the Irish under Catholic rulers, he then
made a jump to Elizabeth. He says, however, a few
words about Henry VIII.; but what was Henry VIII. ?
Henry VIII. was a Roman Catholic in everything, the
Pope's supremacy excepted. Let the statute law, that
which was called the "Law of the Six Articles," prove
this. If these laws were broken, death was the conse-
quence.—The lecturer then quoted the articles as follows:-
I.—To those who should deny transubstantiation.
2.—To those who should maintain the necessity of receiving
the sacrament in both kinds.

3.—To those who should say it was lawful for a priest to
marry.

4.-L'To those who should say that monks or nuns might dis-
pense with their vows.

s.—To those who should say that private masses were of no
avail.

6.—To those who should hold that auricular confession was
not necessary to salvation.

Was Henry the Eighth a Papist or not ? Which was
he, Protestant or Papist, when he punished with the most
horrible and sanguinary death all who broke any one of
these laws, and it was consequently called " the bloody
statute ?" That was in the reign of Henry the Eighth,
after he had thrown off the Pope's supremacy. Then Dr.
Cahill commences to attack the Church of England, and
endeavours to show how that church robbed the monas-
teries, the nunneries, and the convents established through
England, and gave all the money to support their own
luxurious habits. Now, Dr. Cahill, I would ask you, in
what state were the monks and nuns—what sort of cha-
racters were they—at the time of the Reformation ? Let
your own historians declare. I will give a quotation from
St. Bernard, who wrote the life of Mala,chie, Bishop of Ire-
land. He commences by saying, with respect to monks
What shall I say concerning their very dress, in which not
warmth but colour is sought after, and neatness of apparel
rather than virtue is considered? I am ashamed to declare
it, but even women are surpassed in their love of dress, since
richness of apparel, and not what is necessary, is studied by
the monks. Nor is even the form of religion retained, the
soldiers of Christ desired rather to be gaily dressed than to be
armed."

Again, I give you another quotation as to the state of the
priests, monks, and nuns in the year 1391, from the Re-
velations of St. Bridget, a saint in the Church of Rome •
and these extracts bear the imprimatur of the Councils
of Constance and Basil, as well as of Popes Urban VI,
Martin V, and Paul V ; chap. 43, 4th book :
" Herein has arisen a grievous abu.et cur asmuch as
othe pos-
sessions of the church arc given to laics, who do marry
bera,,ap or the canonical name, but impudently keep concu-
bines * * saying shamelessly, We may not marry, because
we are canonical men. The priests also, deans and subdeans,
formerly very greatly abhorred the infamy of an impure
life. But now some of them openly rejoice." *
Does Dr. Cahill bring forward these truths ? Is he not