The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-06

He announced the subject Of his lecture practical
discourse on Relics and Images and then proceeded to
deliver an address In the Italian tongue which having
concluded no said he should distinguish three kinds Of
recsthe relics Of Christ the relics Of the Virgin Msry
apd the relics Of the Saints Beginning with the relics
Of Christ they had the Cross the thorns the ladder Of
Plate and tnepails Of Christ said to be found by Helen
the mother O! Constantine, the Roman Emperor. Ac
cordDg to the late church, Christ hung three
nails. They had one in Rome in Venice in
Malta, one IN Bologna, In Paris and many others.
Werc all these ails Of the crossY To meet the difficulty
the Church of Rome rays that the surplus nails are those
in the Church o: Rome. that each bishop must have in
the which he brings from Rome piece Of the real
various chuches-the Escurie s., Deals in Paris the
Basca, &c-there are large pie of the holy cross
much as would make thirty eros, Bat says Dr. New
man u is miracle God has multiplied the But
say that dead nature DC multiplied and therefore
the cross could not They that the oaves and fishes
were increased by miracles but the explanation of it ia
no, that the FIVE loaves and two fishes increased
matter but that other losves and fishes multiplied
by miracle. And if the wood Of the holy il null
tiped III deluson and not the wood on which Christ
sacrifced that the Romansts worship Christ
himself wood multiplied by the delusion of the Catholics
of the holy wood he at hand but It is easy to
obtain it. A penkDife little piece OF the chair,
and little baptism, makes it wood of the holy
Ard 70 with the thorns which formed the crown Sup
pose 1t triple crown, there might be fifty seventy
have ON his head No aside mot
France, and England and taking Italy alone there
thousand hoIns that all ,S gathered TO-
ndkerchef the Church Of Rome say that holy woman
wiped the face of Christ from sweat and blood while
be On his way to Golgotha and that the face of
Christ was found perfectly painted the handkerchief
in the Testamen,Y And this handkerchief is in the
church Of the Basilica. at Rome. But have seven
holy handlerchefs among the papsts-t~o Of them in
Italy one in Genoa, and the other in Rome There is
great fight among Romanists to defend the authenticity
ct their several holy handkerchief.- Is the true
ha htaf and Ec-l
My dear brethren they all inposter haDdkerch.efs
The name Of this celebrated who wiped Chists
face said to have been Veronica and place where
the handkerchief kept it written in Grek and
Latin, rera ikone Chii,he true image OF Christ. But
tbS Two nrss words Tee into and
If you 60 to Rome on the Rhine you will the stair
Of paie AID the frars FAY stair is the true ONE
and in Rome the priests say our stair is the true
In the Church Of Santa Maria Maggors in Rome there
is the true cradle in which the Virgin Mary put the
authentic is the chair of st Peter in the Vaca Basca
Are they perfectly equal Father Newman And their
authority equally eoodP receive the proposition
was an imposture made in the fifth century, and to
ship it is vile supers'i:ion therefore, the cradle Of Je
against our good, dear aud charitable Father Ne xman
The worship of the pspist if it is wrong in respect
the relics Of Christ It is more certain that they are
wrong as 10 the worship Of the Virgin Mary What Is
the Virgin Mary The mother Of Christ. respect, and
honor and love the mother of Christ, but
ship the mother of Christ can to her lesei art
thou among women and tessed the fruit of thy womb
Je.us,' but cannot worship the Virgin Mary and can
only hip and invoke Christ from whom cometh our
Justification. glad 10 preach agant the worship Of
the Virgin Mary because she herself in heaven despses
the ignorance the superstition and the idolay Of the
we worship her relicsP We have her marital ring
in Prussia, given to her by Joseph 1t is stone
century say the Virgin Mary must have been great
ssintess We have the dress of the Virgin Mary. We
have the Identical slippers Then We have the white
must have been very lady and changed her
veil two or three times day. These large vels too
some ten yards Of veil But you do not know hw the
priests mnge truth and falehood sy take manyyards
Of veil and hang it the shrine OF the Virgin Loret
to- elsewhere and take it away in the morning and sell
It to the faithful so that it MT lie but only little
Jesuitical lie Could you imagine what relic we have ia
Italy and Sicily? No. you could We have the FIRE h
pure k Of the Virgin Mary 1t is rather astonishing
and as true Catholic cannot deny this relic; but
true christian may raise doubts about it, The Virgin
Mary If she is in heaven, body and soul cannot give
mix. Gorifed bodies have milk, and, also, gorifed
feet state. and 20, tho Virgin Mary cannot eat
meat on loayes, or fshes,. or vegetables, to re-
that in heaven there shall be no nor giving in
marriage, but shall be like the gels in heaven Angel
in heaven have no k, my dear brethren. What it
II Is little mposture, my dear brethren. Those
the relics Of the Virgin Mary, and people angry
exclamng against the worship Of the Virgin Mary,
By such relics But the lowest god of doatry among the
PaIist is worthppDg the ashes the blood the skeleton
Of their saints and martyrs and this the last degree of
In the as & Leo the
Lawrence,
among The faithful as martyrs few years after some
archelcgist discovered that this cemetery Of the
ancient Romans and Leo the 18th who afraid lest the
church should be scsndalzed endeavored to keep 1t
tecret. ard the cemetery closed Ia Rome have
three heads Of st. Anna, the mother OF the Virgin Mary
Have you ever sten in Jour time in your America,
woman with three heads, my dear brethren? Some
people say that 1t is good thing for to have
three heads Of g. Anna sad she must have had
three heads. If not which is the true head and to
ore Ia n hat CHRISTI
giant and in order to have relics Of him the monks
bought gigantic molor tooth, which. put in spen
did shrine his church In Piedmont In the be- nning
Of this century had accurate examination II this
tooth and it proved by rst rate that this
the tooth Of hppotamusl Qaughter) 1t is fact;
that for three four centuries the people knet before
God to give them on the merits Of tns
horse What dc conclude from thisS 1t is idolatry
to worship relics Of men, and still worse the relic of
worship Gcd In spit and in truth. So much for relics,
and let row consider the worship of mages The
papsts have not the second commandment of the dea
opue but to make up the number of ten they like good
upholsterers the last commandment in two aud
they answer TO the Professionals, "We have ten com
msndnents well you yon rght-~e ,ight,,'
Christ forbid to worship not only material objects but all
mankind, and the worship Of is dolatry But they
worth really the images. 1.-THE Virgin Mary is white in
Rome brown in Bologna black ia Loretto that people
worship ding TO their races-snd they I'LL have
various mTacles-we have in Rome little baby which
is wo,shpped by the Franciscan frnrs 1t is said that
brought to him by angel from heaven They say it
manufactured by angels but, my dear brethren
uey, so ugly the angels in heaven must be very bad
sculptcrs This baby is brought out in Rome TO sick
persons. Even the Pope must have him in his sick
chamber But the ugly baby is richly dressed with gold
and diamonds and rubies In the Neapolitan States
have santa Philomena. Her bones we're put into adolf
composed of wax and PAPER moche,. and they say
that when this doll was put into the church the
6Ist night It put itself sitting more gracefully
than it had been placed by the artist: The second
night the coll changed the position Of the instrument
OF her maItyrdom. The third night she painted
The fourth morning, the coral which had been pre-
scented to the DOLL grew down to the toes and had 20 be
off lest IL should the whole shrine. And the
reoe astonsLed at these miracles In Rome is the
Church Of st Peter Is brass statue of st Peter in
the OF blessing the people, This statue is ,rshp
ped with g. pomp, even by the Pope himself THIS
st. Peter, in the good old time of Rome, was Jupi
ter. This identical statue Of St Peter the identical
statue Of Jupiter But this st. Peter in its origin
made by pagan artitt-was placed in . pagan temple,
and honorcd by the pagan faithful Now, the name is
CHANGED by the Papsts and the ancient Romans
called pagaLs because they worshpped this statue