Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-12-10

cutors at bay "a more embarrassing manoeuyre, says
Sir James Stephen executed by Turenne OF
Condo The siege turned into blockade. Hour at
ter hour elapsed; night succeeded to day, and day tc
night but still the abbess recumbent-unappareed
unapproachable Driven thus to choose between udic
rous defeat and scandal what Frenchman could
longer hesitate? Bed, blankets abbess, and all were
raised on the proane shoulders of the archers lifted into
carriage, and most appropriately turned to the
keeping of the fles penientss' of Paris" Such is
glimpse Of convent life at Maubisson
Madame dEtrees being, however, by dint of at
last deposed, the Mere Angelique installed in her
stead and straghtway commenced her work of reform
and surely her talents this line need
ed than here Passing by the desperate attempt OF Mde
dEr6es regain her lost dominion at Maubsson let
skip interval Of five years At the end of this
time we find the Mere Angeique once presiding
the monastery of Port Royal the seat of her earliest
abors and destined to be the Of her ifes latest
srivings But the lack Of accommodation for so many
persons hoad to the convent together with the damp
Of the marshes around Port Royal rendering it nju-
the health of the inmates induced the Mere An
gelique her nunnery to large house in the
Faubourg ST. Jacques Paris which hsr mother gener-
ousy purchased and fitted up convent This change
of location it which impressed upon the Port Royal
lists the color and complexion of their whole future de
N.Y. for this it which identified their fortunes with
the interests of Jausenism While conducting the
vent Of Port Royal dc Paris" the monastery
termed the Mere Angelque introduced to the society
and influence Of Jean Baptise du Verger de Hauranne
or ST. Cyran, he is familiarity known, from an
abbacy to which he at time appointed ST. Cy-
the founder of .Jansenism in France The
gious system called received its Cornelius
Jansen, native of Holland with whom ST. Cyran had
met Byonne where they both resided for the space
in thein Of
writings of ST. Augustine The theological views which
they adopted and nculcated similar to those which
we denomnate at the present day Cavnistc though with
important variations from the creed of the great
Geneyan reformer After study Of twenty years Jansen
had completed work entitled the 'Augustiau design
ed to embody Christine doctrine taught in its primitive
purity by s. Augustine ST. Cyran having been the COLA
borator Jansenn the this treatise became
very naturally the defender and expounder of its
in France for Jansen himself had returned his native
country ST. Cyran subsequently took up his residence
at Port Royal des Champs the deserted monastery of the
Mere Angelique and here gradually drew about him
society of voluntary refuses bound by monasc
and subject monastio rule, but selfexed from the
world and devoted 'sther spiritual improvement
and to the instruction of mankind"
Among the thus attracted by the example and the
teachings of ST. Cyran Lancelot the grammarian
Lemaitre the orator. De Sercourt the warrior De Sacy
the translator, Fentane the scholar, the great Ar
nauld, AID Pascal the philosopher, the genius and the
sage. And though the envy and malice of Rcheeu
signed him the donjon of Vincennes yet still ST. Cyran
forth his messages of consolation and advice to the
recuses Port Royal des Champs and Abbess of
Port Royal de Paris and it was in compliance with his
pressing instances that the Mere Angeque again
ferred the seat Of her the Valley Cheyreuse
What though endangered the lives of the conveutica
LIS aI..
serve God in an hospital in church? any pray
acceptable than those Of the afflicted p? The
advice Of St Cyran prevailed and in 1913 the Mere An
gehque, accompanied by dozen more nuns repaired
again to Port Royal des Champs. And here cannot
resist inclination quote from the sprghtly
tive Of Sir James Stephen the following description of
labors Of the Port Royasts in their distinct but
allied sections the monastery proper and the voluntary
association Of the disciple of ST. Cyran Les Oranges
| q farm house near the abbey
'Bound by no monastc VOWS the men addressed them
selves TO such empoyments each was supposed best
qualified to FILL Schools for the instruction of youth in
every branch Of literature and science kept by
Lanceot Nicole, Fonaine, and De Lacy Some labored
at anslaons of the Fathers and other works of pety
Arnauld applied his ceaselAss tolls in logic geometry
metaphysics and theologs debate Physicians of high
celebrity exercised their art in all the neghboring
villages
"Lemaitre and other eminent lawyers addressed them
selves to the work Of arbitatng all the dssensons Of
the ysnage There were to be gentlemen working
assduousy officers making shoes noble
men saving timber and repairing windows society held
together by no vows governed by corporate laws
su9ectto no common superior pursuing joint designs
yet all living in unbroken harmony, oil following their
respective cangs silent grave distracted selfaicted
by Hastings watchings AMI humations-a body of pen
tents on their painful progress through world which
they had resolved at 10 and to avoid. =
The nuns employed themselves in the education Of chill
dren, the rich and the poor amsgvng and in other
works OF mercy. Their remuneration Of secular cares
was combined no common aiance) with an entire supe-
riority to all secular interests"
The connexion Of the great Arnaud and Of the Able
de St. Cran with the monastery Of Port Royal had long
caused the Jesuts to regard the institution with jealousy
and dsavor for towards these its most prominent pa
rons the disciples Of Loyoa had no reason to be par
tculary amiabe except in conformity to the precept Of
Scripture which requires us to love enemies For all
Of the Arnauld the Jesuts entertained hereditary
hatred founded perhaps upon celebrated philippe de-
yered BY Anthony Arnauld 1.-THE father Of Anthony Ar
naud, Doctor Of the Sorbonne and commonly called the
grea against the order in France an eloquent datrbe
which long had great Reimbursement throughout Europe
and which in the after controversy between Jesuts and
Jansensts called e.orgnal sin Of the Arnaulds
Forty sharp pens said the Jesuts are at work against
US in the farmho at Port Royal and all Of them are
pointed by Anthony Arnaud.
At first they accused the Port Royalsts Of despsng
the Eucharist using holy water or images in their
churches and praying neither to saint virgin But
these SANDERS too papaby false to need refutaton
The next onset more sEilfuy managed One Of the
Jesuit order Father Coruet drew up five theological
propositions which puported to be derived from the Au-
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