New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-05

the shades Of Mrabesu Deecartes Voare thought OF
Walking in human fosb maiden lived IN the little village
Of Nanieue. In her infancy, 81 GERMAN Bishop OF
Au1oIre ,onscraied her TO the Divine Son Of Nan. At
IT, beneath her bridal veil she took the of her sacred
nupies After the death OF her parents she 70 Paris
Here til her goth year. she prayed tasted worked right
eousness and was persecuted Inspired By faith and
prayer she saved Paris from Alta and his laundering
Hans ard when Childeric and the Franks entered the
city, she soened the erocy Of the eonqueror add brought
bread to the vsnqushed The fame Of her pety spread
into frro countries and Bshops of the East begged the
power Of her ntercessions The miracles performed in
the Dtme of her relics firmly believed by piou
Parsans those OF our Savior recorded by the Evan
gels,s In 1872 when fearful plague devastated the city
her bones were carried through the streets and all
hCaed but three unbelevers who consumed by their
maledy Thrice she has saved Paris from food from fire
and from femme And now beside her tomb in the Church
Of ST Eenne du Mont hang six clutches and canes wit
Of miraculous performed in later times But
little girl kneeng in the chapel tod me, 1t is only
by much prayer and faith that these fayors accorded
If pray the infrmity may return IL was
simply thus tina. Great Physician healed.
Louis XIV, inspired by Of his mistresse resolved to
erect monument TO this patron Of Paris st. Genevieve,
and in 1854 laid the first cornerstone Of the present chnrch
called by her Before twas completed the revolution
of go appeared and eonsecrated )numen to great
and its vaults their last resting place The heaven
of the eternal sleep Of the atheists of the revolution was in
the honors OF the Pantheon The assassinated friend Of he
peop was apoheossed here in 3d. and instead of the
Grated wafer the heart Of the Dtrne arat elevated for
the alteration of the multitude The Goddess of Reason
worehped in the form Of beautiful but dssolue actress
the same ministers ocated at her altar. who in other
churches had formed professions of cattle arranged in
priesy robes and pigs with the host and the evange tied
TO their tail. and donkey to drink from the sacred caice
Even Robespiee outraged and declared there were
God it would be necessary to invent one Under Napo
leon the Pantheon became the Church of ST Genevieve
In 1880 It's decorations Christian temple again
arrested and douceur to the revoutonists was conse
Grated again, by Louis Philippe to the honor Of the Illus
dead and had hung its walls tablets inscribed with
names Of those who fell in that revolution During the last
republic ding dong machinery was suspended from
lie dome the rotation Of the earth In 1852 the
Church and Clergy rendered their prayers and gratitude to
the tsent Emperor Pous Napoleon for its restoration
to Christian worship
The architecture of the building is cosmopoite It's
moral history 1t is Christian cross Greek than
Roman with esthec Connthan portco surrounded by
Pantheistic dome Its columns aud walls patches
Of the of 1913 picture the entrance stares
with bullet holes statue of Immortality shattered by
shot, has been successfully restored Two hundred and
fifty light Corinhian columns stand within and without the
edfce The choir is cheapy fitted up with painted stalls
bearing the of St Geneveve lily, dsaff and shep
herds crook The gided columns of the high altar
| twined with palm and olive.
The center of the canopy bears the sacred initials q" s."
upon the nteraced the letters NJ Above
the altar is fresco of Christ with ST. Peter and ST. Ger
main On the right ST Paul and 81 Genevi6ve on the left
beneath there is border of lambs and lilies The altar Of
the right transept dedicated st Genevve that of the
left to Mary the Mother of Christ Though the bones Of
ST. Geneveve were burned the Place de Grove after the
proclamation Of the worship Of 49, by some means
arm wss preserved This housed in little glded
edfce Ike martin house and placed pedestal near her
altar The shrine is with lilies and immorees and
hung about with glass and bead rnkes brass hearts and
crosses like those Of the legion Of honor Around the shrine
frame for candles and woman supply them Apress
bus himself within the railing OF the altar by laying the
ends Of h embroidered mantle the shoulders of women
who knee without and saying something very fast in Lsi
while they put sous in silver plate before him. The women
| give him pocket handkerchief beads rings &c, which
he thrusts into the martin house. then moves his lips rapid
w. makes over them the sign of the and returns them
TO their owners | men kneeling, but an elegant
father holding little girl by the hand stood by the candle
table bargaining for Is at each. and white muior
tee larger than any the shrine TO be placed on its most
conspicuous point sins gle lamp gmmored by the altar
of Mary Thus on this day, the 27h Of November the
shepherdess Of Ninerre won attention and sympathy
from the fathers of pretty children and the poor women Of
the Latin Quarter than the ruced Jesus his more hui
man mother The sanctifed humanity of Mary and the
saints becomes practically fourth person in their God
head.
Beneath the dome of the Church, but higher than tho
Cornthan Arcade four pendentves painted after the
Revolution of $780, when the building second time
surrendered to perpetuae mortal honors One picture
represents Death striking down young Athlete who On
deayors to cling to a column from which serpent repes
him The next is France beside tomb mourning for her
great men, whose memory Fame, with wreath and uum
net flies abroad to perpetuate In the third the Heavens
i fall-the Vices hy-Justice stands upright and firm an
opepng in the clouds reveals the Pantheon-Temple Of
Fame The last is Female Glory with the lost Plead
missing from her starry and Napoeons arms around
her neck Victory like orsaken mistress retres weeping
War regrets his chiean bears away the mortal
crown the hero has abandoned Religion yelled presents
the cross and points upward Truth follows with lighted
torch 1t is to iumne the darkness Of religious supers
ton that the late exercises were instituted
The dome of the Church painted during the time OF
Charles Xh Among the flowers of the Earth sepulcre
is represented with open door, bearing the initials s. g.
St eneveve assembled receives the homage OF Kings and
Queens Clovis comes FIRST with falterng steps led by his
pous wife, through whose faith and the prayers of St Gene
we've he was bapsed Next Chaemagne presents globe,
crowned with the cross and troop of conquered Sarons
with growing faces led by Angel bearing cross. who
seems TO say: Take it die-baptsma regeneration is
"your sole salvation" Then comes St Louis Prince Of
Earthly Kings whose life like the sacred ark, wherein
dwe the sheknah at his feet are the spos Of the Sara
Gems and by his side the Of thons be saved from the
Infdels and which be every Friday OF the ap
preaching lentat the Cathedral Of NOre Dame-he makes
NO Offering his works praise him Last Louis XVIII