The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-05


DESTRUCTION OF THE ABBH AIIGNE's
PRINTING HoUsE.-Some- weeks ago,-we
gave short paragraph announcing the
destruction ofthis celebrated establishment.
The following further particulars we derive
from the Paris correspondence of the Pail
Mall Gazette:
The great ecclesiastical printing presses
and warehouses of the well-knOwn Able
Migne were totally destroyed by fire ON the
18th ult The loss of property is valued at
six or seven millions OF francs. During the
last thirty years the Abbes presses have
supplied the Roman Catholic clergy with
cheap editions of the Greek and Latin Fa-
theirs, text books i'll every branch of divinity,
reprints of the works of the French divines,
and the logical cyclOp;edias. He has
edited two thousand volumes quarto, or
what we in England would call imperial
octave, printed III double columns, varying
in price between five and seven francs n
volume. The collection of the Latin Fa-
Tiers is contained in two hundred and
twenty-five volumes; the Greek Fathers,
with Latin translations, in IL hundred and
sixty-seven volumes. He has republished
the collected works of all the great French
divines and preachers, and of the apOlogists
of the Church, in originals and translations.
The French pulpit alone fills one hundred
volumes. He has furnished the seminaries
with editions of the scholastic writer's,
mystic, and pOlenlical hand-bOoks innumer-
able, aids to faith, church historians, con-
troversial writers, canOns of the councils,
canon law, liturgy and discipline. Several
pages of the catalogue are occupied by u
list of cyclopRdias of rites and ceremonies
of liturgy, of heresies and errors, of books
condemned, of religious orders, of hagi-
ography, OF pilgrimages, of sacred icono
graphy, of prosecutions, Of miracles, of in
dulgences, of conversions to Catholicism,
of Involuntary apologists of the Church, of
mysteries, of hymns, OF schOlasticism, as
ceticism and mysticism, of scientific objec-
lions refuted, of traditions and legends,
monasteries and converts, of antiphilo,o-
phism, and great many Others in one or
more volumes each, filled with curious
learning. |
The Able Mignc's peculiar notions of the
most effective means of lettering from vice |
lave induced him to publish IL dictionary
called " Satan, ses po8tpes, ct SEES GHrres,"
confirming g tOus les advertisements mOderes
-desorttoaaesr speetaetes,- bats, ttunScs, ro-
mars lures, HrrcS implies, RHtifes, iGbleaur.
jcm., bdsphemes, GLASSES, youymondises, ETC.,
ETC., etc." Among other curious works are
twelve bulky volumes, filled, i'll chronology
cal order, with all that has been said by
ancient and modern tlIeologians in honor of |,
the Virgin Mary. All publications were
and filed extensive ware
houses. Shapeless Jumps of lead and heaps
of ashes are all that remain.
The three hundred work people employed
by Able Migne We're controlled with severe
discipline, as the iaconic warnings on the
walls of the printing-house bore witness.
Priests laboring under ecclesiastical cen
sures~and turned adriit upon the world
found n refuge and II means of earning II
livelihood in~thc employment of Able
Migne.
An examination of the large stock of fan
CIV and staple groceries, wines, and liquors