The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-19
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90 The fool hath said in his heart, There is
no Cod" But that there is q just God,
and that He manifests His power to strike
Justly exemplifies. Patient and long
suffering. He justifies His dealings with
men, nations and rulers, in ways that sho W
that !" God will not be Knocked, for what
soever man soweth, that shall he also
reap" We have been led to these refec-
tions on reading in the New York rreemaa's
Journal the following remarkable series of
what the world would call condolences, but
which appear to us direct judgments:
The proposition to contiscate the Church
property made by Ratazzi, who afterward
became premier of Italy, was being dis
cussed in the Italian Chambers, on the 9th
of January, 1855, when the kings mother
was seized with d sudden illness, and died
three days afterward. Her funeral took
place on the 10th Of January, when the
queen Victor Emmanuers wife) Maria
Adelaide, was taken sick and died on the
Goth of January. On the same day, the
Duke of Genoa, the kings only brother,
became seriously i'll, and in spite of the ex-
ertions of skillful physicians, died ON the
10th of February, the very day upon which
Count Cavorir had resumed the discussion
on the Church property. On the 18th of
May one of the young princes also died.
During the month of March of the same
year, Senator GlocintO di Cologne had
died. He was the originator of the act to
suppress religious communities. The ma
ture of his disease baffled the medical
faculty. Shortly before his death he re-
tracted, in the presence of his confessor,
and of other witnesses, all he had done and
said against the Church.
On the Goth Of October of the same year,
Count Joseph siccardi, aged fifty-three,
also died after a whole years intense SUI
fering. He sent for his parish priest, but
could only articulate the word I" yes" to the
question as to whether he recanted the
falsehoods he had uttered while in the
Italian Senate. Baron Margarita, another
senator, also died, after having acknowl-
edged his errors.
On the 4th of April, 1860, Gen. Quaglia,
president of the Chamber of Deputies at
Turin, announced the names of the deputies
who had just been elected to the Italian
Parliament to represent Bologna and RAJ
VIENNA, provinces which were lately taken
from the Holy See. These names had
scarcely passed his lips when he fell down
in an apOplectic fit, and died in forty eight
hours.
Bianehi Giovine, the editor of the BIAS
phemous and revolutionary UniOne, of
Turin, commenced to write popular his
tory of the Papacy for the purpose of calu-
mniatiBg it, he had just finished the fourth
chapter and sent it to press, when he was
stricken with paralysis, which compelled
him to abandon all literary pursuits. He
continued sick for a long time, but was con-
verified before his death.
The same year, Deputy Corvero, who had
introduced an act against the Church, also
died. On the ID of June, mt a national .5cte
! to celebrate Italian Union, Count Cavour
was struck by apoplexy, and died a few
days after. A short time afterward, the
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tackled by a mysterious malady, which kept
him for two years between life and death,
| causing him intOlerable suffering, and
brought him to an early grave. His procla-
nation to the Italians, on the 9th of Octo-
Der, 1850, in which he said: 81 have or
dered my soldiers to take possession of the
Marches and Umbria, to dispense the rabble
of all nations and tongues which is as
sembled there" is yet well remembered.
| These insulting words had reference to Gen
Lamoricier's noble band of heroic men.
| Farini, at whose suggestion the unfor-
tunate Col. Avanti was literally cut to pieces
by a mob in the city of Parma, was struck
with insanity, during which time he thought
himself constantly pursued by the bloody
shadow of his victim. He died raving
| maniac.
Massimo D'Azeglio, an author, and one
of the principal leaders of the revolution,
died very suddenly at an early age, in 1868.
Brofferio, popular writer, and a we'll
known enemy of religion, as also the depu-
ties Varese, Boggio, and Chiassi were also
removed by death, and Cassini committed
suicide. Others, also partisans of the reyo-
luton, ended their mortal career, among
whom may be enumerated Gioca, Mamma,
Parati, Zambianchi, Robert D'Azeglio, Pr
nelli, and Montanelli.
Millortone, on his return from the meet
| ing where he had advocated the abrogation
of the Concordat, and the prosecution of the
Catholics, became para1yzed and died.
Farina, counselor of state, and vice-presi-
dent of the Chamber, and Avigno, a revolu-
tionary priest of Milan, well-known by his
prosecutions OF the vicar general and the
clergy, fell dead on the floor.
In Orvieto, fallen monk abused the Pope
from the pulpit on descending which he