The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1868-05-10

Al 0utIClYaUxOU O1 Cu0 AxL0COmuK 01cC-
tion in France. the IQndaahd Umigers have
notified the French Government of the only
terms on which II csA rely on the SuPpogt
of the Church in the several departments.
Late advices from Lisbon state that
Monsignor Berardi, one of the new carii-
mails and Papal nunciO at that court, was
invested on March 26th with the cardinal
itial hat by the king in person, in the chapel
of the royal Ajuda palace. 4, a.
Harold's cross, Dublin, served by the order
OF the Passionists, every hour Of every day
during Holy Week, had its own exclusive
devotion commemorative of some one of the
sufferings of our Redeemer.
The recent intelligence as to the illness of
the Pope has received satisfactory contra
dictiOn in the fact that his Holiness, on
Palm Sunday, oHciated at st. Peters and,
as usual, distributed palms among the car
dinals and members Of the diplomatic body.
According to telegraphic dispatch re-
ceived at Vienna, the propositions submitted
to the Papal See by the Austrian Ambassa-
dor, Count Crivel1i, with reference to the
revision of the Concordat, have been met
on all and every point with decided sos
pOssMDpus.
The Emperor Napoleon has presented
one hundred Thousand francs to his cousin,
Monsignore Lucien, now Cardinal Bona
parte, for the expenses of his creation and
installation. The sum is nearly double
what is generally spent by newly created
cardinals.
The religious preceptor of the Prince Inn
perial, Abbe Duguerry, is now delivering a
course of weekday lectures ut the Made
leine, Paris, which are remarkable for the
amount Of common sense and practical in
structiOn therein contained He is q man
of immense energy and talent.
/" Father Igpassil1s, the " Protestant
monk" as thar poor Irish in London call
him, Abe an eccentric person. One day
:HaHerstock Hill, dressed in monks habit,
took part in the procession of the Blessed
sacrament and remained during solemn
benediction.
On Palm Sunday, at the parish church. of
Thann, Upper Rhine, two grand representa-
tiOns Of ''The Life and Passion of our
Saviour Jesus Christ" took place. The
longing to q Bavarian society. The nsiss en-
scene was a faithful reproduction of similar
performances which have been given at
Oberrammergan, in Bavaria, every ten
years since the sixteenth, century. The
last scene was the glorious resurrection
La France gives us the following item
about Holy Thursday in Rome. According
to special dispatch, remarks THAT paper,
Holy Thursday, this year, appears to have
surpassed the usual splendors of this re-
ligious festival. There were more than
fifty thousand people grouped around the
facade of st. Peters when the Pope gave his
of the portico. 1t was remarked that the
voice of the Holy Father was very strong
and very distinct. The Holy Father was
received with shouts of applause, which
were repeated for q long time, even after he
had left the platform.
The PAPAL ZoUAvEs.-The influx of
strangers has been immense within the last
few days, the majority being sightseeing
Americans, or Catholic French and Belgians,
whom devotion to the temporal power, or
connection with the present affairs, brings
to Rome. There are many families arriving
whose sons fell at Montana, and the desire
to visit the spot and speak with the wit
nesses OF their last moments, to erect their
monuments, and receive the special bless
ings of the Pope, is the principal motive
with them. One lady, the mother OF a
Louave, at whose last moments was pres
ent at Montana, the eldest son of a princely
Belgian house, dating from the Crusades,
more son, and have brought him to en-
gage, and, if God wills it, die in the same
cause as his brothers and his fathers at
Ascalon and Acre. Life is too short to weigh
in such cause as that of the Eternal
Church. This is but one of n hundred
touching instances of the same wonderful
spirit of devotedness that has taken root all
over Europe, and is creating an army of
crusaders in Rome. The two Counts Stol-
berg, the Count DAT, Count Kissendreck,
are among the latest German, and Mr.. Ar
thur StOurton among the latest English re-
cruits. Two young Dntchmen engaged the
other day under similar circumstances.
Being of good family, they did not like to
accept their travelling expenses from the
committee, and had not themselves the
circumstances. They resolved to apply to
their king, and asked for an audience, which
WAS readily granted them, and then ex-
planned their desire to his majesty. The
king listened most graciously to their re-
quest, but said: "Suppose 1 need your
swords for the defense of Holland. NAV