The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1868-10-04

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Fat least ;fosiA year. or two, ease, luxury,
sports, and london dissipation, devoted
themselves to tle nOblest and manifest
task that can employ their rifles and their
swords, and 9vindicated their body from the
reproach of idleness and indifference to a
t9iy cause Surely, the names of Alfred
Collingridge and Julian Russell should have
better fruit than this! 1t was no sooner
known in Montreal that Alfred Laraque
was dangerously Wounded at Montana than
his cOuntrymen assembled in the Cathedral
and vowed to send Plus TX ten men for
one / They sent three hundredt and this
across the Atlantic, severed by an immense
distance from Rome and all European inter-
ests and have not we at least a 1.-THE or
this energy and Zeal--or is it to be said
that 1T was only because French blood ran
in the Veins of our gallant fellow subjects,
that they felt for the honor of the Holy See
and the cause Of truth and justice. We
have given two aglorious martyrs to the.
cause, Of Plus TX, and are there none who
will follow in the, ciG sacra, among the
thousands OF young Catholics in our coun-
try houses, our colleges, our great cities
and centres Of industry I may mention
here that Ailessandri, the great Roman
photographer, has published excellent por-
traits of our two English Catholic heroes !;
that of Alfred ColliDg ilge is remarkably
good, and it is pity none of the Lon
don Catholic booksellers procure them, as
they might easily do, as we'll us the photo
graphs Of the " Dead of Mentana," and the
other battles of the campaign, which are
now widely circulated in Italy and France,
in sets easily procurable from Allessandri,
through any London house, ut n very trifling
cost. 1
The Cistercian monks in Rome celebrated
with great ceremony the festival of st. Ber-
nard. His Holiness was present, and al
lowed many of the faithful to kiss his feet.
We read in the Correspondence de Rome,
Borghese and the Rospigiiosi, have fur
nished noble examples of fidelity to the
Holy Father, and of devotedness to his
cause, by enlisting as privates in the Pom
tifical army. 1t was, indeed, nothing less
than might be expected, that the youth of
Rome, when they saw gentlemen of every
country flock to the standard of the King
of Rome from the uttermost parts of the
earth, should emulate their zeal, and thereby
render themselves worthy of the rank and
wealth which they owe to the Papacy. 1t
is with pleasure we learn that other young
men of the first families in Rome, having
finished their education, are preparing to
Prince Lancellotti, Duke Salirati, and
Marquis Patrizi are at the head Of the
native volunteers.
The Gazette aelp Un,br;a informs us that
Cardinal de Reisach, the successor of the
late Cardinal d'Andrea to the See of Sabiha,
narrowly escaped being arrested, because
he did not choose to apply to the Italian
Government for the Royal ereqa0tar. Tie
diocese OF Sabina comprises part of the ter
ritory which has been usurped by Victor
Emmanuel. It was the bishops duty to
ignore the fact that the Revolutionary gov.
ernment might throw difficulties in his way
when he went to take possession of the
cities and villages of his diocese. Those
difficulties he had foreseen, and he bad set
out with the, determination to yield to
nothing less than violence; this he was
compelled to do, and hereturned to Rome,
having shown his people of Sabina an ex-
ample of that courage and of those apostolic
virtues which. he possesses in such high
degree.
We read in the 4nnee Dominicai,fe that
Monsigpor Luigi Filippi, Bishop of A6lila,
has just brought out very remarkA bile
work on modern spiritualism. His lordship
expounds the doctrine OF the Church on
good and bad angels, and shows the analogy
between the phenomena, which are inter
esting the present generation, and those
mentioned in Bible history and in the
annals of tile Church.
The Rev. Mark Maxwell, Roman Catholic
priest, formerly an Independent minister
at Durham, died at Paris, at the advanced
age of eighty eight years. The reverend
gentleman was at one time q justice of the
The pious Catholics of Brittany have
heretofore been in the habit of sending, on
Assumption Day, to the Pope, valuable
ecclesiastical Jewels. This year they sent
him a battery of artillery.