The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-11-22

y" NC. H!seiaolc seat, Wh1cn snau no sup
y port, her hands tied behind her back. w
: arrived at the open place where the Fan
!, bourg Saint Antoine begins. Invent he
1. fore, examined it, and Isaid to myself
This is the best place to give them wha
they wish so much to receive" The cart wa
7 made sign to Nine. de Noailles, which sh
, understood perfectly. Mamma, NJ. CARR
) r''"n is going to give us the absolntion.
immediately they bowed their heads Viii
I'm AR OF repentance, of cOntrition, of emo
} tlon, OF hope, and Of piety. raised my
: hand, and, with my head uncovered, pro
J nounced the formula Of absolution and the
words WHICH follow it very distinctly, and
with preteILatural attention. They Join
ed In 1t better than ever. shall never for
get thatcharming picture. From that mo-
ment, the storm went down, the rain di-
for the success of that which was SO much
desired on both sides. 1 blessed God they
/ did ALSO"
The revolution advanced rapidly. Nine.
|de Lafayette did not share all her husbands
I Illusions, but she approved of his opinions
ana admired his courage. She trembled for
inc lncalculable consequences of events,
ana lnpiored increasingly tho mercy of
Coo. Once only she marked her dissent;
1t was with regard to the civil constitution
OF the clergy Deeply attached to the
Catholic faith, she was present when the
>NA~ Va ''sthC ouiplCc, uCI PARISH, refused
to take the oath in the pulpit. She fire.
qnentcd assiduonsly the churches, and at
forwards the oratories, where the persc-
c"tcd clergy took refuge. She received
c"Htinua:!v huns who came to ask protcc-
ton, as well as priests who had not taken
the oath, whom she encouraged to continue
their functions and to demand liberty of
worship. Her husband invited to dinner
the constitutional bishop of Paris, who had
been newly installed; she refused to re-
celve him, and dined that day away from
home.
She passed at Lagrange the best years of
her life. These happy years passed quick
ly; her constitution, which had been shat
tered by the sojourn of Olmutz, could never
bc completely restored, and in the month
OF December, 1907, she died she was not
quite forty-eight years old.
One of her great causes of preoccupation
was seeing her husband SO little convinced
of the truths of religion. "You are not
then Christian ?'' she said to him one day,
and, as he did not answer, "Ah! 1 know
what You are, you are Fayettist." "You
believe have n good deal of vanity" he
answered; but are you not SO a little
yourself7" "Ah, yes, with all my soul, | |
feel that would give my life for that sect"
- If go into another REGION" she said to
her husband on the eve Of her death, "you
know well that / shall be occupied there
with you; the sacrifice of my life would be
very little, although. it would cost me to
leave you, if it assured your eternal happi-
ness" In her last hours she became de-
lirious, but she recovered herself when she
saw her family around her bed. "What
an agreeable circle ~ she said; 'tthis life is
short and troubled; let us reunitc in God,
and let us depart together for eternity
The day of her death she was heard to
mother" When she felt the last moment
come, she took the Generals hand, and said
20 him, 81 am all yours" These were her
asst words; they were the words of her en-
ire life.
On her return to France, she sought, in
concert with her sisters, the place where
heir mother had been buried; they had
much difficulty i'll finding it. In order to
work faster, the scatfold at the Place de la I
was not considered sufficient,
ecOnd was erected at the Bnrrcre du
Irone. 1t was there that had persisted the +,
Duchess d'Aycn, her mother, and her
laughter. Not far from the Barriere on
he road to Saint Mande, and near u mon
lstery i'll ruins, is Il deserted field. y hole
lad been dug in it thirty feet square, and 5
very day, after the executions, the victims I
If the day were thrown into it pell- nell, i
Without coffin, without shroud, without
my mark by which they ceuld be rccog
lized. Afterwards, the hole had been {
loscd and the charnel- house abandoned t
he memory of it even had been lost. The
t4rc sisters alone were not rich enough to
'uy alone the field and the ruins they {
pened Il subscription among the relatives t
# the other martyrs, aud in a few years {
he field was bought and surrounded by t
vail, church was constructed, and the l
Id monastery restored. 1t is what is call :
d to-day the convent and cemetery of l
'icpns. The families to whom this funeral
lonument belongs have alone the right to !
pen new tombs in it at the side of the 8
Drmer grave. &
Such was Nine. de Lafayette. 1t is i'm J
osslble to imagine IL more perfect model Z,
Il woman. c
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