The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-19
FOREIGN CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.

ROME, August 19.-The Pope went in state
TO Santa Maria Maggore on Sunday, and held
the usual Cappella Papale for the Assumption,
and gave the Ponti1ical blessing from the up
per Loggia. A heavy storm had taken place in
the ght and cleared the weather. and the
heat not so great as usual, and n consider
able crowd of persons, among whom were
great number of Italians froIu the upper part
|Of the Peninsula, assembled to receive the
|Pope's Benediction. His Holiness, accompanied
by his household, and by Mgr. Fessler, Secre-
tary of the Council, also visited the shrine of
|St. Lawrence on the 10th, and ycneratcd the
head of the martyr, which is exposed 1T the
Chapel of the Quirinal in magnificent Byzan-
tine chdSse, the gift of a French noblcman.
A funeral service celebrated in the
Church of San Salvatore in Lauro on Friday,
being the Both day after his decease, for the
soul of Count Gabriel Mastai Ferretti. The
church was draped with black, and cata-
falque, adorned with armorial bearings, and
surrounded with torches, rose in the centre of
the nave. Mass was celebrated PGntilicaly by
Mgr. Marinelli, the Pope's Sacristan, who also
gave the Absofution. The Pontihcaf House
hold We're present, and the Swiss Guard on
dnty. Tho choir of the SiXtne Chapel chaunt-
ed Pedestrians requiem Mass.
Rome is literally empty and even the eccle-
siastical world has sought rest and air i'll the
country. The English College is as usual at
Monte Porto, the Scottish and NaZarene Col
leges at Genzano, and the Oblates at Castel
Gandolfo, the Jesuits at Banco and Galore,
the Propaganda at Frascati, and the Irish Col
ege and the Academia at Tivoh. 1t is rumor-
ed in tine village of Castel Gundolfo itself that
the Pope will spend the first Sunday in Sep
TENDER there, being the feast of the place.
Most OF the great Roman families are on their
travels, but the BOrgheSe occupy the Villa Ia
verna at Frascati, and the tOrsini their villa at
ALBANIA. Towards the end of September Rome
will begin to fill again, as the season will be
j much earlier ono than usual.
The revolutionary tendencies of tho Austrian
Cabinet are becoming more and more accentn-
ated, and there seems every probability that
NJ. Won Beust will be obliged to yield to the
COLL gr ha Of lifY.p rfarS
which is being got mp in Cracow and elsewhere
by the Jews and Lutherans. All their organs
#TFd=tHese of=fFafy stfe efftftaVofiffg TO show
that all that has been done in the case of Bar
bara UbTyl was in obedience to special orders
from Rome! The Italian papers state that NJ.
Won TrauttmansdoTf has demanded his recall
from the Roman embassy, but there is no truth
whatever in it. The Austrian radicals tried to
obtain the suppression of the Embassy here,
and to get it put on level with those of the
minor German courts, but even the Reichsrath
was not prepared for this, and il was negatived.
Besides the conversion of Nine. Won Seebach,
others of great mark are reported from every
part of Germany.
The sensational press in Italy teens just now
with "CunYent Scandals Every nun whose
vocation may have been doubtful or based on
family convenience since the year 1900, is made
to figure on the-stage in the NdGiOHe. Rope
ladders, high wells, hairbreadth escapes, res
cues by brothers, lovers and chivafrous Eng
lish travellers, dungeons, oubliettes, and wicked
confessoTs, called into action, and phan-
tasmagoria of horrors which would throw
Monk Lewis into the shade, adorn the pages
of the Ndsi0HG and its colleagues There arc
two magnificent specimens from Bologna In
circulation, of the year 1885, of two runaway
nuns, caught and brought back TO the Carmel
ties. One of these ladies is the present ahbess,
so leave your readers to imagine how much
truth there is in it. AS to the discovery OF
fearful instruments of penance in Cracow and
elsewhere, a recent letter from that place
written by person who was present at the
inspection, reduced them to some old BAH
shirts, two crosses used to carry in procession
on Good Friday, and n marble weight for prop
ping open the refractory, door when necessary
When was a child well remember a fearful