The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-08-15


shall have nothing this year, and appeared
1.-THE Gear has announced an Geumenicai Coun.
Gil of Popes n for the 9th of December o. g.
according TO the Nasione. The King of Prus-
| STA has conferred the order of the Red Eagle
on Mgr. Paeca aud Mgr. Ricci, and other infe-
| rior decorations various employees of the
Pontifical Court. The execution Mt Roccn di
ton of fresh crime, The brother Of the
criminal, with the rest of the family, was, nc
cording to Roman usage, taken out of the vii
lage on the day of execution, to be out of the
the household to the appointed place, he drew
revolver and dangerously wounded the off,
Ger; who, it is thought cannot recover, The
Count Gabriel de st. Victor, one of the most
influential proprietors in tue Rbone, and whose
services to the canse of religion are proverb
IN Lyons, has just gained the great prize of
the central agricultural meeting of France. He
wll, 1t Is believed, represent France at the
Manchester agricultural congress. 1t is q good
sign when the leading men among the Catholic
party take an active part also in pursuits too
long neglected i'll France. NJ. de st. Victor's
four nephews served at Montana as private
Zouaycs.
The Holy Father went, on Monday, to the
Scala Santa, and performed the ascent his
forwards visited the Passonist fathers. to
whose custody it is entrusted. Your readers
who may have assembled the Scala Santa will
be tho best judges of the Pope's state of health
by his fitness for such n fatiguing and peniten-
tial devotion at his advanced age. 1t is said
that when his attendant prelates attempted to
dissuade him from theattempt, the Holy Faith
er replied, II have already, since 1 have been
Pope, twice assembled these stairs of the Pas
sion of'our Saviour-once to pray for the re-
pose of the soul of my father, another for the
soul of my brother. 1t is right for mo to as
cend them third time to pray for my elder
brother, the head of our family, who is either
dead at this very moment when am speaking
to you, OF nigh rendering up his soul to God"
which the Count Mastai died.-Id6let.
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA July 17.-Retyioas
-10ai's.-After having briefly announced
the death of Mgr LnbienAixi, at Mimi
if his being there were merely accidental,
the newspapers have had the audacity to turn
the details of this horrible event into n bur
lesque, following the example OF the Krens Zei-
ting at Berlin letter from Warsaw, e7i
IDENTIFY fabricated, at the police office informs
that journal that the sanity Bishop, whose
holy and mortified life was universally known,
died in consequence of gluttony! of too much
fruit and Madeira! 1t is unpardonaDle to re-
peat and publish such villanies. TO strangfe
victim and then try to blaclSen his memory is
the very height of gnominy. Even the pagans
did not condescend to that. The truth is that
Mgr Lubienski, whose health was always deli
cate, was seized with sickness, entirely owing
Gen. Moller, conducted the journey. Instead
of allowing him the advice of DOCTOR or the
consultations of the sacraments, they Travelled
l29o versts without even stopping, till the
prisoner was quite unable to proceed. 1t is q
horrible drama-euough to draw tears from
the most hard hearted and insensible 1t is
sad that the hereditary. Grand Duke, for the
sake of popularity with the Russian party,
should have suffered himself to be compro-
missed in this terrible affair. Marshal Berg de-
mandcd the Punishment of the Bishop, but
wished that Rome should be his destination.
1t was Count Tolstoy, procurator of the Synod,
who supported by the hereditary Grand Duke
insisted upon Perm. am convinced that the
Emperor has been much affected by this catas-
trOple, -bOs
were so DTtJer asainsb Mgr. Hu1trrT5nT iIIII,nU
easily have poisoned him, as it is rumored that
they did, they fenred this holy and intelli-
gent Bishop more than others, because he at
least was a possible" man. Mgr. Zwolinsky,
who administered the diocese of Warsaw with
out legitimate powers, and who might have
been considered as sold to the police, has found
means of obtaining q passport, and is now at
Breslau, asking the prayers of the Bishops in
Prussia for the suffering Church in Poland. 1t
is said that the French Ambassador has writ
ten to call the attention of the Government to
the prosecutions which Catholics undergo in
Russia Ho sees in 1t very grave and dam
gerous complication, and the affair must indeed
have assumed serious proportions for the Baron
de Talleyrand to take notice of it. You can do
more than diplomatists by praying for u.s. 1t
is also of the highest Importance TO give pub
licity to the facts, the only thing our Gov
crnment breads is publicity. Make our couu-
trymen ashamed by persuading them that they
cannot boast of being civilized while they deny
to others the liberty of serving God. Under
the present system Panslavisn is not to DO
feared. Who would desire to unite himself to
a country where a man cannot be sure of pass
ing the night in safety, and where neither his
property nor his faith is respectedi 1t is
situation which it is impossible to maintain.
After dreaming of hoping to see the speedy Re-
noYntinn-n of my poor country hY-means-of
Christianity and liberty, L must acknowledge
the fear of seeing it rather the theatre of every
conceivable calamity,
TIE QuEES's CHAPLArN's SERMON on THE
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