The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-20
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY, MARCH 20. 1870
1REIAHD's 1ARrYns.
IN THREE PARTS.
T III.

and his companions, arrested while in Dublin
lawless soldisfs, or the mere blood til irstiness
of officers Accustomed to every barbarity
e Here the ACTION proceeded from the very high
est English authority in Ireland, in the days of
Lord Coke, who tells us in those legal treatises
which have come down to us as oracles that
he never knew of torture having been used in
The abbot and his companions underwent
preliminary examinations.
rJohn OGarvin, then Protestant Dean of
Christ Church, was among those who assisted
at his first interrogatory, and having proposed
many Inducements to the abbot ito abandon
the POpish creed Gelasius in reply reproyed
him for preferring the deceitful vanities of this
world to the lasting joys of eternity and exhort-
ed him ito renounce the errors and iniquity of
heresy by which he had hitherto warred against
God, and to make amends for the past by jon
ing with him in protesting the name of Christ,
that he might thus become worthy to receive
n heavenly crown The holy abbot and his
companions were then subjected to torture, and
memorated that their arms and legs were brok-
Ell by repeated blows, and fire was applied to
their feet. The only words of Gelasius during
all this torture were, Though You should offer
me the princeton of England, will not for
felt my eternal reward Sentence of death
being passed against them, they were led ont
however, were filed with consultations the
sight of the joyous sufferers excited the ADM
ration of the assembled multitude, and many
even of the heretics declared that they were
moro like angels than men. 1t was the 2lst
of November, 1880, that they were happily
crowned with martyrdom. The garments
which they wore, and the implements of their
torture, were eagerly purchased by the Catho-
lies, and cherished by them with religious ven
Grafton"
Nor can it be said that in the use of torture
= thus used to wiring from the Irish clergy ad-
missions to justify their execution, the author
tiles in Dublin acted without the knowledge or
once scattered to the winds by English records
in the case of one of the most illustrious mar
tyrs of the whole honored list of lreland's wit
nesses for the fiith-Dernod O'IInrlay roll
bishop of Cashel.
The birthplace of this glorious martyr was
q little village in the diocese of Limerick less
than three miles from that city, called Lyco-
doom, where his parents lived respectfully by
farming, both of tillage and cattle they were
held in good estimation by their neighbors,
Earl of Desmond.
:" Having then been raised to the episcopacy
by Gregory Kill, and named Archbishop of
Cashel. he took his route towards II eland.'
AT Waterford he was detected by d Profess
tant named Bha1, on whose information he was
pursued to the Castle of Slane where he had
indeed taken refuge for time, but had pro-
ceeded farther. When Lord Slane found him
self in danger, he joined in the pursuit of the
Archbishop and on overtaking him at Carrick-
on-Suir, induced aim to proceed to Dublin,
where his arrival is noted by Archbishop LOT,
tins aud Sir Fl. Wallop, in a letter to Robert
Beale, temporary chief secretary to the Queen,
dated Oct. sth, 1858, and still preserved in the
quent letter, on the 10th of December, address
ed to Sir Francis Walsing ham, they say:
"AmonG other letters directed to us and
brought by this last passage, we received one
from your honor, declaring her maiesty's plea-
sure for the proceeding with DR.. Hurley by tor
ture or any other severe manner of proceeding
to gain his knowledge of all foreign practices
against her maiestys State, wherein we partly
forebore to Zeal till now" Then they remark |
"for that we want here either rack other en-
CINE OF torture to terrify him the Tower of
London should be better school than the Cas- |
tie OF Dublin we do wish that we had di- |
rections to send him thither."
The preteNt here was shallow; there was wit |
enough in the dominant party in Ireland to in |
vent any necessary racks. Walsingham evil I
IDENTIFY directed them to proceed in Dublin, and !
himself suggested the mode of torture. On the |
9TH of March, 1884 they again write, 1--WE made |
commission to Mr.. Waterhouse and Mr.. Secre |
tary Fenton to put him to the torture such as
your kohor ddrsed as which was, to toast/his |
feet against the fire with hot boots."/ What |
these "aislnghaln boots were, weIearn from |
contemporary statements taken down from eye |
witnesses. {" eexecutioners placed the Arch |
bishops feet and calves in tin boots filed with
oil they then fastened his feet in wooden |
shackies or stocks, and placed fire under theru |
Inc boiing OIL so penetrated the feet and legs |
that !norsels OF the skin and even flesh fell off
ana LETT the bone bare. The officer whose duty
IL was 10 preside over the torture, unused to
such uhhtara OF sh1ierlng, and unable to look
upon such an inhl1nan spectacle or to hear the
plteous cries OF. til" innocent prclate suddenly
let ms seat ana quilted the place., Opp. o. 92).
All tins Jailed to "Nt"rt from him aryth hing to
JUSTIFY MS arrangement even. though the tor |
ture was c"huhhEt tiii.t!c c%.citt"ners be-
heved life extinct, aud hastily cud.v"red to
restore anlmatioi;: i"r h" ''i"ss aii ,rce and