The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-17
THE sAL1x DIES MARrYRs.

The Sallo des Martyrs apperteins 70 Hno
II Bsc. Tho world without just here 10 GER
ninly somewhat different 70 the world WITHIN;
Nd the young aspirants atteg martyrd@M .n may
sn. sl.nos issS suisns
The Balle itself has not long existed. ID
1855 the remains of Mgr. Borie. missionary
ts ps 81 b: had iefs twelve years be-
6ore in tho full viEor Of youth and health, were
Iaid eat in q small room, there to await the
cnnice 81. 1 sbn faith il the farof region Hi.
owned his death aud the young sepinarians
prayed BY his body for the strength TO 60 anu
" ~ degrees, the remains of other comics sors |
~.zkere3 round this first martyr restored TO
ffdnce; relics-in the shape OF ss %
81 tho maftyred missionaries-were snccess.ve,
asiSidod, till rich amount OF s9ch treasures
became sgglomerated. Rough aen1 G SuIUs
- arrived, and, despite their variance WIN S
IN known rules of art. were hung MP m INC
aamo chamber. Hence the Sale des Mar. t:ar.
- NJ 6rnt only inmates of the Seminary were
svoot . turn their stops thitherward, ana soon
Sc became for them regular evening xls,.
Then by degrees pious persons . Ga' o al
s s Friends brought friends, until At
isst the Sale des Martyrs merged into SOFT on
dovout pilgrimage within tho near s Last "a rs
d nsrEsbie among those contrasts so often noted
IN tho gay city BY thoughtful observers; :.
az The bsminaire des Missions Etrangeres oE -
- fsr as 1868, and was mainly due to the e3-
= ertion. of the French Jesuit, Pere Alexandre oe
q RHODES. This jealous missionary, aster naving
i 1ss the first TO penetrate into Tonquin, wneES
q ~ ssanted Christianity, in 1926, and after
I ,1Sw&Sr devoted more than twenty years 20
& nrSsching the Gospel both in this county ana
h Cnchin- China, was forced at last 20 leave
fhen going on having already lasted Ave years
Nothing daunted, he came to Europe to seek
s -. reonest to the feet Of AlexAnder VII, OBJ
tained that Pontiff's appreciation for founding
= body of priests who shoul1deyote themselves
70 @i.si4naIy 'a v;sw IN was s to- form native
Priesthood, without Which Pere de. ahooes
knew from experience that nothing sumeieht-
" stable could be expected. In accordance ee
18th this design two Bishops were in 1858
named Vicars-apostolic for China, and Tor
3 Cochin China Rnd Tonquin united. severai
!" form the Seminary. This was opened on the
i same spot tWhereit now exists, IN 1G63-that Is,
= during tie reign of Louis XIV, and three
sF its his
From an early period of its foundation, the
se1hinaire des Missions Etrangeres began be gan
sending ont missionarss to An par siam and
/Corea The Congregation now serves twenty
Z four different missions. This body itsell
forms branch OF the rroP irsators cbose, I
Eo ,.,s anop@st those Who have returned afte,
years of foreign toll, and are incapable any
longer Of distant labor. .; ovid
TIA numbers greatly increasing, anu
since 1910. upwards Of four hundred young
men have been sent abroad. me SEMINARY
has given many martyrs Sns. TO the onar0n' "n'
Nna snactacle more than any other attracts
ma towardsthe Seminaire DIES missions, Ctl.h
1t takes place in tps sha%s for the THINE
being. Reader, If yoh had looked IN mere on'
summers evening in 1852; you w1 QUE ha th
seenit going on, and might nave Nfs CO. ~, w r
feet of martyr now III hea'eh. A1eo 10 b
back to the scene. ,,. III,
Evening prayer is just over at e'ght. fiv
young men, after kneehns peioi1 tuo LII
while the morrow's meditation was beinS read
have inst risen, and remain stanulnS: Inc
20 are partinu missionaries. In front OK tneh H
ranged their brethren, members Oh .he G""s ;n
cation their relatives and friends, ana I'd
1,romiseuous public. These all sit, whlle on
Of the directors addresses u last discourse u
these about to leave. He sets fofth once in'9i
the periis that await them, recalls the fanl
ties now to be broken for ever, conJnres tnen
to think well ere too late, and if weak t" ora,
back while there is yet time. hi" OF inte,
eat surrounds the five; but that one III .n
q. miSst has something peculiarly at'racti's
His figure is slight and small, ms $500; iaoo
quick intelligent black eyes are POSITIVE
dancing with JOY A., .
sounds. while from the choir is heard: tua
sDcciosi Deoes erdngeii@dRfiam pdct'h, erdR9eo-"i
si,r bore All present advance successiNelS
kiss the fest of those parting missiobar
The youth in the midst trelnbies no" al
turns pale; his eyes are modestiY cast uoW
hut he dare not withdraw his feet from I'm
last homage. Next day, jean Theophane "
nard was on his way to China.
How he had loneed TO go! Yet now at ia
IT was hard trial to nature. Grace gives
the courage to execute, but does not take ava
., the stingiug bitterness of sacrihce.
%, Yonpg Venaid WINS not quite twenty-thrt
years of aye when he left Paris. Born on u
2lst of November, 1929, ut st. Loup-sur- hone
in the department of peux-SeVres, he M
spent his childhood partly as n cow-perd
. the wayside, and partly in ACQUIRING Know
edge on the Benches of his fathers Nlllat
SCHOOL The annals Of the Propagation q
. Faith were among his favorite books ana oi
day, while reading an account OF the Tece
20 marty rdom suffered by the Venerable Chail
- Cornay, he exclaimed with sudden enthusiast
g And I too will go to Tonquin and be n ma
tyrw The little cow-herd was then only u
wears old. but he never forgot that moment
2gracr youchsafed, and faithfully correspond,
70 IL. Happily, too, he had Virtuons pareni
good, simple people, who gratified his wish
etndyinp Tor the priesthood. And SO, after Il
u necessary preparations and with many natur
shrinkinvs at sight of the purity requlsit
Theophane received Holy Orders. Not n mon
had elapsed when he felt called to be m
d Sniohary likewise and thus was he led on
where we saw him standing in the Chapel q
IS Missions Etrangeres beside the Sale ues Ma
tyrs.
81 pleasant dream; now he was about to enter
q. It's realities. God had strewn flowers on |
IL m fhn tn