The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-17
ST. PATR1cHs DAY AT ROME.
DIR. MANNING's SERMON.


~ 81. PATR1cKs DAY AT ROME.
no DIR. MANNINGs SERMON,
ID The Roman correspondent Of the Dubli
=. ETeei"a"'s Journal, in his letter of the 1sti
" uit., thus alludes to the celebration of st
n Patrick's Day in Rome:
% Never before was there such a CONNIE.
L mCiation of St. Patrick's Day as tina,
Il venera tJof place on yesterday within the
. Convent of St. Isidore here at Rome. Chill
wren OF the old land, many of whom had
:, NOT seen It for years, and many of whom.
!, perhaps, would never see it again, were
, assem- pied within the Convent Chapel, and
prayed around its altar for blessings on
their country with more of feryor Than
Rmernaps they had ever prayed with before.
lney were there, prelates, priests and peo-
PIE from Ireland, America, Australia, New
1eaiand' Africa, the Indies-all proud of
the land to which they owe their origin. and
many of them wearing-on their breasts the
x c' green leaf, (the greeting from thoueht-
1ul friends in Ireland, } cherished throngh-
out the world as "Old Erin's Native sham.
,ssM And the place they knelt was one
| the scattered children of the irish race for
ot 1sidore's is an Irish convent, founded nv
an Irish priest, and inhabited from, bis
Iime down to this by Irish priests and irish
1 TS OF the holy order Of St. Francis. |
Inc monastery is situated close tn the I
church and convent of the Canncb;no 'n 10
"hicn made mention in one of nv earlier
COMMUNICATIONS. The place had orioinaIlv
neionged to a community of Spanish Fran.
olscans, out 1T was not till after it had
enlarged into its present dimensions. The
convent, as it now stands, was CONSTRUCTED
under the immediate supervision of the !
aa Father Luke Wadding, who pur-
S Snased the original building from the t
1 p'S Sad M;egulars nave already mentioned /
principal of their country's saints,) and /
|, 1t over for ever to the PURPOSES Of g
MS order. Father Wadding was born. as a
nearly everybody knows, in Waterford. il
anu anI :e'S ~ IN an early age that he might /,
seek In foreign lands that knowledge which a
inc penal laws made it treason for him to I
Iook LOT at home. He spent much of his I,
lime : In Spain and Portugal, and when Or a
ialneo 70 the priesthood, and admitted in 4 ii
% me franciscan Order, he gave lectures ii
If their seats of learning, and preached f.
'iten from the pulpits in several of their Il
principal towns. He finally bent his stena IS
oWards Rome-taught in the franciscan CO
'cnool attached to the Church of st. Peter. n,
6i nto e, ana soon after, fbout the year T
his new purchase at St. Isidores, THE of
enerabie man lived to his SEVENTEEN wear. til
no dled In the convent on the 18th of Mol ci
ember, 1867. His epitaph is glowing til
ut not exaggerated tribute from his spirit. &C
al children to the memory of one who 81
'as a learned man, adorned with virtues. W,
ell deserving of church, religion, and fel
0untry, the historian of the whole Order of
Minors-their best, and best beloved fo,
Ither and founder" Scattered through an
le chapel are other records of Irish Fran in
scans, who have left noble monuments of 20
.eir genius and industry in the ecclesias- th,
cal literature of their country. Among cal
lem may mention the names of Arch No
shop Cavill, Primate of Ireland; Father VIII
onaventure Baron, Father Francis Porter, the
III Fatner James Iaane, who had been ito
'nfessor to the wife of James the Second. for
he chapel of the convent is small, but it me
ntains some exquisite gems in painting the
ID in statuary. The Irish visitor will not
IL to stop with interest before the statue
our patron saint that meets him as he
cends the little steep that conducts him cor
the convent, and the painting of him by lett
unknown artist that decorates the side o,o
APPEL on the left of the principal altar. ,".
'ey may not be of the very highest order q
art, but any shortcomings in that par irle
ular will not lessen the afTectiona+a az the
eciation with which an Irish eve will ASK
20 upon them. 1 have said that the Nv
APPEL is small, and never was this fact mo
ire painfully felt than il was IN 1estarO sal,
y. Year after year, on the recurrence of cat
> festival, an appeal ia made nm he the
If of the community, and am banny e. to I
able to say that the Fathers have aiTy.ys we
{ that the appeal was not made in - rett
I this year the number of Irish, or Irish had
scended, stopping IN Rome is unusually she
ge, and the anxiety of all to be present we
the occasion was prOpOrtonately great. we
uuieteiy flied at an e,riy ho, U"P0i wac Aftt
At the couclusinn of tb,. H;ah M,ss 4b. viii
chibisis"p of Westminster preached the nat i
ttE tIIt. inf dali |
those eloouent" rh3ngh,fnI sonoast;v. lrel
courses that an, .iTays exnects and - she
:. to hear fru,n tI,. Inns IF Lis Grace ~. bee,
Vi n brief hut inttrestinv sketeh of tn inst
'iy life of the saint, aud of the super- DISH
5uraI character of hi. yocatioo r. F.ho Ital
version of Ireland: he traced h;s 49, ton
las throughout the land, and how that
eresoever he went he found a soil ready H'
'n to receive the seed al faith which he s s.l
ne to scatter there. He described him 49, 80