The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-13

and put to death all who gainsay them.
lively bloodless the plumber was too plenty :
for men to stop to slay. Only one instance Is
recorded-that of the beheading OF the guardian aa
of the franciscan convent ut Monaghan, ana
several of his friars; but we can scarcely
credit that under so sanGuinary tyrant, so
little blood was shed in Ireland wnsr sro mo
slaughter, only few Irish families or o. 6ioods
being recognized Ms men whom to XIII was
murder. @-----=. =,
England had her illustrious martyr, Cardinal
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Ireland IN
her hierarchy had an illustrious confessor IN
William Walsh, Bishop of Meath, Cistercian,
born ut Dunboyne and q monk in the ApDey
of Beehive till its suppression. ,.,+ +he
"Whatever doubt there may be aoou t, .ne
| place of his birth and his early history, thele
| ia none whatever as to his eminent virtues,
| distinguished abilities and the heroic 1oTtituue
with which he bore numerous anu P, ., ortI"-
| doxv and opposition to the Innovations OF
Henry VIII and Edward vi marked him OUT
promotion after the assocased with the
Jealous primate, DR.. Dowdall, in the commission
to drive from the sanctuary all such 's "o''
faitless to their trust -. A., .,oso
of 1854, and immediately applied himself WIN MN
zeal and energy to reform ABUSES ast Two rerns.
cipline The period of his usefulness was,
however, destined to be briei, anu ia To- fortify
his diocese when the gathering storm ,! ouls0
over the Irish Church, and sacrificed the olshoP
of Meath among its first and noblest victims
Queen Mary died in 1858, and was succeeded
by Elizabeth, who at once publicly embraced
the reformed tenets and 3e an act oc was
4 passed, under the deputyship. of the Earl OF
Suffolk, which ordered all ecclesiastical persons,
judges asso9 TO- tahs hs oath Of SUI
P nremacy. under penalty of forfeiture; and also
= enacted that if any person Should ny wrlons,
t printing teaching pTe a;ntan any foreign
. spiritual jurisdiction, he should loi Sne an,
offence forfeit all his goods and suffer one year
X imprisonment, for the second cHehce snou ~,
q incur the penalty of prgm1uanlre, anu JOE 'no
/ third be deemed guilty of high treason.
He first imprisoned in l56o, ana, a ~ q
N former prison; this was "a subterraneous
NJ dungeon, damp and nosome, not q ray Oh nSns
penetrated thither and for thirteen years I, >
,e was his unvarying abode.' During all that
in time his food was of the coarsest kind, and,
y with the exception of rare Intervals, when tns
w intercession of some inhuentiai lrlenu @
IN n momentary relaxation, he was allowed no
Us occupation that could cheer the tedlum OF HIS
LII Imprisonment. In all this heightened martyr
e., dom, prayer his resource, and. as ne nun
d. self subsequently avowed, he oftentimes passed
whole days and nights overwhelmed VIII
We heavenly consolatfons, SO that ms annseo o.
CT .seeme( transformed into paradise OF dellSuts
rot To preclude the possibility of idieness ne pro
oh cured a bed made of twisted cords, and, when
La ever his mind fatigned WITH PRAYER, e.. II.
he applied himself to unite those cords, ana oitei
rs was he we'll weared with the exertion Deiot
on he could reunite them to compose himself u
to sleep. o,,oroo,,. Nv, his constancy
.he and finding his fervor in spiritual contempla
:, II ton IA continual reprnach t" their own WICKED
NM ness at length about Rasin tine Continent,
ar died at Alcala in 1877 hearing to the grave til
OF marks of his thirteen years imprisonment.
ore Next in Importance among the sufferers 40
,he faith was !, most remarkable man, Davi
'. Wolf, native of Limerick, ~ priest Oh T. th
Society of Jesus, whose iabors' Peri!s, SUM-
l. IL I-l,il g
the Pope in ireland from 1860 to lo1S, TORN III
matter fora most interesting voinme--hot ON
from the personal interest attached TO TO-, ma rni,
of his ability, learning and courage but 1Io'
Sed ti,e intluencc exercised by him in lerpetuatin
me- tho epscopacy and, consequently tue pres
tyr: hood and the faith i'll Ireland
one The first martyr of whom we lave any u
nrr tails is the Franciscan, Daniel ODuli.an,
was the convent of Yomghal, put u death III lou
;, Of Indictment, trial, judge or jury, seem TO nav
ION lad no part in this cause Father aoon'
n,an Tins describes his death, rs he obtained n
ince thcntlc lhtofhi;'tioh "'' ''
tyrs, "Whcn one Capt. Dudal (prohahly Dowda
one with his troop were torsurins him, by order
he Lord Arthur Grey, the !icernS, ms
Mi and tied his hands behind his back. and ia
ing fastened heavy stones to his t,et' tar !
- Mt pulled him up with ropes to the top oil
iish tower, and left him hanging there for a spai
smf. At length after many insults and tortures,
Sir was hung with his head down and MS 1eet
il :, the air ut the mill near the monastery an
r,rv HANGING there for n long time, whle ne ny
th, he never uttered an inpatient word nht, IL
ting good Christiah! 'he1s'...t? A. lrngth +
v OF now aiouu no" III d ~" -. -, 49, e@Lnr
nm soldiers were ordered to shoot ut him, as thon
,erto he were Il target, but yet, that ms s'seli'
more might be longer and more cruei, theS III,
;,itb not aim at his head or heart, but us hhch
culnr they pleased at any other part OF MS np
After he had received many balls, one, VII
Irish cruel mercy, loaded his gun with TWO D',
,wren and shot him through the heart mus ana
draw receive the glorious crown OF martyfdoh
rye odd of April, in the year aforesaid"
nm of Similar disregard of all law and forms
~ in iustice appears in the terrible mart! ruon
nrt nf The Franciscan Father O'Dowd, WHO dicd
st. John Nepouucen, q martyr TO inc sea
.Ii in Confession. cu =: I.
!. HIS With some other prisoners he fell, IN l;
Who into the hands of the soldiers of FELTON,, T.
scans president of Connaught.
Ike They pressed certain secular, who
srvad one of their captives, to tell them someth
,,tiye of the plots which they said he had MADE
,f the others against the Queen of England; Du
io,,n, nrotestcd he could tell nothing but the TT
s. 80" and that there were plots so they dc
q and mined to hang nun Mou ~ ~ ,Salre b;s
,,h frssion to Father O'Dowd this they graz
iicdnd, the more reauiiy .h;'' o.y ,roi ,,L,t m
Gland. if he We're tortureu, mout" ~. n,ess;o,
;orctos be told him. AS soon as the confession
of his over. the secular was hung; and then
and in asked the priest, who was also to be hun
IT, his he had learne4 angh9 vi 'nS t;1a
uished fession He answered III ING sonf,
ton of refused TO reveal an. lninS VI :e H. -.
they offered him life and freedom II lie W
t.,tfn a