The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-02-13
Milan-Tho Churches and Hospital.

Mnan-The Churches and Hospital
contributor in -fppletoa's JoWrnal, of a late
cate, gives his Impressions of Milan and some
ITS institutions, in which the writer. although
toVlonsly iabnrng under the incubus OF Pro
testaht higptry, is still compelled, as it were.
q deal out a measure of truth. We take from
the following extract:
tiA my "Nicctation--tar more of Il lnai,stic
pom, and less of II fantastic toy. The forty
Nc hundred statues have great meaning.
pa are an epic in stone that rclicarscS tho
j"rirs of The Church in the person OF the elect
1ftlcr. Dedicated to g" Maria Na>centi' or
MARY giving birth, it sets her sculpturc,l
cfdren IA every window, niche, pillar and
s4rc. /; i, Il wonderful Mary plant, that buds
a4t blossoms with her children, and ::scc,dS
rfr t" the human form rs the crown OF crra-
~. ! did not understand the building. he
~ seeing il; and on Suvlay, ut the eleven
oauck service, with tlio> music of organ and
pr 1T was more bcwiiching than any Catlo-
Ii sanctuary that | ever entered. 1t
~ neither hard sinful to look upon
tit temple the home sanctuary Of the
Cfistian mother. and to hlrs, the inothcgly
l''e which has bern and bred souls liz God
II NJ the beginning. Your readers may b.. re-
nodded that this is The largest cisurch bur two
II Chri>tcnd"m, and is second only 10 st.
Fer 5, al Rome. and the cathedral at Seville.
LIS four hundred aud fort y-cighi feet long,
90 hundred and seventy live broad, one hun
did and i"ity-"ight high in tn. nave. two
iiudrcd and one high in the dome, and three
hldred and thirty feet to the point of
thtowcr. never felt its beauty much rs
OF Monday morning, when, after seeing rhr
snry heights OF the Alps. from tie tower.
SAD Il dwarf enter the splendid nave. and
KIP dowit-hN enc Of the grand columns and
III ttcr hls prayers With the ign of the cross.
tlf connected his own grief with tina; OF the
lfne Suiitlcr there cnshrmcd 1t was
l,IA L l,.t. -.
crtturr could take i'll all that beauty as tWcll
ask and perhaps accept thai prottrred N lrcy
III r. fully ant, gratefully.
Hc old Church of ST. Ambrose speaks of
mt years and grnuder historic mission han
evfi the great cathetlral: for on this spot
kl,s were for aScs crowned: here Ambrose
Fetsed entrance to Ilicodosius, after his act
ofkavagc cruelty at Thcs>alonir:,, ut the very
g:4rs. ii is said that now remain and here
yUtsS Augustine, Il scapc- grace teacher of cln-
cti on, came TO crIticisc the great preacher,
so3le fourteen hundred Years ago, and found
hiAlset mastered by the conviction that made
hit mighty father of the Church, with st.
p;Ers mantle upon his shoulders. l was there
o3ard evening, and could hardly leave the
pot as felt the force of the impressions that
laS gone from that pulpit. Most OF he old
'uilding had probably gone; but something of
tciuailiS. if il is only the tombS beneath the
.ltiv. But then that old fire burned. perhaps
upou the very site of an ancient pagan temple
# Bacchus and over III our new world, on Il
thousand affairs Of every namc that same
burning experience shines and CLAWS.
No less Interesting is another institution OF
much Interest," refer t" the Hospital Mag
Siorr. that was founded in LAG by Francisco
) porI and his wife. upon the basis of their
great palace. and which Is now tn" largest
hospital in Italy. II is "A considerable city iii
Itselt. having four thousand inmates either the
SEX or their attendants, and contains within
itself the leading forms of city industry.
Cattle slaughtered Tor the table. wheat is
ground hy wat"r-p"wer bread is baked ""di-
clIirs are made 10y chemists, we'll dis
pcnsed rs the sixteen apothGcaIicS, VIII" deal
ont three thousand prescriptions on an aNerac
daily. Between three hundred and four hum
drc poor people come every day for adv ice
and medicine. and twciity-tour physicians. one
from each of the tSrnty-f"ur districts OF III"
city, attend for the purpose. From seventy to
Duc hundred new patients come III daily. and
about two Thousand three hundred is the aver
age number within the wards, while there are
beds for three Thousand four hundred. The
building is erected around great central
with IL handsome chapel in the
CENTRE and has nine distinct c"nrts. / saw
two hundred women in one cruciturm ward
md many men in another. Children under
seven years nt az" we're in one ward and had
iolls and plaNthing~ rs we'll as nnrscS. did
rot understand why so many of these little
IMcs had undergone surgical operations, and
lad legs OF arms amputatcd, unless from care
cSS playing III the streets, or neglect by their
PARENTS. In all, there are twcnty-scvcn rooms
or men, and as many for women. The laun-
nginc of ten horse power, and the same whirl-
ny machine for drying clothes that we have
t Lowell and our large factories. The kitchen
equally stately, and clean the royal
alacc that | afterwards visited The huge
aldrOns of massive copper shine like bright
hiclas, and the bread of two kinds maize and
;hea1 is good what we have here at the
est hotel. The Quccn of Prussia tasted and
pproNcd it, and your CORES pendent, who is
ne OF the sovcrrig people of America, did
he 81 due. In the Kitchen there was n very
God Smll-lcngth picture of the Madonna, yet
he Institution did not appear to be under
rlcstlN rule. and WAS assured the city man
Sed it's, funds of siXty'millious of francs and
IS revenue Of three millions, while the patients
'crc visited by such of the clergy. whether
ath"'Ic or Protestant, as they wished. | oh
crNcG only one priest present i'll one of the
ards, and one woman also who wore the
luge of Il religious order. Yet every day the
Hcrs of rrliGium,tnf course. are called for Ivy
ne "A M as we'll as the sick. and the >iN OF
even bodies that We're laid ont for the grave
n II one on" room expressed the aNclag" mortality
Tie Intelligent reader Will rasi y,account for
he al'soHcr of religious in the hospital All
he word knows that under Victor Emmanuel,
ciSn tn Church and hospitals have been dis
'olIrd Z" their revenues. and the religions
riders, " i"h SO h"nancly .ui,l l>~id1Iously al
minister affairs. tulucd adritt. to he replaced
" the n"rmidons Of Cavour and his worthy
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