The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-20

noiy man, That the church was restored to sal
| spot to recommend themselves to HIS PRAYER,
wrought there. -
Elizabeth and the ministers of her Codes
| tyranny, in thus trampling on law and Justice
had gained nothing towards the advancement
Of the new doctrines in Ireland. The death q
Dr. hurley but confirmed the Irish Catholic
more immoyably in tho faith.
In another case, Dr. Richard Creaqh, Arch
Disnop OF Armagh, who escaped from the Towe
OF London in 1866, but, after two years. labo
IN Ireland. was seized in Cannaught in 1867, tn
government ventured on q trial at law but tn
jury acquitted him. Little. did this avail h
was kept prisoner, but at last effected hi
escape; and for short time, labored to consol
| the afflicted Catholics. Falling again into tn
hands OF the prosecutors, he was sent to Eng
land, and died of poison in the Tower Of Lon
don, Oct 18th, 1855, leaving one of the mos
| Church. Another prelate, Murlagh O'Brien
Bishop of Emly, died the same year in prison
mt Dublin, after undergoing fortunes.
me interesting biography of another martyr
Catholic Easter during these dark ages in Ire
land that is too touching to omit It b in q
letter from Father Robert Rochfort
u send You an account of the glorious mar
/ tyrdum of n friend of mine, Maurice Kinrech-
tin, a pious priest, chaplain to the Earl of Des-
mond, whom You know. He was for this cause
your native town of Clonmel, where he lay in
prison for more than year. On the eve OF
Easter 1885, Victor White one of the principal
citizens Of Clonmel and a pious Catholic, oh
tanned from the head ilOr permission for the
priest to pass the night in his house; this the
jailor agreed to, but secretly informed the Pres
ident of Munster, an English hereto, who
CHANGED to be in the town. that if he wished he
might easily seize all the principal citizens
while hearing Mass in the house of Mr.. White
at daybreak at the same time he bargained to
be paid for his perfidy. AT the hour agreed on,
the soldiers rushed into the house and seized
on Victor; but all the others, hearing the noise
tried to escape by the back doors and windows:
a certain matron trying to escape fell and
broke her arm. The soldiers found the chalice
and other things for Mass they sought every
where for the priest (who had not yet begun
the Mass,1 and came at length to heap of
straw under which he lay hid and thrustinn ",
their swords through it, wounded him in the
thigh; but he preserved silence, and thro0gh
fear OF worse, concealed his suffering, and
after escaped from the town into the country.
But the intrepid Victor (who, although he had
for this reason suffered much, could never be
induced to attend tbs venticies OF the her
etics) was thrown into prison because he would
not give up the priest, and would no dou ot
have been put to death, had rot Maurice, hear
ing of the danger of his friend, volnntar sur
rendered himself to tie President, showing Il
friendship truly Christian. The President nD-
braided him much, and having sentenced him
to death, offered him his life if he would abjnre
our Catholic faith, and profess the Queen to be
head of the Church. There came to him also
preacher, who stfoye long, but in vain to
duce the martyr; nor would he any account
betray any of those who had heard his Mass
or to whom he had at any time administered
the Sacraments. AT length he was dragged at
the tail of horse to the place of execution as
a traitor. Being come there, he devoutly and
learnedly eXhorted the people to constancy I'm
the faith. The eXecutioner cut him down from
the gall0ws when yet half alive and cut off his
sacred head, and the minister struck it in the
face. Then the Catholics, by prayers and
brides, obtained of the executioners that they
should not lacerate his body any further, and
they buried it as honorably as they could.
Farewell, and peace in the Lord, and be We i'm
itators-if occasion otfers-of the co arageous
souls for the trial. Your devoted servant, dat
ed from the College of st. Anthony, 1856 both
March, Robert Rochfort."
Thus IT went on during the reign of Eliza
beth. The year 1888 witnessed many hanged |
krawp and quartered-tle Rev. PETER Miller at
candidates for the priesthood
the Franciscan fathers OAiolloy, Dogherty, and |
Ferrnll, at Abbeyleix. The next year another |
of the same Order at Clonmel.
Curry, in his " Civil Wars in Ireland" thus
sums up other examples:
John Stephens, priest, for that he said Mass
to league McHugh, was hanged and chartered
by the Lord Burroughs. in 1887; Thady O'Boyle,
guardian of the monastery of Donegal, was
slain by the English i'll his own monastery six
friars We're slain in the monastery of Moynihi-
gan John OCalyhor and Bryan O'Trevor of |
the Order of st. Bernard, were slain in their
own monastery, De Sancta Maria, in Ulster; as
also fellmy O'Hara, Il lay brother; so was
Eneas Penny, parish priest of Killagh, slain
Mt the altar in his parish church there; Cahill
Rory ODonnellan, Peter McQniilan,
Patrick Okenna, George Power, vicar general
of the diocese of Ossory Andrew Stritcb, of
Bryan O'Murihirtagh, vicar general
of the diocese of Clonfert; how OMolow-
ny, of Thomond John Kelly, of Louth Steph-
en- Patrick, of Annaly; john Pills, friar; Rory
Nc Henlea; Iirilagh McInisky, a lay brother.
Al i, that h,l come after Eneas Penny, together
IF Dublin, either through hard usage and re-
,trant or the violence of tortureD
TO whom may be added the Rev. George
Power; Rev. John Walsh Bishop Brady of
Fillmore and his companions, whose sutferings
ire here most touchingly given; the Rev Dom
titus O'Mollony, so tortured by iron boots and
humb-screws, as well as the rack-of all which
here was now, apparently, full supply in
reland-that he died few hours after.
But single executions were prompt
'nongh. In 1902, the authorities intinated
hat snch of the clergy as present ed themselves
% the magistrates would be allowed to take
heir departure from the Kingdom Forty-two
ecular priests and fathers of the Dominican
nd Cistercian Orders, believing that a Protes-
ant government would keep faith with Catho-
les, accepted the offer, and assembling, as di-
ected, at lnniscattery, were put on beard q
essel of war to sail for France. But no sooner
al they reached the broad Atlantic than the
mole oil these priests We're thrown overheard.
IN the return of the vessel to port, great indig-
alton was pretended by the authorities and
he Queen cashiered the officers; while thew
ere, in fact, secretly rewarded.
This martyrdom, fearful for it's treachery
nd the number of the prestly victims closed,
, to say, the reign of bloody Elizabeth The |
aired of Catholicty intense but vet
lere was apparent from first to last sense of
'spect for the opinion of the Catholic powers
\ attempt to Justify the executions by color
them n lnl octu ,,fl