The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-06
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st. Boiiface, has just passed throj3sh London,
on his way to the Red River territory. He had
been summoned by the Canadian Government
| from Rome, on account of his great influence
with the savages, and the Holy Father gave
him ready permission to depart, though one
Of his most faithful prelates: Mgr. Tache's
learned that his mother was on the point of
death. He at once made a vow to consecrate
himself to the Foreign Missions if she recov-
neously. "A year OF two afterward, Mgr. Fa-
| raud, THO Bishop of the regions of the Esqui-
maux, sent to his Order imploring missioners.
started to fulfil Iis The f ssSop on 1nee
ceiving him, exclaimed, " asked for mission
! ers, and they have sent me boy" But the
twenty eight years of age was .consecrated
Bishop. He was for some years the youngest
Bishop in the Church. His life has been spent
in regions of perpetual snow. few years
ago. on returning to the church he had built,
after having slept sixty nights in the snow, he
found it burned to the ground, and his Vicar
General, who had had to feed upon uncooked
horse flesh, dying from the effects of the frost,
which had simply bitten off both his legs.
Mgr: Tache is the nephew of the late Prime
Minister of Canada. He returns to his labors
with n heart full of love for them. Such is
the Catholic missioner.
The Annales Religieuses of Orleans relates an
anecdote, ON the authority of an Orleanese
noble" which,. if it he true, will be read with
u I'D.
The gentleman in question had the honor to
be invited to the palace OF, Prince Rospigliosi,
where, among other eminent and distinguished
persons, he met the Bishop Of Orleans On
this occasion he heard the Bishop make the
following remarks, which the Orleans journal
prints: Il have the greatest admiration for
without any reserve whatever to his supreme
authority as Head of the Church. If the Pope
had summoned us to Rome to accept and sign
doctrines prescribed by himself, I should have
q IN nh N 6yvrfh fhn II p1r ,r11
even say, with the blind submission of a son.
But he has summoned us to discuss doctrines
not yet reduced to a formula, and think that
in discussing them am performing an act of
submission and obedience"
An observation, attributed to French
Bishop, is said to be much quoted in Roman
society. We can only, as Herodotus used to
say, repeat the tale as we have heard it. An
other Bishop of the same nation who spoke in
the Council, and is supposed to have recon-
mended what a certain kind of prudence
by quoting the popular axiom, "Melle capiuntur
muscg-fies are caught in honey" every
true" another Bishop is said to have remarked;
" sed ut 0ccidentur-but in order that they may
be killed"
The Journal de Brurelles relates that Mgr De-
champs, Archbishop of Nalines, has been Gre
ated Primate of Belgium, aud will henceforth
sit in the Council in the place allotted to Pri-
see in this distinction conferred upon the
eminent Prelate, not only a mark of the |
special favor of the Sovereign Pontif towards
Mgr: Dechamps personally, but recognition
of the zeal and devotion manifested on all oc-
casions by the Catholics of Belgium. They
even indulge the confident hope that their
Primate will one day be raised to the Purple
" His influence" they observe, sis SO much the
greater because he does not seek to have any"
All the Belgian Bishops, they add, are zone in
doctrine as in heart"
1t appears that certain French journals |
hostile to the Council, adopt the tactics en-
ployed by our own. They announce, for ex-
ample, that "the Bishop of Chalons has
quilted Rome and returned to France;" to
which his Vicar,General replies, he has not
quilted Rome, and has never thoug ht of doing |
SO. The origin of the story is characteristic. |
A telegram from Rome to the Agence Haras
which has propagated SO many untruths, said
L'Eveque de Chaions parte." This they I
converted into est parti, and the report was |
credited, as usual, until it was formally denied.