The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-09-04

for the mission of Trinidad English An.
tilles). These were Sisters Agnes of Jesus
and Louisa Germaine; and two lay Sisters
Mary Bernard and Angela of St. Rose
These valiant women 60 to fill up the void
caused by the yellOw-fever in their commu-
nifty in Trinidad, which lost in 1869, nine
Dominican nuns, carried off by that fearful
epidemic"
Such record tells it's own tale, and calls
for no comment. Another speaks to US OF
tho wonderful manner in which the Holy
Spirit of God deals with men, calling some,
0ftentimes most unexpectedly, to share in
the wondrous privileges of the Church,
and passing over those whose lights and
opportunities have been greater. Amongst
tlo Jesuits who lately embarked at Mar
be, for glorious martyrdom at some flu
ture day-was the Brother-novice Ignatius
Da-nin-tui. OF Brother Ignatius we are
told that he is young Chinese
"Who came to France with French
Charge d'Affaires; there he received the
gious vocation. Baptized at Lyons on
Christmas day, 1868, he entered the novi
ciate of the Society of Jesus Mt Anglers, in
the month of March, the following year.
He has gone to study at the college of Zl-ka-
wei. 1gnatius DAMN tut was born at Can
ton the 18th of January 1852"
From the far East the Rev. Mr.. Martin
writes that from the 9TH to the 18th of Jan.
nary Ourakami, in Japan
"Was laid desolate by the deportation of
1000 worshipers of the true God. Men,
women, and children were dispersed
to triumph on all sides; God alone can save
those who belong to Him."
From AMMAN, in the Vicariate-Apostolic
of Northern Cochin China, the accounts
given of the state of these congregations,
are sufficient to afford a very good general
~E ~, rs
which depends almost entirely on the in
Auence, more or less predominant, of the
iterates, an influence never exercised but
against the French in particular and Chris
tianity in general. These amiable gentle
men, it appears, at the last examinations
abroad reports that people had been pois-
oned by the Christians. These calumnies,
however, fell to the ground as sson as the
iterates returned to their own prOvinces."
OF the insults offered to our holy faith
we may quote one:- "A Christian soldier,
the guards, wished to get into the first.
For that purpose, he had, like the rest, to
go through an exercise consisting princi-
Pally of raising and carrying heavy weights.
To this was added an order to trample on
the cross, which condition our neophyte
refused with horror to fulfil.
So much liberty is now granted to the
missioners that they can have the fetes
celebrated by public PROFESSIONS, High
Mass, and the like, all of which excite great
admiration in the eyes of the Annamites.
The missioner in his letter gives an in
stance of the wonderful effects Of Extreme
Unction, and of the remarks consequent
-
1sOne of our Annamite priests, !" he writes,
swas called to attend Christian soldier,
who was dying in one of the barracks of
the town. He administered the last Sacra-
ments,r and the patient Immediately be-
came much better. The Pagans who were
present regarded the ceremony with a
respectful curiosity, and, when the priest
had finished, they came up to him and
said,
what remedies have you applied to
our comrade to relieve his sufferings 80
quicklyq'
.The remedy is for the soul,' replied the
priest, and when the soul is well disposed,
it sometimes cures the body also.'"
Owing to the peace the Christians have |
been enjoying, especially during the past |
year, they have been enabled to bury their
dead with all the ceremonies Of the
Catholic ritual, and this, with good
results amongsta Pagan population, attach
ing, as it does, such Importance to the rites |
of sepulture. We give the missioner's ac-
count -
A procession formed of the relations and
friends of the deceased, the boys and girls
Of the Holy Childhood, a priest wearing a
cope, and attendants in surplices, moves in
front preceded by the cross, and singing
psalms and prayers; the funerals have in
This way traversed great distances, passing
through Pagan villages, and even, as on
,ne occasion, through the largest market
place of the capital, and following the very
anne road by which our venerable mar
yrs IN former days were led to execution.
During these long journeys, never was q
word of ridicule or insult to be heard from
he Pagans, but only, as they tell me, such
expressions as the following" How beau
ifnl it is to be buried like the Christians I"
Throughout the vicariate, the wretched
title chapels, hastily erected by the i'm
,overished Christians after their return
rom exile, have been replaced by more
old and respectable churches; the Anna
mite priests are the architects and decora,
ors, and they are tolerably we'll qualified
or the task. One of them has adorned his
lew church, situated at the gates of Hue,
With portico decorated with columns and
tatues, which give it quite the air of o
European building. AS for steeples, it
would cost q great deal to construct them,
md the Government would not be pleased
o see them erected; so we have not built {
nv vet. The church of Kim-long, how |
,ver, has fine large bell over the facade l
The bell belonged to a bonzes' house, in j
which was Matched, three years ago, a con- =
piracy against Tu-Duc. The plot was 9
lot discovered till the conspirators had +
into the Kings palace; the es- c
was destroyed, the BONES I
7ere put to death, and the idols drowned
D the river. The bell became the property =
{ the steward of Que of the princes, from I