The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-27
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY, MARCH ~. 1870.

morning Star ana CatnOttC messenger.
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. MARCH n. 1870
RELANDs MARTYRS.
IN THREE PARTS.
Tho reign Of Charles 1. opens with the deeply
how, even amid all the terrible prosecutions OF
She Church, God called His own elect to the
hight of His truth, and endowed them with
e En As Fss Ss iessp san ssgs
was born In 1911. After being educated at Ok
ford, he travelled on the Continent, and at
Rome was converted to tho faith, and at the
che Society Of Jeans. A. the earnest entreaty
OF his father and mother, he returned to Ire
Hand; but after an interview with Archbishop
Rrison-S Cardinal Bsrbsgini sxerted his influ-
cnce with the Queen of England, and in May,
1856, he was admitted TO bail. His stay in
IRELAND was not nuitless, for he converted his
several others. This increased his dangers,
and the General OF the SOcisty urging him to
-eSme at once To Rsme, he proceeded thither in
whom he had converted and won to the order
he himself had chosen, had been struck down
Sy disease, he returned to Ireland, tended him
1853. Renonncing all his worldly prospects in
favor Of his brother, he begin his studies, and,
after his ordination, entered the novitiate Of
sssn 10 to aaed 81 is
she 6eld where his words, example and letters
10 - ,prsashed e. eloauently. The sketch Of
% the sScisty Of yesus, who. returning TO his
.sised, sts.ed, hung, dr.wn'sand quartered. ON
additien to. our biographies, and show us in
IrslaDd two young imitators of st. Aloysius
and Ct. stanislaus, whose virtues and example
ehat 1ows from the fact that they lived among
soeSes and trials 50 familiar to us.
2 when the civil war began between the Puri
already under the king, became fiendish under
the Parliament. Hitherto some form, some
limit, had been observed, but the Puritans
rexaled in blood with all the ferocity of tigers,
AND with as little scruple
1.-The Parliament of England resolved,
the 24th of October, 1644, that no quarter
shall be given to any freshman, or to airy Papiss
born IN Ireland and their historian, Borlase,
adds. The orders of Parliament were excel
lently well executed Hist. Of Rebellion, p 62.)
Leland and Warner refer to the letters of the
slew all persons gromiscuously, not sparing
even the women Cromwell declared on land
ang in Ireland that no mercy should be shown
to the Irish, and that they should be dealt with
as the Canaanites in Joshua's time. 1t is i'm
possible to estimate the number of Catholics
aiain in the ten years from 1642 to 1862. Three
VtSnOpS ana sSDu prleSt6-weTe put TO Oe1tn Tor
the faith. Thousands of men, women and chill
dren were sold as slaves for the West Indies.
Sir w. Petty mentions that six thousand boys
and women We're thus sold. (Political Anatomy
Of ireland, p. 1877. A letter written in 1856
quoted by Lingard puts the number at 10000;
as late as 1866 there were $4,000 Irish slaves
scattered among the West Indian Islands.
Moran, p. Is7.) 10000 Irish Catholics fed to
the Continent, and 10000 took refuge in the
Hehsides and other Scottish islands. (Moran,
population of Ireland in 1641 was 1,466. 600, of
whom Catholics were about ,24O, 600 in 1869,
the whole population was only 50O,09l, of
eeafly or quite one million must have perish,
sod. 4Sir w. Petty, PoHt. Anat., p. 49, ap. |
Morsn, and Hardihge's Ceusas Of 1659)." I
In this general and fearful slaughter of priest |
and people, records were impossible, and of
nnauy of the priests and religious who persisted
no tzzsce remains. At the sight of such apall-
anE 11assacres the mind shrinks back to seek
refuge in doubt but that donbt vanishes be-
dose the records of the butchers, who, reeking
with slaughter, asked mankind to admire their
work as mercy of God, and even in our>day
their descendants ask to praise them as
sh ampions of religious freedom.
We can scarcely be accused of being too
severe in our language when Merle d'Aubigne
n professcd euloyist of Cromwell, admits that |
zoe used a greater severity than had perhaps |
oesn exercised by the pagan leaders of anti
guilty
Although, necessarily, for many of their VIC
TINS there are no details whatever, neverthe-
acss nearly one fourth of this whole work of |
Hr O,Reilly is devoted to the memorials of
1hose VIII" persisted by the hands of the Puri- |
TAOS IN the brief period of twenty years and
>aie might well close it by the formula mt the |
end of each day in the Roman martyrology |
- abb attormm p'arimorum martyram ct contesso-
S1Sa, etc.-"And elsewhere of many other mar |
syTs and onfessors"-whosc names, though I'M |
recorded on earth, written in the Book of
Life; Cromwell lreton, InehGnin and CSote
ford, Gashel, Limerick, Witnessed general mas