The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-10


The Lord Chancellor has appointed
Athboy, to the commission of the peace for
the county Meath, on the recommendation
of the Lord Lieutenant of the county.
Information reached Enniskillen on
Saturday that farmer named Reynolds,
on his way from the fair, had been left for
dead. He is not expected to recover.
The Festival Of the Publication In st. Peters,
This festival was celebrated in Rome in
St. Peters with great splendor and pomp..
Tho morning Of this Feast, SO joyful ana
welcome to the Catholic heart, was ushered
in with innumerable joy-bells from
churches, monasteries, and converts as
early as five o'clock. The very air was ju-
bilant with the music of their soft and
silvery tones. The sweet food of sound
taken up by the churches and converts in
the Forum and on the Palatine, the site OF
the palaces of the Caesars. 1t passed along
the Esquiline, the Quirinal, and Pincin
Hills, swept down by the banks of the
Tiber, and was continued along the lofty
ing of these joy bells in Rome on great fes-
rivals is indeed delightful. The pious SEN
timents and feelings of the Romans re-
sponded fully to the gladstone and festive
sounds, for their devotion, as well as that
of the Italians generally, to the Mother OF
thronged With an immense congregation,
a congregation as large as that on the day
of the opening of the Council. The re-
served seats were crowded by Roman
ladies in court dress, who, although they
do not generally leave their own parish
churches to come here in large numbers on
festivals, were here this morning to honor
the Mother of God, their own Madonna,
and to implore, under the blessing of the
Holy Father, her prayers and protection.
In addition to the Swiss Guards, the
Zouaves were here as a mark of honor and
looking body of men : and their colonel,
! very giant in statMre and physical proper
lions; seemed, as he marched up and down
along their line with modest look,
worthy commander of such a body. They
are mostly young men, the down of youth
being still on many q cheek. How differ
emit their look, fron that of soldiers gener-
ally ! The hard, dissipated appearance is
not here; but the soft, fresh look of Inno-
cence and youth. Their piety and faith
are truly edifying. You meet them kneel-
ing in prayer in every church aud at every
shrine. When you hear the clink of the
sword on the marble floor of some church,
you may be sure it is that of some devoted
Zouave kneeliDg or rising from prayer.
They are the flower of Christian chivalry.
Other soldiers fight and bleed for honors,
rank, or fame, but these are prepared to
die for religion, for God, and for heaven.
No fear or panic will unnerve the arms of
these Christian soldiers on the battles
crimsoned field; for whether they conquer
or die, their victory is sure. If they die,
they die for the Church, for religion, and
their reward, their victory, will be crown
of glory from Him in defence of whose
Vicar they spared not their lives. In
the Crusade no arms were more for
midable to the Saracens, than those of the
knights Templars of Jerusalem, because,
nerved by faith, they struck for religion,
for God.
Conscience makes towards of all men,
even of soldiers. Men fear to die fighting
in bad cause; but he is doubly armed, is
doubly brave, whose cause is just. The
Pope entered the church attended by the
Bishops of Halifax and Cincinnati, and pre-
coded by the cardinals and large number
of Eastern bishops, in gorgeous and many
colored vestments, and in mitres of differ
ent shapes, and brilliant with precious
stones. He was borne up the church in the
papal chair, bestowipg his blessing on each
side on the kneeling multitudes. He seemed
to be more pale and careworn than at the
Epiphany And no wonder. For the anxiety
and solicitude caused by the Council, to
gether with many other additional duties
would tell even on an iron constitution.
The procession with lighted candles was
very grand. The Pope, af6er blessing and
distributing them to the cardinals, the
ministers at the altar, the bishops, generals,
officers, and the Noble Guard, was borne
down the church in5 his chair, holding in
his hand large lighted candle in silver
candlestick with a silver veil pendant
from it, and covering the hand" First came
the German students of the Roman Colleges
in soutanes of red, each holding in his hand a
lighted candle, then the canons in their pic
turesaue dress of white capes, and soutdnes
of blue and purple, the monsignors in sur
plices, the bishops in white vestments and
mitresIthe cardinals in their crimson robes;
and then the Pope, with that sweet, benig-
nant look, the eloquent index of a soul of
great interior holy peace, and at the same
time SO expressive of charity and love for
men. The generals, officers, and Noble
Guard, the breasts of many being covered
with stars and sashes sparkling with dia-
monds, followed after. AS the procession
moved down the church from the high altar,
round the tomb of the Apostles between
the serried ranks of the Swiss Guards, and
the lights from countless candles shOne
and sparkled on the sword and spear of the
soldier, and the golden and silver vest
ments and mitres of the bishops, and the
| ieweIled- hilted swords and golden collars
of the generals and the Noble Guard, the
sight was indeed beautiful and grand.
The ever active and restless power of