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THE ,rr D. LATEST u,lrI FROM THE VATICAN
Triumph of the Church Against her
Enenies--A Blow Rf the. DOiiinEer
Movement and Similar Digressfve
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Encyclical Letter Of Our Most Holy Father
Through Divine Providence. Plus IN, TO
| Allthe patriarchs. Primates, Archbishops,
| Bishops and Other Pastors Having Grace
and Communion with the Holy Sec.
VENERABLE BaETHREY; zSalutations
and the Apostolic Benediction. Often,
Venerable Brethren, in this prolonged
| Pontificate we have turned towards you,
and witnessed to you how thankfully we
have taken the proofs of the devotion
and love which the God of mercies has
put in your hearts, and in those OF the
faithful committed to your trust, to-
wards us, and this Apostolic See. And,
truly, since the enemies of God began
TO invade His civil possession, that, at
length, were il possible, they might pre-
vail against Jesus Christ and the Church
(which is His Body, and the fullness OF
| Him." you, Venerable Brethren, and the
| Christian people have never ceased to
pray God, :" Whom the winds and the
sea obey" that He would vouchsaie to
lay the storm; nor have yon left OIL at
any time repeating pledges of your love,
and using every means by which you
might solace us in our trouble. And,
after that this city-the capital of the
whole Catholic World--has been taken
from us by force, and we given over TO
the will of those that would crush usi
you, with the great body of the faithful
of your dioceses, have redoubled your
prayers, and, by frequent denunciations
of the wrong.doers, have maintained the
rights of religion and OF justice, trampled
under foot, now, by an nnheard-of eff
| frontery.
But, njw, when an event has come to
pass that has been unknown since the
DAYS Of st. Peter, and unexampled in the
whole list of Roman Pontiffs, that we
have reached the beginning of the TWEEN
ty-sixth year of our Apostolic Ministry
in the Roman See you have so shown
your gladness for this great favor be-
slowed on our unworthiness, and have so
clearly proved that the whole family OF
the faithful are instinct with the most
vigorous life, that we have been most
deeply moved by your piety. So it is
that we join our prayers to yours; and
take courage, anew, to hope and conf
IDENTIFY await full and finished triumph
of the Church. -, -r.m a
II has been of most welcome telling to
us that very frequent gatherings Of pious
supplicants have hocked to the more
noted shrines Of devotion in various
churches; and that, throughout the whole
world, churches have been thronged, in
union with their several pastors, by
PRAYERS, and the taking of the sacra-
ments, thanking God for the grace be-
slowed on us, and praying, earnestly, Tor
the triumph of the Church, that can
come from Him alone.
Our sorrows and our cares have not
| only been lightened but they have been
turned into Joy, by the greetings, the
professions of duty, the holy wishes,
and by the abounding advent Of the
faithful, many of noble birth, or of high
ecclesiastical or civil station, but more
noble by the proofs of their faith, all
united; both of those from this City OF
Rome, and of our invaded Provinces,
and of regions far away, that have come
to testify toward us their devotloh, even
at the cost of enduring the dangers. and
insults, to which we are continually ex-
posed. This they have done, in order
t6 show their own sentiments of relig-
ion: and, also, those of their fellow-cltl-
zens, toward us; and they brought us
volumes in which very many tens OF
thousands of the faithful, of every ma
tion. had inscribed their namesi brand
inc most severely the invasion OF our
dominion, and demanding most earnestly
| lis restitution, as required by justice, by
religion, and even by civilization ITSELF
On this occasion the Peter pence
| flowed in TO us in larger measure than
usual. as poor and rich We'd with each
other in readiness to supply our need;
and TO these contributions vert added
Gifts of various kinds, and very grand
ones. the shining tribute of divers Chris
finn arts consecrated tothe honor OF the
two-Gold power spiritual and regal
that We hold from God. And besides
these an ample and elegant collection
of sacred vestmepts and vessels, where
with we may be able 10 supply the need
and noyerty of so many churches, in va
rious parts.
Wonderful. indeed, was the spectacle
Of Catholic Unity, which thus showed
that the Universal Church, though spread
through the whole world, and composed
of neoples most diverse in customs, dis
nositions. and pursuits, is yet informed
by the One Spirit of God; and, thus, by
Him the more marvelIously strength
ened tbe more wickedness attacks and
nresses ON h. and strives the more cum
ninglv to strip it of all human aid.
Therefore. we attribute those blessings
to The Giver Of all Good, but we at the
same time feel our heart filed with graf
;tnde toward those who, making them
selves tbe- Instruments of Providence,
have lent MS the aid of their help, their
cancellations their devotion, their piety
and their love. And with our eyes and