The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-09

Q0ury tn0 O8CnoOfal, the I68mpu1 COrm8ICs Cuo
regal palace, the fortress, the round tower, all
form group Of ruins which must strike the
eye of tho architect and the man Of taste as one
with few rivals in this or perhaps any other
land.
Shall these noble monuments of other days
remain forever in ruin We hope not. Reli-
gion, patriotism, love of the sublime and beau-
tiful whether In art or nature-everything dear
to us forbids the thought. The commissioners
appointed under the Irish Church Act are en-
powered either to preserve these buildings as
monuments at the public expense, or sell them.
Who would think of condemning them to re-
main in q ruinous, state till at no distant day,
the hand Of time should have destroyed the
last vestiges of themf Rather who would not
wish that the noble cathedral should be re-
stored for public worship, and that the voice
of prayer and praise should once NOSE rise up
from beneath it's vaulted roof Hence,
committee of noblemen and gentlemen, with
the Archbishop of Cashel as chairman, has been
formed with the view of purchasing the pla-
teau of the Rock of Cashel from the Church
Commissioners, restoring the cathedral for
public worship, and preserving King Cormac's
Chapel, with the other historical ruins, from
utter decay.
This movement for the restoration of the
Cathedral of Cashel and the preservation of
the surrounding ruins, is by no means under
taken in the spirit Of aggression upon the
be farther from the mind of the noblemen and
gentlemen composing the committee, some OF
whom are Protestants, nor could anything he
more opposed to the feelings of the Most Rev.
Chairman than movement calculated to give
just offence to their Protestant felfow-country-
men. If the old Cathedral of Cashel should be
ly, in q part of the country almost wholly Ro-
man Catholic, be for Roman Catholic worship
1t was abandoned as q place of public worship
a century ago, when the Protestant Archbishop
Price, having obtained an act of Parliament
constituting ST. Johns new church, lower
down in the city, cathedral as we'll as a pa
rochial school, unrOofed st. Patrick's Cattle
dral, and transferred the congregation to the
more conveniently situated church of st. John.
There appears no probability, them that the
Protestants, especially with much diminished
the Rock; and SO the only apparent chance of
its being restored for Divine worship is, that
it should revert to the hands of the Roman
Catholics. The Roman Catholics wish to OBJ
tain possession of it, and they are prepared to
restore it. The Roman Catholic inhabitants
of the city of Cashel have already taken action
in the matter, by sending forward a memorial
laity of the archdiocese of Cashel and Emily
concur with the inhabitants of the city, and
the Catholic clergy of both dioceses have au
Leahy, TO take steps in their name for obtain
| ing possession of the Rock.
| Therefore has the Rock of Cashel commit
tee been formed and now Catholics through
ont the world, and Protestants, too, are in
vited to contribute to this grand national en-
! terprise. An appeal 10 made to all lovers OF
their nstive land, TO all students Of the history
and antiquities of Ireland, to aid in restoring a
| noble monument of mediBval civilization.
Persons of influence at home and abroad, in
Ireland, in Great Britain, in America, in Ans.
tralia, in India, are earnestly solicited to aid
! the good work, by forming working commit.
tees in the great cities.
tPATRIcK LEAHY, Archbishop, Sc,
| THURIEs, June 5, 1871.
| THE following enoblemen and gentlemen
] have allowed their names to be placed on the
committee for purchasing and restoring, the
l>ecclesiastical and other buildings on the Rock
of Cashel, with the Most Rev. DR.. Leahy at
| chairman:
The Duke of Norfolk,
The Marquis of Clanricarde,
The Earl of FingaIl,
| The Earl of Granard,
The Earl of Limerick,
| The Earl of Denbigh,
! The Earl of Dunraven
Lord Castlerose,
| Lord Southwell,
The Right Hon. William Monsell NJ. p. &c.
| Tervoe,
The Right Hon. Richard More O'Ferral, Balyna
Sir Dominic Corrigan. Bart, NJ. P. and NJ. d.
| MerriOn square, Dublin,
| Sir We're de We're, Bart, Curragh Chase,
E. De la Poer, Esq, NJ. p, Gurteen,
d. c. Heran, Esq, NJ. p, Fitzwilliam street
Aubrey de We're, Esq, Curragh Chase,
George Ryan, Esq, ID. L., Inch House,
+. Power Labor, Esq, d. L., Longorchard,
+. Lenigan, Esq, N. L., Castlefogarty.
Thos. Lalor, Esq, d. L., Gregg,