The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-09

means Of subsistence, and without shelter,
at length in 1S41 he was taken and con-
demned t. death.
Whilst awaiting the execution of his SEN
transferred to Hue, where he was reunited
to NM. Berneux and Galy, his colleagues.
He endured the cangue, chains, the cage
and the examination, vir., the rotin. n.
Galy, his companion in captivity, wrote
"You may judge of the frmness OF M:
his judges. He was requested to have the
holy confessor beaten for the second time
what good lie it = replied the mandarin
yesterday gave him eleven blows OF the
rotin, and he seemed to sleep.' The execu-
TONER strikes two blows, and the third falls
blow takes out the fesh. That last one;
said NJ. Charter himself to us, is hai q
to bear" One instance more will
describe him. His catechist having found
means of approaching him when he was
transferred to Hue, was charged by him
tord:
"Tell Monsignor that love my. cangue
more than his mitre, and my chains than
his crozier. His cross is the only thing OF
value which lie possesses, but at this mo-
ment have many more precious ones"
After having been seventeen months in
prison. constantly in expectation OF DEATH
ecutioners, the French corvette, Heroine,
Commander Leveque, appeared in the
Chinese waters. M. Leveque, leal ming that
there were at Hue five missionaries con-
demned to death, energetically interfered,
and forced the governor to deliver up the
They were, besides NJ. Charter, M. Ber-
neux, NJ. Galy, N. Duclos, and NJ. Niche.
| M. Berneux subsequently became q
MARTYR. Having become Vicar-ApostOlic
of the Corea, he was, in 1866, beheaded
for the faith. M. Galy died at his post in
Cochin China in 1869. NJ. Duclos ended
his Apostolic life in 1s47. the Captive OF
Jesus Christ, in the selfsame prisons OF
Hue, from which the hands of Frenchmsn
had delivered him five years before. NJ
| Niche is at the present moment Vicar
Apostolic Of French Cochin China. His
| great age, and the needs of the Mission
prevented him from attending the Coun'
Gil.
Nj. Charter followed the example of his
COMPANIONS He returned. Having arrived
at Paris towards the end of 1913, he set
out again from Anvers for Tonquin In the
month of May, 1874. But his health, toe
severely shaken, did not permit him t.
continue in the work. Often he lamentet
that he Lad missed the prize. He was com
manded to return to the Seminary as pro
curator of the mission of Tonquin; n
obeyed. This was also duty, aud tn
most imperative one of his holy and angus
profession. His external appearance wa
rough, his heart simple and affectionate
He observed the silence which is usua
with men who bear within them grea
grief During the reading of Ecclesiastica
history in the refectory, if there happene'
to be any mention of persons who had es
capped marty rdom, when they had felt as
sured of it, NJ. Charters brethren not IN
frequently observed him furtiyely brush
, ing away tear. He died on the 23d Jan
uary, after long illness, which during tn
= last months of his life kept him conhne
:. to his room. He submitted to this as to a
5 other trials, thanking God for having ad
ded the humiliation of uselessness to hi
regret at having been judged unworthy {
: marty