The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-05-28
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
sEw oKLnAns. sUNDAY. MAY So 1871.
From ROME.

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FROM ROME.
Ronsr. April 29.-Ou the morning of the
18th Count d'HHrcourt, the newly appoint
ed French Ambassador, repaired to the
Vatican palace in plain carriage, with his
secretary, as, in the disturbed state OF
France, it was impossible fur him to have
his gala carriages arrive, so the Holy F'a-
ther, with bis usual fOrethought aud con-
alteration, animated that full state was
not necessary. The Ambassador, on ar.
irving at the. Vatican, found, however, that
none of the hOnOrs accorded IN the !eceP-
ton of his predecessors were wanting I'D
His case. -,
The Holy Father is in excellent health,
thanks be to God, and in gooa spirits.
Some of the lying journals assert tnat me
legs are 40 swelied that, though special
alsntipr passage has been constructed to
epare him the pain of the stairs in going to
the garden, he is unable to profit thereby.
This is all false, and some days this past
week he has had many hundreds of persons
to Gee him.
90 Tuesday morning, the 25th April, at
half past IL. His Holiness received In q
public audience in the Hall of the Consis-
tory the deputation of the Syrian Catho-
lies. The Holy Father was seated on his
Throne, surrounded by six Cardinals, the
distinction. HE lordship the Bishop, Mgr.
jean Zwerger, Prince of Seccau, read an
address in Latin, to which there were lac,
652 signatures.
In the name Of the +" Union of the Ca
tbolic Ladies of Gratz" the Countess
Anna d'Avernas, kneeling, read beauti-
full and touching address, which had been
sigued by thousands of ladies. The FOL
loving 10 the concluding portion ofthe Holy
Fathers answer:
all other matters desire from you, 1t Id
the sanctifcation of your souls, then q
hone. mild but firm, that may animate you
to demand and await deliverance. This
we Should assiduonsly invoke cIan'1 ne
cesses. This would wish to say to all
Germany, and this you will repeat wber-
ever it 10 possible to do SO. Do 1t with
moderation but persistently, with prudence
aud mistaken fOrtitude, until it shall please
God to re-establish justice in its divine ana
human rights, and now may God spread
His benedictions, first on your Bishop and
all his clergy, on you, on your families, on
those who sent you, on these good daugh-
tiers who, with 80 much Inconvenience 10
themselves, came here to take their part In
this touching scene OF true affection ana
piety. May this benedictiOn be pledge OF
shat which the Lord will bestow on you.
May God bless you in Rome, in the voyage
you must repeat to return to your country,
in the hour in which it may please him to
call you to himself. Benedictis Del"
Then all the deputatiOn kissed his foot,
and received a silver medal as a souvenir.
1t is customary in Italy, and also one OF
the rules of the military service-at least,
it was always SO in Rome and in the fapal
provinces up to the Goth of September,
lS70-that whenever the Blessed Sacra-.
ment passed in procession or in any other
public manner before a military post, the
soldiers composing it turned out and pre-
Bented arms to honor it, and two were &C.
tached to accompany the procession to its
destination, whether the house OF the
IL pffn In o0a r.
est church. This pious practice, never I'M
worthy of q Christian soldier, is, 1T ap-
pears, too much for the inhdel officers who
command the unfortunate Catholic soldiers
of modernized Italy, for have just heard
that, some days ago, on the Blessed Sa-
crament being taken in procession, as lie
customary at Easter, to the sick and inbrm
in the parish of St. Luke, at Viterbo, the
military guard doing duty in the piazza,
under the orders of o non-commissloned
officer, turned out, paid the usual mihtary
houors and furnished two soldiers to ac'
company the procession. Scarcely, how
ever, had these joined in, when suddenly
two officers, making Cheir appearance
drove them back to their post, to the great
disedifcation of the public. There Is NJ
doubt, as l have always said in former let
ters, the great mass OF the Italian soldlery
ia thoroughly Catholic and religious, ant
always most an xious to show itself tactical
liz such, were it not prevented by it's officers
VINO, Win lew e4eePtiohoJ arc thAueA OIL
irreligious.
The celebrated picture of the " Madonn
del Libro," by Raphael. the property
the Marchese Connastabile della Staha,
Perugia, has just been purchased ny u
Empress of Russia, as q present for h'
husband, for Ella. 200 sterling. y Its ieavir
the country has made quite u sensation al
been the subject Of an Interpolation in I'll
italian c ham bers. The Italia Nuora,
speaking of this sale, says, " That the fa
that in 1871, the first year in which Italy
united ami completed, she had not $50, "
lire to reserve to herself the honor
keeping one among the most remarkat
pictures of her most celebrated painter W
be remembered by posterity with sad wo
der.n
40 prevent further dispersion of the
treasures of art, the Minister promises III
new law having special reference to
Roman Galleries, the wealth of which m
be- judged by the fact that, out of eight
three kaphaels, once possessed by lta
ffSy-twO have left the country while III
49,. ooIlarv alone contains OF I