The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-11-03

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- $780, "a e. 1910 ~ aeennd ~
% have been covered With, people on meu :
knees who had como ii NOM tf0 country
round about, On Tuesday the Parte pill
grims took their departure, eseryehi ne =
having passed in the most orderly !y., msnnss,
from Nantes arrived. A. the same Tine
several towns in France, Laval ana Mar
settles among the rest, have bean joiniag m z
this great act by local processions ana
prayers, SO as TO satisfy the devotion Of
those who could mot take part In the pill
grimage itself. The history OF this great
nantes tasion is as follows. Jsst year
ago on Rosary Sunday . priest from the
diocese of Dion was passing cthrosgn
Lourdes. en- roate for the Pyreneess as no
was on bis way to the chapel to celeorate
mass, be met q company of pilgrims WIEN
banners returning from the grotto and
singing their hymns of thanksgiying. II
suddenly occurred to hina that France ~
self might we'll go on a pilgrimage to this
sap ctusry, and he conceived the idea ef a |
| lay commitsee- erbaps composed OF rep
! resent atives of the ladies OfFrance-whlch
might organize such pilgrimage. ne
mentioned 1t to q priest present whom he
the Fathers at Notre Dame de, Loprdss.
Shortly afterwards the COMMITTEES for "the
| manifestation of the faith ana hope OF
France" was formed, and this imposing
pilgrimage was it's work. 400 megnincent
banners sent by tbs. CHURCHES and placed
represented in the pilgrimage wall remain
around the high altar Of the sanctuary, ana
500, coo signatures will be enrolled In its
archives. Three alleged miracles are re-
ported to have taken place during this
who had never had the use Of it's limbs,
one of a young man whose leg was useless
in consequence of an accident, and one OF
. . woman whose right hand was paralysed.
London Tablet, Oct. IL. .
TIE Bishop Of Nevers and DIR. Yoisir.-lt
4 will be recollected that medical man.
:. professor at the Salpetriere Hospital, re-
a Gently stated in puoiic that Bernadette,
a | formerly the child on whose testimony
= rested the fact of the apparition at Lour-
= des, and Melanie, formerly the shepherd
girl of La Salette, were both to his knowl.
4 edge in confinement as lunatics; the fret
= in the Ursuline Convent at Nevers, the sec'
a ond in one of his own cells. These false
statements were Immediately contradieted
- in the French press by NJ. Artus, but a. the
"a of the contradiction, the Bishop OF Neveri
"a himself has now written to the Unicers, K
"a state, 1st, that Sister Mary Bernard, form
=, erly Bernadette Soubirouss has never Sc
~ her foot within the Ursuline Convent .
m Nevers; I'd that slse does reside at Movers
;r ia the mother-house Of the Sisters of Char
n ity and Christian instruction, into whic
Il. che entered a. freely, and in which she re
ia mains as freely, as any other Of the Sisters
er Sd. That SO far from being mad, she is per
Of unparalleled caimness of mind. Furthe
:: that he, the Bishop invites the doctor i
W. question to come aud verify in person tn
nd correctness of these three statements. II
ne offers, if the doctor will notify the day an
lis hour of his arrival, to arrange for him a
no Immediate interview with Sister Mari
do Bernard, and that he may have no doubt
Ct as to her identity, will request the Procr
he reur de 10 Repubiique to introduce her
&C. him. The Bishop promises that opportr
ca. nifty shall be afforded him of looking
ida and questioning the Sister as long as
or pleases, and he undertakes to receive hi
of himself with every possible courtesy al
the if any consideration should be necessal
m for the professors loss of time and his e
penses, he has no doubt that M. Artus wi
vho only be too glad to provide it. This,
on, least, is q fair challenge.
till Mar Bauer.-Another scandal is said
on be imminent. The Figaro, announces tn
ON Mgr. Bauer is about to marry Fren
the lady with an income of $4,000 francs
ing $4,000 a-year. This ecclesiastic was {
last iginally convert from Judaism, and 3
The came Carmelite Monk, but was subs
the lquently released from his religious vow
ern after which he became a preacher at
the Tuileries, and obtained the Honorary ra
,ge- of Domestic Prelate. He has unfortuna
,or- ly been for some years notorious for 9 CT
ary tain vanity and frivolity of conduct, q
ing has now for some time been interdicted
in. the Archbishop of Paris from saying Mass;
EAST that, while we may still hope that the II
pill arc is incorrect in its prediction, the fuli
the ment of it would not so very much surpr
lere US.
pill GERMANY.
and
ving The dim Of the German Persecution.-N
here deal more at length elsewhere (says
Vere Tablet of October 12th), with the subj
lral. of the persecution In Germany, and
ions have already spoken OF the oppress
two measures which are likely to be brout
ght, before the Prussian Landtag after the
and cess. But a paragraph has appeared in
the Allgemeine Zeitnng, which demands WI
sung of notice, as it indicates the main object
Glow the present policy of the German Liber
3, in in regard to the Church. " One condlt
who especially" says the Augsburg paper.
fter- Indispensable in-order that the Germ
was Catholic Church, the strength of which