The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-06-23
MORNING STAR MESSENGER SUNDAY JUNE 49, 1872

IAss man recognize ~ an angel OF Goo, ana |
island Of saints, and he went or 70 an island
amongst the Hebr!dss, On the nertheru sesst \
STORM u that Indictment regicn-thsro upon I
bare rock, oet hrom tho mainland, he b0ilt .
monastery, and there did he foand the far.
under the eyes aud tho Influence Of c6iomba.
became the great nsothor aad fountain bssd o.
that great monasticism which was destined TO !
ise al soot,snd and u: sosshsrs parts Of Seq
In the course 81 The lecture, when I come to (
one bond of love for the land of our birth.
The next century beheld an Irish monk,
named st. .Cathsldus, penetrating through the
length and breadth Of 1sals, prsseh hin pt the
of homo made hin, Bishop OF Tarento, in the
south Of. Italy. Aaother Irish monk went
forth in the eighth century and eyapgs1li LIED
monks, =Clsnaeqt= and A1binus, were oeIehrated
through al the schools of Earope. in the
eighth century and they went By the
seventh, eighth ard ninth centuries were the
greatest eysngesisss. the greatest apostles, aud
| possessed, and they gave ito their island at
home the strange title amongst nations, of
tho .Islaud Of saints )" aud the sanctity that
ao% aSso aap
laboss until they brought the message that
sanctified Ireland, home to every people in the
y, For two hundred years after Ireland's Cath
olicity was preached to her by st. Patrick, no
Catholic missionary was ever heard to preach
the name of Jesus Christ to the Saxons in
England, St. Patrick came to Ireland in the
preached to the saxous for the first time in the
year SOC. Near two hundred years interviewed
during which time COLUMBIA and his Church
fevangeiized the Scots and Picts of the North,
and when the Roman monk, st. Augustine,
and his Benedictines came, they landed in the
south of England. England was then divided
into seven: kingdoms under the Saxons, and
thirty six years after the death of Augustine,
we find that the Benedictine monks that came
FROM Rome lad only preached to one nation pat ~
%an Of the the south Ensaed
Irish monks had evangelical and preached the
Heptarchy. Therefore, I claim, that f.os Ire
land, and from Irish monaaticism, man Sethe
nations Of Europe, and more especially Seoe.
England north Of the Humber lit their lamps
and entered into the glorious light OF Christi
anity.
The light that was in Ireland shone forth from
her, as when the clouds part and let the strong
J rays Of the sun flood the darkened world, NIL
ing it with light and life, and JOY, so did the
ant light Of Ireland's Catholicity came the
faitf, that illunnined, adorned, evangelical and
saved all the surrounding countries during the
, first exodus of Iyeland's faith. Is there any
thing in all this to be ashamed of There are
D nations in the world that must go up 70 the
/ fountain-head of their history and touch, not
: heroes, not saints, but robbers, and the yllest
: men on the earth. 1t is worthy of remark
o my friends, that nearly every nation, when II
t goes up to The fountain head Of its history has
: to be very quiet and very humble indeed. The
f whole world, when they trace their history te
g its fountain-head, and come to the day when
i the foundation was laid by Romulus and he
s mus, find that the frat Inhabitants OF Nomt
n were the banditti and robbers who escaped
t from the neighboring cities and country and
f rushed into Rome. We find when it was q
. that the very frst Ching these robbers did wa,
an act worthy of them. They rushed out anc
:. by force and violence took the wives and
Of sher sse of
!. blood as Cain shed the blood OF Abel
g And as it was in the first days OF konfat
. history, so it is with every nation: WHAT is
highlands history 1t goes up merely TO tltne
a when tribes ofsavages, painted and hait-naket
!. barbarians, roamed through the bills an.
~ | to take their liberty from them, and to robth
d ancient Briton of his land, his country and hi
- freedom. What is this but the fountain heat
is of history traced up to the DAYS Oh annisn
q history of Ireland, and no man, not tue nobies
r. upon the earth, can point to such an ancessf:
~ as ours. Trace up that history 10 thouay "ho'
IT the Druids sat in Tara, when crowned mon
~ archs listened to the glorious roll OF his song
q when the Brehons sat and administering jus
a tice; trace it up TO tho very fountain head, AM
N YOU will find civilization, and law, and ylrtu
h. and glory. Come down but day from on
ia those Pagan recesses of early hissory-com
ID down but day on the road of time, ana ) o
W step into the full glory of Ireland's Christia
to holiness and glory, when she was the light 9
az the whole world, aud the glory of the ehu1o
I'd of Jesus Christ.
a Now, my friends, we pass to the second e.
Is. odus aud here alasi 1t is not the yoiunbar
10 exile going forth from his nativel land, but til
Id exile Tearing himself away from his home, II
. iuctantIy and resretfuffy: not impeiied oy u
IN high ana celestial motives that animate u
ng heart of the apostle and the m'ssiol
p. ary. 1t is not the saint looking bic
ng with fearful eyes to the land " hicn he sScI
lis Goes and abandons for the possession Oh u
ee higher land-the souls OF men on earth and
,e- higher place fn heaven. No. The second e
he odas of Ireland was one of the most terrible
nd our history. We know that from inc "a.
an that the English Invasion took shape al
NJ form, that in proportion as tho English g
firpl bold of the land, and, in Prepa9taio on;
le. they divided, and, consequently detested cue
Ier tain after chieftaiu, and king after King