The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-23

lets all men know that the devil came OF over
come, for there is ever force superior to
| his, force thatlsustains and defends the
Church from aif his attacks. Now We have
| before as twolnew servants of God to AID
us to struggle against modern ipiquity.
Ihey come surrounded by the splen dor OF
| their heroic virtues to cast down the vices
OF this age-pride, avarice, and luxury
Pride, which acknowledges no God but
human reason; avarice, which makes its
God of things material; luxury, which
places it's delight in low desires and base
deli gifts. Pride ia the root, avarice the
| trunk, luxury the brancbes. Under the
shadow of this tree come all the hideoas
abd unclean beasts eftite eafth ION its
branches sit the birds of night and the
birds Of prey. These two servants of God
coMe and fight for the church: in their
overcome pride; with their disinterestcd-
ness they vanquish avarice; with their chas-
| tity and modification they are victorious
| over luxury. o how admirable art Thou
Gsd Eternal and OmnipOtent in Thy
| mercies! Thy Church adorns herself and
| two new Saints. Yes! the Church. always
contraaicted, yet marches onward, she
steps not, she slackens not, but still
marches on swiftly on the road of virtue.
The Church, though they curse her name,
prays for her blasphemers. The Church,
her eyes to Heaven and says to God, Par
don these unhappy ones, they know not
what they do. The Church truly pardons and
prays for her prosecutors, but If there is
question of principles, Of sustaining the
eternal principles ofjustice and religion, OF
defending that treasure of virtue and sane
tity which is in her keeping, be it we'll
known that the Head, though only the or
gan of that Church, bows not his head be-
fore tho injunctions either of the world or
! the devil, nor will he bow his head though
! it were to tho axe of tho executioner. PRO-
| found and immense aensation) Let us
! then praise God for His benefits; let us be
| assured He will never abandon his Church
He will try, will purify, will sancitify
His Church-Iet us pray that He may pour
upon it new blessings, AMI since these
saints belong, one to France and the
other to Italy, let us pray that God will
| especially bless those two countries. May
He blsss the statesman that rules France,
and 6 We him ever good cOunses. To those
who govern Italy may He say, Fiat lux !
Let there be light that they may be able
to como out of the abyss into which they
thick darkness and in night of storms.
May God bless tho millions of Frenchmen
and Italians who are faithful in the accom-
plishment of their duty, who stretch forth
their hands to him to implore His mercy
and who cry 'Miserere nostri Domino, Mis-
who are my co-operators in my functions,
and since on my shoElders-those of q poor
old mau-is laid heavy burden, also
may say that if 'senex portat puer regat,'
| as is written in the Office of the Feast of
the Purification which we have lately cele
brated. May Jesus Christ be with you.
May he be with US all and inspire US with
| the strength and courage necessary to sus-
tain the rights of the Church may He give
Us patience and resignation in Oar contin-
ual trials and ir all coming tribulations.
May God grant that this Beuedlc'i"a may
rest on Me and on all have named.-Bem
edictio Del, etc." This address, delivered
with that remarkable tiuency aud dignity
which is characteristic of the'Holy Father,
produced great emotion in all present. On
Monday and Tuesday there were large gen
eral audiences. On Thursday there was an
various charitable institutions, presided
over by T. Marquis Girolamo Cavalett,
who read an address ia their name.
APPROPRIATION.
On Tuesday morning the Government
officials took possession of the Convent of
S. Lorenzo in Panisperna, built on the spot
where that Saint was nartyred. They
were met at the door by Mgr. Falconi as
ecclesiastical representative of the Mother
Abhess who made formal protest and no.
titled to all present and to all who conn
selled, aided, and abetted them that they
there and then incurred the full censures
of the Church. 1t is said the Church is to
be eventually pulled down, but it was
| not taken possession of on this occasion.
MORALITY.
| Whether crime is on the increase, it ap
pears that arrests are. The official state
ment tells that in the week from the 9th
January to 2nd February the arrests have
been 92I, among those t,centy sic rounded.
! l do not know If the gentleman wounded
at S. Michnel's is one of the twenty six, but
our English friends will see that here lin
Rome tho occupation of an advocate is not
withoat it's risks. 1t appears Lhata man con-
dem ne d to penal servitude for life sent for the
advocate who had defended him, for the pur-
pose, as he said, of trying to get his SEN
teuce revised by the Court OF Cessation !;
lint no sooner we're they alone than the
output threw himself on the lawyer, and
with sharp Instrument, "terro dcuminGto,"
deaf h'n bow in the region of the heart.
The l., or VA, only saved by having a
stoua pa:kot If paper in his breast pocket,
and on his calling ant the warder appeared
imm ediateiy, BAT lie too sustained several
| bluws-not wiz: the knife hOweyer-frOm