Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-01-15
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Mary OF MOdena.

Mary OF MOdena.
No reader Of history can help noting
the great sAserness Of people in looking
for some trace of a lost family that has
once been powerful like the Stuarts,
Time and money are spent in obtaining a
scrap of writing peuned by royal fingers.
The reign Of the Stuarts has filed pages
Of history; much has been said and writ
ten of Mary Queen Of Scots, of her tragic
life and death, but to ne Mary Of Mode
na has equally as interesting a history.
Her life is marked in this respsct,-it
showed that the Catholic Church would
sacrifice anything, even one of its vital
points, Tor its own glory and power. Pict-
ure TO your mind a young girl just blush.
ing into womsBhood, standing upon the
threshold Of religious life, with such un.
bounded faith in the teachings of the holy
saint, that she has resolved to euter the
sacred walls of Catholic Convent for
life. The same Priests and Bishops who
told her such resolution would exalt her
in the sight of God aud Angels, before
their words lost their freshness, urged heI
to accept the offer of naughty Monarch
to give her hand in marriage to the Duke
of York. BY doing so she would confer
great favor upon the Church, and wher
she refused, the Pope even wrote her 1
letter begging her to heed not the voict
within but accept their advice whicl
meant only as help into power. Lou
XIV saw in this fair, dark-eyeG Mary o
Modena person who would endure tn,
trials of a queeuly life.
Marchesa Campana de Carvelli, al
English lady who has spent much tim
gathering all the relics she could Of th'
Stuarts, says Of this lady: Married fo
motives of state, in spite of her religion
aspirations, she was Queen without
sceptre without a country, without
Kingdom The very title which was Law
ished on her in France only recalled to-
wildly the sad reality Of the one she ha'
lost 10 England" 1t was almost a fore
shadowipg Of her destiny, when she re
fused to be wife aud shrauk from th
arms of that naughty Lord. whom after
wards she fondly followed through a
the trials of his life, as one by one he
children passed through Heavens pearl
door, the only remainng one she lived
sec with price set upon his head, an
he with her, partaking bread from tn
hands ofstrangsrs; These proud dethrone
Stuarts, believed even to the last {
their line, that they would be restore
again to power, after others had held til
sceptre for over $50 year
Those who succeeded them felt strang
pity Cor this vanquishcd family, aud pal
literally for their burial, as though thos
in power would bury with them all an
mosties. Doubtless, why such search
made for the writings of Kings and Queer
is the fact, known to historians, that the
keep record Of all political change
They not only record their own ideas, b
. give them extra vitality, by placing wi
them, side by side, the ideas their ancc
ccstoas had maintained many yea
before them. They had time, mo
ey and education. The past hlstOI
of the royal family, their own radical Ii
which was SO full of schemes and polite
fire, why could they not write of chur'
and state, which in those days were Q
most one. They knew the value of the
writings. James III valued his mo
than rubies and diamonds. At his dea
he bequcathed them to a Scotch Collcg
They at last drifted into the hands of
woman who valued her life moro than &
of King James books. and they were co
signed to the flames. Thus his Writing
a-d tie Start family, destiny swept fro
the face Of the earth. A. "A. II.
Hamhri1na Mace