The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-29
Bishop Dupanloup.

oLsnop Uupanloup.
The powerful Bishop Of Orleans is not
preiate of the Wolsey or Richelieu type
nor is he Mazarin. He is Dupanloup; tina
ie, priest who will leave his Individual
mark as one Of the most perfect embodi.
sauctity which this century has seen. 1t i,
customary to write of all bishops that they
lead sanity lives /; in this instance the say
ing would be no more than strict truth
Frugal as hermit, an abstainer from
wine, sleeping on q bed like o monks aud
rising at four, Summer and Winter, Mon
seiSnor Dupanloup supports an existence
which would seem penal servitude to many
So called workingman. Read all that
victor Hugo says of Bishop Myrial in his
Miserables," and you will get notion OF
Mgr. Dupanloup's charity, which is so mu-
nlhcent as to have left him occasionally in
very strengthened circumstances. Recall
everything that has been stated Of Fene-
Ions exquisite sweetness of voice and ur-
banity of demeanor, and you will have no
exaggerated conception Of what Monseig-
neur Dupanloup is in his conversations
with strangers. But this is the Dupanloup
Of private life. See him sweep up to his
throne in the Cathedral of Orleans, with
his head erect, his body clothed in lace and
jeweled vestments, and a resplendent pro.
cession of thurifers and priests chanting
fore and behind him, and you will under
stand why SO many have stigmatized him
as proud prelate of the old school, who
arrayed himself in violet cashmere and
cambria, and would only eat like Monsig-
neur de Narbonne, of spendthrift memory,
off gold plate. Nothing is too rich or ma
jestic, according to Bishop Dupanloup, for
the ceremonies of the Church, nor for his
own g a aS9rn 1Ss IT. in taking part in them:
the eye and ear as we'll as the mind; that
she should be supreme in the State that
nothing should be done in education or
government but through her or by her
and he is quito consistent with himself
when, humble and unpretending at homo,
pomp he can command when officiating az q
bishop. There is something, however, in
Monseigneur Dupanloup's tone of voice, in
his style of writing, in his conversation,
and even in his look when most exalted by
the splendors of church pageantry, which
hrss puzzles, and then strikes one as slight
~ dwarfing the dignity of the man. Re-
fleet little. and you will perceive that
Monseigneur Dupanloup's life, which has
been devoted in a large measure to school
teaching, has set upon him the ineffaceable
seal OF the pedagogue.
But though cheerful in his morality, NJ.
Duparloup was always as austere as an an
chorite toward himself, and while Vicar of
st. Roche some rich penitents subscribed
to furnish his room, which was uucomfort- |
able enough to excite their commiseration. |
When the upholsterer came with his goods, |
and showed his receipted bill, the Vicar |
smiled and answered, "A few sticks were |
you will sell these fine things, and pay the
money to the clergyman of your parish.
shall always be too we'll lodged while the |
poor are hungry" Indeed, his charities /!
were so large that he once gave his pasto-
raj staff in pledge to beggar, having moth
again for him. Every week he invites the
workmen at Orleans to his house, where
they pass the evening playing dominoes,
chess, or draughts but no cards are al
lowed. On these occasions he gives mod
crate refreshment and homely advice, hAt |
asks for it, and they generally go away
pleased with their visit, though some of
them complain of the episcopal tea, which,
according to the notions of French country
people, should only be offered to the sick.
As soon as he is up the Bishop has several
secretaries hard at work upon his cores
pondence, and employs others 10 pamphlet
eering. His conception of an idea is lively,
and his dictation rapid; but he returns !
again and again to the first draft of the
book, and corrects every line infinitely.
Publishers and printers are driven to de-
spair when they find that he wants as ma
ny as twenty proofs of q single Sheet and
pro ba bly, nothing but the prodigious sale
Of his writings when thus laboriously pol
shed, would reconcile them to having any
hing to do with him. From long before
dawn, often till deep into the night, he
tolls increasingly and when exhaustion
overtakes him at last, he seizes a stout
stick for support, and sets off for walk by
the banks of the Loire. If his mental ia
tigue resists this rough treatment, he takes
a journey to Switzerland, and seeks health
IN his native air, wandering about on foot
among the Alps, where his reputation has
gone before him-fortunately for in one
Of these pedertriap tours be was benighted
n storm, and could not get shelter at q
,urate's house till he had assured the
worthy man that he was " the bishop of the
newspapers. Tho Leaders Of France.
THE Rock OF CAsHEL.-It is much to be re-
sretted that the English House of Lords should