The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-30
Norning Star and Catholic messenger.
uvw ORLEANS, SUNDAY, MATCH 80 1873
LETTER FRoM ROME.
AUDIENCES.

the week that have elapsed since my las
letter. The preachers for the coming Len
in the principal churches in Rome, Wer'
all presented to the Holy Father LOT ~,
firs p ia tapestry gallery (galieris der aras=)
and afterwards proceeded to the throne
room. I will give their address and the
Holy Fathers reply next week.
STATEMENTS IN THE LIBERAL JOURNALS.
The Liberal Journals from time to time
mako the most extraordinary and unbound.
ed statements. Among others the Gassettd
dItali0 has put into the mouth Of the Holy
Father Q warm expression of sympathy and
eulogy tor Amadeus, the ex- klngof SPAN
whose fall was totally unlocked for in
Rome, and whose abdcation wasslmply an
act of necessity, as he had not the slightest
inclination to share the fate of the nnfor-
tuuate nj. ximilian. What the Holy Father
said is this, that thrones based npon revo-
luton are necessarily f,a,iie, and that only
those founded on right have any chance of
durable existence.
sPoLIATIoNs.
The spoliation Of converts still goes on
under the name of appropriation. visited
the Monastery called Regina Cnli yester-
day. There are three communities living
in it. The Nuns of S. Theresa on the
Quirinai, on their own houss being foIcibly
taken possession of with crowbars, &c.,
we're informed they would no further be
disturbed. They spent what little money
they had In putting canvas partitions up
in the corridor coded to them, 40 as to con
vert it after some rude fashion into separate
sleeping compartments, l cannst call them
cells. They are now turned out but no com
pensation is so much Us thought of for money
expended, not only of necessity, but on the
faith of solemn promises. Nominally when
q house OF property is appropriated PEN
sion is proposed by the government and
perforce accepted by the victims. These
Teresian Nuns, who never cat meat, had
their garden attached to their own house,
but since have been obliged to buy all their
vegetables-and they are in debt, for even
Nuns must eat, eat, if only potatoes, or broccoli.
means of living for the first half year Of
1871, was paid to them in October, 1872
For the whole of the year Of 1872. and the
arrears from July to December 1871 they
have not had penny as yet What they
received in October, q G. the asseSno from
January to July for 1871 y was immediately
paid away, and sheer compassion induces
their tradespeople to continue to supply for
q time their meagre wants. The convent
of s. Giacomo is in an equally bad condi- !
tions. The Government or Govern men
officials do not pay tho sums covenanted
until they please, and the Nuns have no
Yet on paper, and to deceive the
tries, decent looking annuity (thoush gen
orally n twentieth part of the real value) is
said to DO ''assigned' and moreover paid to
them. With regard to t&ae line convent and
large garden of the Capuchins, ono of the
finest situations in Rome, it. re II value is Il
it Mt the value of 40. 900 francs
or about Ct GOO. Do not suppose. now
ever, that they will get this in Nancy. BY
no means. They will get 10000 lire in
Italian funds at seventy -tvo-all in paper.
By this they will obtain interest to the
amount of 9, 900 francs-always paper. If
the &c, 900 were paid down which is not even
contem plated, 1t would only be 30 900 in sii-
yer; moreover tho annual "assegne" of the
1000 francs or lire in paper, will not be paid
till tho whole is "hquidated," the Govern
ment in the mean time, taking possession at
once, aud then, if in Tire mean time, as is
most likely, the Religious Orders are sup
pressed, there will DO an end to the whole
matter. Prince Pallavicini, as President
Of the Congregation of Charity, has pub
lished two notices in which it is announced
that the localities lately occupied by the
Female Orphan Asylum at tho IS. Quattro
Coronati and the Conservatorio Pho on the
Janiculum are to be let. The first named
place was occupied by female orphans uu-
der the Nuns there, who have been also
turned out of the greater part of their
house and are dllored to remain in n little
corner Of it. Is this an appropriation "for
public utility 2" The other is foundation
Of the present Pope for young girls to be
instructed in house and other domestic
work. Both are appropriated on preteuce
IF public utility, and both subsequently
ct to any one who will take them at pretty
good rents. The Rev. Father Superior of
.he Carmelites of 5. Maria della Vittoria
Tns on Tuesday of last week seized with
apoplexy, induced by mental agitation con-
'equent on the decree of appropriation, aud
died on the Friday. The whole convent ia
appropriated, garden included. They have
eft them their .tdrmacia or chemical ap-
paratus, and three miserable narrow rooms
As sufficient for the service of the Church.
As for tue Poor Clares at s. Laurence in
Panisperna, their story is very like that Of
he TeresianS.- February, fS72. the
aFger part of their convent was taken from
,hem, aud they have spent what ready
money they had in making the remainder
1 little more adapted TO their wants. Now
all is taken, old and new, with no compen-
'ation for the expenditure which would not
lave been undertaken but for the exuresa
that they were not to be
urther molested. The large convent of s,
Antonio, on the EsQuiIine, near S. Maria
daggiore, from which the Nuns were ex.
'eAed fourteen months since, has remained