Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-11-06
THE RUTLAND HERALD
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1878.
PARAY-LE-NIONEAL.

II is q sacred spot TO all ueyout Gath
olics where the Son of God enshrined
bis own heart for moment in the bosom
If sanity Virgin, in token of his COM
nasson and loving kindness towards
humanity The true children and deci-
nIes of the Pope have been Inundated
and detected by the wrestling from His
Holiness of his temporal possessions in
tbe States of the Church, and the revival
Of Paray and the pilgrimages from all
Europe to this sacred place, has, in adj
dition to its interest as religious duty
and superstitious rite, political signi-
fcance which appears to us, sordid I'M
believers in the miracle they profess to
venerate and worship, like very trifling
affair, but to the experienced Statesmen
of Europe these pilgrimages of the de-
voices to the little French bootrg of
Paray-le-Monial, gives vitality and
strength to political ends that may be
powerful enough to overturn dynasties
and plunge all Europe in bloody war.
1t is row just two hundred years since
fine miracle of the sacred heart is said to
have occurred, and in that time there
has been great changes in the relative
mower and Importance of Catholicism
among the nations of Europe, and al
though this revival of interest in Paray
Inns A genuine religious fervor, and gives
vent to the pent up enthusiasm OF the
vorshippers at the shrine of st. Peter,
If is regarded also as one of the ele-
menls of the attempt at reaction in favor
of Bourbon ascendancy in more than one
State of Europe In Spain the adherents
of Don Carlos gather enthusiasm and
courage from each arrival of pilgrims,
and the active advance of Catholic ideas
caused by this revival of Paray at the
second centennial anniversary of the
miracle, not only cheers the heart of the
aged Pope with the hope of wrestling his
temporalities from the iron hand of
Victor Emanuel and establishing the
Bourbon Pretender on the throne of
Spain, but through it he hopes to be in
strumental in resisting Bismarck's ultra
Protestant policy in Germany and to re-
legate the House of Hapsburg to its
position of Catholic absolutism in the
days of the Concordat.
In France the revival has been more
general and most intense, and it cannot
be denied that the prospects OF a Bour-
bon restoration have been improved
thereby, and are now improving day by
day. There is now in France one man
more than all others who stands in
the way of the re-establishment of the
house of Bourbon, in that tickle nation,
and that man is the Count de Cham
bord. If he would give up his twaddlt
about the "white flag" and consent
with the policy of old Louis Philip
or the Emperor Napoleon ILL., to come
to the throne with certain restrictions
on his power, and as the popular repre-
sentative of the modern French sentl
ment, he could ware the title Of males
ty amp be de facto king in few weeks
But with all the obstinacy and self-willeC
ambition of this young sprout of tn
Bourbon tree, every day adds new suf
RACES to his cause through the revival Of
this religious enthusiasm.
Of course the Catholic fanatics abou
the chair Of st. Peter have no hopes o
restoring Protestant England to the re
ligious faith of James IL, but they d
hope, with some prospects OF success, Il
create so much interest in this miraci
of the Sacred Heart, as to increase th
already full ranks of ritualism, and then
by the natural attraction of their service
to draw more or less of the forces o
ritualism into the Catholic church. ant
by an increase of numbers in England
to procure a political power which shall
prevent adverse legislation and plac
the Catholic religion at least on ieye
with the established Church. Such ar
some of the apparent political influence
on the continent and in fair Albion, o
this revival of pilgrimages to PaTay-le
Monial, where it may stop no one ca
tell. but it will be an interesting stud
to watch this rising enthusiasm and con-
pare it in its results with the pilgrim
ages of the followers of Islam to Mecca
or of the crusades to the Holy Sepu
chre, hoping all the time that the tiowe
of republicanism in southern Europ
will not be choked out by this ne7
phase of superstition and fanaticism.