The New York herald., 1873-09-30
THE REFORMATION SHOPS
Details Of the Management Of the WOrkmen''
Clubs-Their Rapid Increase.
THE NEW IGNAT1Us LoY0LA.
.*'To Sum Up-These. Catholic WOrkmen's
Clubs Are Among the Great
Facts of the Age"
THE TOILERS AT LIESSE.

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NoTRE DAME DE LIEssE, August II, 1873.
In order to present.a clear idea OF the present
religious revival in France will give list of the
.pilgrimages which have been or will be made
merely during the current week. Yesterday the
10th instant there were four pilgrmages. One to
sour Lady of Boulogne," to sour Lady OF
Gracen at Cambria, to ''Our Lady of Roche
fort" one to sour Lady OF Pity" These four
pilgrimages were all conducted by the clergy Of
the respective dioceses in which the shrnes
situated, under the expressed sanction of their
Bishops.
To-day, August II, eleven separate and distinct
pilgrimages will be made to the following sanctu
aries:-
l. To "Our Lady of La salette," from Mines.
q To 'Our Lady OF BoulOgne." from Paris
g. To sour Lady OF Liesse," by the Catholic
Workingmen's Clubs, OF Paris.
L. To 'Our Lady OF kocomadour," from the dio-
s. TO "0ur Lady of Ceignac," from the diocese OF
g. TO "Our Lady OF Children, from the diocese OF
= 10 "our Lady, the Lberatress" from the
s. To "our Lady OF Pennafort" from the diocese
o. 70 "our Lady OF ofverdelais," )" from the dioceses
ls. TO "Our Lady Of vaulz," from the diocese Of
Limoges.
L.
cese OF Marseilles.
Tomorrow August 49, five pigrimages will be
nade:-
1. To "Our Lady OF Lourdes" from Perpgnan
z To :Our Lady Of Pontmain," from the diocese
Of Laval.
3. To ''Our Lady of Rochefort," from the dioceses
OF Mines and Avignon.
4. To "Our Lady OF the Hermitage" from the
diocese OF St. Claude
8. To "Our Lady OF Pity" from Lozere
grimages:-
/. To .'Our Lady OF salette, from Marseies.
2. To "Our Lady OF LOurdes," from Agen.
g. TO sour Lady OF France" from Vivaras.
a To "Our Lady Of the Castles" from Taren-
On Wednesday August 20. four pigrlmages will
be made:-
l. To "Our Lady OF salette," an immense pill
Rrimage, travelling on foot, from Grcnoble.
q To 'Our Lady or Lourdes," from the diocese OF
g. fo .Our Lady of the Hermits from Einsideln
l. TO .Our Lady Of Pontmain," from Chateau
Coulter.
On Thursday. August q, eight pilgri images VIII
be made:-
l. To "Our Lady Of salette," from Paris. The
pilgrims OF Paris will be accompanied by delegates
q To "Our Lady OF PQntman," from the diocese
g. To 'our Guardian Lady," from Marseilles and
l. TO "our Lady OF Mount Roland" from the do
cese OF st. Claude.
s. TO sour Lady Of ORIENT" from the diocese Of
g. TO "our Lady Of Consolation" from the do
!. TO .o1r Lady OF vilethiers," from the diocese
s. TO .'our Lady OF Safety" from the diocese OF
Bayeux.
On Friday, August %, there will be made FIVE
plgrimages:-
1. To '.Our Lady Of salette," from the diocese
.. To ;'our Lady OF Lourdes," from the diocese
oi Tarbes
8. TO "0ur Lady Of La Real" from the diocese Of
l. TO ''Our Lady Of la sedz," from the diocese Of
s. To "Our Lady OF Proulhe," from Carcassonne
IL appears from an impartial calculation that
there must be about
THREE MILLIONS OF PILGRIMS
In France at the date OF this letter.
One OF the most remarkable OF the numerous
pilgrimages on foot the present writing Is prob
ably that OF
THE CATHOLIC woRKMEN's CLUBS.
Persons who are well acquainted with the French
laboring classes will hardly read without amaze
ment that they have been induced become pill
grims and to entertain serious thoughts Of saliva
tion. They are
A LIGHr-HEArED FOLK,
not at all given to troubling themselves about their
souls.
'sSave me ye black-gowned men, from what ~
calls Justify out frog workingman, not without a
caper 81 do not want to be saved. The true
idea of paradise IL to eat fried gudgeons TO the
sound OF fiddle at the barriere on a Sunday"
II n BY no means astonishing that they should
have formed this notion Of happiness for II man
were an ape as he Is alleged TO be, II would not
be An incorrect one In fact, the frog workingman
has been shockingly corrupted by cheap literature
Adultery, seduction, outrage, theft, murder, have
all been deiied In his eyes thousand times BY tn,
most consummate masters Of popular fiction whom
earth has ever produced. Il would be difncult Il
ind one solitary hero Of . French fashionable 70
nance who. If Judged BY very moderate stand
ard Of honor, must not be pronounced scoun
drel. But the heroes Of those Questionable 70
mances which are read at Belleville and In the
Faubourg st. Antoine are simply
DEVILS IN sMALL-CLoTHEs.
The ,srog workingman glories In these demons
He sees Nhem reproduced, In the most enchanting
shapes. in In newspapers, in his theatres, at hii
singing shops I'D in the grandest TRANSPORTATION
scenes Of his
"ExpRRMRHrk GOVERNMENTS"
They represent the only co.pception which exists
I'm his mind OF the sublime and beautiful, and with
faith (which has after all. sometnng touching ID
it. seeing by what brightly colored dslusions the
poor creature has been duped he takes person
who ought to be sent to house Of correction ior
bis model
II was an arduous task TO make decent God
fearing citizen out OF frog workngman. But II
has been attempted and, to certain extent. &C
Eomp plished by handsome young Count dc Nun