The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-07-20

Cavour who practically died without th'
Sacraments, lint on the shocking manner II
which Sign0r RattaEzi was, by the inter
vention OF HE perddioRs "friends,n pre-
| vented FROM having any apirituAl aid in ths
last awful hour Of life, aud tho suddel
others who have died almost instantane.
ouefy and without tho possibility Of aoy
religious aid in that supremo moment, The
words Of the Holy Father have . weight
too grave not to contemplate them with CO.
rious consideration. RatazzI is reported to
have said not very long before his death,
~ wi! give 500 francs to the man who
shall bring me the news of the Pope's
death . and he fs gone" unshriven, unan-
nealed like the rest, while tho Venerable
ponti6's restored health gives promise OF
the many years to come which the Church
60 erdently desires. The Dean Of the Sa.
cred College, Cardinal Patrizi, Cardinal
cred College, which contained few political
allusions, bat was filled with the spirit of
charity and Of the warmeat feelings Of de-
votion to the Holy See and OF personal at
lection to the Venerable PontiH, who re-
Piled in the following manner:
The longer this Pontiaoate lasts, and its
Duration enables me to say IaeolatHe meas pro-
!ongatas est, the moro your affection towards
tho Holy See and your zeal in defending its
rights increases and Strengthens. have q
the words you have spokea in the names Of
yourself and your colleagues, but also in the
intelligent labor to which you devote your
selves in the numerous Congregations loom
mittees) which meet to treat of the affairs of
the Church, and which have been considerably
increased by the abnormal condition of the
times,in which we live. 1t is but q natural eff
just aggressions that in the same measure zeal
and efforts to sustain the rights of the Church
OF Christ and the prerogatives of the Holy
See, and for the defence Of its champions un-
Your example is not fruitless you find
every where imftators. In the front rank the
Roman nobility distinguish themselves, q
Naples and phalanx Of young people from all
Italy, who devote themselves with a praise
worthy zeal to numerous works of piety and
nsiEty: pass over what takes place out Of
Italy, for there is an elnulation among the
good that animates all, that gives them cour-
age. and that increases their confidence in the
Divine goodness. It is said sometimes that
there are black points ON the horizon, but
these are white ones and give me the greatest
Bat beaide these motives of consolation,
we are obliged to fix our view on tho sad spec
hardly suffer MS to enumerate these evils and
evcn less, that we should protest against them;
bat Notwithstanding their il-humor WE RE
CURES increased by tho usurpers of the Pom
tifcsl States, Of the property of the Church,
and of the cloisters aud holy houses of retreat,
from which they have expelled their peaceful
"And We renew this protest the more that
we are the daily witness of new attacks and
insults against the Catholic Faith, tho Faith
preached by jesus Christ, His Apostles, and
their successors even to the present day.
I" Has not that funeral procession been an
insult to religion, in honor of o man born o
bas wh no has died Ike an unbe-
trivapoes of bis perfdious friends who did ev- |
srything to stain their object. The worst |
Iournals rejoice at this death, and exelaim,; he
has died % he lived It 10 but too true. His |
life was distinguished by the most an IT, Chris
tian acts. His life was continual succession
of acts and efforts contrary to the peace of
Italy, TO the sanctity Of religion, and to the
in Piedmont for the suppression of the Reli
gious Orders in Piedmont, and he has put the |
finishing stroke to 1t here. Urged by his ha-
tired of the Sovereign Poutif, he expended |
Gums OF money for the famous |
expedition of Garibaldi that ended in the bat
tie of Montana. By these enterprises, and
'ensares, and he is dead under the weight of
hose censures without any reparaton of the
enormous scandals given to SO many millions
If good Catholics.
u: What eternity know not. But it, as his
friends say, he has died as he has lived
very sad thought must present itself to the
minds of those who reflect ON the end of this
sod are unknowp to US; we must adore them
and 1t is not permitted to us to pry
INTO the results.
"But cannot dissemble the painful impress
ion that felt in reading in certain journals
hat HE corpse was placed with pomp in tie
principal church of his city, aud that over the
loor of this temple had been written that
Infinite Goodness had received him in His
Lrms.' / was still more afflicted at reading
hat the clergy, more like courtiers than the
ministers of the Most High, had lent their
concurrence to the funeral ceremonies, or,
more properly, funeral profauations. 1 like
o think that this is false, and that they have
Tot so far insulted the memory of Alexander
II For MS, let us lift up our eyes to the God
# mercies, and let us beg Him to bless us, to
rive us strength and courage, to keep us al
Ways united, and always far from that spirit of
onciliation such as they would establish be.
ween Christ and Belial. Let everyone keep
o his post. These mon wish me to go to
hem. I wish them to come to me. But I can
lot go to them, and shall never do 80.
May God strengthen me, and may He give
'ou courage to sustain the shock of the infer
lal phalanx. These men are the wolves who
eek to devonr the lambs, but there 10 nothing
o fear. Because they are wolves they will be
and the lambs will be the conquer
rs. 81 lnpi fuerinus, vincimur,' said st. I
;hrysostom. As for Us, the lambs, the eyes of
Tod will be ever upon Ms. OcHi Domini super
Gstos, ct a"res Gus in rreces eorum.-Benedietio
Del. atcn