The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-23
LETTER FROM ROME.
AUDIENCES.

LETTER FROM ROME.
AUDIENCES.
ROME, Feb. Ii. His Holiness, whose
health is excellent has held audiences every
day during the past week. On Saturday,
the Sth, NJ. de Corcelles, the French Am
bassador, with his suite, went to the Eati-
, can in state. The coItege consisted of
| three carriages, and the servants were in
| state liveres. After the Ambassadors in
terview with his Holiness he proceeded to
visit the Cardinal Secretary OF State.
CANoNIzATIoN OF TWO SAINTS.
On Tuesday, there was large assem-
blage of Cardinals and Bishops, including
all the foreign Bishops then in Rome, on the
of Canonizatou of Blessed Benoit Joseph
Laere and the Blessed Andrea Burgia, a
Siclian Capuchin lay brother, whose life
was one of extraordinary sanctity. After
the ceremonies usual on such occasions, the
Bishop of Arras approached the throne, and
Holy Father in the name of his diocese for
| the glory that accrued to it, and in his own
name for the kind thoughtfulness of his
Holiness in having had the canonization
decreed during his presence al limina ApoS.
t0iorum. He fufther expressed a fervent
wish and faith that the newly canonized
Saint oald take under his special pretec-
ton the Holy Father and France. After
the Bishop of Arras- had finished his ad-
dress, the Holy Father rose and pronounc-
ed these words :-"God is always admirable
in the order of His Providence!" Yes, it is
iadeed lie who is the Author Of His Church,
the great, the beautiful, the immortal work
of His holy hands, and He never ceases to
protect it in all times, in all circumstances,
and through all conflicts. He has protected
it as we see by this mornings Gospel in the
third, IN the sixth, in the ninth hour, He
l.. <l,4& IL IL, Il. H.
may be ours. (Sonsation.) God has pro
tected it from tho beginning; when the
fury of tyrauts ragged against it He opposed
to them tho courage and cOnstancy of the
martyrs, that cOrstancy which inspired
weak and timid hearts with strength and
resolution and multiplied the disciples of
Jesus Christ. He has preserved it against
! the audacity of heresy, raising up the
scantity aud learning of the doctors, those
| valiant athletes of the Church who con-
| founded hereticS if they could not always
convert them. and who were as shining
| lights of truth and justice to tho faithful
whom they confirmed in their belief He
| protected the Church when her destruction
was sought by means of libertiniem and
| passion, opposing to corruption the purity
of virgins, the patience of confessors, and
| that multiplicity of saints who have full
! filled their celestial mission on the earth.
| God ceases not to protect His Church even
in our own days. What is the principal
enemy we have now to combat 1t is I'm
belief Against this Internal monster there
is but one defence; and that is the reli-
gious firmness and good spirit oT the popu
lations. Aud behold God g'v.s 60, ,C"lr Of
this remedy. Who is it that g, .a suie
invasion ofincredulity, this climax ct 81 ii.'
evils ot hell 2 Not certainly the powerful,
the wise of this world, those who are in III"
high places; no, but the mass of the people,
/ do not say the lowest of the people, bur
| Ill Ia.
Church has called the Christian people
ple6S ChriStidnd. They oppose this incred-
ulity by pllgrImages, by trequentiug the
churches, by praising God continually
They combat it by approaching tho Holy
Table, by works of charity, by those pi"us
associations which have for their object the
specification of Festivals, the care of the
sick, the help Of orphans, and, in short, all
kinds of good works. Well, this good and
holy spirit which exists in the populations
is in itself work of God and a pledge OIL
His protection in these unhappy times
And how is this prodigy Of the grace of God
made more manifest just by those fire.
ouent occasions, l may say multiplied oc-
casions which God has furnished in these
latter times to the Holy See in the beatif-
cation and canonizatiOn of Saints. And in
fact what has happened There is not a
country, scarcely a province, which has not
ts Saint. Their glory is spread through
Europe and through the world. When a
Identification OF canoniZation takes place the
churches of the Saints country are more
freQueuted, his fellow citizens read his life
ana find in it encouragement and edifica-
ton. But great deal ofthls pious move
ment is not limited to the country or pro
vince where he was born, or lived al
Christians occupy themselves with his
acts, his tn lode of life, his virtues, his mira
Giles they mediate on all TINS, and are
: lifted into q different atmosphere from tina
which they ordinarily breathe. They try
, to initiate the Salut, and they are fortified
by his example. Thus God operates, ever
, in opr dav in favor of His Church, anC