The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-20
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LIFE Of Den,strtas n. Gallitsia, Prince and Priest
+ BY SarahsA. Brownson. New York: +. r,
Pastet 81 Co.
Had this prettily bound volume, sent to u,
by tho publishers, nothing to recommend it
but the honored name that adorns the title
page, we would still accord it our warmest
welcome; but it's carefully written details of
o noble life and sanity character, ara we'll
worthy Of being read by every American,
whether Catholic or not. While it Is evident
that Miss Brewnson has lsbored upon thsss
memoirs with loving heart and earnest mind
We mark stiffness of style and IN coca.
sional inaccuracy Of expression, which impair
tho beauty Of the work. The devout reader
will overlook tho blemishes Of composition i.
order to enjoy the beauty of holiness as 70.
vealed within its pages but the scholar will
find his interest flag mt he meets with awk.
wark clauses and tedious sentences, and while
admiring the radiant gem will cavil at its set.
ting. Demetrius Gsllitzin was Russian
prince, q convert and finally priest. Hs
founded the village of Loretto--on the most
elevated point of the Alleghany Mountains,
and durtng forty yearsasuntil 1s4O-devotsd
his tslentssslife and fortune, to the spiritual
He was the second priest consscrated in the
United States, and may even be called the first
born of the American Church, for as the wri
ter says: REV. Stephen Badin, was ordain
ed previously, but had been made deacon in
his native France, and the United States gave
him only the final conservation and commits
sion but Father Gallitzin was all cur own
Ours from the first page of his theology to the
moment he arose from the consecrating hands
of the Bishop, forever and forever 10 bear the
seal of the Lords anaointed." Tho record of
his struggles in the mountain village, unap.
precfated BY many, understood but by few,
reads like sromance, the chief charm of which is
that it's subject was OF cur own day-lived in
our midst asst were, and worked solely for
God and America. 1t touches upon the won
derful spiritism manifested in Middleway
after wards called Cleptown, Va.-for in this
page of history, Father Gallitzin bore part
and upon many another long forgotten story
which here appears fresh aud exciting. This
is a book good for young mon to sread-it
shows them strong, healthful Catholic life,
heroic perseverance-ands noblee aims Il j.,
pleasant for the old to read, taking them back
to the early years of American Independence,
calling many pleasing incident of those sim
pie, happy times. Above all, it Is an excel
lent book for women-holding up to view a
model of refined, Intelligent, Christian mother
noble, not alone in truth, but trnly SO in her
devotion to principle and in her venerstion
for Code service. The character of the Pria-
cess Gallitzin-mother of our sanity priest
has been written by De Katucamp bnt Miss
Brownson gives us much by which to know
and love her-letters to her son and extracts
from her life which show her to have been in
every way worthy of such q son. No Ameri
can can read this book without feeling proud
that his country can boast of having possess
ed this sanity hero, this prince of noble deeds
this priest Of holy and heroic life-and we
rejoice that our own century claims name, no
bic in all its associations and held in benedio-
ton by God and men. Many off-shoots from Lee
retto have taken root and grown int Catholic
villages; st. Augustine's sometimes called tie
Loup from popularity in the mountains just
ut the place; Summit at the highest point OF
the Alleghanies few miles beyond Loretto,
whichcan be seen half hidden in the cluster
ing foliage, as in lovely nest among the
mountain hillocks just below, and two miles
further on, q little hamlet resting for the most
part over the longest tunnel of the Pennsyl-
vania Central Railroad, and named by the
railroad company in honor of the pastor of
the Alleghanies. One is hurried onward
through dense and unbroken darkness, and
just a. the first ray of light, the very first
breath of glorious mountain air breaks ia,
there is heard the echoing cry: Gallitzn!
the far resounding name of him who, with feet
beautiful upon the mountains, opened to the en-
trancing sunlight Of faith, the gloomy Caverns
ofheFesy and siu-auame shouted there with
startling appropriateness, rendered the moro
striking that its deep Significance was proba'
bly, neither intended nor suspected. At this
point the threshold Of his mountain district is
entirely passed, and the great church in which
he praised the Lord, entered upon it stretches
onward, broad and far, in all directions for
forty OF fifty miles. .s.
EASTER FAIR IN JEFFGRsoN CTTY.-It is