The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-06

of marvellous feats of arms, to build up
again the vanished empire of Charlemagne.
AS yet further and more signal attestation
OF TINS being accorded to him, thus dis
tlnctiy, as II In recompense, as the founder
OF new dynasty, he is anointed by the
with all the imperial symbols of sovereign
ty, not like Pepin at Rome, but in his own
capital at Paris-in that very sanctuary of
Notre Dame, where but a few years pre-
viously, the shameful impersonator of the
Goddess OF Reason had been worshipped.
Nevertheless, but a few years more, and
this last, as be was also one of the greatest
OF the great men moulded in the mould of
Plutarch, maddened by ambition, intoxi-
Gated by success-as lesser men had been
| before him, az lesser men have been since
aiming at absolute dominion, dared to
hand upon the Ark of God. From that
moment the bond that bound the fasces of
his rule together was loosened. His en-
pire extended by that time "from the shores
of the Baltic to the Straits of Messina,
from the islands north of the Zuyder Zee to
the southerDmost point in the tapering
coast line of Illyria." dissatisfied with the
possessson of this vast dominion, he must
needs absorb into it the States of the
Charch. The holy city of Rome, the city
of the Popes and of the Apostles, he, with
matchless pride, declares to be the seco nd
amazing fortunes
THAT young Astyanax of modern Troy"
and the infant, at the moment of its birth. |
is announced to the world under the |
naughty title of the King of Rome. The |
from his palace, is carried off into ex.
lie, is imprisoned at Fontainbeau, At
that very Fontainbleau, by fitting Ne
mesis, the captor and incarcerator of Plus
VII. has himself, not very long afterwards,
to sign the earlier of his two rapidly sue.
cessive abdications. But prior to that the
Pope has pronounced prophecy in his re-
gard, and that prophecy has been fulfilled!
When the Great Emperor's legions were
most powerful and most numerous, when,
like another Sesostris, he had his vestibule
crowded with Kings and Satraps, Pope
fall from the hands of his soldiers Very
soon afterwards-history records the fact,
md in characters so Iurid that they glare
lpon the recognition of all-those few and
'lmple words had their literal fulfillmeut.
;rosslng Europe at the head of an army
treat Conqnerors, this Soldier who, in the
of Soldiers, is second only to &
entered upon the most daring Z
.nd. as Lord Brougham has called in de- !
iberately, the most triumphant Of all !
lis fourteen wonderful campaigns. In one G
ouSo |
III, for IN 1t he carried every thing before d
i'm. Defeating his opponents in a sue
esslon OF pitched battles, he advanced into II
he heart of Russia, took possession of it's o
ncient capital, held his court in the midst o
the bar6aric eplendor of the palace of e
which was necessitated and !
recipitated by the burning of Moscow.
he Victor, in his pride of power, had to
nccumb, not to Earth, but Heaven not t.
, Man, but God. His enormous army, O
omprising within it contingents from most F
trough Russian winter, which had come 81
wo months earlier than had been known -
or forty years together. In the horrors of
hat Dante-like retreat, by ones, twos, by
cores, by battalions, numbed by the lev :.
'lnds and drifting SHOWS, the hands of the i
rms-as the Pope had predicted! Nape-
'on the Great was competing with power S
efore which the very globe, of whose fair
st portion he himself was the peerless dog
llnator, is but scarcely distinguishing
tom circfing in the abyses of the universe. tt
nat Supreme~Power, has nevertheless, OF
1T upon this atom Earth ever since the ev
AVS of the Redemption-when it was sane Isl
lied by the footsteps of the Incarnate God pu
a visible representative in the person of
e Successor Of St. Peter. and, such, pa
@ Head and Ruler of all Christendom.
laric, at the head of the Goths Attia, as by
Q leader of the Huns Genseric, as the ad
lief of the Vandals Barbarossu, with all lea
nrmapy at his back Selim, in command mi
the Ottoman feet at Lepanto; Mustapha, en-
Q Grand VIzier of Mahomet the Fourth, Br
it'll his infdel bordes in battle array be- an
re the walls of Vienna Napoleon, when an
,rd Paramount of Europe Time itself, of
til all its wasting Influences, nineteen
ccessive centuries, each in turn, all of
em together, have been utterly powerlees oil
ainst what is simply above and beyond Wig
. reach of all earthly or merely human 1
thority., The Glory of the World is PAL
eat, no doubt. and its nouer r;tb;r ;tJ mo
n limits dominant Rnt IL cnn1o+ +oL En-
3 Church, because it is founded upon /
ok, and by Divine Artifcer. lie
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