The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-02-01
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger
LETTER FROM ROME.
THE POPE

THE POPE,
ROME, Jan. Bills Holiness, on the
morning of New Years Day, celebrated
Mass in his private chapel, and admins
men, members of the Circolo di st. Pietro.
Upon st. Johns Day. the name day of the
Holy Father, the ex-of6cers of the Pontical
troops, to the number of over 800, assem-
bled in the hall of the Consistory, and
presented an address to Plus TX, in which
they offered him their hearty good wishes
for a prolongation of his life and for the
triumph of the Church over her foes. They
hoped His Holiness would see tho time
when the Church, unfettered, would ex-
ercise her benefcent action when strength
would be employed not to crush but to aid
and vindicate the right (; when true liberty
would take the place of !icentiousness and
revolutionary tyranny; when the arts and
sciences would flourish, justice be Impair
italy administered, and when the public
money would be honestly expended" The
Pope, in his reply, compared the Christians
80 '"---,i'-. i'll the desert,
of today with III. .-.---.
punished for Impotence and want of faith.
They had the cloud for their guide by
day, and at night the pillar of fire. We"
said His Holiness, have the Infallible
Church as our secure and sufficient guide"
General kanzler read the address of his
former comrades in arms, and, after the
Popes reply, members of the deputation
were invited to accompany His Holiness In
his walk through the galleries. Many ex-
Zouaves from foreign countries came to
Rome expressly for this occasion.
TIE IRISH AUGUsTINIANs.
A list has appeared of thirty-two sup
pressed converts, which it is intended
to place at the disposition of the Roman
Municipality for use as schools, public
Offices, ETC., etc. In this list appears the
Convent of st. Maria in Pusternla, Arco di
Parma, which ia the property of the Irish
Augustinians. The Prior, Father O'Keeffe,
has made application to Sir A. Paget, in
order to obtain an explanation of this
threatened appropriation. The convent
was entered in the list of suppressed
Houses appended to the Suppression Bill,
but it was understood that the foreign char
acter of this institution was recognized by
the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. 1t
is really a College for the education of
Irish priests of the order of st. Augustine.
After all the assurances given by the British
and Italian Offices, it is dishearteniDg to
find that in point of fact all the British
Catholic Institutes in Rome are still liable
to confiscation. Yet the promises were
or Colleges were unaffected by the Act,
and that some were only subject to CONVEX
sion. How then comes it to pass that the
lands of the Irish College, which were not
even named in the schedules to the Bill,
were set up for auction, while the Irish
had two years given it for conversion, is
named for seizure or appropriation 1t
reflects little credit upon British diplomacy
to find that no effective settlement of the
various cases has been obtained, and that
Sir A. Paget seems now as much in the
dark upon the matter as he was year ago.
1t is fully time for the Italian Ministers to
declare their intentions, and decide de-
finiteiy what they mean to do respecting
the Forei gn Institutes. 1t is utterly unfair
l. hoo TNlt xl4A-
and harass them one by one, to day with
an auction bill, tomorrow with an expro-
priation list.
PUBLIC PRAYERS FORT DUCHESS D'AosTA.
The wife of ex-K King Amadeo is in
precarious state of health. A tridu0 was
held in the Church of the Sacramentine in
Turin on the 26th, Goth, and Both of De-
covery. Her amiability and benevolence
have endeared her to all classes in Turin.
ARREST OF TWO NUNS.
Two French franciscan Nuns, Sisters
Joanna Maria Sobolne and Maria NADIA
lena Michon, were lately arrested by q
police agent, aided by two carbineers,
while they were praying at the Sanctuary
of Oropa, near Bella, in Piedmont. The
ladies came into Italy to collect funds for
maintenance of an orphanage at st. Sortin
par Nornaut Rhone, near Lyons, where $50
orphan girls from Alsace and Lorraine are
signed, and commendatory letters from the
Project of Lyons, the French Consul at
Turin, and the Ecclesiastical Authorities at
Aosta, Ivrea, Turin, and Bella. In spite
of their papers, the two ladies were
infinitely examined at the Sanctuary and
asked who were the persons who gave them
charity, the amount of what they had col
lected, and ,chere was the money. They
were then brought to Bella, and forced to
undergo another long examination by the
Questor, who took from them all their
papers and told them to return for them on
the morning of the next day. When they
they were again TO- nos
questioning which lasted two hours. Their
answers were taken down by n Secretary,
and they were not set free until they signed
report drawn up in Italian of the pro-
ceedings.
POISONING AT THE ALTAR.
horrible crime was attempted on the
2Gnd of December at Treviglio, near
Bergamo. Four priests and two friars, a
few minutes after celebrating Mass, were