The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-03-22
LETTER FROM ROME.
DEATH OF CARDINAL TARoUIN

III ING morning lie suceahhoc" n'toi
very brief illness to attack of acute
pulmonary disease. He was the junior
but one Of all the Cardinals, having been
created, on the 22nd of December, 1873,
Cardinal Deacon. He enjoyed the pur-
pie accordingly for the space of only fifty
five days. The number of Cardinals Great
ed by Plus IN, from his accession to the
present time, is ninety-f five, including
those reserved an petto, whose names have
not yet been published. OF these ninety
five about one half, or forty-eight, includ-
ing Tarquini, have died. The shortest
lived Cardinal of all Plus IXth's creations
was Antonio Matteucchi, native OF Fer
mo, who was created q Cardinal Deacon on
the 22nd of June, 1866, and who died in
Rome seventeen days afterwards, namely,
| on the 10th July same year. Next to him
| comes Tarquini, also Cardinal Deacon,
with fifty five days. The third in order of
brcvity of Cardnalitial life is D'Astros, q
| native of Toulouse, who was created on
the 3Oth Of September, 1850, and died on
that day the next year, namely, on Both
of September, 1851. Tarquini and Mat
teucchi were each of them sixty-four years
old at the period of their deaths and
D'Astros was seventynine. Cardinal de
Mcdici. who was created on the 18th OF
June, 1856, and who died on the 18th Of
October, 1857, was a Cardinal for only one
year and four months. Tarquini was
native of Marta near Fiascone. His Holt
ness, when his death was announced, was
much affected, and observed hare feIt
fec Sorrors like this.
TIE EX-FRIEST GRASsI
The Liberia announced tho civil mar
| riage upon tho 18th of February, which
happened to be Gioredi Grasso, of "Grassi
| Cav. Leopoido, ministro evangelco, con
Gavagnoli Annunziata." But there was
also quasi religious ceremony, performed
| by the Rev. James Wall and others. The
bride was given away by, Admiral and
Evangelist Fishbourne. The usual mem
bers of the Protestant missions to Rome
were present, including Alexander Gavazzi
and Scarpacca or Alexander Carnelli, both
of whom had preceded Grassi in the ways
of apostasy and matrimony,
TIE BISMARCK LA MARMoRA QUARREL.
The Bismarck La Marmora controversy
! bids fair to rival in Importance the Bene-
| detti revelations. 1t ID reported that La
Marmora has sent back through the Project
of Florence, the Marquis di Montezemola,
for transmission officially to the Prussian
Government, the Grand Cross of the Red
Eagle, decorated with brilliants, which he
received in 1861. The Precursors, q Pal
ermo newspaper, published an address to
the Italian Minister of Grace and Justice,
praying him to prosecute La Marmora for
! publishing his book, and citing the articles
| of the Penal Code concerning the offence of
| retaining or abstracting official documents
| or divulging secrets which might compro-
mise the safety of the State. La Marmora
| it seems made some bitter foes in Palermo
| when he governed that province, and tried
to put down brigandage.
THE sACRIIEGE IN THE COLOSSEUM.
The protests of the Catholics in Italy
come in from every quarter in the shape of
offerings to the Pope and religious expia-
| tory services. At Rome many churches
had special devotions in PREPARATION for the
outrage committed in the removal of the
Via Crueis. BY direction of Cardinal Pa
trizi, the Vicar of Rome, triduo was held
in the Church of st. Andrea della Vale,
on the 18th, lerh, and 10th of February, to
implore Divine mercy in consequence of the
proclamation of the Colosseum. The Cross
removed from the large arch of the Colos
scum, at the Lateran side, was erected in o
provisional chapel fitted up in St. Andrea.
An immense crowd attended on each day
of the iridium. The faithful are also in
vitcd to visit on the 9th and 2Sth of
February, and on the lst of March, the
Church of St. Ciemente twhcre the relics of
st. lgnatius repose) the Scala Santa, and
the Basilica of st. Croce in Gerusalemmc.
DIVORCE.
Salvatore Morclli, on tho 18th of Febru-
airy, presented to the Italian Chamber of
| Deputies a Bill to Lcgalize Divorce. 1t
| sequence from the law of civil marriages
which makes the bond of marriage to de-
pend on the will of the contracting parties.
When the will ofthe married couples change
| then divorce is the result. He proposes
that judicial separation for tho space of
one year should precede the final divorce.
. Domestic discussions are sufficient rea-
son for breaking the marriage. The sem
tence of divorce is to enable the wife to re-
sumo her maiden name, and to provide for
the maintenance of the children under the
care of the mother-unless there be special
reasons to put them into the fathers care or
into public establishment-to be educa-
ted at cost of the parents if rich, or of the
municipality if the parents be poor. Carl
baldi and Morelli seem to agree in Suppos-
ing that women and learning are the only
means of leading humanity to the goal OF
a happy and prosperous existence. MoIelli
desires for Italy three emaucipations-
those namely of thought, of conscience,
} and of women. The woman needs eman-
cipation both moral and civil. She is to
be set free by means of instruction and
industry from her present ahject subject
ton, caused by ignorance and idleness.
TATnER SECCuI.
The name of the distinguished astrono
mcr, Secchi, the Jesuit, has been removed