The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-12-27
Record of German Persecution, Etc.

THE SECRET APOSTOLIC DELEGATE OF POsEN.
telegram sent some days back from Posen
informs rs that all the Deans of the Province
o. Posen have been either tried at the bar or
received notice of their impending trial, since
information Is wanted concerning the nap q
and whereaboutsof the new Apostolic Dele
gate. Bat not the slightest hint or cue has
been obtained so far some simply deny the
competency of the tribunals to question them
about such matters, while others have asked
for longer time in which to mature their
answer.
sREsn CONDENSATION OF THE BISHOP OF PAD
ERBORN.
On November 25th, DIR. Martin, Bishop of
'Paderborn, had two verdicts against him re-
versed by the Court of Appeal, but this Court
condemned him at the same time to two
brated p .storal Letter The exc .lent Manual
of the Catholic Faitk, which this Prelate COM
posed while he was Professor at Bonn, and
which has been adopted in great many
schools throughout Prussia and beyond it's
boundaries for nearly twenty years, has now
been discovered to be treacherous and dau-
@gsrous @ boz and its use has, consequently,
higher schonls and colleges.
L'HERTY OF THE PRESS.
The liberty of the press SO much insisted
npon IN Germany, 10 respected in the case of
Catholics to such an extent that three of the
most popular Catholic almapacs have been
forbidden in Alsace-Lorraine, merely because
shey are Catholic; while the lowest, vilest
an an.Catholic publications of the kind arc not
oaiy protected but encouraged, in spite of, or
rather on account of, the insults they contain
against the Catholic faith and spirit.
1.-THE CRY IS STILL THEY FINE.'"
On November 18th, the house of Dean Tomas
zswski, ut ftzemeszno, was searched by tho
Pr ssian police, his writing-desk broken open,
and several registers and manuscripts relating
TO the administration of his parish were taken
away. The parish priest of Chludowo was
hr ed twenty-five thalars, that of Krusska, in
koDen, thirty thalars, for having violated the
My Laws" The parish priest Of Grabow, who
had been already often fined, was bsnished
lately from the precincts of two districts, and
when he continued to say his Low Mass in his
native place, he was violently elected from the
house of his aged mother, and the decree of
bAnishment was extended to the whole pro-
vince. On the 10th, the Vicar General of Mum
ste. (Westphalia) was visited by four soldiers
iug his effects The greater portion of the
modest house furniture that belonged to him
was removed, and is to be sold immediately.
on the % same % day Of bis Office ef Ts Inspector Of
SCI ools, and the Mayor of the town substituted
in.his,place. The boys of the school of Bop
9aDd were forbidden, on the 18th, to serve or
even assist at the Mass of that faithful priest,
DR.. Schwarz. On November Goth, the Dean of
SGhwetzken was fined thirty thalers for having
sefusea to enter into official correspondence
with the Baron de Messenbach, who has been
named temporal Administrator of the Dio-
cete" by the Government. On the same day
+ts parish p;est of the same place was Danish.
ed to Gn sen, where he had to spend the night
% the police Office, from which be was taken
Oh the following day to the prison of Trzeme,-
Zno. The Official Advertiser of Treves publish
cd in its issue of November 2lst no less than
twelve warrants for the arrest of priests who
have been condemned to fine or imprisonment.
On the same day, November 2lst the Provost
1T T.rgowa-Gorka was fined thirty thalers,
. and the Provost of Crone the same sum. Pro-
vost Gniatorynski, at Swetzl en-. committed the
same sin on the 21st of November, as the Dean
Wiesrer had fallen into previously, namely, he
refused to answ or the three letters which Baron
de Massenhach, Temporal Administrator OF
The Diocese of Posen." had addressed to him
hence, the 23d inst, no was 6ued ninety
thalers Ga tie 22d, the priest Ziumermann
of Muhlhe!n, was once more arrested in the
DeighIorhood of Coblentz, aud has been ban
ished TO Bergen, in the isla1d of Ruaen. Or
the 25th, the parish priest of Gratz was agair
Imprisoned; Dean Hebanowskt tried by 8
Court of the First Instance; and the parist
priest Iguatius Warmiuski condemned to pay
hpe of 2l0 thalers, to be imprisoned fo
seventy -tive days. These are some specimen
of The liberty =Vf= the subject in Prussia-===