The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-12-06
Record Of asrnan pe1sscutioa.
fLondon Tablet. Nov. I4th.l
THE sAcRILKGE AT TREyKs.


THE sAoRILKGE AT TREvKs.
As the anti Catholic press In Germany has
so foully misrepresented the conduct of Father
Schneiders,, and has credited him with the
Saints Day in the City of Treves. it viii be
well to place on record o brief but exact &C.
connt of the whole transaction. The priest
then, who has been described in SO many pa
pers as riotous, rebellious refractory man, is
guilty OF nothing save refusing to obey the
unjust May Laws, of being faithful to his i'm
lpI r;sons s Bishop and Of doing his duty in
ton for many months he was set at liberty,
but suspended by the Governments from the
exercise OF his functions, and forbidden even
received his sacerdotal commission from Christ,
through His Church. and not from the EN-.
peror OF the Central Empire, through NM. Bis
marck and Falck, this excellent priest returned
without any secrecy to his public duties. He
was celebrating Macs, assisted by two other
priests, when just at the Elevation, several gems
made the best of their way through the Gro wd,
in order to identify, as they afterwards main
tanned. the officiating priest with Father
Schneders. The immense crowd attending at
Mass we're naturally excited and indignant
beyond measure, and numbers of them fearing
that the Holy Sacrifice might be interrupted
advanced towards the altar in company with
the gene d'arnes, These had wit enough to
leave the priests alone as long the most
awful parts of the Mass were being celebrated,
but seemingly impatient of the delay, soon
Government officials not even removing their
hats from their heads. Cries were now heard
of "Tnrn out the policep The whole congre-
cation rushed towards tho altar, the organ
ceased playing, land the noise and confusion
reached their height when the handsome new
cemmunion rails made of inlaid marbles, of the
value of at least 600 tbalers, were thrown
down in the church and broken to pieces. The
sanctuary, 30 lately blessed by the presence of
the worlds Redcemer. presented scene of
terror, being filed with q dense, surging,
weeping, grooming mass of human beings,
through which the rude and brutal police
forced their way, using every kind of violence
till they reached the altar. BY this time the
Mass had been hurriedly brought to a close
when a strong man, baker by trade, made o
last attempt to prevent Weirauch from reach
ing the altar, crying out with a lond voice at
sns sae the here. Here
knocked down, aud Weirauch exclaimed
You and the priest are arrested" Some one
now dealt Weirauch heavy blow rom behind,
the same, the gems darmes having some time
before made use of theirs. and thus eventually
the priest was reached through the thick
crowd which pressed around him. Blood was
freely shed the number of the wounded is
not yet known. Not only were the communion
rails sprinkled with blood bat the altar itself,
consecrated afresh. Father Schneiders re-
NAMED composedly at the foot of the altar,
where he invested, until he removed
from the church by the police, who forced
ing their swords they went. The angry
people followed the police, pelting them with
stones. One of them was struck heavily. In
the evening there was fray between some
of the soldiery and several of the citizens.
glazier was badly wounded on the forehead. A
poor woman died of fright. This imprisoning
that they are enjoying liberty and peace under
a most just Government, anxious only to assure
the full possession of their rights to its be-
loved gu bjects. The chief lesson that the Ca
tholics will take to heart on this memorable
Feast of All Saints is that the crowns of the
Blessed were made by the prosecutors of the
temples of the Most High, only succeed in pre-
pairing the stones with which they are reared.
A NEW MEANS OF PERSECUTION.
Legal persecution of the Church has reached
q second phase of its development. Courts of
Appeal and of Cessation have for their pro-
per object the resembling of unjust sentences
and the restoring to liberty persons who have
been uDjustly condemned. Now these salutary
ins'itotions have been turned against the
Church. and her faithful children. This new
development of the principle of the Survival
of the strongest" adds TO the present affection
of true Catholics that element of bopelessness
and he1plessness which is the bitterest ingre-
dent in the emp of SORROW. But while ii shows
that Catholics have not single individuals, but
a whole system, opposed To them. it, shows that
"a system which caunot work except by unjust
laws and wanton nisn ter pref alton of laws and
facts, must be weak with the weak ness of all
injustice, and that the true and unerring Court
seat.
A victim to this new form of persecution is
the Rev. NJ. de Lorenzi, Vicar-G neral of Treves,
who, having received verdict in his favor,
has had it qunshed by the Court of Cessation
at Treves, and has been condemned anew to
pay hne of 200 thalers, in default suf fer
two months imprisonment, This for having
been accused of doing something which the
Court of Appeal declared he had not done.
DR.. Suing, the editor of the Hestphalian Nor
curry has met with a similar fate at the hands
of the Obertribunal ut Munster, on the I'd inst.
Dr.. Martin, the Bishop of Paderborn, was
granted a new trial by the Court of Appeal of
Paderborn, on the question of his having ap.
pointed Vicar to some parish within his
diocese. 1t is we'll known, however, before
hand that whether the decision be favorable
to him or not in that Court, the case will be
sent to n higher Court, and the Government
will have it's 200 thalers or six weeks of episco-
pal imprisonment.
The folnische Zeitung, declared not guilty by
tribunal of the First Instance, a charge
of having written Unexpectedly concerning
Knllman, was Immediately summoned before a
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