The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-03-29
w-rnire Star and Catholic Messenger
LETTER FROM ROME.
DEATH OF CARDINAL BARNABo

tege has lost announcer OF IbS memUeTb. vi
Tuesday, the oath of February, Cardinal
Alessandro Barnabo expired at the hour of
half past four in the afternoon. His death
was not altogether unexpected. A year
or two ago he had been attacked by govt In
the head, and latterly he became almost
entirely blind. But he attended to busl,
ness, Notwithstanding his illness, and did
ten days of bis disease. At the recent re-
ceptions of Plus TX, Cardinal Barnabo
was uaually seen supported by the arm OF
General Kapzler, the Pope's Minister at
War. The immediate cause OF the Car
dipals death was an accession OF govt TO
the 2nd of March, 1901, being the eldest
eon of the Marcbese Enrico Barnabo. The
Barnabo family Is o very ancient one, and
when the first Napoleon took away to
France the cadets of noble Italian houses,
Alessandro Barnabo was among the exiied
and was placed in the Ecole Polytecnique
or military school. Ono of his comrades at
that school was Mgr. Reguier, the present
Archbishop of Cambray. Alessandro was
the eldest of nine children, of whom three
sons and two daughters died before the
Cardinal. Tho eldest surviving brother is
-Orazio, O Canon, and in deacon's orders
only. Alessandro Barnabo, when he re-
turned from France, embraced the ecclesi-
astical profession and displayed talents of
no common order. II" was promoted to a
Canonry in St. Peters, and ia July, 1s47,
became Secretary of the Propaganda. In
this onerous and difficult post he continu-
ed for nine years. Cardinal Franzoni,
Project of the Propaganda, died in April,
1856, and Barnabo, then Secretary, was
chosen his successor. He was created
Cardinal Priest in the Cousistory of June,
1856. and took the titles of st. Susanna.
he was member of tho Sacred Congrega-
lions of the Inquisition, the Council, Rites
and Ceremonies, and Extraordinary AT
fairs. He was moreover, Protector OF var
Irish College in Rome. 1t was chiefly,
however, by his government of the Propa-
oauda that Cardinal Barnabo became
known and respected. He was the life and
heart of all the Catholic Missions which
owe allegiance to the Sacred Congregation
de Propaganda Eide, which are scattered
all over the world, and which are guided
and controlled very much by the Prefetto
Generate of Propaganda. Cardinal Bar
nabo was modest, kind, and unassuming.
His advice was rarely sought in vain. He
possessed in an eminent degree the gift of
discrimination of character, and was firm
and Just. He was laborious and patient,
and thus his penetrating genius was the
better able to master the daily mass of
correspondence arriving from every part
of the globe, and containing problems to
resolve, perils to be avoided, and impor-
tant cases to decide. His memory was
prodigious, and his knowledge of human
nature was as remarkable as his vast Pc
wers of recollection. Cardinal Barnabo
was MS a father to the Missionaries, those
marvellous Missionaries of the Catholic
Church, whose labors and lives are spent
with such prodigality of sacrifice in the
work of disseminating the Faith. To
many of them the parting counsels receiv-
ed from Cardinal Barnabo were treasures
,eo IN Twin IF
danger. The demise of Cardinal Alessandro
Barnabo will bring sorrow to many hearts,
and mourning for him will be felt even in
the farthest isles of the Pacific. Thousands
of living Catholic Missionaries were edu-
Gated almost under the eye of the diseased
Cardinal, whose connection with the Pro-
paganda (as Secretary and Prefect) lasted
for more than a quarter of q century. The
mortas remains of the deceased Cardinal
lay in State in his apartments in the Pro-
paganda College the day after his demise.
The funeral functions were performed in
the chapel of the College on Friday the
9th. The catafalque was placed in front
by DIR. James Gould, Bishop of Melbourne,
in Australia. The Dies Ira, Hosanna in
Eacelsis, and Liberia Me were beautifully
sung by the choir of the College, assisted
by sou4e of the members of the Pope's own
choir. The chapel was filled with ecclesi-
present laws forbid the interment of the
Cardinals remains in the church of his
title. His body was therefore carried in
the evening Of Friday to the Campo Vera
no. There it will Professionally remain
until it's final removal to the family barry
ing-place at Foligno. It lie rumoured
that Cardinal Bilio will be the new Project
Of the Propaganda.
THE COLOSSEUM OUTRAGE.
Expiatory services on account of the
sacrilege in the Colosseum still continue.
On Friday, the 9th, about sixty or seven
ey persons met at the Church of st. Bona
ventura, near the Colosseum, and went
through the devotions of the Via Crucis.
There was no interference on the part of
the Questura, although four officers of
chat department watch attentively the pro-
ceedings of the Catholics, and took notes
of them.
ABOLITION OF ILLEGITIMACY.
Salvatore Morelli, the same deputy who
proposes to emancipate the female sex
from the letters of matrimony, has present.
cd to the italian Parliament Bill to alb
olish the odious distinction between legi-
innate and illegitmate issue, on the ground