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ABOUT CHRlsT0PHER COLUMBUS.
fRome, July 8, Correspondence New York

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Rome, July 8, Correspondence New York
The time is not yet fixed on for the as.
semblage Of the Consistory, at which the
beatiication of Christopher Columbus is
to be promulgated. i The following de-;
tails, taken from the Unita Cattolica,
will be interesting to the readers of the
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:,zAmengLthe, satisfactory results of the
travels in; South America Of Plus TX. we
may safely reckon the yindication Of the
memory Of Christopher Columbus, man
hitherto so entirely misrepresentcd and
uncomprehendcd by Protestant histor.
ians. The history written under the aus
picesof His holiness, by Count Rossel;y de
Lorgues, publishes the heroic virtue anu
religious motives Of the immortal discov-
erer, who haze been treated as an adven-
turer, showing that he was even more of
good Christian that great navigator.
In 1865, Cardinal Bonnet, Archbishop
of Bordeaux, proposed to the Holy Faith
er the bcati6cation of Columbus. The
French bishops generally and the Cardi-
nal Archbishop Of Burgos and many
other members of the hierarchy expressed
themselves anxious that this distinction
should be awarded him. In 1870, dur.
ing the sittings Of the Ecumenical Coun-
Gil, the topic was frequently discussed,
and its final consideration was postponed
until after the taking of the votes on the
infallibility question. All was. however,
put a stop to when the invasion of Rome
rendered . reunion, Of the Vatican Coun.
Gil impossible,
Z The following year, at Cardinal Don.
nets request, Count Roselly de Lorgues
faliled his task, and the history Of Chris.
topher Columbus was published under the
title Of
''rHE AMBASSADOR OF GOD AND OF Plus *
The profound arguments that precede
this compendium Of great career are of
sufficient importance to prove that even
without entering into the examination Of
the principal acts Of his life. this revealer
of a new world must necessarily belong
to the communion Of saints. The author
decides that the vocation Of Columbus
was truly marvellous; that his mission
had been frequently foretold; that he was
looked upon by the Holy See as its natu-
raj Legate to this new world, where he
became its first missionary, was the first
to plant the cross, to proclaim the Divine
Word, to make known the Roman Lithur-
gy and teach the natives the names Of
Jesus and Mary, tho Lords Prayer, the
generation Of the sign Of the cross and to
lead them to become the true sons of
God and His Church.
Count de Lorgues shows that the real
aim Of Christopher Columbus was the
ransom of the Holy Sepulchre by means
of the riches to be found in the new re.
gion that his heart burned with apos-
tolic zeal, and that while holding the
Offices of admiral and viceroy his life was
rather that Of monk than man of the
world; that he ordained the foundation
Of a college for foreign missions 125 years
before the Propaganda was instituted,
and openly protested the dogma Of the
immaculate Conception before its defini.
ton.
The author likewise points out mys-
ferrous connection between the first
Christian that carried the cross into the
New World and the first Pope (Pius TX
that ever visited the land of the future.
He offers proof of the fact that Colum.
bus practiced, to a special degree, every
theological and cardinal virtue.
He af6rms that he did not owe his
great celebrity to his genius or science,
but only to his vocation, to his faith, and
to the divine grace. AS a sailor he was
in no wise superior to others of his own
time; in fact, the professors of Berlin
and Paris laughed at his ignorance Of
geography and astronomy. Notwithstand.
ing which this ignorant man, the chosen
Of God, discovered, besides the New
World, seven principal laws Of the globe,
and was, Notwithstanding the progress
made by science, unrivalled in cosmog.
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