The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-11-28
a New CAurch as Leurdss.
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Cure of Lourdes, is bent-and who car
wonder at his being so f-upon building q,
there, in that revered spot, q new paro
chial church to the honor and glory Of ouI
Lord. The old church dates back very
nearly thousand years! It was erected
A. D., $50, Lourdes, at that remote date
numbering, at the very highest computa
ton, q thousand inhabitants. Rememb er-
ing this, and remembering that the resident
population there now @ days (apart from
the great Influx of pilgrims at all times OF
the year lie upwards of five thousand, 1t
must be obvious that the accommodation
| provided for Divine worship is altogether
inadequate. Recognizing THE, the Cure of
Lourdes, who is essentially the paterral
| head of his flock, and under whose care
they have been now for twenty yeaas and
| more, longs, as is alone natural under the
| circumstances, TO construct another and q
more fitting edifice in a locality that, in his
own time, has become 3D. renowned. Mon
seigneur Peyramale, from the moment of
his first coming to Lourdes, looked forward
to the happy time when he might be ena-
bled to build up some nobler structure for
the accommodation of his practitioners.
since then have occurred those marvellous
events which have rendered glorious in the
estimation of all Christendom those sacred
Rocks of Massabieille, in recess of which.
above the governed grotto-where the
miraculous fountain has, ever since, been
pouring forth it's healing and benefcent
waters-the Queen of Heaven, the Ma
donna of the Immaculate Conception,
appeared to the little peasant girl Bernad-
cite Soubirous. Subsequently, there came
from the heavenly apparition the demand
that Temple should be erected at the
Rocks of Massa belle. This demand swept
aside, for the time being, the humber
design of the Cure of Lourdes. Now, how
ever, that the piety Of the Christian world
has so resplendeptiy responded to the man
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basilica was rapidly approaching it's com
pletion, Monsiegneur Peyramale reverted
reasonably enough, to his long cherished
intention. Tho Cure of Lourdes had all
the greater reason for 80 doing, seeing that
the requirement of additional space In his
church had been for long while constant,
~ increasing in urgency, By reason of the |
arrival Of more and more numerous pill |
grimages. His appeal ia simple and very
eloquent. 1t is to the effect that everyone |
who wishes to have a grace accorded to |
him through the intercession of Notre Dame |
monument he is now proposing. Certain |
are we that those stones will before very
MUCK longer have rapidly come together.
The Catholic RerieW, of Brooklyn, prints
the following letter written to the Scotsman,
by an American Catholic in London:
"Wili you permit me to make two re
marks upon your loading article of to day
on President Grants recent speech 1t ia
not accurate to say that the Roman Catho-
lies OF America are substantially Irisb.'
There are &C Archbishops and Bishops
Of these 80 are neither Irishmen -nor-of
| irish. descent, but are either Americans, of
English or French descent, or French or
German. There are five mitred Abbo:s,
and of these only one is an Irishman and
q very large proportion considerably more
khor half 81 h.
cans, Germans, Frenchmen, Italians and
Poles. AS for the laity, the Catholic pop
ulations of Louisiana, Texas, California,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Min
nesota, Maryland, Virginia and the Car
olinas are less than one half Irish and
probable that the Irish Catholics do not
exceed one half, or, at the most, five
eights of tho whole number. Nor is it ac-
curate to say that if the Catholics got back
to their own use only what they pay in the
snaps of school tax, they would "get but
l. very large, and l could of my own
knowledge give you list of individual
in San Francisco, New York,
Baltimore, Washington, s.. Louis, Cincin
1ati, and other cities, who are among the
7ery largest tax payers of the country.
'My other remark must take the shane
If question. Is it fair to compel one class !
o pay tue State for the establishment and
naintenance of machinery for doing work 5
which they are anxious to do for them
elves, at their own cost. and to the salts !
action Of the agents of tie State7 While {
ontinuing To pay their school tax, the +
American Catholics have every where es- =
ablished their own schools, equal, and of 4
en- superior, to those of the State; and q
hey ask now, as they have always asked, .
hat they may be relieved from what they =
onsider the injustice of being compelled !
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eighbors' children. This is What thew =
leau by a division of the school fund, and =
resident Grants sudden and extraordinary i
rotest against their demand will not pre- Y
ent it's final success"
CURIosIrIEs OF THE ColD-Every genera o
on has its unexampled experiences, betoken- 3
,g that the weather in particular and things C
general arc out of joint. The strait of Oar
auelles and the Black Sea were entirely
"zeu over in Gle, while the snow in some +