The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-11-28
Star and Catholic Messenger.
JUVENILE COLUMN.
.AHs. sUNDAY. NOVEMBER IS 1875.

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JUVENILE COLUMN.
,eExp OF ST. MICHAEL AND THE HER.
NIT.
sor but venerable hermit, wearing |
Bic, sandals, and cord of st. Francis
sisi, travelled, from dawn tsll the
down Of the sun, over the howery
AVS of verdant Normandy, passing
ia boroughs and villages, castles and
Was he aFaimer fiom the Holy
come to rekindle the ardor Of noble
liant men of arms with tales of the
Il the Christians in Palestineq No,
mes of Philip Augustus and Louis TX
,assed away. Yet our hermit Kept
h on, allowing himself not day of
81 the Lords day, seeking some one
Aething. -.
lat art thou seekingIpious traveller
*aor is greater than that of knight.
Hloneing to break o lance in honor OF
4 lady whose color he wears"
lam seeking o SOUL" replies the her,
4 because St. Michael the Archapgei
|Sile known to me that throne In the
& mansions awaits some soul from
throne of dazzling beauty. resplen,,
9TH sapphires and diamonds, ana
ssacu palms of the heavenly Jsrusa
lat the soul thus summoned 20
e s,n high must not be too young"
80 on thy way. Old men are to be
every country OF the eartb.
re hermit kept on his way from
SD dawn till eventide. At last he
aged abbot beneath the Gothic
of an old Benedictine abbey. His
4 Ion for sanctity and his great age,
was fourscore, years, made our Pill
sope that he had found the object of
rch. So, on Sunday, after the hour
Us, the hermit joyfully offered st.
81, on Bonded knee, the name of the
&ble abbot, with an account OF his
Nary life but in the evening, after the
DIG compline, the archangel said unto
u Continue thy search. The abbot
ntius, worthy as he is, merits NOT
igh reward. That servant OF the
|&s still too youny."
3 is fourscore years of age, OF which
-Four have been spent in the monas-
ste and in the same monastery"
lie has not yet lived twenty years as
are reckon ed by the guardian angels
Re thy way, good hermit, and continue
earch."
'er three months the pilgrim worn by
be and prolonged vigils joyfuily
hit four nance to st. Michael. 1t will
Understood that these names were
a from among thousands by the
IL pilgrim. The first bright name on
.st was that of Lord of Falaise, il,
bus through his ancestors, and stii
so for his own charity. His castle
its square towers, SURROUNDED oJ
deep meats, and high wallis wa:
"a Hospitality open to all pilgrims ane
Rers as we'll as to the unfortunate
he himself waited upon them at table
having washed their feet with hl
hands, count and baron as ne was
.e never. suffered them to depart til
"a given them aims and chanted ths
Office with them in the nave of hi
j of st. Prix. A numerous progeny
Fenced him, and all his vaeseis pro
led his fathely kindness. What NOR
i be asked that he might exchange nj
81 power for q throne in heaven
ke second on the list was the mother 9
Ia children, seven of whom serVe'
king as brave soldiers, seven other
la the altar as priests or monks, ant
Remaining one, daughter, hao man,
rem, who were reared under the care
Id vigilant eye of their grandmothe
fous renown. What more could o
that che might pass from famli
ID to throne in heaven7
- third was a noble warrior of tn
slts of Malta, covered with wound
sars gained in the service of Coz
been made, at the age of thrice
knight of his order and page of tn
master, he was appointed at the ag
snty.two, to the command of thre
essels which he armed at his ow
&se. He made himself formidable
8 Turks on the seas of the Levan
appointed captain of one of tt
US of Malta, our knight took twenty
vessels from the psynim and delivers
thousand Christian slaves. u
Fraycardin, who held sway over tt
les of Mount Lebanon, and boasted
escent from Baldwin, King Of Jerus
conceived 30 high an esteem for hi
he came forth from the town of Sage!
lsit him on board of one of his vesse
on that occasion gave him a scimlt
Damascus, with scabbard of wrong
inlaid with diamonds and "a
d, which our hero presented to Il
of France, in presence OF the ear
of illustrious memory.
he escutcheon of our knight bore
iron gules, on a field OF, charged at
h with a flower de-luce or, and 81
Snted by tho silver cross of the Order
Tia.
fe seemed truly endowed with va
sanctity, which made up for the wa
Ice, for he was only twenty-niue. WI
"a could be as5 ed that he might p'
"a the midst of combats to the bosom
sIa pt;nc ynooa and from the triumI