The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-06-13
Corning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY, JUNE 10 1875
NEWS FROM ROME.
THE THDAY OF Plus TX.
GRAND DEMONSTRATION.
ADDRESS OF THE GERMAN PILGRIMS.
NEWS FROM ROME.
THE BIRTHDAY OF Plus TX.
\ GRAND DEMONSTRATION.
ADDRESS OF THE GERMAN PILGRIMS.
THE POPES REPLY.
From the London Register. May gal

From the London Register May al
The birthday of His Holiness, Pope Plus the
Ninth, on Thursday week, the 18th of May,
was the ocoaaion of an exceptional demonstra-
tion. It was not simply that six hundred
pilgrims from Germany presented themselves
in the Sale Ducale, the largest of the spacious
Halls of the Palace of the Vatican, to offer
their homage at the foot of the Papal Throne.
It was not that around the Holy Father were
grouped grand array of fourteen Cardinals,
Of two Patriarchs, of two Archbishops, and of
many Bishops and other high ecclesiastical
dignitaries It was not even that there were
piled up on the steps of the Pontifcal Throne
eighteen enormous and ponderous volumes
containing the signatures of more than q mill
lion German Catholics. OF the pilgrims that
have already focked to Rome to celebrate the
Jubilee-and in doing go to carry to the feet of
the successor of the Prince of the Apostles
their filial protestations of reverence and sym
pathy-these six hundred Germans are but the
merest fractional portion. As for the array of
Cardinals, Patriarchs, Arch bishops and Bishops
grouped around the chair of the 256th success
sor of st. Peter, that, as oil Christendom
knows, is but circumstance of every. day oo-
currence. While, in regard to the matter of
the signatures contained in the hugo tones,
comprising within them the autographs of the
signatories to the Address of Congratulation
profered on Thursday week to the Sovereign
Pontiff, it is the simple fact that the seemingly
amazing aggregate of upwards of one million
names represents, after all, less than an unit
in the vast multitude of the spiritual children
and subjects of Plus the Ninth. The Catholics
of Germany who had therein inscribed their
Al, 49,.
supreme spiritual Sovereign were, as we have
said, over million. But, according to the
records of statisticians, according to a general
agreement among those who have scanned the
religious census, either supposed certain,
either actually known, through q house to
mouse enrolment, or proximately conjectured
through perfectly reasonable balance of pro-
liabilities, the Catholics in all parts of the
naoitable globe are demonstrably not less in
round numbers than two hundred millions, at
the lowest computation. What rendered the
oenonstration of Thursday week at the Vati-
can 80 exceptional was the contrast presented
W view by the circumstances attending the
recurrence of the anniversary-first of all in |
regard to the venerable Pontiff himself; and, |
secondly ID regard to the non Catholic world
oy which he is surrounded. Entering that
oay upon his eighty fourth year, and fast ap-
preaching, as he does now; the thirtieth year
VI MS Pontifcate, Plus the Ninth is known to
nave already exceeded, by whole lustre-that
10 ~ FULLY Eve additional years-the longest
-0,sn recorded of any one of the Popes: the
reisn' that is, of the first of them all, of st |
~ s'er himself the Prince of the Apostles. And |
Hius the Ninth has reached this patriarchal |
4 ~ and has had secured to him this excep-
w "Onai prOlongation of his Ponti6cate, bright
eye nrm Of foot, strong in voice, hale in
a.. radiant in expression, clear in intellect.
t with unblurred memory, the visible Fa-
80 the Spiritual Ruler and Pastor of Chris
W. uom' Stripped of his possessions, deprived of
his revenue, robbed of his earthly crown, with
~. No AngdOm narrowed to a palace, garden
uu basilica, Plus the Ninth, in his eighty
aSurth year, and in all but the thirtieth year
u l, MS Ponti6cate, is acknowledgement from
-" own spiritual children-by an alien and
'LeneVing world, that yet regards him,
.-.ush with an eye askance, with q sense, in
'P''e OF itself, of halE-avowed veneration. y