The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-06-04
( !. ..,.g Star and Catholic messenger.
-.-,.E4ss 80 osIE4ss SUNDAY. JUNE is7s.
LErrER from ROME.
TIE VATICAN.

Fl n, Monday (May ~ the Holy Father re-
.;ved in private audience their Mhlesties
eei'G1 and Queen of Greece and their
me- no "a u;sbnesses the Prince and Princess of
Hoyymark. with other membe OF the same
eoval house. On the same Gay his hon,
soy ,ava audience to the Superior ana
ese of the Greek College in Rome.
1 . tbe previous day (Sunday, 3Oth Aprii)
a;Ior;ma from Toulouse were received.
hssnd of faithful French Catholics con
stad the Bishop OF Toulouse, q number
"a clereymen of his diocese, ana ABOUT Two
undred and fifty laymean from M me 81 I9h. on
nnse district. To an address read oy the
S;abon of Toulouse the Holy Father re
snonSed. acknowledging the consolation he
Iecaived from the presence OF such an as
semhleee. of which the venerable Bishop
~ the head. "You call to my mind"
proceeded his Holiness, the sacred relics
.h;sf were yenerated in the city of Ton
nae. Among those principally recollect
e hofiy of the angelicai doctor, ST. Thomas,
X ho was the honor of Italy, the glory of
is Order, and one of the true spirits chos
m of God. And st. Thomas makes me
Ahink of those times in which he lived, and
81 the sad events which then faicted Tou
does not know how the sainted doctor ex
erted himself by his preaching and by his
Writing to destroy the monstrous heresies
(which desolsted 30 large and SO fair por-
tion of the Catholic Churchf The Abb
gensians and the followers of Aineric of
Prague, and of William of Saint Amore
H (who had nothing of the saint except the
name), formed base alliance, fabrieating
the strapgest compound of errors and
|blssphemies, and tried to corrupt and poi
son the people, under the protection, un-
fortunately, of certain rulers, one of whom
was Count Ray Of Toulouse.
But from the fret they were opposed by
St. Dominic, who gave to Italy, France,
and the Catholic world his precious prayer
Of the Rosary, which is an epitome of all the
mysteries Of our, holy religion, and after
wards by St. Thomas Aquinas, with his
heavenly learning. These two champions
of the Faith repelled the aesaults of the
incredulous, exposed the errors of the new
heretics, and, despising the patronage af-
of the world, succeeded in gaining the de-
sired dvictory over the enemies of truth.
The heretics of that day asserted, and
Q contemplate sect in the present day re
peats the assertion that the Catholic
Church has ceased to exist. The heretics
of the thirteenth century gave out that
this cessation occurred precisely when
Pope Saint Sylvester mounted the Ponti-
fical throne. The present heretics are q
little more indulgent and concede, it would
appear, little longer life to the Catholic
Church. The Old Catholics of Germany
are in accord with all the other heretics of
Europe, and say that the Church is nolong
er what she once was, that she has1ailen,
has become obscured, and is no longer pure.
They arrogate to themselves the right to
purify her. Nor are Counts of Toulouse
wanting, who protect the new heretics just
as there is no lack of pOtentates to perse-
cute furiously the Catholic religion.
"I will not speak of the swarms of here
tics who precipitate themselves especially
upon poor Italy, with deceitful words and
corrupting bribery, endeavoring to seduce
and defile our beautiful country. will L OF
speak of this miserable collection of errors
and of erripg prOselytisers, who with the
worst intentions, and with mutual discord,
destroy and defeat each other.
"Bnt if st. Dominic with prayer, and
st. Thomas with sermons and writings,
fought and conquered the foes of God, puri-
flying the Church from pollution and cor
ruption, we may also hope that to day, by
employing the same methods, we may ar
rive at similar victories, and at last behold
our Holy Church cured of her wounds
which che has received in different parts
of Europe and the world.
"Certain it is that now good Catholics
employ the weapons Of prayer and sermons
to overcome the assaults of the emissa
ries of Satan. -Pilgrimages are performed
by devout men, equipped not with steal OF
sword, but with the Rosary at their side.
eSDO Will uGbduBSlIC6A OonOuOAo w SOthAOAO
instruct them, and call them to repentance
All good Catholics now join themselves
closely to this Chair of truth, and you
yourselves set a splendid example in this
respect, ipasmuch as you have left your
own country aud repaired to Rome atgreat
Inconvenience, to visit me and console me
in this corner of the capital of the Catholic
>Yorld, a corner blessed by God, wherein
am compelled by prudence and necessity
! to live and reside. Here 1 receive you
Here 1 bless you. And here pray with
and for, you and l deplore with you tht
mournf1I situation in which the Church o
Christ has been placed by her foes. Her,
with you 1 offer special prayer with tn,
formulary left us by st. Dominic, namely
that if now we weep with the daughters o
Jerusalem when we behold the Church GOV
cred with wounds and exposed to tn
cries of joy will one day succeed tears o
pain and that cries of glory will follow
our cries of joy, to be echoed hereafter ii
Gods good time in the eternal tabernalee
p0t nd. frinmnhS con