, 1876-11-25
Medieval and Modern saints
and Miracles.

miracles of the Popal Church. So learn.
rl and Trustworthy work has not ap'
pcared on this subject since J'6| ahR
DIiripus. lis aim is to show, from the
best sources. the real origin of those Gu
rious legends which have been added 50
proflscly of late to the Roman Catholic
rrced and indicate the singular part
which the Jesuit and utramontano fac.
tion has had in all the adoption OF
these absurd religious fctlOns. The in
telligence of the Roman Church has
been wholly subjected to band OF saw
are fanatics, superstition has been in-
vokcd to arouse disCOrd in nations, war
in Europe, and Plus lX,, weak or valn
nls been led to give his sanction to the
widest flncies of the Jesuits, He was
the first to incorporate the worship OF
the Sacred Heart among the cardinal
doctrines Of the infaIibIc Church. I'm
I'll recent period the legend and the
cult had been looked upon with doubt
and even disapprobation by many French
prelates. and were forced upon the Pa.
pal Church by the active advocacy OF
the ,Jesuits The alteration of the Sa-
red Heart has at last become the ruling
form of the Roman Catholic worship in
the Church of France. 1t is the religion
Of the fashionable, noble, wealthy; the
rich and the idle make their yearly pill
grimages to Paray. Monial. The
schools OF the Sacreu Heart have become
the favorite scminarics Of the monarch
ical and aristocratical French; they
teach hatred for rcpublicanism, and Sc
rrctIv assail the doctrine of human
equality. So subtle and uptiring are
the Jesmts in their efforts to gain the
control of the young, that these mon
arclical scminaries, founded in commem-
oFltion of an absurd and indecent le-
grad, are already scattered thickly over
the United States, are sometimes even
aided from the public funds, and intuse
their loose morality and their European
prejudices into the minds OF large mum.
bers of our children. Our author, of all
Others most competent judge, warns
all parents against the dangerous inhu-
ence of these schools. We think" he
says (page 120, "particular attention
ought to be drawn to the mischievous
character of the schools of the Sacred
Heart and other institutions under Jes-
nit, or at least monastic, superintend-
ence." "Parents who care more for
manners than morals are very often se-
duced by the SNOWY but shallow and
hollow training of the schools we refer
to- Every Catholic school in Pro-
testant country" we are told, is mis-
sionary, propagandist instrument"
A diseased and weak minded nun,
Mary Alacoque, and her Jesuit confessor,
La Colombiere, about 1870 devised that
wild fable on which rests the extrayagant
alteration of the Heart of Jesus. The
nun declared that Jesus pressed her head
tenderly to his breast, took out her heart
and placed it against HIS own, that Fa-
ther Colombiere's heart was added ut
last, and that the three hearts shone to-
gether, like glowing furnace page 1Oj,
note. Many other details are connected
with the story sufficiently repulsive, from
which modesty shrinks and at which
virtue trembles. Yet this is the sole
foundation Of that new form of the Ro-
man Catholic faith, which rules over
every part of the papal world, this is
the legend on which the young women
Of Europe and America are taught to
mediate in every school of the Sacred
Heart. For many yeaIsIt was ridiculed
and rejected even in France In vain
the Jesuits, eager for sensation, urged
their new saint upon the favorable at
tention of their Church. In vain they
claimed the support of the intelligent
prelates of France. For two centuries
tue legend OF the Sacred Heart was still
subject of violent debate at Rome and
Paris, With the fall of the Jcsuits
U773), it seemed to sink forever in
1914 it revived with their new energy.
Since that time it has obtained a won.
dcrlul success. The extravaganza of the
fable, the bleeding heart, the ianatical
passion OF Mary Alacoque, have found