The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-10-28


emily Of the Communion or Sacrament. AS
there is holy water kept in all private houses
as woll as in chapels and places of prayer, 30
also is there holy bread, sometimes in the form
Of wafere, which on Sundays and certain
other days, not consecrated as Communion, is
blessed, as holy water Is, by the word and
prayer, and distributed to men, women, and
little children of two and three years old.
Suoh bread may be carried about and kept in |
houses to eat at any time. For my part,
have many times taken it to eat myself snd |
give to others. l may have given it to !
the witness, for aught know to the contrary |
And lastly, my lord, az to what he said
about my speech to his Enother-in-law: l
was in truth at Stourbridge in her house.
ut her busband's request, to speak to her !
of religion, for to say the truth SHE hath no
religion st all, not more. my lord than tbs
witness. But she desired to hear from me- what
Catholics hold and the reasons for which we
believe certain poiots of faith. l told her
what we hold and showed her the proofs there
of in her own Bible, and when she made any
difficulty, whether suoh texts of Scriptures
were to be understood as we understood them,
OF ia aRy other sense. i showed her out OF the
Protestant Practice of Piety," and out OF the
Protestant Common Prayer Book" that not
only Catholics, but all Protestauts understood
them in such sense and she having those
books by her, turned to the places in her
own books where she read them, and vet
neither the Bible, nor Common Prsyer BOOK"
nor Practice of Piety," could satisfy or make
her believe; whereupon told her that II she
were Christi An abe must believe something, for
| as she believed so would she be saved. quoted
| the Bible, that without faith it was impossible
to please God; that whatsoever is not OF faith Is
| sin that the just man Hyeth by faith and the
| words of our Saviocr, where He saith: " he
| that believeth shall be saved, but he that be-
| lieveth not shall be Damned" which she read
| and suppose that the witness must have been
! present when I repeated this text, aud hath
| therefore accused me of saying that no would
| be damned, because I repeated and showed
! them our Saviours words as they appear IN
] Scripture"
| Father Joachim then appealed to the judge
and jury 10 whether there WAS anything
| which the first witness had said which could
| legally prove his guilt, to which his lordship
| made reply, ave 30 call his attention to the
! testimony of the other witnesses.
| " As to the second, my lord, he will readily
| deny all his sonin-}aw ha b said agairsa sae."
| said the Frauciscau.
The Judge called back the old man and
| lres1icueu sim again As to whether be- had
| erru M. JOLuR1p say Mass, wear a yestment,
| or hear CONF esious, to all of which he an
srered he kue" nothirg Against him.
| What are ynuf" asked tEe Judge at length.
| "A Cathoiic' ne replied.
"TGen 20 away said the judge with a look
at the jury lyon arc too much friend of the
prisoners, and therefore do not care for your
| testimony"
In replying to the testimony of the last two
witnesses, Father W all showed that there ives
no evidence of his priesthood in the taos of
his having worn a surplice, since all Lha s!Gg'
ing boys Ia every Protestant Cathedral chnIca
wear them, and sill tho Jews in their syna-
gogues and then recspitulating what he had
Mon, he rested his argument to the jury upon
the fact that there no sufficient evidence
of his priesthood to condemn him to death,
and that, as far as the testimony Went, he had
merely been shown 10 have acted o. any good
Catholic Isyman might act under similar cir
oumstsrces. When no had finished La de-
fence, the jud GO said that the prisoner " had q
' nimbie tongue and wis, and THAT by bis dis
courses he strove to make the jury attend
oors 10 his pleading for himself auHn 10 the
/ NJ .rGsses' Arguments BGalCet him."
smoke nothing,
rcioiped the prisoner, which 1 ought TO do
to defend myself against my enemies there
fore hope yonr lordship will not be offended
but have exceeded 30 your lordship saith, by
hindering y0u from speaking, humby crave
your pardon, which hope to obtain, since it
is my concern to plead, as do, for no less a
consequence than lite and death"
In his suru'ipg mp the judge told the jury
. | that, provided the witnesses could show that
certain things had been done which priests do,
it was not necessary that they should prove
that the prisoner had taken orders from for
eign pow sr, for las they could not have seen
him Jake ofders) they could only testify TO b; Is
having doue certain things from which the
jury might infer his priesthood. He then
averred that the witnesses had sufficiently
shown that Francis johnson had performed
I certain actions, from which his priesthood
might he clearly presumed.
! The Father asked leave to speak another
word or two before the jury retired, which UHe
indge at first refps ID, but afterwards allowed
him to address to himself.
, Suppose" sad Father Wall, "al the
proofs which the witnesses bays 5Fougat
\ u gainst me- alleged against the jury, OF
. some of them, SO that if the arguments were
, Judged bJ then. conclusive, some of the jdry
b. would lose part of their estates aud credit, OF
u De III danger fur their lives, which of those ou
a | whom this peril were like to fall, would judge
a.. such arguments a. alleged against me
,. sufficient to condemn them to the loss OF thei
o estates, credit, or to endsnger their lives
8 / therefore desire them to consider that my al
d in this world lies at stake, my credit too, anc
r. that my life is not only endangered bat Ger
a tain to be forfeited if those argumeuts shonle
a ! be judged of force. Deal with me therefore
:, | as if it were your ow case, aud will give yoI
r no further trouble in speaking"
q However, before the jury retired, Fathe
n Joachim entreated the judge to read paPe
which he handed him, thus woIded :
IS Observation-Disclosures upon the 18th day @
Decem Der last past, or thereabouts, came thre
men TO the Castle of Worcester, aud as the
I came up the stairs, Rogers desires one of theI
3 to call for Mr.. johnson, and see II b
IT would answer to that name or not; and ente
ing into the room, he asked where was ID
u Johnson, and which was he, though be was 8
u that time present in the room, and none elt
IT but one man and my self drinking at the doc
;N cOpEcieucA knay him In Wi