New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-25
RETIGToUs INTEILiGENCE.


RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
MONTE CASINOS TEsrTyAI The crowd which
assembled at Monte Casino three weeks agO
to-day to celebrate the 14th centenary Of Tho
| birth Of Sc. Benedict The celebrated founder OF
/ the monks of the Vest Wag o very largo 0nes
The diocese Is one OF the most popul0us IN Italy,
sud the interest in the occasion was very great.
An announcement by the Abbot that the ceEebTa-
ton would beap purely religious one failed 70 re-
| sti ain the great press of visitors. Many tOr-
eigners came from all parts OF Europe, and
| efforts were made to receive as many persons
as possible b the monastery ITSELF One-hun-
| dred rooms were newly furnished as bedrO0IDs
| and many cells of the fathers were given up TO
| the guests. But all this was still Inadequate.
Straw had to be laid in the vast passages OF the
| Monastery and the peasant women slept on one
side and the men on the other. AS soon as the
| women had taken possession OF their places
| they began with one accord to sing cantides
and hymns in the long drawn wailing tone. pc
culiar 20 them and Jlnaltered 1t Is believed from
| those which their ancestors sang in the days
| of Benedict. The men responded and an effect
| most peculiar and impressive was the result.
The peasants OF this reign have. preserved
| much of the fashions peculiar to ancient time
more perhaps than those of other regions OF
| Italy. The dresses which the women wore
were OF very brilliant, pure colOrs OF red, blue
| and green, and vast numbers of men aud women
| came up the mile-long mountain pathway from
| the village below to the Monastery in a. sort OF
procession that reached almost the entire dis
lance sand Almost singular sight 1t was, says an
English correspondent, TO see the long slnuons
| line of brilliant variegated colOE1ng slowly
| winding up the pathway under the chequered
| light and gathering couds.p There has been Q
! time when the Order of. ST. Benedict possessed
| more than $1,000 mOnasteTies, but the number
| now has fallen to q few which exist mainly IN
! the Italian dioceses It has given to the church
| no fewer than "a Popes, 200 cardinals, i, 500
archishops, 1000 bishops, LOGO saints and
| among its members there have been l5,7OO who
are classed as authors.
| MARRIED, YET NO WIFE.-An extraordinary
| tale of religious hardship comes from the can
ton OF Lueerne. Thirty years ago popular
| Roman Catholic priest in one OF the parishes OF
that canton, after finishing sermon on GER
| tain day, laid aside his stole and said to his
people with strong feeling that he should never
| stand in that place again, since he intended to
cast off the yoke of ceibacy and marry wife,
ard this would involve the resignation OF his
office. Although he would gladly remain
| Catholic, it would be necessary for him to be-
| come q Protestant If he took wife. He mar
ried accordingly, and was received into the
| Protestant Church, and from that day until
very recently continued to live with his wife IN
| the same parish. A few weeks ago the wife
died. During her illness Catholic priest was
admitted to her bedside. and succeeded, the
story runs, in restoring her to the fold OF the
Church of Rome. Her friends prevailed upon
the husband to permit her TO be buried as a
Roman Catholic, and both he and his only child,
| O young man, followed the remains to the
! grave. Great was their grief when they saw
upon the register, which in Swiss parishes is
exposed in public places, that her name had
been entered as that of an unmarried woman.
When tie widOwer complained he was told by
had confessed to him that in oil her married
life she had looked upon her marriage as I'M
lawful.
ENcIIsu PILGRIMS TO LoURDEs.-Cardinal
Manning with many English Catholics among
them the Duke of Norkfolk. intends ere
long to make gilsFma4sSeo to the the shrine Ias
announced several weeks, sgO. and the
date of departure was fixed for. May 81, but
owing to some cause not stated the time mas
been deferred until September. Possibly the de-
lay is owing TO Investigations now going on as
10 sanity of Melanie, the woman who first dis
covered the miraculous apparitOns at L0urdeS.
Since she made the discovery the peasantTy
have regarded her somewhat in the light OF
proDheteBs and articles she has written have
been taken as the productions of an inspired
person. She was called to Rome some time ago
and during her stay gave, 1t IS SAID. clear lndl-
cations of dsOrdered mind. There were
warnings from high authorities against imDos-
ture. but in spite of them she continued to see
and report strange visions. On returning 10
France the Catholic press reported her sayings
freely, and Melanie became again source OF
wonder to the credul0us peasants. Hearing or
l
vatican the Bishop of GrenOble, who mt the time
| of the original visions sat in Judgment upon
them, and has directed him to compare with the
first these latest revelations with q view TO dIs-
| covering if possible whether Melanie's mind IS
sound or disordercd. The English Catholics
may lie waiting to know the result OF tins IN
quiTy
APRIL 1sr IN ROME.--In Italy, where the Gus
tom of making April fools is preserved with q
tenacity greater, it Is said, than elsewhere IN
the world, an extraordinary practical joke at
the expense of the Pope aud the new Roman
paper, The aurora, has been peTpetrated. JUST
| rs the paper as-abOut to go to press a note,
apparently official, was received containing
request that the names of certain prelates and
| nuncios, enclosed, be inserted with the names OF
the offices to which they had been transferred,
nromOted OF appointed. The note and d0cu-
ment were written on official paper and APP
| reared to be signed and sealed IN the usual way.
| When the newspaper was read at tho atlcan
there was, of course, great astOnlshment. Inc
POpe sent for the Editor and was about 10 al
mOIdsh him severely when the document with
its seals and signature was produced. his
Holiness then ordered an examination TO DO
made by experts that the author OF the forgery
mi0hL il DOSsble be detected. What made the
publication particularly offensive TO the Pope
was the use of names winch were among tne
last that no would use himself II he were maxi
ing the changes named.
A KENTUCKY REvIvALIsT.-In the mountain
counties of Eastern Kentucky the best known
man Is George 0. Barnes, who for four years had
nbored there with great zeal and rich results as
reyivalist. He was born Atty four years ago in
Garrard County, was graduated at the Princeton
Seminary, and In 1854 was ordained Presby,-
| Terrain minister. Soon after this he was married,
and in company with his wife set out for India as
a missionary. For seven years be taught and
preached in Hindostan, finally losing his health,
which compelled return home. y he then BE-
eight succeeding years, after which he went to