The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-29


rs 1t were into a celestial splendor. For
now, the few classic books they owned, so
cold and dry, existed no longer. The
Legend alone interested her. She b mt over
1t, with her forehead resting on her hands,
tudying il so intently, that she no longer
lived in the real life, but unconscious of
time, she seemed to see, mounting from the
depths of the unknown, the broad expaa-
sion of dream.
How wonderful it all was! The saints
and virgins They are BON predestined;
solemn voices announce their coming, and
their mothers have marvellous dreams
about them. All are beautiful, strong, and
victorious Great lights surround them,
and their countenances are respondent.
Dominic has star on his forehead. They
read the minds of men and repeat their
thoughts aloud They have the GIFT of
prophecy, and their predictions are always
realized. Their number is Infinite. Among
them are bishops and III INKS, virgins aad
fallen women, begGarS and mobiles OF royal
race, unclotned hermitS who live on roots,
and OLD men who inhahit caTerns with
goats. Their history is ALWAYS the Same.
They grow up for Christ, believe tervcntly
in Him, refuse to sacrifice to false gods, are
tortured ana die filed with glCry. l. IL
perors were at last weary of prosecuting
them. Andrew, after being attached to
the cross, preached dUring two days to
~, 200 persons. Conversions were made in
masses, 5000 men lei * baptized at one
time. When the mul5itules we not con
verified by the mlgac,eS they fled terrified.
The saints were aCcu cd Of sOrcery; eng
mas was proposed 10 them, which they
solved at once; thcy were obliged 10 dis
pute questions with learned mon, who re-
manned speechiess before them. AS soon
as they entered the temples of sacrifice, the
idols were overthrown with a breath, AID
were broken to pieces. A virgin tied her
sash around the neck of statue of Venus,
which at once fell in powder The earth
trembled. The temple Of Diana was struck
by lightning and destroyed; and the people
revolving, civil wars euSued. Then often
the executioners asked to be baptized;
kings knelt at the feet of saints in rags
who had devoted themselves to poverty.
Sabina fees from the paternal roof. Paula
abandons her five children. Notifications
of the flesh and tastS purify, not oil or
water. Germans covers his food with
ashes. Bernard cares not TO eat, but de-
lights only in the taste Of fresh water.
Agatha keeps for three years a pebble in
her mouth. AuguNtinus in despair for the
sin he has committed in turning to LOOK
after dog who was running. Prosperity
and health are desplsed, and JOY begins
with priVationS which kill the body. And
it is thus that, subduing all things they
live at last In gardens where the flowers are
stars and where the leaves of the trees sing.
They exterminate dragons, they raise aud
appease tempests, they seem in their ecstatic
visions to be borne above the earth. Their
wants are provided for while living, and
after their death friends are advised by
dreams to go and bury them. Extr ordl-
nary things happen e. them, and adventures
far more marvellous than those in a work
of fictioh. And when their tombs are
opened after hundreds of years. sweet odors
escape therefrOm.
Then opposite the saints behold the evil
spirits. "They often fly about us like in
sects, and fill the air without number The
air is also full of demons, as the rays of
the sun are fall of atoms. 1t is even like
powder" And the eternal contest begins.
The saints are always victorious, and yet
they are constantly obliged to renew the
battle The more the demons are driven
away, the more they return
There were counted 1860 in the body of a
woman whom Fortunatus delivered. They
moved, they talked and cried, by the voice
of the person possessed, whose body they
shook as if by a tempest, AT each corner
of the highways an afflicted one is seen.
and the first saint who passes contends with
the evil spirits. They enter by the eyes,
the ears, and by the mouth, and after days
of fearful struggling they go out with loud
groanings Basius, to save a young man,
contends personally with the evil one
Macarius was attacked when in a cemetery,
and passed the whole night in defending
himself The angels even at deathbeds, in
order to secure the soul of the dying, were
obliged to beat the demons. At other times
the contests are only of the intellect and
the mind, but are equally remarkable.
Satan, who prowls about, assumes many
forms, sometimes Disgusting himself as
woman and again even as a saint. But
once overthrown he appears in all his ugL-
ness: "a black eat, larger than a dog, his
huge eyes emitting PANE, his tongue long,
large and bloody, his tail twisted ami
raised in the air, and his whole dody dis
gushing to the last degree" He is the one
Uhng that is hated, and the only preOccu-
patton. People fear him, yet ridicule him.
One is not even honest with MIN. In
reality, Notwithstanding the feroc Gus ap-
pearance Of his furnaces, lie is the eternal
dupe. All the treaties he makes are forced
from him by violence or cunning. Feeble
women throw him down; Margaret brushes
his head with her feet, and Juliana beats
him with her chain. From all this n
serenity disengages itself, dsdain of
evil, since it is powerless and a certainty of
good, since virtue triumphs 1t is only
necessary to cross ones self and the devil
can do no harm, but yells and disappears,
while the Internal regions tremble.
Then in this combat of legions Of saints
against satan arc developed The fearful suf-
ferngs from persecution. The execution
ers expose to the the flies the martyrs whose
bodies are covered with honey; they make
them walk with bare feet over broken glass,
or red hot Goals; put them in bitches with
reptiles: chastise them with whips whose
thongs are weighted with leaden balls nail
them when alive in collins, which they
throw into the sea; hang them by their
hair and then set fire to them; moisten
their wounds with quicklime, boiling pitch,
or melted lead; make them sit on red-hot
iron stools; burn their sides with torches /:
break their bones on wheels, and torture
them in ever conceivable way. And with
all this, physical PAIN counts for nothing
indeed it seems to be desired Moreover.
continual miracle protects them. Jonn
drinks poison but is unframed. Sebastion
smiles although pierced with arrows.
Sometimes they remain in the air at the
right or left OF the martyr, or, launched by
the archer they return upon himself and
put out his eyes Melted lead is swallowed
rs if it were ice water. Lions PROSTATE
themselves and lick their bands as gently ms
lambs. The Gridiron of Saint Lawrence is
OF an agreeable freshness 20 him. He cries,
Unhappy man, you have roasted one side,
turn the other and then eat, for il is sutii-
GENTLY cooked" Cecilia, placed in a boiling
bath, is refreshed by it. Christina exhorts
those who would torture her. Her father
had her whipped by twelve men who at
last drop from fatigue; she is then attached
TO a wheel, under which fire is kindled,
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