New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-18
NOTES FROM VIENNA.
A FALLEN PRELATE-TIIE ESlPERORS PTCr
URES.

Vienna, October g.
The official and ecclesiastical degradation Of
Archbishop and Metropolitan, and his incarcersts
on charges of a criminal nature, is an act Of d.
cipline which few governments have ever b.,
called upon TO perform. Indeed, the course whA
the Imperial Austrian Government has Just IN,
forced to adopt with regard to Monsius
Dionysius the Metropolitan of Bosnia and Herr
govina, is almost without precedent. Among IN
least serious of the offences from common Nv
point Of view, but to which the ecclesiastical
authorities attach the greatest importance. as
fact that the Archbishop had organized a rgk,
divorce mill in the Archiepiscopal palace. Drwx
is discountenanced by the Orthodox Church ytkt
regards it with almost as much d.sfayor MIA
Roman Catholic Church does and dissolutg,a
the marriage vows is only accorded in raIe cx
Archbishop Dionysius, however. has for Tie As
eight or ten years been selling DEGREES Of diyas
granted on the most trivial and frivolous Of PIE
texts and has obtained large sums Of money-thrs
from. Among the other charges against him NJ
those Of forgery and embezzlement on the most
extensive scale. His predicament arouses %
sympathy on the part of his clergy. for. pna
TO the Congress of Berlin, when Bosnia AID
Herzegovina were still under Turkish rule b
brought number Of false and malicious chagd
against two of the most respected and beloved
Archimandrites, which resulted in their being i'm.
prisoned for several years by the Ottoman author
ties in the horrible penal settlement Of Fezzan.
All Americans who take any interest what
ever in pictures will rejoice to learn that The
Emperor has caused his collection of old MASTER,
the richest in Europe, TO he transferred from TIE
old Belvedere Palace, in the outskirts Of ne city,
to the new Art Museum on the Ringstrasse. The
Belvedere Palace is badly lighted, distant frun
all the hotels, and difficult of access, and 1t
doubtless owing to these facts that the treasures
which it contains are so little known. Yet the
collection which has been housed there for The
past two centuries contains many Of the choicest
pictures in the World, the Imperial HOUSE
Austria having taken advantage of, the long ~
session of the Netherlands and Spain 70 seeun
not only most Of the chef doeuvres Of the Fen
ish and Spanish schools, but also the ,princip
gems of the collection formed by King Charles
of England. Among the paintings hitherto pre-
served at the Belvedere Palace, but which new
hang on the walls of the newly opened Art Museum
are thirty-fve Titians, including the famOS
"Ecce Homo" and "Danae' Receiving the Goldsa
Rain" There are also thirty-two of the nnes'
works of TintOretto, twenty-nine Of Paul Veronese
four Of Correggio, thirteen of Velasquez, eight Of
Albrecht Durer, seven of Holbein, seven OF fem
brandt, twenty-seven of Vandyke, and fortyfoar
of Rubens-one of which is the head of the Ne
dusa, a picture which produces so strong an In
preston ON those who behold it that it is hung
alone in separate room. 1t shows lace Of.
which are rendered all the terrors and angusn, o.
O violent death, surrounded by mass Of writing
adders that form the hair, and by wrigging yer
min springing from the blood that pOurs from M
mouth and severed throat.