Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-28
IN A PECULIAR ROLE.
The Wife Of Pere Hyacinthe on a
Visit to the United States.
HER WORK THE LABOR OF A LIFE
The Kind Of Catholicism Believed in BY
the Hyacinthes.
SINGULAR DOCTRINES PROMULGATED.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.I
NEW YORK, Aug. N-Mme. Hyacinthe
Loyson, wife of the celebrated Charles
Loyson, better known as Pere Hyacinthe,
arrived in this city to-day and is at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel She is here in the
interest of the work which she and her hus-
band are at present doing in France.
The life story of Mime. Loyson is a curious
one. An American girl, born Of Puritan
stock, raised in the Methodist faith, and for
many years q communicate Of Henry Ward
Beecher's church, she became, by her per-
sistency and ability, prominent figure of
the Roman Catholic Church, and, indeed,
she was no stranger within the Vatican
itself.
, Mime. Loyson first married Captain E. r.
Merriam, of Ohio. Two children were
born of this union, daughter, who died in
early youth, and a son. Nine. Loyson was
one of the first women in America to do
newspaper work, and continued it long after
her marriage with Captain Merriam.
When he died she went abroad, and while
in Rome espoused the Roman Catholic
faith. She quickly developed into poll
tician, however, and entered actively into
taines, or Jansenists, and the Jesuits, tax
ing sides with the liberal Catholics, who
rejected such doctrines as the infallibility
OF the Pope.
. Her Marriage TO Pere Hyacinthe.
She was much sought after, and had main
tanned the plans for woman's college at
Rome, when there appeared on the scene
the broad-shouldered, sweet-voiced Pere
Hyacinthe, who, despite his priestly avoca
ton, became enamored Of the brilliant
American, and his affection proved recip-
rocal
The priest finally renounced the deep
asceticism of the barefooted Carmelite friar,
snapped bis fingers at the VOWS which stood
in the path of his happiness, and married
the woman of his choice. 1t is hardly
necessary to add that the marriage shocked
the Catholic world, and the press of Europe
was outspoken in its condemnation. In all
the years that have followed their marriage,
Pere Hvacinthe and his wife have worked
together in their self-assumed mission-the
reform of the Catholic church. Speaking of
that mission to-day, Mime. Loyson said:
''Bear in mind that ours is not new
sect; it is far from Pere Hyacinthe's inten-
tion to add to the already too numerous
divisions of Christians. There should. be
be, not the Roman Church, but the one
Apostolic Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church Not One OF Changes.
"Our Catholic Church has never changed,
but the Roman Church has been slowly but
surely changing since long before the Vati-
can council of 1870, when it made so many
radical changes that Catholicity was per-
verted. The Pope and the Jesuits became
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steadfast in the faith.
"We deny the infallibility of the Pope,
for the simple reason that the Pope was
never heard of until many years after the
establishment of our church-the old Cath
olic, that national church of power. We
recognize primacy. but not the papacy.
The Catholic Church is the great republic
of souls. Rome deviates from the prInci Piles
of Cathollcity; we deviate from the system.
The Catholic Church was founded by st.
John, the Roman Church by St. Paul.
"My object in visiting America is first,
to see the home of the friends and the
scenes of my childhood In hope of regain
ing my lost health, but while here 1 ex-
pect to accept the invitations already re-
ceived to give drawing room entertain
ments, in order that our friends may learn
the real truth about our religion, which is
an old religion taught by new method-a
method of love. At the same time, I e1-
pect to appeal to our friends for help, that
the good work may 60 on uninterrupted.
Figures In " hich she Dclights.
"Our miraculous success may be estimated
when say that out of "a, ,000,0 900 Catholics
in France only 100000 are in reality
Roman Catholics. The 32,000,000 are not
inidels; they are not Protestants; they be-
long to our church, save in this-that when
dying they invariably call in Romish
priest, that they may obtain Christian
burial thereby. but in time we hope to
eradicate the superstition.
''The National Society of the Evangelical
tion of France, originated by the good Pere
during the last Lenten season, already in
cludes the ministers of the Lutheran, Pres
byterian, Methodist, Reformed and Catho-
lie (not Roman) churches of France. Now
you have the history of our church, the old
Catholic Church of France, In NUTSHELL"
Nine. Loyson is suffering from an injury
to her foot, which she sustained on the voy-
age over. having been thrown from her
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