The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-13

Proceedings IN the Conereeation % Rites
Josa's Career and Expioit'.

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After protracted inquiry. which has In
| cluded the examination OF more than six hun
| bred documents bearing upon the case. the
| Congregation Of Rites decided on Saturday
that subject TO the approval OF the Sovereign
Pontiff the process Of the beati1cation OF the
/ glorious Maid should be introduced at the
Court Of Rome. ON that interesting and his
toric occasion there were present their Emit
nences Aloisi- Masella. Irefect OF Rites: Paroc-
chi. Blanchi. Melchers. -raracciani Ruff
fo.scills. Mocenni verVa. Mazzella. Macchi. and
his Eminence Cardinal Iangenieux. Arch
bishop OF Rheims who had hurried across
France to be present at the ceremony After
listening to an address from Cardinal Paroc-
chi. in which he passed IN survey all the evil
dence which had accumulated before them as
to the heroism OF the virtues and the authen-
the members OF the Congregation voted on tho
question: An 81 signinid tO,1tptsSO hb gd"r.
od epsciu,R IL g,to oqjtu. one by one tho twelve
Cardinals rose and returned the same an
gidcuTh In the afternoon OF the same
day the Secretary oil, tho G9nRregation Mgr
signed the decree authorizing tho introduce
ton Of the process Of boatitlcaton, using, as
Il customary IN sucn cases ms nt ,i name
leo Pr. NJ H., for the other DEGREES which IN
attest the herosm OF her sanctity and the au-
thenticitv of her miracles.
Tue girl whose fair fame tho genius OF
Shakespeare in this land, and that VI Ultairs
in another. have combined to damn in two lit
eratures, il on the high road to canonization
OF the Church Of tiod. Just as long ago her slim
plicity and purity and simpl eness OF purpose
have conquered even Protestant and national
prejudice and wrunR from most unwilling
Toes the tribute OF unmingled admiration.
Nothing more significant OF the change In the
Tnelishmen could well be wished than the
tone OF the admirable article with which the
Tunes greeted this last and Important act OF
DODa | We gladly nuOta and nlOpt the
words OF our contemporary as our own: In
taking steps to beatiiy Joan Of Arc. the koman
ChuI ch Is honoring n tyre to which not one
nation only but all the world VIII gladly nay
homage the tyre OF pure and tender woman
And seldom indeed has God worked such
mighty ends with means 80 slight AMI SO low
able A little girl minding her fathers sheep
and skilled in sewing and spinning. but never
having learned her letters, is raised w to le
whole tide OF the Ehg,lsh conquest The ter
ror and the horror OF tho war were brought
village and she was Ill ed with an exceeding
pity foT the suffering she saw When she was
the uncrowned Dauphin. hut 1t was not till
i've years later that she nnal took the irrev
S SSS home H ph na SSeptcism OF Chares
court was not an atmosphere favorable to such
as nosson Sn was aloWed to re
the relief OF Orleans.
~ The besleging army. under the victorious
two or three thousand strong, and quite un-
gble to establish an, effective Plockad" OF 50
had built a series Of forts from which a risk |
cannonade was kept up. On April -. l42,.
crowd surged out OF the gates to greet her. !
aud gazed at her AS n they were beholqing
fish to raise the siege. aud then to invite them
sb q:ad' s fer The s1 va. ns G ; WV
ribaldry. "a, and then one by , one II.
m animal foil bafDra the assaults of fhA
townsmen, until. nine days after the Maid bad .
entered Orleans. Talbot and Sunolk sullonly /
cess was won. and half her mission was oyer. (
That mission was defined by herself rs limited |
Dauphin crowned at RLeims Learning that |
SUFFOLK had thrown himself into Iarge3u, this
sault, and suffolk was forced to liy.
ON the 18th Of June the Maids victorious
body o! troops who had marched across France |
to his help. under Sir John Falstal. A bloody |
we're routed and Lett 1000 dead ON the held
and their great leader prisoner in the hands
loans heart was filed with pity for the van
pushed and she went when sne thought OF so
fession. II was only two months since she had
made her way half 10y stealth. into Orleans and
snJsd' bs Military Sas Ser bsa
the second part OF her mission. as defined to
herself. was accomplished: she laid siege %
and partly by the Durgunaians. Joan hersel led
the storminG party. and the terrified English.
declaring they saw u cloud of white butterflies
lowering around her banner, capitulated.
Troyes was taken on the 18th OF July. on the
10Th the Dauphin entered rheims. and two
DAYS later he was crowned. and the Maids
work in less than three months. was done.
From that hour onward her briei career was
checEered with misfortune. In September
she was repulsed from tho walls OF Paris and
badly wounded. During the winter she sue
crcded IN taking ~. Pierre lie Monsters. but
was driven back from the walls OF La Charlie.
In the spring OF the following year she was
taken prisoner by tho Burgundians while max
ing sortie from CompitSne and by them sold
to the English.
The record OF Joan's trial is fortunately very
com pleta. and tine Congregation OF Rites has
had every opportunity Of considering every
thing which legal and sacerdotal cunning
could torture into evidence against her.
all her answers there runs the same
absolute confidence in God and in the right
eousness OF her cause the same sweet frank
ness. and the same artless sim plicity. Nome-
times she merely prattles and repeats the |
same thing over and over again. At others tho
aptness and force OF her replies fairly baftied
the dial Olical ingenuity OF her questoners.
Besides the full reports Of her long trial there
Is other testimony. also OF a very detailed and
nature in the record OF the proc
ess OF rehabilitation which took place some
thirty years after her death. at which many
Of the witnesses OF the original trial were eX.
amined.