The Irish standard., 1895-08-24

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at1l from Barb rs d. b II
The srniEsiQnaries sof the religious orders
SssS- priests sent out rom the propaga
anu those educated in the colleges TOR
foreign missions in Europe are sntelleetu
IssaII1y the peers Of any body. Of Professional
ffSinen ia the world. / i, ss e $
NJ IA hundred and fifty years ago priests
LOT the Catholic Church traversed the enor-
NOUS state Of China proper, and. lraced on
their maps the position Of cities, the d.
TeEtson Of rivers and height Of mountains
Il III ith "a airectness OF detail and general acc
curacy OF utlineg that are absolutely mara
yslous. To this day all our maps of China
Il and Corea are based upon their obserVar
I tons Whatever IS valuable in Chinese
4 astronomical science, adds Mr.. Gertezlan
& ia his work on China, has been borrowed
n from the treatise Of Roman Catholic mis-
sionaries. s
Two hundred and fifty years ago Father
Chaumonot, without portable chrononle-
ter, astrolabe Or theodolite, took the la IL
rude of a line In what is now Wellington
county in this province, and was only q
/ quarter Of q degree wrong in his calcula1
tions. The Canadian Institute published
1yndsr It's auspices last March treatse On
the Indians who people the Immense
plains aud forests which,extend from the
northern saskatche wan to the delta Of the
Mackenzie river This monogram with its
wonderful illustrations is the production
Of missionary priest who, for 20 years
/ has oonsorted. with the Western Denes,
and is pronounced by competent authorl-
ties to he the ablest treatise Oh the man
rers customs and habits Of an Indian
ts:be ever written.
A part; of the training Of the young men
who, at Algiers, are being educated Tor
the Arabian missions, consists Of three
hpurs' horse exercise every week, and
this continues for three years. andsat the
end Of which tine they are the equals OF
any rough riders in Tbs. world This ls a
necessary part Of their training for the
missionary work among the Bedouin
Arabs, half of whose life is spent in the
saddle
Permit me also to add that among the
missionary fathers doing duty on foreign
missions are to be found many OF noble
birth, who have voluntarily LETT the world
and, like ST. Peter, surrendered all things
that they might follow Jesus. The family
OF Father Brebeuf, who was turned alive
by the Senecas, established the great Eng
ltsh earIdom Of Arundel Father Dalllon,
the Franciscan missionary, who Travelled
, oO>A VI
Count Dulluda Alexander Tache, the OBJ
late missionary, Who fifty years ago liter
ally buried himself alive among the tribes
OF the Northwest, was e. brother OF Sir
Et.enne Tacbe, whose great talents did
so muah to advance the interests OF this
country. The Father ScheniZe, who met
STANLEY at Uganda, in Africa, was the SON
Of a Belgian count.
The Protestant historian, DR.. Hunter,
III his work upon the Indian empire, pub
lishrea in 1882, gives the total number Of
Catholics III India, exclusive of Burrnah
and Ceylon. as l, 299 ,30a In the missions
of the buddhist countries. Ceylon had, in
1892, a total of 1856 500 Catholics increas-
ing since then at the rate Of I 900 year.
In f3;,rmah in this year there were "a, 900
In the Malay peninsula there we're ll,l73
Catholics In Siam the SAME year, Ii, lS0,
and III. Carabodia, 1850. and so the sta
tist5es OF Burmah, AMMAN, Cochin China,
Tonuutn, the many missions IN CHINA;
Thibet, Japan, Asia Minor, Cyprus, Syria,
Persia, the islands c. the Pacific and In
dim Oceans North and South America
show an equally gratifying state OF affairs
The Society Of African Missions has In
trusted by the Holy See to its charge four
Apostolic prefecJures, which include the
coast OF Benin Daho1ney, and the Slave
Coast, the Ivory Coast and part Of the
Egyptian Delta.
The Athabasca Mackenzie region in
tic great Northwest, the British Column
hia. snissionary regions Labrador and
the frontier regions Of Alaska are COM
,nitted to the care Of the Oblate fathers;
PATAGONIA and the neighboring Islands
are attended by the fathers Of the So
ciety OF the Sacred Heart, established by
the sanity and famous Don Bosco; Alas
ka proper is under the care Of the ,Jesu-
its; In fact, the known world is dotted
with Catholic missions, and Dr. Hunter
cannot be far astray when he assumes
that the Catholic population Of the world
rl,1st be at least 25O, 900 900. 10 record
the names of the Catholic priests who
we're martyreA for the &aith i'll foreign
missions would require a book almost as
large as t'Webster's Unabridged Diction~
ary.' AZ ,seE...ss .,,..55s,
Take for example Il list Of those who
we're 1nartyred in our own land. In 16A9
Fathers Rrebeuf and i.alemant, after suf-
sarlng the horrors Of nlutilation, were
burned at the stake almost within gun
shot Of the present town of Penetang-
.lisslene.
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death by the Mohawks.
IN the year 1919 Father GARNER was
also uartyrea On the 18th Of Deem
her, same year, Father Noel Chabanel
met q similar fate Nicholas. Wei, Leon
ard Gazreau, Buteux and Poncet, and the
fearless Rene Menard, LIE Maistre and
yigral Souel and Constantine, Du Pois-
son and DOutaileau, all gave their lives
FOR the faith. John Daauerre, who Wis
tied the savage nations on the borders
of the Mississippi. and was killed in the
midst Of his apostolic labors, Gabriel de
Lafibourde, killed by the illinois; Max
i'm I4e Clere, tortured and put to death
by the same tribe; Daniel Tetu, burned
by sayages in 1717, Father Vereaillerz.
drowned by The Mississippi tribes.
"It maybe asked" writes Bancroft, 'if
these Massacres quenched enthusiasm.
answer shat the priests never receded
one foot; but. as in a brave army, others
stepped forward to take the place OF the
ffl,isn SO there were neyer wanting con-
secrateil men filed with enterprise and
enthusiasm on behalf Of the cross.
OF those who escaped martyrdom many
died worn out in the service of the tribes.
OF these were Pinet who became the
founder Of Cahokia, preaching with such
success that his chapel could not contain
the multjtuda that thronged to hear him.
Bimetau, who left. his mission among
the Abenakis to die on the upland plains
~ the MiSsiSSiDpi. Gabriel Marest who