The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-16

CATHOLIC CHURCHES
The Issue of the Present
Persecution and the
Future of the
Papacy.
NEWS OF THE PARISHES
st. Lucy's Big Fair 10 Be For
mally Opened on Monday
st. Peters Amateur
Thespians.
NEWS OF THE PARISHES

"On the twentieth of last September the
arch-enemies of the Catholic Church cele-
brated with great noise the twenty-ffth an
niversary of the capture of Rome, thus fiat
tering themselves on giving the last blow to
Papacy,a says the 1.-The Catholic Ledger
s.But history is there to show, through all
centuries, that in spite of all the efforts OF
hell to destroy the church, the words OF her
divine founder will always remain true.
The gates of hell shall not prevail against
her.
"King Victor Emanuel entering Rome by
the breach of Porta Pia, had said: We are
in Rome and we shall remain there Others
before him had manifested this con-
fdence and we know their triumphs be-
came day flies and their hopes an illusion.
PERILS PASSED THROUGH.
SIN 400, under Pope Innocent l., the city
of Rome was sacked by Alaric, king OF the
Visigoths.
I'm ASS, under Pope st. Leo, the city OF
Rome was entirely pillaged anew by Cen
seric, king of the Vandals.
SIN 456. under st. Hilary, the Eternal City
was taken and abandoned to be plundered by
Ricimer, general of Honorious and of Val
entinian.
SIN ATS. under st. Simplicius. Rome was
taken by Odoacre, chief of the Herules.
an $50. under st. Sylvester, Rome was
besieged and taken by Belisarius. and the
Pope led into captivity at Patara, IN Lycia,
where he died of misery.
''In $40, under Pope Vigilius, Rome was
taken again and sacked by Tolila, king or
the Ostrogoths. -
In 555, under sRelagius, Rome was be
sieged and taken by, Narses, general OF JUS
tinian.
In 655 Pope ST. Martin I. was carried
away from Rome and, after horrible treat
ment. remained in captivity in Chersonese.
in no Stephen III. was obliged to take
refuge in France aud iinplore the assistance
in 7ee Leo III, e victim of a dreadful con-
spiracy, took. refuge with Charlemagne,
whom he annointed soon afterward as empe-
ror of the Occident.
SIN SAT, under Pope Leo w., the Vatican
was invaded and laid waste by Saracens-
SIN 987 Pope Gregory Y. was imprisoned
in he remained a. prisoner during eleven
.lIn 1884 Gregory VII. was besieged in the
castle st. Angelo by Henry w., emperor OF
Germany.
I'm 1i17 Pascal II, was dragged outside
LIE tllf Ol Olut Ql tlC 0A1BCAOt v
1.-THE two years following Gelasius Ii. was
Obliged to take refuge at Gaeta, then in
France and fingered in the abbey OF Cluny.
Innocent II. sought for an asylum in
France.
sAlexander III. fed before Barbarossa
from 1859 10 1865, then again in liza.
'sInnocenr ". took refuge in France inn
mediateiy after his coronation in 1243.
I'm 1347, under Clement ", they pro
claimed at Rome the republic of Colas de
Rienzi.
Percari became chief of the new Latin re-
public.
I'm 1927 Pope Clement VII. was besieged
during sir months in the castle st. Angelo
by the imperials.
I'm 1886, under Plus VI, Rome and the
Roman States were transformed into a re-
public and the Pope became a prisoner.
s.In 1909, under Plus VII, Rome was in
corporated to the French empire and the
Pope was thrown into prison.
I'm 184S Plus TX. was forced to fly from
Rome in order to escape the Mazzinians.
in 1870 transpired what everybody
knows.
AS FIRM AS AsROCK.
ssThis long enumeration is far from being
complete. 1t would be necessary to quote q
great number OF other dates. other facts and
other names, if one would like to pass In re-
view all the Popes who were expelled from
1bOllc, Gil buC HOiitfC01
Roman Pontiffs and the States of the Church
had to underground all the prosecutions, the
object of which the H9ly See has been on the
part of the potentates and the great of the
world. But the; Quotations we have made
are sufficient, we believe, to assure us about
the issue of the present persecution and the
future of the Papacy.
..The Pope has returned from Gaeta-said
Louis Veuillot nearly half a century ago
as he has retured from Fontainebleau, as he
has returned from Avigon, as he did go forth
from the Catacombs and from all his cap-
wtivities. He returned into his city, which
dies without him; he mounted his throne
again. This throne, deprived of visible
Notifications. power could not usurp it, nor
cunning overtake it, nor time dissolve it; the
conqnerors did not know how to cling to it;
stronger than the centuries, stronger than
the rawlings of the world. it has resisted all
the torrents that rolled over the earth carry
ing along institutions, empires and nations.
lit has resisted and 1t will resist