St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-25
AT FAIR MAYNOOTH.
Great College in Ireland
Where Catholic Clergy
Are Educated.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
It Will Celebrate It's Centen-
airy During Next
June.
THE GENESIS OF MAYN00TH.
Politics Of Maynooth Purified
During the Time Of
Parnell.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
THE GENESIS OF MAYNO0TH.

Inc COll6So OF the seminary WHGTe-
in the clergy of a whole nation are
educated is worthy of a passing
notice any time. The centenary Of
such an institution gives it addi-
tional interest. The college of May
nooth, in which all the Roman Cath
Ollie clergy of Ireland and some of
those of the United States, Australia,
Canada, South Africa and India are
educated, will celebrate the centen-
airy of it's foundation next June.
The English-speaking world natur-
ally longs to look into an institution
in which the men are trained who
mould the morals of whole people.
There is no educational institution
the same influence upon the people
of it's country as MaynoOth college
has upon the people of Ireland. A
chief reason for this is because prac-
tically all the spiritual teachers of
that country are educated within
it's walls.
The establishment of MaynoOth
college brings US back to the time
when Protestants and Catholics
hated each other with an intensity
which the Christian of today could
not we'll reconcile with his idea Of
Christianity. 1t brings us back to
the days when there was no civil
existence in Ireland for Catholics,
when pulpit orators preached that
no faith should be kept with papists,
when laws were made prohibiting
the marriage of English with Irish,
when the same reward was offered
for the head of a priest as for that
of a wolf, when a Catholic could
not dispose by will his landed prop
erty, when a Catholic teacher was
liable to Punishment Or even to
death, when a Catholic who sought
education in a foreign college for
feited his property, when a Catholic
could hold no office either of honor
or emolument in the state, and when
it was a reasonable felony to teach
the Catholic religion. But it must
not be inferred that Protestants
were the sole prosecutors for con-
science sake. England had Mary
as well as an Elizabeth, and if En-
gland gave Henry VIII. to the world,
Spain is responsible for Philip H.
GENESIS OF MAYNOOTH.
In spite of penal prohibition many
young Irishmen went to the CONT
nent for their education. The homes
of ecclesiastical learning at Louvain,
Rome, Paris, Salamanca, Valladolid,
Madrid, Antwerp, etc, were adorned
by the brilliancy of the Irish Levites.
France was particularly gener-
Gus to the Irish students. For
instance, at the time of the out
break in 1889 there were forty Irish
students at DOuai, eight at Lille,
ten at Toulouse, forty at Bordeaux,
eighty at Nantes, $50 at Paris, and
yet others at Sedan, Charleville and
Rouen. So that if the NOrsemen
ruined the schools of Ireland in the
days of the Danish invasion, the sons
of sunny France paid back to irish
men in the form of educational facil-
tiles a portion of the debt they
owed since the Irish won for them
the battle of Fontenoy.
The young men educated abroad
became imbued with the republican
ism of the day. Republican princi-
pies were specially hateful to the rul-
ers of Ireland. They feared that
these principles might spread by con-
tagion. The proclamation of Ameri-
can independence taught England
that tyranny has it's law of compen-
satiOn as well as has every other
vice; the French revolution made
the dull eyes of the Saxon see the
dangers of an Infatuated populace.
These and kindred considerations
taught Ireland's rulers the expedi-
ency of having her clergy educated
at home. SO that it was not so much
from a sense OF justice as from a
sense of fear that Maynooth college
was established