New-York tribune., 1896-03-29
PERE HYACINTHE JOINS THE COPTS.

From The Pail Mall Gazette.
Pere Hyacinthe has been converted to the Copts,
This is the which has sent sensation Of
curiosity through the Catholic word in France.
er 1ame oe anS verne par Of the Church Pere
Hyacinthe-or. as he has latterly become known.
positively adopting any other and has since been
incoherent way as those disemboded souls beyond
the border that reply by tappings on tables and
the creakings of sofas to the queries or the spirit
in company Of a Jesuit friend: lie. produced upon
then. ever, the impression Of a man guided
errors of indecis!on and incoherence by something
independent of his own VII and contrary TO MS
education. There are such characters as these in
every walk of hfe-men who are under sort OF
morbid spell that drives them to destruction and
many brilliant career has been spoiled 10 conse
quence. For Pere Hyacinthe cannot be sad 10
have succeeded His eloquence IS great. but he has
not converted the Catholic world 10 his way OF
thinking. In appearance he still has the typical
look of priest. unctuous and close-shaven HIS
emotional but small and close together. glance
with bright intelligence. but timidly, down long
nose. the bend OF which Is not unsusges,ve OF me
passion applause and Ia its simplicity which does
not exclude cunning of an imaginative. calculating
kind. 1t came out the last occasion that saw
him His Catholic frend-a portly parsonage OF
Infinite bonhome exrd.ns beneaiGion ana wh dn
vexites Of which seem mainly destined by nature
having written with unnecessary severity on Pere
Hyacinthe's marriage with a widow. 'Je Vous
the two enemies kissed. 1t very touching,
very characteristic Of NJ. Loyson In its sentimental
lnedlrlCdUly anu IL ulu no. prevent my 'dtnoi v
friend from subsequently sketchnS the Gallican
reformer's in the following brief sentences.
which in their Jesutical nOncha.ance are a fair
statement of the Catholic case Sad my friend
"Pere Hyacinthe processes never TO have really
left the Catholic fold There came moment when
the Carmelite monk allowed his tonsure sprout.
married a widow and set vigorously to work to re-
form us But You can't get r.d OF me. he de-
clared, defanty. His first outburst was an
isolated rcformer II Is wrong 10 that he Joined
the Gacan Church. for there is Gallican
Church dts the yaller light in the fable except
that the old show is not fire. but ne went over
to Geneva and Joined the old Swiss Catholics. When
their faith seemed TO be rpening into Rational SIN
he left them, returned to Paris and pOntihca ted
for while in his chapel in the Rue Darras as
quented by Anglicans on the lookout and Amer
lean ladies anxious to Nine LoysOn (nee Mer-
riman). the American woman who had married
a monk
Attracted by the undoubted validity OF HIS or
ders the Dutch Jansenists. very respectable body
archical chief Monsignor Gul, Archbishop OF Ut
recht-who smokes. reads Augustine. and wants
to be quiet-sent him the president OF his seminary
al Anersfoort mainly 10 ascertain II the Ptre would
Jansensts-Old Roman Catholics they Ike
to be caed-permit the marriage OF priest, but
only condition that he one.
The negotiations fell through. PAre Hyacinthe
abandoned his chapel, but the Dutch Jansenists
refused TO take 1t on. and established themselves
Loyson then preached in a Protestant chapel in a
black coat. and after briefly coquetting with Islam
ism has Joined the Egyptian Copts. The Copts ar.
udialsantes. and with them the marriage OF priest
is obligatory. 1t Is probably Pere Hyacinthe's hope
to obtain by this last manOeuvre the Papal rccog-
milton of his marriage: for the Pope's particular
hobby at this moment is to bring back the Eastern
| Churches within the Catholic fold