The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-09

for each disease. At all druggists, most
~ 20 cents a vial.
Personal letters to Prof. Munyon 1895
Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa, answered
with free medical advice for any disease.
rus. It's followed end forms a basin
where Christians received baptism, aud
here, very ancient and respectable tradi-
ton" reports, the "sainted bishop and
friend of the Savior of men," used to
hear confession and administer the sacra-
ment TO his converts. Naturally this has
been one of the great Catholic shrines of
centuries, The most irreverent must feel
the pathetic dumb power of the place
though amid so much ancient ana re-
spectacle tradition" individual discretion
In belief becomes necessary, and one turns
from it all with a grateful little throb of
gratitude al having to believe or explain
nothing, when small block at the foot
of Lazarus is carelessly pointed out as
tomb of 9 child" 1t suggests that ten
der inscription at Westminster Jane
Lister-Dear Child"
After this chapel come the subterranean
galleries, probably used IN their time as a
means of escape. There are supposed TO
nave been three main ways-perhaps
branching into many-one leading under
the "Old Port" In the seventeenth cen
tury a passage was still open some hun
dred feet, although now, through various
feDulldingS, ana the debris or centuries,
not more than a dozen feet remain safely
penetrable, a weird way with loose scat
tered bones, closing into darkness, like
all authentic knowledge of the beginnings
OF the place
After Jerusalem and Rome, Marseilles Is
claimed by the lovers of St. Victor, as the
earliest place of Christian worship. 1t Is
told that at one time as many as 900
monks lived in the rocks and met In the
catacombs for prayer This was In the
time of st. Cassien, from whom the au-
thentic history of the abbey dates. Early
In the fifth century, after his Oriental
wanderings, this remarkable character
came to Marseilles, was allowed by the
bishop to establish himself in grotto
and to serve in the church. Finally he
was surrounded by imitators of his piety
and penitence to the number OF thousands.
He built the first church and a monastery
above ground and also founded house for
women
Not far from the candle-guarded beds
Of Cassen and Victor, resting quietly I'M
der the affairs of the stone walls, Is the
memorial of st. Eusebia and her virgins,
whose story became the example of fideli-
ty to young nOvices taking the veil. They
an suffered martyrdom, after having first
cut of their lips and noses to protect
themselves from the Saracens during an
inhdel invasion. Near is the tomb of one
pl tue tlOSt Ntbeidleu IN the dDDtg y cdA-
endar-that mid lsarne who never knew
the pleasures of the world"
Above the most religious Huges de Gla-
cius' hangs one Of the most sacred and
most miraculously preserved relics Of the
ancient abbey the cross upon which st.
Andrew was crucihed. Il was brought
from Patmos by the Burgondes, whose
king took Marseilles about the year 400,
and deposited this relic in 81. Victor.
Fearing its PROCLAMATION by the Saracens,
st. Eusebia hid 1t in a place known only
to herself and her martyred companions.
Lost for some centuries, It was supposed
TO have been seized by the inhdels until
after having at three different times dur
Ing mass vision Of its place of conceal
ment, this pious Huges searched the spot
Indicated, and, amid heap Of rubbish
found the sacred wood.
During the twelfth century the abbey
was at its highest prosperity with pious
men and women meeting IN the cata-
combs, hourishing brotherhoods and pow
erful connections. In the fourteenth CEN
fury its possessions and dependencies in
cluded twenty-siX abbeys, 1914 priories Q16
in Provence and others in other parts OF
France, Italy and sardinia). and many
churches and chapels OF minor importance.
But the chief glory of the abbey is Pope
Urban ", who, in 1861, was It's head, and
who after death was buried within It's
=
became the shrine Of the upper church,
and had to be protected by an iron graf
ing from the indiscreet piety OF pilgrims
Many lords, kings, and princes have heap
ed treasure there, and sought intercessiOn
for their sins. In the Revolutionary tur-
moil this monument suffered with others.
Recently its remains have been discover
ed, but not the bones which either were
profaned in '93 or are waiting to be reveal
ed, like the cross Of ST. Andrew. and so
add another to the romantic memories
with which the abbey teens.
The abbeys later story Is linked with
the historic names and events Of modern
France, various causes helping a deead-
ence which the French revolution compile
ted. Then the hallowed old chambers saw
havoc, and the vastnes5 OF its recesses
echoed to ether sounds than the mellow
tones OF medieval chants. The magnih-
cent treasure was spoiled, the ancient
title-deeds and archives were burned, and
the graves OF centuries were ransacked,
and their bones hopelessly confused.
How the explorer hates the revolution
lists when confronted by the barrier which
they raised between new aud old France!
They used the crypts OF ST. Victor as a
prison, and confined there their convict
galley-slaves. With this century restora-
tlon began, and In 1904 the upper church
was purified and restored 90 sacred use,
while in 1892 worship was resumed in the
poor shorn catacOmbs. Down beside the
crypt OF Magdalen was n second and sepa-
rate chamber, far superior 20 the primitive
cave, with which II was subsequently Join
ed. Its columns are better carved, and II
Is much larger and higher Faint frag-
ments OF fresco on the stone suggest the
richness OF the ornament which the loving