Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-26
at BenWOod.

received the beginning Though the eldest daughter Of
daughter for though misery and misfortune and sui
rng pence and persecution the blessed light Of faith has al
ways shone clear and bright the Irish heart is related
that occasion when St Patrick administering bap
the end Of into the kings boot instead Of the EARTH he
intended The king moved till the ceremony was over
made many apologies for his mistake But the Irish king noby
responded that he considered pain sufficient to justly his
example OF religious spirit such the spirit Of the old
kings Erin why need we wonder that their have
al o tTfaa ao s. bak seed waxsd
y adapted light Of Christian faith onasecs
and converts established scholars from all the civ
ized world focked Ireland and before the death Of
Patrick Ireland the Of learning for the Of
Europe The great mobiles OF England and France the proud
sought Ireland for their education, and their children
receive Instructions from the Irish masters and scholars Ire
land the home saints and scholars nodded the character OF
the OF those times but alas poor Ireland through
to lose her character independent nation Like Gods
favored children in general seemed as il prosperity should
q grief and earthly desoao Cut by internal quarr and
disputes the princes the appeared afford
Henry H. A. D. Norman princes Robert Fizstephen
snd dc G e aT as 25 Re & wa E6a
granted the country Henry the English king that he
The Popes those ages possessed this power has
yet been proven that Adrian granted such commission to
possession OF the country has been discovered and most
probably the story is myth At any rate this was the begin
en OF their arrival she experienced nothing from them but
and brutality Blood marked their footsteps from the
beginning and instead OF reforming and building the country
the outraged confidence and misplaced hopes everywhere
echoed their cruel Of the trusul Irish Thus
things continued under the various English kngat times i'll
Henry VIII and Elizabeth the climax of Irish misery and
Poor unfortunate Erin They stripped her Of everything
her Godgven faith Her ancient schools of learning her
rich and onasteres her famous srne and churches
all burned and destroyed but neither threats torture
could make the Irish heart beat false to its God The
ligon introduced by infamous Henry VIII hourshed
the side Of human nature, but the vrtuous and
noble Of Ireland spurned treachery God and
prisonment and death all failed the Irish The very
of Henry execrable them They hated him when
he turned from his God they hated him when he divorced
his noble WIFE, the beautiful Catherine Of Aragon This
but the beginning however OF the villains Catherine
died in her bed but the wife, Anne Boyeyn for whom he
divorced Catherine block Anne goried the
her funeral little dreaming that in three short months she her
would die the block charged by the king with adultery,
and null by Canme Archbishop Of the kings making, who
divorced and remarked his royal protector according the
aers tastes. Murders followed upon each other, and
when third and fourth put away the Irish
looked aghast with horror. When they heard Of fifth and
sixth vile going the way glory be Cod they said,
the numbering villain killing off the entrely This
ranked with Nero bood-thrsty wretch-a who
dered the best his kingdom and left country which he
found in peace and plenty devastated by faction and schm
all her rich and beautiful Frustrated and left I'M
reekng ruins. Tho Henry VIII and Ireland has
remember him and his Ed VI and his bastard child,
Elizabeth the daughter OF Anne Boyleyn Cranmer and Crom
and destroying the old Everywhere England and Ireland
the and churches robbed and destroyedhe
like dogs into the Streets Their property was con-
fscated the All kinds Of cruel and nhuman laws
passed against protesting the old faith OF their
childhood Thousands died for the only that they
Catholics and possessed property Priests hunted down
like wild beasts price laid their heads, and tor the
priest be saying Mass meant certain DEATH In the