The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-10-28
OUR EUROPEAN IETTER'

arrest and CrOWdlng the prisons OF
Lisbon. OF these many are priests
seized by the revolutionaries on the
pretext of a Royalist plot whether they
had any active share in 1t or not
But the fear that is hanging over the
friends Of the prisoners is that Of an
awful massacre in the prisons similar
to those which took place in Paris be-
fore the Terror At the present mo-
ment the Government is endeavoring
to set aside clauses of the Constitution
which ensure fair trial and time for
defence to any political prisoners, and
this is a most significant step. The
priests are striving their fellow pris-
oners, for none know from day to day
when their last hour is to come, while
the conditions of confinement of so
many persons. are already becoming
very difficult to bear. Meanwhile
mob inspired by the Government has
wrecked the Catholic clubs and news
paper Offices of Lisbon, burned the
contents, and even crossed the Tagus
to the noble Monastic Church of St
Paul on the opposite bank where some
seventy rufians wrecked the church,
one of the oldest and most beautiful in
Portugal, and flung the broken and dis
figured statues into the river. Mean
while concord does not reign in the
Chamber, the Minister of War has been
dismissed and the Government de-
mands that an extraordinary session
OF Hon ha nnmvNEnd
Death of General de charette.
A noble Christian soldier has pass
ed away in the person Of General de
Charette, who died this week at Basse
Motto in France at the age of eighty.
Since the death of the Comte de Cham
bord, whom Charette recognized as
the heir to the French throne, he had
lived in retirement in his country
house. 1t seemed as IL after he wrap
ped the body of his dead Prince and
friend in the white flag of the Papal
Zouaves which had never known a
stain, the spring of his life was brok-
en-. Given the command OF the Papal
rZouaves he brought with him to Rome
a troop he had himself raised consist
ing of one hundred French and Bel
gian mobiles, and he fought with mag
nificent courage at Castelfidardo and
Montana. Finding he could not die for
the cause of the Holy Father he re-
turned to France and offered his arms
to his country in the struggle with Ger
many. He was not ashamed to conse-
crate the troop he commanded to the
Sacred Heart in the Cathedral at
Rennes, and wonderful success at
tended the exploits of the Zouaves un-
til the end of the war. Though Char
etteswas made an officer of the Legion
of Honor and was elected against his
will to seat in the National Assem-
bly, he very soon got away from Paris
where he had no interests and retired
to his chateau in the country, where
he passed peacefully away with the
blessing Of the Papacy which he had
served so faithfully. 1t is interesting
at this moment to trace the careers OF
that gallant band of men after their
cause was lost. Where could Papal
Zouave offer his sword? How few
Catholic sovereigns were there left in
Europe to serve. They were not all
saints in that regiment, but they were
all brave men and devoted to the
Church, and they had in their ranks
veritable Saints. After the final dis
bandment many of them joined the
ranks of the secular and regular
clergy. The "Angel of the Regiment .
Lieutenant Vibaux, died Jesuit and
Captain Manduit also became fol
lower of st. Ignatius. Captain Wyart
joined the Trappists and lived to be.
come Superior General Canon de
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