The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30

In Lima, the gay and pr1Il1anr cap
ital of ancient Peru, where trans and
motor cars speed past the crumbling,
tirne-worn edifices that still stand as
relics of the empire of the Incas and
Pizarro's old "City of the Kings the
festival of st. Rose of Lima, the first
canonized saint of the New World, will
be celebrated to-day.
St Roses Day is the great religious
festival of Peru, although Lima has
two other patron saints-St. Turri-
bus Archbishop of Lima in the six
tenth century, whose memory is hon
ored on April 9th, and st. francis
Solano, a missionary of, the seven
teenth century, whose feast is annual
ly celebrated on July 24th.
,To-day's religious ceremonies in Ii
ma will center in the old cathedral, on
the east side of the Plaza Mayor, a
massive stone building with q, red and
yellow facade, with a magnificent al
tar beneath which lies the body Of
Pizarro, the conqueror of Peru.
The sanity woman whom the LII
menans venerate to-day was born In
Lima in 1856, half a century after the
founding of the Getty of the Kings" by
the ruthless Pizarro. Her real name
was Isabel Flores. but the beauty OF
her childish face earned for her the
name of Rose, which she ever after
bore. Her parents were very poor,
and in her youth she toiled as SER
want to support them.
Despite her hard lot, Rose blossom
ed into a woman of SURPRISING beau
ty, and attracted widespread atten-
ton and admiration even in that city
which was then, as now, celebrated as
the home Of beautiful women. Those
who have visited the modern Lima
and have observed the boldness with
which the swartT1y, dandified gal1ants
ogle the entrancingly lovely ninaS who
ride past in motor cars and victor1as,
may we'll understand the persecution
to which the beautiful but sanity
Rose, who was "only a servant girl,
must have been subjected.
Whenever she ventured forth into
the streets, Rose was constantly sub
jected to stares, and her pink ears be-
came redder still at the remarks
which were passed on her beauty
Dashing soldiers in the brilliant uni
form of Spain logged her footsteps,
and occasionally one of them would
kneeI in the street before her and
pour forth a. passionate declaration OF
love, asserting that he was being con-
sumed with affection and would surely
die if the lovely senorita did not be-
stow upon him the blessing of just one
word of hope.
Determined upon a life Of gedliness
and devotion, Rose decided upon q
kind of humiliation and abnegatior
| that make the renunciations of all the
masculine saints in the calendar seem
poor and commonplace. With her owl
| hands she cut off the lovely flowing
hair that was her browning glory
! clipped it close to the scalp. Next she
| b1istered her face with pepper, per
s1sting until her skin was red anC
notified and disf1gured. She covered
her hands with lime until those slen-
/ der and delicate menb ers were mad
repu1sive to the sight. For furthel
protection against the sin of vanit.
she enrolled in the Third Order of ST
Dominic and under her habit she wore
constantly a hair-shirt studded witt
sharp nails, while beneath her vet
she wore a, crown of silver armed will
nearly a, hundred points. Her night!
! of terrible torture were spent on
! couch made of broken, jagged rocks
She tasted almost continually, and i
! is said that 1.-The blessed sacramen
seemed almost her only food" SucI
fortunes and privations soon had thei
effect, and she died in her thirty
! first year, mourned by all Lirnenans
and ever after venerated as the patro1
saint of the Peruvian capital.
One hundred years ago, August 81
4 1913, the Spanish city of San Sebas
tan fell before the onslaughts of tn
English, Spanish and Portuguese allie
under Wellington. The centenary will
be celebrated on Sunday in the littl
seaport city, which occupies a, marrow
fsthmus on the Bay of Biscay, 40
miles north of Madrid, not for distan
from the French frontier.
Il Wellington, at the head of the allies
had commenced his Spanish campaign
by taking Ciudad Rodrigo. In Apr
he stormed Badajoz, and in July h
defeated Marmont at Salamanca.
little later in 1912 he occupied Ma
drid, and in June of 1913 he totall
defeated the French at Vfttoria- Lat
in July he was victorious over Soul
in the Pyrenees.
In August Soult collected his troop
in a position, the right of which rest