The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-05

ground ana renamed IN .abeyanCe un-1
til the 10th century, when it was re-
vived underka; slightly different aspect. |
A former officer of the Royal Guard |
of Charles x, the Count Hippolyte de |
Bermond de Vacheres, submitted to |
the Nuneio aFornari the plan of a Mill |
tia destined to be charged with the
defensesof Christian principles. Order
and Right against the attacks of the
Cosmopolitan. Revolution. And, mas
much, as the capture of Papal Rome
was the real objective of the sectaries,
it was clearly necessary as quickly as
possible to- defend the Holy City by
means of an armed force recruited /
from all the Christian nations OIL
Europe Plus TX, on being informed1
of this project, not only warmly ap-l
proved it, but called the Count de-
Bermond to Rome. The papers of the
future knighthood passed through the
Pope's hands, and were copiously an
-notated- by the IPontiff in person. The
hour seemed to have struck for the
concentration in the Eternal City of
all the resources, the influences, and
the means of resistance which could
be furnished by the whole body of
the Faithful and by the COLLECTIVELY of
the Christian nations. But at the mo-
ment when the Count de Bermond was
about to launch his first appeal to the
Catholic youth of Europe, on July /,
|. 1851, this gallant Christian soldier sud-
denly died; with his life-Work unf1n-
| ished.
The project, however, was by no
means definitely abandoned. On the
eve of the italian War, the attention
of Catholic Christendom was fixed,
almost exclusively, upon "the New
Islam" which was precipitating itself
upon Rome in order the more readily
| to .devour, at it's leisure, the nations
whereof the Church is Queen and Mis-
tress. Peradventure a second Sob
| ieski would arise and smite in sunder
the revolutionary monster. Alas! the
! torpor of coWardice paralysed the
kings upon their. thrones, and the Pope
was basely abandoned by the Govern
ments, treaties and solemn pledges
notwithstanding. But help was i'm
mediately forthcoming in the persons
1 Of hundreds of generous young souls
who came forward to offer their life
blood for their Father. Plus TX &C.
cepted their devotion, and confided to
the illustrioqs La Moriciere, former
general Of the French Army in Africa
the command of the Pontifcal troops
At the, same time that La Moriciere
/ was organizing and drilling this army
OF, young. men with a view to the de.
fence of the frontier against the in
vasion of the ;Piedmontese. troops, a
| friend of the Count de Bermond, by
i name Henri de. Cathelieau, proceeded
| to the coordination of another force
| having as 6 its nucleus a. corps OF
French an Belgian volunteers. His
/ purpose was to create new Order OF
! st. John of. Jerusalem, which should
4 be open to all men of goodwill, afd
which should enroll Knights recruited
from all the nations. The objective OF
the proposed Order-Which received
the entire approval of Plus IX-was
not only the defence of the Holy See
but also perpetuaf1y to do battle fol
the sacred cause of Right and Justice
in the world. ~ -
Napoleon TIL.
| But the desires of the Sovereign
Pontiff and the plans of de Catheliner
were unhappily circumvented by al
+ artful diplomatic move on the part Of
the friends of athe Revolution, The ru
NOR was carefully circulated that Ma
poleon III. would never. permit Pied
mont to crush the Pontifical Power
and that a French eXpeditonary force
Il sent. to Rome at the critical time
would. effectually deal with the sol
diers of Victor Emmanuel But G
/ was asserted) in order that this gen
eFous design on the part of the En-
! peror of the French might be accom-
plished, it was necessary. for the Papa
4 ,government to dispense with the serv
lices of de Cathelineau and his knights
4 Unfortunately, Plus TX was himsel
lsentirely duped by this, plausible ant
ifcrafty manoeuvre, and he immediatel,
acted upon what he supposed to III
the wishes: of Napoleon III A few
days later the French organ of Demo
cratic Caesarism, lie Steele, CYNICAL.
admitted the deceit and trucker.
which had proved but too successful
and frankly avowed that, "if the pro
ject Iof de Cathelineau1 had not mis-
carried, the proposed military coali
tion would have provided STANDING
army for, the Counter-Revolutiol
Iparty."
/. Such, in. briefest outline, is the his
sIHtory of the evolutionary development
Of the great Ideal-so soon, pleas
God, to he Tealized--of League. o
Nations banded together to defend tn
, immutable principles. of international
= Right and to assure an, honorable
, just, and lasting peace for genera
6 tons which. are yet unborn. Toda.
the civilized peoples of every tribe AM
tongue are spontaneously pressing fol
I ward and eagerly clanloring to swell
!, the ranks of that New Knighthoo,
] contemplated of. old by Pope Sixth
y (which yesterday they rejected witt
j l.scorn. And the full Importance an,
, significance of this most impressive