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Vol. LIX,
PERTH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1933
No. 2,792
The Cistercians in Ireland A Plundered Library Triumph of Sacrifice The laying ie the foundation stone of the new A bey Church at Mount ifelleray, .by ardinal MacRery, Primate of Ireland, was the third of the features of the liree days' zelebeations ia cornmeniora el of tlie Centenary of the foundation of the historic Abbey. In his sermon on the occasion. Rev. Dr. Oliver, C.P., Mt ent Argus. Dublin. said: "Ireland was the debtor of the Cisterl cians. and must ever remain so, for the ! benefits of relieien cotild not be repaid in the material values off earthly exchange. During the dark night of persecution when the Cistercians were being subjected to the appointed test of godliness, when they were being driven from their own beautiful French Abbeys, the sympathy o( Irish Catholics went ot:t t. them, and to-day they blesced the sword that scattered them ane nied ow in grateful admiration of the secret ways of Providence: "0 happy crime that restored to our land the white-rohed sons of St. Bernerd." The f.aith, iebour and charity of the monks in that Irish Melloray were a fight to those who sat in darknere, Pattern to ail those who sat in dark ness, a pattern to all who called them. selves Christians, and a pattern ricre lel:tat- le row than ever, ineemuch as th14/s tide of unbelief was greeter. and the fere .n theistic material- m grew daily more thteatening. Never in the history of the world' was religion more bitterly asailed. Notwith-
The Land and the Peasant Catholic Action in France. Cathoiic Action in France has recently bent its energies to the special task of "the Land and the Peasant." The Catholic Agrarian Union. in its or"Mon Village.' mentions the threefold object which it aims at—religious, social and agricultural. To build up a Catholic-minded peasantry or farm-class three organisat'ons are to be established in every diocese--a Land Secretariat, a Land or R ural School. and a Retreat House for iqr farmers and labourers. These will achieve the purpose of creating a -peasantry well instructed in all that deals With the weNk on ,the farm, well guided and well grounded in Catholic doctrine, and who will become thorough Catholics. The rural people must be taught to realise that there is no opposition and no division between the life of religion and the life of man, but that on the . contrarr, the impregnation of voca ti°nal and private life with the spirt! of the faith is the only means of saying humanity from Aolshevism and from anarchy. A nother organisation is to' be established for women who work on farms, in Which every opportunity will be pro videcl for . their religious and cultural advancement and which will have a sPecial organ in the Press.—"La Fee miere." •
Collections of King Mathias Returned to Buda.
The Corvina volumes, with Library. A short time ago one of the last illuminated text and beautifully their clauses of.the peace treaties took effect, r painted pages, reproducing the master'when some of the national relics, taken pieces of Greek. Latin, and Hebrew away by the Hapsburgs and included literature, have a feature of their own: with in Vienna collections, were returned to their splendid and artistic binding which evolved inte motives, Oriental the Hungarian National Museum. The a distinct Corvina style. • so-called Corvina volumes, sixteen of them, are among the most interesting King Mathias appointed excellent and. valuable of these relics. Yet they librarians to the library. Such were are but sad remnants of that library for example, Regiomantanus and GaleThe anti-God complex was so old that Unfortunately, however, sad of - several thousand volumes, incom- otti. even though the number of fools be intimes came for the library after. the value, and splendour its in parable finite, the modern atheists could not Parwhich was founded and completed by death of this great King. Though do mere than revive, in one form or liament passed a law, shortly after his another, the fay of thtir predecessors. King Mathias Coryinus. death, declaring the library to be the Every hypothesis that would do away property of the nation and stipulating with God, every theory that would free King Mathias Corvinus spent 33.000 that books could be borrowed therefrom man from the obligations of the moral gold pieces a year on the purchase, only with the consent of the peers of law, had already been explored. In the realm, this law was soon forgotcopying and binding of books. the middle of the 15th. century this who ruled later on Evidently it had been decided in the library of at least 3,000 volumes occu- ten, and the Kings these books of exceptional Councils Of the ungodly to recur to pied a wide hall of the Royal Palace gave away value as presents. that ancient materialism which hid its of Buda. The books were kept in man made and agnosticism head under cases and on shelves standing against a purely mechanical automaton, set in The Turks took many of them to the wall: there was a couch in the midenermotion for a time by material King, whose Constantinople, and the Hapsburgs to the for hall the dle of gies which were said to pass into other favourite haunt this library was Vienna. To-day there exists only 116 elements when the human machine authentic Corvina volumes a few Yielded to the friction of opposite The King had most of the books found in Paris, London. Rome. and f' orces. brought from Italy. but he had an office- about thirty other big libraries. In including That was the concept underlying the in Buda with a staff of thirty people Budapest there are now, The greatest ar- those which were just returned, 3S present campaige of militant atheism' for copying books. tists of the humanist era: Antonio Cher- Corvina volumes, or one-tenth of the Against that threatened the world. Hungarthat philosophy there was only one ico, Pietro Burdeo and .Attavante, work- former Royal treasure: The arrange will Museum National their of one ian King, the for there ed faith Their defence. one remedy, 'only masterpieces being the Missal, which is within the next few months a special -see: the victory that oyercometh the to-day one of the gems of the Vatican Corvina exhibition. w orld.
standing the ,yidence of 19 Centuries, the Cross remained a stumbling-block. Men would not accept the Way, the Truth, and the Light; instead, they blindly persisted in searching out for themselves the cause and purpose ot The proall things that were clone. blem was an old one. For Catholics the Light had shone into the darknees, but to those outside the Church the world was still a mystery.
When the Name "Catholic" Was Unpopular In one of his interesting "Cameos of Catholic Liverpool," .1. W. Robertson writes: Deep in the shade of the extensive woods enclosed by the' walls of Crosby Hall. Little Crosby. may be found a small. Gothic church with, nearby, a tall, stone pillar terminating in a cross.
some wayward and unconsecrated spot. The body of one Catholic woman having, from the same force of circumstances, been buried in. a lane outside Sefton churchyard, it was uprooted overnight by some swine and partially de voured.
mound. At the back of the church is a holy water font, resting on a rough hewn stone pedestal, which bears the date 1668. Inset in a stone fraine in the outer wall are three. blocks and On two some oroken tracery work. of the, blocks are engraved the date 1024 and 172S.
On hearing of the occurrence. Mr. e'-orne years ago. a falling tree- - •:,.tick William Blundell. of Crosby Hall, prepared a tract of land within his estate t he chapel, breaking the stained glass Both stand in a clearing among -the then possessed, and disloclee trees and entwining shrubs, on a mound and gave it as a burial ground for Ca- window itof the stone-work. The frag. some ing for earned which offence an gentholics. the above that rises some few feet The n-ients of the broker?' traso•nry still tic eral ground level. These solitary Ca- him a fine and imprisonment. of the building. tholic monuments. about which lies place was visited by Protestant marau- at the foot heavy an atmosphere of bygone days, ders who destroyed the walls and deThe church and its bleak mound s.--cal secrated the graves. Henceforth, the stand as sentinels over a hallowed spot have conserved some remnant of to 100 over night, e at stark interred the were with dead fraught is history whose melancholy that overshadowed its the priests, 27 those7`of including punishwhen days, bodies, tragedy of penal days and there still endures arcund past thi:; in earth the to ment for ret usancy was imposed even being committed them a haunting air of pathos Nhich fashion. For this tiny plot of on the dead. the passing years have not dispelled land is truly "God's Acre," sanctified The little church was erected over I y the dust of those Catholics whose t his former sanctuary of the dead by Faith brlyely outlived their mortal A neighbour called on the Meek;1)an: who, rejected in death even as the Blundell family over 30 yers ago After a short talk he rose from tons t licv had been ostracised in life, found his chair. here their last resting place when all stone structure, it contains but one others had been closed against them. bench before its wooden altar, which is "Well," he said, "I suppose I must flanked by statues of the Sacred Heart be going. I'm on my way to the The stone ftoer is club." During the zenith of the Elizabethan end Our Lady. persecution, Catholics were prohibited c overed by a faded carpet and the ex- • "I think I'll go. too " said Meekfrom burying their dead among their panse of white-washed walls is relieved ton. forefathers ..ehre lay within the shadow only by the plain glass windows and a "What!" put in Mrs. Meekton. ot their parish churches, and so their tablet, facing the entrance, which com"Bed!" finished Meekon miserably. bodies were. perforce, consigned to memorates those who lie beneath the
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