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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1912
The Hill of Incense
The Catholic Art and Book Depot
Mount Melleray
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beauty. Inside it was divided by a A writer in the London "Tablet " altar gave the following interesting ac- solid wooden screen with an on either side of a central door. To count of a visit to Mount MellarY, this part the public were admitted. Canon Sheehan called the which "Hill of Incense" in his powerful no- The choir, which lay beyond, was reserved for the monks. The Office vel, "The Triumph of Failure ":was being chanted as we entered, the idea that such a life is unsuited We were now on' the mountain rcad The September ,afternion was drawto modern times, and that the de- and, mounting our, bicycles, we left ing to a close when, after a long and as we listened to the dull monoit that felt we sire to live it is vanishing, more than the monastery behind us. Not a day's ride, we reached ChaPPoquin, tony of its key, Mount Melleray, County ,Waterford. would not be the beauty of the mu- half our monks are young min, and living creature was in sight ; on all sic that would distract the attenwe number over seventy." All kinds sides of us extended the desolate The Trappist Monastery was our destination, and if we were to reach it tion of the singers from the meaning and conditions of people come to waste. It was hard to believe that Benediction Melleray. They are never questioned, near to us, out of sight, was a hive before dark there was no time for of the words they sang. delay. Four miles of mountain road followed the Office, and when it was and they come and go when they of industry, a centre of cultivation. Protestant ministers have On and on we went through the lonstill lay before us, and we ploughed over the monks filed out while the like. clocks struck seven and the bells tollstopped there vice -royalties, reform- ely '.wilderness, till at last the road through the our machines bravely ed. We then went to find our right ing drunkards, mere tourists ; the began to descend, and then, lying far ereasy mud the recent rain had quarters, quaint little cells. where same welcome is given to them all. below us, we saw in the distance the made. When we at last reached the we were soon lulled to sleep by the Some years ago the Lard -Lieutenant ::olden vale of Tipperary. summit our efforts were amply rerushing mountain wind coming in of the time came to spend a few paid by the view we found there. A oily the open windows, the through days at Melleray. While he was talkgreat part of desolate land stretched spot. 3rtlaties ing to one of the mones, the name far away from us till it reached sound in this utterly silent were ep betimes Next we morning of a member of his court casually the foot of a distant mountain range. all we could he for we wanted to see A correspondent in "The Public turned, up in the conversation. "Oh," Masses of dark red heather, with said the Trappist, "I knew him well. Ledger". writes, under date of Anhere and there clumps of gorse in shown of the monastery and he on the road again before midday. Bro- Many aegood run we have had to- gust e full bloom, covered the ground, and ther R., our friendly host of the pre- gether in the old days after the one white road stretched across, losThere is only one black spot in the vious evening, again met es, and Meath hounds. Ask him when yin go ing itself among the mountains. whole of Ireland, and that is Belritesitions the many answered gladly book lowerand if he remembers." and "I will, The sky had. grown dark fast, where the roughs of both parwe asked him about the way of life I will tell him ,also that you !ewe ties are breaking each' other's heads ing, and threw a deep shade over the their Mehint Besides at Mellaray. done well,, this for to me seem. :he at every opportunity. Last week the landscape, making it appear, utterly farm occupations and the studies ideal life." wild and, forsaken. Yet to the midst troops were out to stop a riot at a monks the have thee in, indulge rif this desolate spot, with' its wretthe ,Queen's Island shipyards. AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE school where they large boarding unreclaimable ched and seemingly CALLS. In no less than three counties this preparing their as professors serve soil, there lay an oasis of some five Of the guests who come rind go summer there was not a single case hundred acres. This little island of Pupils for examireatiOns. There is none are asieed to contribute any- to be tried. These were Queen's fertility, which one would imagine to also a day school for poor boys. In- thing towards their entertainment. county, Wicklow and Fermanagh. to the latter we went, and we wire If they by have been give an offering it is thanklii each county the old practice of hands from a nrosperons valley to struck by the cheerful aspect of the fully, accepted, if they do not the this barren. reeion. is the work of the school -room. Three monks were en- God -speed that accompanies their de- presenting the Judge who has had a Tranpist monks. 'Early in the nine- gaged, in teaching. The Brother told parture is none the less hearty. Once fruitless 'journey with a pair of white carried out. In Queen's teenth. century thirty Irish monks us to somr to them, as he could an American millionaire, hearing of gloves was county it is fifteen years since there not. nor could they sneak to us un- this were driven with others of their breopen-handed hospitality of the that thren out of France. Banished from til we had first spoken to them. We Trappists. refused to believe it. He was a similar record, and before no Judge received the white gloves he the country of their adoption. their went ire. to one of them, and large friend a sum with a bet even thoughts turned to their native land, stopped his work, spoke to es of the that he would prove it to be untrue. for fifty years. The three counter*, which could not 'produce one criminal intelligence of these little maintain ene thither they, retraced their steps. Then, in due course, he visited the boys, and made, them sing for es an a total population of 177,000. For a small sum of money they monastery, remaining there some have We used to hear a lot about boyenueht le tract of mountain, and then old Irish lament. weehs and asking every day for the cotting( and outrage in Kerry. Lord eet about to establish themselves in RISE AT TWO EVERY MORNING. most expensive things procurable. Justice Cherry, who toot the assizes eecurit y. The whole merit ryside Brother R. next took us back to When he departed all he left behind and rive there this summer, told the Grand eerier, out 'to meet them the guests' hoi.se and showed us its him was his thanks. Twice he re*hem welcome. Then a novel sight upper rooms, two of which were turned to the monastery, receiving Jury that 'her found !the country in an eminently satisfactory condition and wa. seen. White -clad mon"s armed large dining rooms often required each time the same welcome, and with seade and crowbar. began to during the summer, when many visi- leaving it, in the same manner. Af- that boycotting seemed to be a thing hoe and dig the, ungrateful .oil. All tors come. Some portraits hung on ter his last visit he wrote two let- of the past. The Justice also found the game peaceful state of affairs in the able-bodied men of the district the walls, among them one of the ters-one to his friend acknowledging offered their services, end by, degrees late Abbot, a fine-looketeg man, and that the bet was fairly lost, rind the Clare, which used to be one of the on the come impression was made a saint and a scholar, Brother R. other to the Abbot, telling him the most disturbed counties in Ireland. mountain. Crops grew, strips of pas- said. ('lose by hung another of Fa- story, and enclosing a ehe.iu". Mr. Justice Boyd, declared that the ture covered the land. a belt of fir ther Paul, a man famous not only in Having seen all that Brother R. County of Limerick was a model of and trees began to raise their heads; Ireland hut in many parts of the could show us, we bade him good- good order and peacefulness, and in the world. A muffled window in the din- bye. "We shall come here again some the city of Limerick he declared that a substantial heilding replaced ',nor shelter tha monks had at first ing-room was, opened by our guide day," we said, "and shall hepe to the few cases that came before him so that we might see into the enwere of the most trifling character. find you still here." closure. A square grass plot lay- beelTANTING OF THE FRIARS. "Ah, .Cho can tell?" lie enewered, The Lord Chief ,,Justice found Walow, hoarded on the side furthest with a far -away expression in his terford in 'excellent condition and It was. nightfall when we reached from. us by the church and the libeyes, as of one wIo always lo',ks be- congratulated fife Grand Jury on the the monastery. We rang the bell, rary a long building on the right yond this mortal world. "It may be, Peacefulness of 'the county. Justice which was immediately answered by the guest Brother. He bade us wel- curtained the kitchen and the iinfirm- it may be another ; what matter ? Kenny had only two cases to try in ary ; the guest house, where we were, God sneed you." come. but he asked us no question Waterford City. The Judges could and the walk skirting the avenue We turned away, and, gathering our who we were, from whence we had not find witty terror even in Concome, whither we were hound, only completed the quadrangle. Bro. R. scanty luggage, we were soon push- nni.ght. Justice Gibson told the remarking that no doubt we were told us he had been nine years in the inig our Mee/cies alone the mown"- Mayo Grand Jury that their duties monastery, and seven of them had tere, road. The farm lay on either would be light and that peace and '-:angry. and that supper was ready. been spent in the guest house. Then, side of is. Ducks were disporting order reigned in the county. LeitWe followed him to the dining -room, continuing to answer our questions, themselves in a pond. fowl were rim, said Justice Madden, was the and were soon seated :it a long table he told, us the 'monks never speak, scratching in a gravelly pen, and be- home of peace, and Roscommon was eovered with ,a white oil cloth. here the produce of the monastery farm except those engaged in the schools yond in the pasture cattle were graz- "satisfactory," and Justice Gibson or guest house, unless to the Abbot ing. At the turn of the road we was laid before us Mountain mutdeclared that the few cases which ton. fresh milk, yellow butter, home- and, Prior, and then only in cases of same upon a hand of monks evident- came before him in Sligo were "of absolute necessity. Of many of the ly hound for their work, for each made bread. No butcher's or aker's slight importance." "art ever finds its way u;' the moun- Brothers he had never heard the voi- carried a snade or other farm imIn "rebel Cork" Justice Boyd was ces, ant he only knew their religious plement. They walked by us in sintains to Melleray the monastery rleased to note that there was a sipplies its inmates and its tomer- name, from seeing them written gle file, their eyes bent to the great decrease in crimes arising from after above their beds, and places in the ground. their hoods drawn over their drunkenness, c le guests. We were hungry. that in the whole it twenty-four mile ride, and did refectory. They rose at two and re- heads, silent, ghostlike figures. their county there and was not a single crime ample ji.stice to the monks' hospit- tired to rest at seven. Their only white nictnresque habits seeming against property, while at the other meal was partaken of in the after- whiter by contrast with the green able hoard. Wher. we had finished, end of the islar.d Derry City was noon, and as neither meat, fish. nor grass. We watched with interest the the Brother told us there trite Bette'fnee from organized crime, from cheese was allowed, it consisted only mysterious hand as it filet past, ard eictiOn at six if we cared te attend rioting and from drinizenness." of vegetables, tread, "This and fruit, what of we the wondered thoughts it We followed out guide, who left And yet the "Carrion Crows" will those men were, and why they had us at the door of the church. The is the strictest house of the Order in the world," he added, "and to prove came to bury themselves in the have their periodic outbursts of Cawiildine was plain in the extreme, ing with nc pretensions to architectural to you how little truth there is in mountains of Melleray. :
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