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ow tei GO TEACH ALL NATIONS.”
THE CATHOLIC HERALD is
ublished dl
rery Favrayy athe 8. E. Came P hesion with the celebrated school of I Kismore,
3 in nancy sha ceive two copie:
communications (except from Agen, and
fom Enbseribers containing remittances,) ast
Ea
elph
0 paper. will be discontinued “nel all
rt
Who tread bright paths between with fow'ra;
Matt. xxviii, 19“ AS MY FATHER ATH SE
PHILADELPHIA, THURSD: AY, SEPTEMRER
as well of the opinion as of the deductions from| a
+ pope Zachary should regard it as au alarming
heresy, and write, in answer to the reibinhon,
ved,
whie was not founded till about the year 669,
laces aa at least, towards the cone tusion of the
1 of the| that, * should the charge be council
| eighth 4 it being evident, from the mention of must tbe convened, and the ofr expe from
Lismore, in some of the numerous poems dedi- hureh.” Asn. record exis of a farther pro-
cated to his praise, that the of that school
ceedings upon the subject, w take for y grant
ed that the accused abbot found m means of clea
imself from the agpersion ;(0) and so little did ‘hie
memorable charge.of heresy stand in the wa
his preferment earthly or heavenly, that ina few
had, at the time when he flourished, already ex-
tended itself to foreign lands.(e)
i the eighth century, indeed, the high reputa-
of the Irish for scholarship bad become 8:
tse throughout Europe 3
an of | years after he was made bishop of Saltzburg, an
applying the learning and subtlety af the schools | im a, p, 1233, we find hina canonized by pope Gre-
to the illustration of theology, which assumed, at | gory 1X.
a later period, a more systematic form, under the | Such a
allo
¢ the real particulars of a transaction
whieh it has been the object of many writers |
misrepresent, for the purpose'of flippantly accus-
g the church of Rome of adeliberate design to
ening the light of sciences and obmiuet the
ite
name of the Scholastic Philosophy, is wed to
have originated among the eminent ‘ivines whom
the fmonasteries, Ireland, in the course of this
century, poured forth. Of the dialectical powers
of these Gheutogians we are furnished with one
remarkable specimen, ina sort of ayllogini a
e “Pri
amirades he woald at least have erred in goo
company ; as already the poet Jucret tne bad ji
nounced this belie! with rea-
son ;(n) while no Tess a chureh suo ‘than Su
“| Augustine had denounced it a trary to the
Scriptures.(o) But there is very 1 reason to suppose,
that pope Zachary, on fhe doctrine of Virgilius be-
lency, ine
try brought
condensed form,
trine, and mark:
of Tritheisin and Sabellianism, between which
the orthodox ‘Trinitarian finds it so difficult to
ing explained to him, saw that # was an opinion to
steer(f) t least tolerated, if not believed; and so far
proach the middle of the eighth cen-| was che propoundes er of it from being, as is com-
wie the teary annals of the country present a monly ainiedy punis hed ty. losing | hia bishop.
ini
rarer display of eminent native names. | rie,(
p) that it appea to have
Bu it Mpoweves thinly scattered, whey were the sole
been shortly-after his. wromlgation ‘of this doe.
NT ME, I ALSO SEND YOU.”
m 10, 183
ately acquainted with history must know; even
though not lesggertain influence of monastic in-
stitutions on agriculture, commerce, and those
comforts and pleasures of social life from which
their inmutes were themselves excluded, Same-
thing like this,
man docs fee
ments as shat which T
If the readers of his History of
ve do not know what amissal is,
Chetcs
or why the | book,’
what they ‘aids wih that
sna one which they are admitte od 5
t yet, from the way in whieh | i ‘is vt te, the:
hes it for granted that it wai ‘ible delingew
cy in monasteries of conside: sie note have
only one meal 3 and if they were 80 Wwretchedly
off, in what state were ce thousands of monas-
teries which were of in iderable
note at all? But,to ny the truths all Mt
not, T hope, potrue or entirely uscles:
our present pur; the dee will find if be
refers to Muratora or "Tavors me with
tion to a brief statement of the grounds on whieh
Robertson venture e his ass serie on,
‘The Abbot Bonus sppes ebeen born
about the year 990; and, though the “place of his
bin i is not certainly Known, it sceins probable
that he was a native o! At all events we
r came
are normed that he and hi
from thence in the year 1018, to Pisa, where they
laid the foundation of the monastery of St. Mich-
ael, aatich certainly was afierward ‘of considera-
ble Bo esided over it forthirty years;
trine that he was raised to the see of Saltzburg.
‘The life of this learned and active man, afier
his Clevation ‘to the see of Sal tzburgs wes marke
or chief lights vl their time. nds, in advance
f the age the: ein, have “always 1 receiv ed, and
deserve double portion of fame ; and there is
Fi eland.
RISH SAINTS IN chy” EIGHTH CEN-
T RY
ho ad, during his tay theres presided
vent accossion | to the throne, exiening his no-
tiv
“arg s(a) and St. "Frnt ‘ty
oth distingished Irish saiits of fit period
0
ne eof the most celebrated of the Trish
pissionaries of this etio was the great apostle
36
3
St Killian eed out to him the inlaw.
uch a connexion, and required, asa
of his sense of religion, that he should dis-
u
null
Prisca Phalaint ska quem i :Senatus,
ishman of this period, whose
fame, frem the darkenee in which it shone out,
will continue to be remen se of
ion of useful public the | c
feat Puaviliey raised b y him in Hhonout of St. Ro.
pert, attested at once the piety and magnificence
of his nature. But the oat lasting serviee ron-
dered by him to the ¢: religion, was the
zealous part which be “vk in \ Propagating the
Gospel among the C Two young
princes of the reigning ‘anil vot that province
e is supposed
to have been Feargil, or Feargal,(/) appeared first
as a missionary abroad, about the year 746, when,
rriving in France, he attracted the
olive and
friendship of Pepin, the father of Charlemagne, having been, at his request, baptized and educat-
d became an inmate of his princely residence ed as Christians, he found himself enabled,
near Compiegne, on the Oise. From thence, af-| through their means, when they afterwards sue-
ter astay of two ye: ceeded to Bavaria, | ceeded to power, so fer ° extend and establish the
bearing letters of Hnroxletion from his able pa- ee alread dy p in. their dominions, as ful-
tron to the duke Ouilo, then ruler of that duchy. | ly to ay his claim to the tile of the Apostle
The great Englis si “issionary. Boniface,—the | of Carinthia
Apostle, 28 he is in general styled. of the: Ger .
mmons~chadb ately appointed to the De Tt Fil verisimite aut
+ sitinopne ot ‘Menta. and 7 difference of opin: Bat pognite Tain utrluaque fraunibae
na point of theology be ween him and Vir- | quod inter bonos islet, in grutista enee roditain."—Welaur, He.
rum Boiarum, lib. v.
-| eilius who had been Wiced 4 within the jurisdic.
(im) Among others, D'Alemberi has foanded on this supposed |
tion of his see, first rong e them into collision | persecution uf the Irish in be honours 0 fer ae to
Porat hye acne: with Galiie'a, ave etng charges azar
with each other, rant priest having | ponent bine Home, heh qe
a
been in the hati of using "bad bavi | in alain:
astronome pour jenti le mouvement de Ia terre, et le
terin, ny St. B Boniface, who onside | dectara a beretique; re prea comme Jo. pap pe Zaciarie avoit
" || condamne, quelques .siecles anparavant, un Eveque, pour
et the ceremony thus performed to obe invalid, or: wea re foe soni SE ae eae an
dered Virgilius, in some such cases that had 0¢- | pour avoir ve von au atant que Grigio.
enrred, to perform the baptism over again.(i) Bienes “Ton devout Dtscoure Prelim del Ency-
’ clopedie
me the wiser abbot spiritedly refused, maintains hy Lab, ic 1064,
De Civitat. Dei, lib. x9 |
tthe want of grammatical knowledge in
the minister could not invalidate the effi of | ae inpbell, eno te 0 tending and ou |i
the ordinance. Confident, too, in the correctness | juin as sentenced to degra ation, upon his conviction of being
all the circumstances of | a Muthematicion, by pope Zacks i tha cs hth century.”—
7 i Strictures on the Leclesiast. and 1: tof Ireland.
after wi vie h period some dispute or distension Git
does not clearly appear of what ni
seems not to have been a quarrel ‘with bi aronks)
and set off for
et tohim, and where he proposed
e person, Stopping however; on
stihe island o f Gorgona, where ther
astery, he found the monks greatly aitressed by
the recent loss of their abbot. nimous-
ly called on Bonus to take his plac
ed for some time ; but ov freone by their impor-
tunity, he consented; requesting only leave to re-
turn Pis: 8 ondet to bid farewell to his old asso-
ciates,
wo
choice of a successor. Having 0
sion, and executed his purpose, he returned to
Gorgona, and undertook the office of abbot there,
whieh | he held antl bis death, In the
ir of founding and maintaining i it; and it is to this
‘Breve Recordationis,’ p by Morsior inthe
fourth volume (a ot the minh for there are but
his Antiquitates Malice medié xvi tat
Robertson refers.*
means suppose that the Abbot did or
could forsee what inferences would be drawn from | a}
a Yact which he relates; but really, if he bad he
could tory in ter: re
adapted to preclude the possibility of such perver:
sion. Phe monastery of ‘considerable note’ (that | a
Abbot says, ‘que nunc est corobium’)
me then be mowastery at all, but a chapel near
Pisa, (capella, que tune temporis scnetoues a
presbyteris,) which was in.a most deplorable and
e archbishop for th
and thus iewally ave his
sanction to the opposition o| us,
This triumph over him by i interior seems to
have rankled in the mind of Boniface, who from
thenceforth sought Sporn of denouncing
8 guilty 0
—
From the Britivh Mogazine.
THE DARK AGES.
Ribtiothchar-—Laben sie des Muratorian seine Werke
nicht gelese
P. Prisz Stan ta meinem leben Bich
1.
ich kenue si
gat nich
\, Die Meitigen.
Ihave already observed that theres of n gre:
difficulty in meeting broad general asserts Ene,
hat | even whet en one is sure that they are untrue ; and
I may that itis as Aitieut— perhaps ivi
vite —ty prevent or remove the cnoneons
impressions ely ‘0 arise from stalomente which
re in fa meaning will be il-
lustrated by con: veilering the statement wi its which
Robertson follows those already diecuss
‘Many cirenmstances prove the s
care’ city ol
books during these ages. Private persons ed
2 posphic ster were mi
in other parts of the West, come to the conclu-{
ae that Une earth was of a spherical figure, and es.
h
destitute condition, when ‘Senior Stephanves 1
presume the principal authority in Pisa, procured
this Poor. monk to coms and perform Divine eer-
vice. only does Bonus call it a chapel, but
tcl us ia he ‘he came there he foun:
n
thee ecent dwelling
mon + any
phe. nd in at nothing bot a hut, (Neque
monachue, neque a batem ibidem inven; et non
casam neque mansionem sed tantummodo unum
tugorivens bi cepi habitare cum avoncalo meo.)
He then proceeds to fen the
stat
simiente, bell,
the church a8 to service books,
and all the requiiles. fr the performance o of
vine d, having given a lamentable pic-
ture, he breaks out with honest pride; may I not
hope with real and pious gratitudet ‘Now hear
| and understand how’ that place is improved by the
help of Almighty God, and by mine, nnd by that of
my monks, ant
atten- | w
necessary for the ‘onoratie
t- | er to obset
John xx. 21.
WHOLE NUMBER 141.
the chapel had only @ single missal, bot that it
had no service book but a missal; and that there-
tre only, that service could be revformed which
ined in the missal. Unus, in w of
that ‘period, wheiher Tielian, French, or ‘German,
19 more implies definite singularity than the core
responding Wrord in either of thos e languages
doer We alone, I believes have discarded it or
tu ind a to smile when ove
foreign friends very natorally say, ‘Here is one
ke ‘Thirdly, let we be obs crved vi as
soon as this place aid been it be-
gan this "De rt
more se edie becaote, dringagrest part of the
time the monks were it of the comforts, and
even perhaps ° the necessaries of life, and what
they got ally obtained ry Legping.
The e great ad zoling passion of the
to have been to form a monastery, ond Poe
vide it with every thing needful; and, 28 to him-
self, he tells us that for thes fst oe ars he had
only a a single: shirts and us in bed while it
that ioaeg “he whole abirty:
verre, te e was never possessed of two suits of
clothes, or a horse. As to the books, howerers I
oust give the list in his own words, grammar an
Hing :
spel
Sermouum liber anos quem | Dislororam, Her anne |
c pei eats cum Priore | J foraam Job, ber unt
domi em, bower, Liber Gost
it habe:
Since “Marie, valde opt
Liber" Hist iar z ubi
comtinetue qu gui in eane-
ad legen:
t. orcas
volum enous
‘Textum Evangelsovum unum,
‘valde optine seriqtum, cum
tabolede argente valde bone.
faesionanuin” unin novum,
thece
padent comperataoe bee
Senet "Aueuatiny river ume’ | Soper Esechiel, Eber opus
Misaales quingue; usum mis-| Libri Psalmorum valde opti
tale valde optimum, quod
mpet in arca manebit, ¥
Fenteim solidus C.
m quile aware that this catalogue may
smile from.hose who are conversant with
sateen collections, but Tam not ashamed to say
that L honor the man who, under such circum-
stances, had the spirit, and found the means, to
rebuild or enlarge his church, to provide allt tings
‘performance o
ice, to onatter y, and make abe-
ginning fora school of learning. me also
fray to illustrate what I have said in the preced-
er. and panly 9 prepare the way 7 for
wha at hope more hully'to show) reque:
e nature of the books in th ii
list, are they legendary tales of saints? me:
avi
anxious to pro robert
n gives of the abbot Lupus; but I wish first to
add a few words respecting fhe canons and the
bbot Regino. the second number I stated
that Thad not got ‘ihe orginal work of the abbot;
ut since that number was printed, the kinduess:
ofalearned friend has furnished me with the book,
ind Tam (lesitous to give the bassoge as it really
stands, am induced to recur to the
subject, because, ” after od written ‘the preced-
ing part of this paper, I happened to take up a
te of | a
Mistry of Switzerlandy deeigoed for young per-
sons,. published by Harvey and Darton in 1825,
which we ae. rising ever n that small
were the jought requisite for the
p. 237, This, is taken fram “Robert
son's eee te that ‘one of the anestions anpoin
edt andidates for Order: $1
“Ww fanee ‘hey could read the gospels and epis-
les, ral explain the sense of them, at least, liter-
tory of Switz:
child's book, that they never heard of it, and that
it is not worth notice. To this I answer, first,
that this book, r doce, not a inte the bands of
the good christians of our | children only, in the ds of
+ th ssessed any books whatever, | at of the g ch an
t 0 | iat * This, a5 ft proved. upon ‘ngury, $ exes of considerable note had ony ue mis. ity? rive years he set to work on the/a child that 1 "ona i ‘ovis and that, inmy
tipodes, 4 7" he ich had been represente: Mure phase, and went lo Rome, where he brought co- | opinion, even childr ould not be set to read
ihe seienti ie doetrn eravabelit in aunher world Ks were Lens, fo then made a belfry, which he | lies; second! ly. 1 eran that never saw the
slide eta |wcctoee Ta|a tnt daha Sa at
scatety, as compared with the plenty, and even
f the m, nor included
men, not of the present day, was great indeed,
among those for ‘eho Shriet died. ie “Wi is by ' een ey ot het aaeees
| that, on such a representation | Yet, great as ii bel c specting
ho means wonderful th ° at it has Leen exaggerated; and I think w
shail find ground he doubt the truth of the asser-
tion that “private persone sello om Poss sessed any
f by assign
3
ces he imputent pretences on which the notorious Dem
Stor hag laid elie to our Er sh suns anaes tat
tes tuadee of fareigh rchole that
book SW a lax and
of Europe to the famous school at Lise arative meaniny o elder We statement
locked fram every part %
mor here Ca hoes had recere ua date rate shold be turned into a notorious truth ni
rue conveniunt po t
Dice i staium, ina not cog
jandata foret
ore pera divero tramite ad urbe
i, primos ubi trans ‘et anton”
apud Scotos est | erront
| Ane statement backed by the authority of Muratori— at
ie eared by «| for my present business is chief! ev
ice thar Oy monasteries of considerable note had only one
entihiet = va Deum, triua derogett Deor. mis '" the iret places will any body tll me
ae sua tar ein rum denen elt "that| what they wan’ iMogssteries
si autem abner, persona
loshein
explained by Muse Si tiy are three eubtane
ss awunbediy a Tritheist, and. Wo
must ether atin or deny
es:
orekip
of considerable hove? had buto one cnueehe or cha-
pel, and not more inmates than that ome building
would contain; and might not mass be sar
hour of every day all the year round, out o
inissal, as well as Dit there had been fifty?
it nay be said, *but one is accustomed to look on
un
is, as
hat he ures Her
his denial innpies that they are
‘ou deny it, this de r at they BF
sind thes you fal in
A ne
‘Acantioun cet yes
anne do Virgie, Eveque
Finthie, do
sirleFagiet Tee rao ce] monasteries a8 having ven, in some small and]
| Pree wipoden, ou Vuutea comparative degree places where ete was sone
vance
nfl “it elo Bear,
earning, and some appearance, at Least of reli-
ion sad one is surprised to leat of their being
t—I know
sometime contrac ted into Fer,
ot geo changed ito ¥
thea aifce mamas Vir
bet ‘oft Ipwhoven Tremor constantly written
ry Angee | atainan wha as any eal texte ih
aun ineetin.”— Lamia, wed hi ts dor secular, cannot help having some
re bapa the pret used | histor acre .
in| toluye Bap sInnomne Dat vate Si ee biti ef Spi ea. ot erhaps a very vague and discouraged idea
itus Sancti’ Sept.
Santa y that in ‘ the re re-
Fehr me f want and weakness, the nursery of art,
i " it eet homi fe of want y
ative ol Hi te Cot anes, cosent the depositary, of learning, and the saneluary, of
6S) esse
ite pet ie tat [agin Kacey men who e mele
po ene
we
ee SND SSS
two bells, but which, fifteen years
ha
afierwar gave place to one muc ndsomer,
contai nang seven bells, the largest of w' rik
weighed twelve hundred pounds. The
ments, by the time when th abbot wie, hed
nat only increased in number, ‘pat 8 of them
‘0 costly that, as the abbor tells vs in the
bishop of the. diocese might have said mass in
them on Easter Sunday, ‘cam honore’—the
gle tin cup had been exchanged for four ehalices,
had expanded into a monastery, with all suitable
offices and appendages, 8 and a considerable estate
inland; and, w!
tead of the oat ‘miseals the monks of th
| tery of St. Michael rejoiced in a library conning
| of thirty-four volumes. t this requires m:
specific notice, for it is the ground of Robertson" 8
siatement.
Tn describing the destitute state of the chapel as
he originally found it, the abbot tells us, ‘In ipsa
ecclesia now inveni aliud nisi unum missale;’ and
sfetwards he repeats, «Quando ven’ in ipsum lo-
eum non Hegebaune i in ipsa ecclesia, per totum ere
anus nist ep istole et evsingelia quia non hubeba-
unum vis sale.’ Now, the first thing to
userve j is, that which indeed I have already stated
that there is no pretence for cating the place a
onastery at all the time when it had onl
missal, Robertson obviously tnfsuderstanc is ‘he
din of the abbot’s complaint; which was not that
* It was, 1 belieg, fret printed by Mabillon, then by Grane
dius (an aot of St. Atcha whos after te
ictedd & statue in honor of his by Mura
oberison rele
ian hi * Alea Careline
L believe, the fullest account of the
Tam indebted for the facts and extracte which U here give.
Soe eet
one of gold and three of silver—the single but |i
0 out Purpose, in- | ce:
vorth notice as an instance
well w
a
&
make in all the cures in ‘his diocese.
baby, have occasion to recur to ita: ut for
the present it may be enongh tg say that it is en-
quisito de ie Episcopus vel ejus
ministri in suo Giattiewn val territorioinguirere de-
best Bet vicos, pagos, atque parrecheas sue dio-
It suggests ninety-five Points of inquie
. soot which the first een rel he church,
is state of repaics and the requisilies ‘oe the pers
€ | fol rviee. No. 16---73, con-
cern the life and ‘conversation of the riest. No.
74---80, respect points on which the Priest was to
be personally questioned j that is, as to he Pe
rentages place of birth, by what bith op he w:
dined, No. late to he ministry,
isterio ae commisso inquiren-
that part of the 831 and 85th
jum im est) and
which mark by italics that is quoted by Bruck-
er,t but I must extract the two which precede t+
* Lhopoto give some catalogues relating tothe period with
bi ras ‘opportuni
which w
which will offer a inter
butt
en, centuries
a
nd, “uri "Sitareyhand
istatter work
Abbe and toit
f¢ riod of their monastery, for so great
a price? Aly. (bat quite berwern urssives) would
he have expocted to find that Book in the hat
‘+t Of this. indeed, Ro have been aware, for
dieu quen inquirere debebat Lpueropu per ¥
"l Ta eatantm tater azivcisen predyter um jubotur logit, “Sy
x
ie