without having previously purified himself by the sacrament of penance. The last time, as if he had a presentiment that it would be the last confession he would be able to make well, he desired to make a general confession of his whole life." As he always persisted in remaining on his knees during confession, Rev. Mr. Isnard would not permit him, in his exhausted state, to attempt what he considered an exertion beyond his strength.

Although his weakness was so great that he had been unable to say mass for two or three weeks, yet a few days before his death, collecting all his remaining energies, and making an almost supernatural effort to enjoy so great a consolation, he went to the chapel, ascended the sacred altar and actually offered the adorable sacrifice of mass. Returning to his chamber, never again to leave it alive, he disposed himself for eternity.

He

good and apostolical Mr. Moranvillé. departed this life on the 17th of May, and was interred in the cemetery of the parish in the bosom of his family. He said mass two days before his death. He desired very much to die at the Point, and be buried in the midst of his parishioners. If he had thought that he would die in France he would not have returned. His death was precious before God. The parishioners of Mr. Isnard have carried their veneration so far as to kiss his feet, and to touch his body with their crucifixes and beads. I need not recommend him to your prayers. If you have an opportunity direct for America, send this sorrowful news to the end they may pray for him."

The notice of his death published at Paris, in L'Ami de la Religion, says: "The bishop of Amiens administered to him while dying, the plenary indulgence. The Abbé Isnard, who had carefully attended him to the last

The congregation of St. Patrick's expressed the most profound affliction, when the tidings of his death reached Baltimore. The church was hung in black, and the people, clad in mourning, lamented the death of a most tender father. Regretting to be deprived of his mortal remains, the trustees wrote to France to obtain them. The following letter from the secretary of the board, addressed to Rev. Mr. Bruté, was received by him at Rennes : "BALTIMORE, July 30th, 1824. 'MY DEAR FATHER,-The mournful news

No description of the last moments of our good priest can be so appropriate as the fol-hour, conveyed his body to the cemetery of lowing narrative of Rev. Mr. Isnard. "Two Cachy, where his family had desired it should days before his death, Mr. Moranvillé, re- be deposited." signed as he was to his sufferings and to die, having become very deaf and extremely feeble, caused me to approach his bed and apply my ear to his mouth. He then expressed how sensibly it afflicted him to die so far from his congregation. I then made him understand that he should consider the many persons of my flock who were then kneeling around his bed as his own parishioners of St. Patrick's, and bless the latter in the persons of the former, for whom and myself, I craved his benediction. He granted it immediately, having raised himself up in the bed with a fervor has reached us. We know that the faithful and vivacity that surprised us all. He pre-servant is gone to his rest. I need not tell served his senses perfectly to the last breath. One moment before he expired, fixing on me one of the most sweet and gracious looks I had ever seen him wear, with his hands and arms extended, he lifted up his eyes towards heaven, where they remained fixed, while we shed sweet tears over his happy departure.") The following letter from Paris of the Rev. M. Garnier, superior general of St. Sulpice, and the first pastor of St. Patrick's, was addressed to Rev. Mr. Bruté, then at Rennes.

"PARIS, May 21st, 1824. "I have to inform you of the death of the

you how heart-rending is his loss to all his congregation. But you would be surprised, as I have been, to see how generally, nay, universally, he is deplored by those of other religions who knew him; they speak of him in the most unqualified terms of approbation and admire those heroic virtues which he so long practised among them, almost as much as his own parishioners.

"Though I rejoice that he died in France, where he was so well attended, and where the care of his congregation did not interrupt his last preparation, yet, in common with all

his afflicted children, I grieve that his ashes are not with us. They are our due, we have a right to them. He gave us the best years of a life pre-eminent for its piety, and made splendid and glorious by his charities. All the affections of his heart which were allowed to any thing on earth were given to the people of his congregation; his last thoughts were of us, his last wishes were to be buried among us. If his friends desire to keep his bones in the land of his nativity, they ought to send us his heart that we might entomb it in that splendid monument which he built, St. Patrick's church. His heart should be enshrined at the altar which his zeal erected to the living God, and where he so often offered the sacrifice of a burning heart. . .”

Although Rev. Mr. Isnard made use of the

most diligent efforts to gratify the pious desire of the congregation of St. Patrick's, different circumstances defeated his intentions. Nothing but the hair of the holy man was sent. The present pastor of St. Patrick's had a marble tablet inserted in the wall of the church, with the following inscription:

1. H.S. Sacred

TO THE MEMORY OF

THE GOOD MORANVILLE, THE POOR MAN'S FRIEND, THE COMFORTER OF THE AFFLICTED, AND FOR TWENTY YEARS THE MUCH BELOVED PASTOR

OF THIS CONGREGATION.

At Amiens (France) he gave his soul to God, on the
17th of May, 1824.
R. I. P.

FOREIGN.

INTELLIGENCE.

ROME.-Primary Schools.-We have collected the following interesting statement from the Ami. "Houses of education existed at Rome during the whole period of the middle ages; but they had a municipal character, and were not charitable institutions. Such, for instance, were the district schools, so called from there being one in every ward of the city. Historians place them among the ancient establishments of the Roman senate.

and even the children of Jews were admitted as pupils. The object of these institutions was, besides the religious instruction of the scholars, to furnish them with books and other necessary articles, and to bring them up under the influence of a wise and paternal discipline. From Rome these establishments soon spread over all Italy, but they confined themselves to the education of poor boys. In 1655 the first free school for girls, on the same plan, was opened at Rome by order of Alexander VII. Houses of education for the poor owe Several others were founded a few years after. their origin to the charity which religion in-To induce parents to send their children to spires, and Rome has led the way in this as in these institutions, a gratuitous distribution of almost every other project of beneficence. bread was made to the girls, and when their They date from the pontificate of Clement VIII, education was finished, they received a small towards the close of the sixteenth century. dowry. Two other institutions had been preJoseph Calasanctius, who was subsequently viously undertaken at Rome, one by St. Ancanonized, and whose memory has been ren-gela Merici and the other by the congregation dered equally illustrious by his learning and of the Christian doctrine; but the principal his virtue, was the first who established a end contemplated by these establishments was public free school, and the institution which the religious instruction of the children. he founded at Rome was so successful, that "Rome has not forgotten that, three centuseveral others were set on foot under his di-ries ago, she set the example of improvement. rection. They were called charitable schools, There are three hundred and seventy-two pri

Puseyism or the quasi-catholic theology of Oxford is making great progress. At a meet

mary schools in the city, under the charge of four hundred and eighty-two teachers, and numbering upwards of fourteen thousanding recently held in that place, Mr. Newman scholars. Within the last twenty years, the number of ward schools has increased in the proportion of one-third. There are fifty-five of this class. Besides the houses of education already mentioned, there are many others differently organised."

was received with an almost general demonstration of joy. The majority of the members of the University are supposed to be advocates of the improved belief. The more zealous among them are of opinion that the surplice should be used even at their private devotions. Mr. Scager has just published a work, in which he contends that auricular confession to a priest is necessary to obtain the pardon of sin.

IRELAND. During the last thirty years, not less than nine hundred churches have been constructed or restored to the Catholic worship, in Ireland.

COPENHAGAN.-Amelioration of the condi

Penal Code. The new penal code and code of criminal procedure, which, by order of the Pope, have been drawn up by a committee composed of the most learned legists in Italy, presided over by Cardinal Bernetti, have just been published. These two codes, entitled Regolamento Organico di Procedura Criminale," and " Regolamento Organico de delitti sue le pene," are a real work of improvement, tion of the Catholics.-A letter from Copenhaand bear the mark of an enlightened philan-gen, of September 20, says—“ Since the esthropy. By them all the privileges and ex-tablishment of the reformed religion in Denemptions hitherto enjoyed by the higher classes mark in 1517, the Catholic inhabitants of the are abolished. They establish the perfect capital have been deprived of places of worequality of all citizens before the law, that ship; and all meetings for the exercise of no person can be withdrawn from his natural that religion being formally forbidden, they judges. They maintain no exceptional tri-were reduced to the little chapel of the Ausbunals except the ecclesiastical ones, and those only for persons in orders, and for crimes and misdemeanors committed in the exercise of their functions. The punishment of death is preserved, but restricted to a very small number of crimes. All other punishments evidently have for their object the amendment of the individuals on whom they are inflicted. As to foreigners, the enactments which relate to them are exceedingly liberal. After a delay of two months together, in any part of the Pontifical States, they are no longer to be amenable in criminal matters to the police authorities, but to the ordinary tribunals; and in all cases in which they shall be found guilty of misdemeanors, or slight offences with extenuating circumstances, they are to be condemned to the smallest amount of punishment.

ENGLAND.It is stated that the number of, conversions which have taken place, from the 1st of September, 1841, to the same date in 1842, is equal to the number of conversions during the ten previous years. What a source of consolation and of hope for a country once called the island of saints.

trian embassy, which contains scarcely one hundred persons, and where the service and other acts of religion are given in the German language. For the future this is not to be the case, as the King has decided that the Roman Catholics of Copenhagen are to be placed, in a religious point of view, on the same footing as other dissenters, and in consequence, he has authorized the erection of a Catholic church in the capital. It is probable that the first stone will be laid at Christmas or soon after."

Galignani's Messenger.

WESTERN AFRICA.-From a private source of undoubted authority, we learn that the Very Rev. Edward Barron has been created Vicar Apostolic of Upper Guinea. His episcopal consecration was to take place at Rome, on the feast of All-Saints. With eight Spanish Capuchin Friars he is to return shortly to his apostolical labors on the western coast of Africa.-Catholic Herald.

UPPER CANADA.-Synod of Toronto.-We have been favored with the perusal of the statutes published by the Right Rev. Michael Power, bishop of Toronto, in his first Diocesan synod, held in the month of September

last. Sixteen priests were present at the synod, having first made a spiritual retreat during five days, under the direction of the Rev. Father P. Chazelle, S. J. The ceremonies were performed in strict accordance with the pontifical, and the statutes were adopted with the full assent of the clergy. These statutes are for the most part such as have been enacted in various diocesses of the United States.-Ib.

not recognized by the maxims of your holy religion, and perhaps of a return to the paths of peace and piety, with an humble and con. trite heart.

But whilst as individuals we bow in grateful homage to our Heavenly Father, we owe him a still more solemn, if not a deeper debt of gratitude, as a great and highly favored nation. We may have abused the magnificent inheri tance that has fallen to us; we may, in the wantonness of impatient prosperity, have too often sought shorter avenues to wealth than those of industry and ability; and have thus

PARAGUAY.-By a decree of the government, the Fathers of the Society of Jesus have been charged with the missions of the Republic, and with the foundation of the ne-justified Divine Providence in entailing on us cessary colleges. Measures will be immediately taken for the execution of this decree; by which religion will be restored to its ancient splendor in a country once illustrious bybution, we gratefully recognize the interventhe successful labors of the Jesuits.

DOMESTIC.

the salutary, although humiliating, conse quences of our absorbing, I had almost said, our national passion. But, even in this retri

tion of a Merciful Father. By a memorable lesson, he has taught us that it is more for our happiness and respectability to seek a compe tency by industrious and frugal habits, than to hazard conscience and character on the precarious issue of extravagant and unscrupulous

ARCHDIOCESS OF BALTIMORE.-Circular to the Catholic Clergy and Laity of Maryland.The chief magistrate of this state having recommended " that on Wednesday, the four-schemes of self aggrandizement. teenth day of December, next ensuing, the But whilst even the chastening discipline people of Maryland abstain from all secular of heaven claims our fervent gratitude, with employment, and publicly engage in thanks- what effusion of feeling should we not acgiving, praise and prayer to the Almighty, knowledge the countless blessings that are because of the manifold blessings enjoyed by strewn along our path. If commercial enterthem under divine protection," it is for me a prise has been confined within narrower and most pleasing duty to invite you, venerable perhaps more wholesome limits; a new im and beloved brethren, to comply with the pulse has been necessarily given to the more enlightened and edifying suggestion of his stable and secure operations of agriculture: if Excellency. Amidst the vicissitudes of life, causes, which it is not for us to investigate, its corroding cares, and corrupting pleasures, have oppressed the country with pecuniary we are too prone to lose the sense of our en-embarrassments, has not the earth poured tire dependence on the great Author and Dis-forth her genial favors with more than proposer of all earthly events, and thus, by our ingratitude, forfeit our claim on his more special protection. In the privacy of your meditations, you will call to mind the blessings which have been lavished on you, the merciful dispensations by which you have been not unfrequently rescued from spiritual or temporal disasters, and the unmerited interposition of Divine Goodness, by which even your own indiscretions and infidelities may have been converted into occasions of self-recollection, of a salutary consciousness of the vanity of seeking happiness in sources

portionate munificence, and placed them within the reach of even the more needy among our fellow-citizens? If we are occasionally startled by the detection of revolting frauds or other baleful enormities of human depravity; are we not also refreshed by the more than countervailing examples of virtue and morality? Religion is rearing her temples and scattering her hallowed fruits throughout the land; temperance points to the countless haggard victims of vice and misery now reclaimed to usefulness and self-respect; education is more and more liberally diffusing its

purifying and ennobling influences; peace, templates founding in this city (Louisville) which had been threatened by serious differ- a Magdalen Asylum, in order to open the way ences with a mighty nation, again smiles of return to virtue, to those unfortunate fewithin our borders. Have we not then cause males who would willingly and gladly abanto magnify the praises of the giver of all good don their wretched and criminal course of gifts, and to propitiate the continuance of his fa- life, were they in any wise encouraged by sovors, by laying at the foot of his altars the hom-ciety, and secured against temptation, renage of hearts glowing with gratitude and love?dered almost resistless because of their unTo comply with this sacred obligation the protected condition, and the pleadings of want reverend pastors of the several congregations, and destitution.-Catholic Advocate. and the directors of Catholic Institutions in Four ladies du bon Pasteur have passed this state, are requested to have, as far as prac-through our city this week, on their way to ticable, solemn service on the morning of Louisville, to establish a Magdalen Asylum, Wednesday, the 14th December, and the Te on the invitation of the apostolic prelate of Deum sung or recited after mass. They will that see.-Catholic Herald. read this circular to their congregations on some day previous to that of thanksgiving. SAMUEL, Archbp. Balt.

Given at Baltimore, Nov. 26th, 1842. Religious Profession.-Sister Mary Rosalia, formerly Misa Thornton, made her religious profession in the convent of the Visitation, Georgetown, D. C. on the 14th November.

DIOCESS OF LOUISVILLE.-We are gratified to learn that the Rt. Rev. Bishop Flaget con

NEW CHURCHES.-St. Peter's church at Lowell was dedicated on the 16th of October; St. John the Evangelist's, at Brighton, N. Y., on the 18th; and St. Mary's, at Covington, Ky., on the 30th of the same month.

EPISCOPAL APPOINTMENT.-The Rt. Rev. Dr. O'Connor, pastor of St. Paul's church, Pittsburg, has been appointed successor to the late Bishop England in the see of Charleston, South Carolina.-Catholic Telegraph.

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

The Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and Laity's ( programme of what religion offers to the imDirectory, for 1843. Baltimore, Fielding migrant and moving population of our counLucas, Jr. 16mo, pp. 168. try. To make it serve these purposes, howThis periodical has been issued by the pub-ever, the editor must be furnished with a delisher, as it should be, in due time for general tailed account of the churches, clergy, chapels, distribution before the 1st of January, 1843. Į stations, &c., and that before the first of SepBut to do this it is necessary to put it to press tember. We have no doubt that his request in the beginning of September, and as it is to this effect will be willingly complied with. of the utmost importance that its contents The Almanac for 1843, contains some intershould be accurate, all the returns from the esting explanations of the calendar months, a different diocesses should be received before well written biographical sketch of the late that date. If any changes occur after that Bishop Bruté, and the usual fund of statisperiod, the editor may be apprized of them.tical information. The only thing we regret He very reasonably urges the necessity of to perceive in this neat publication of Mr. more comprehensive and minute statements, in order to compile the Almanac with desirable accuracy. No work can be more useful than one like this, as an index to the progress of Catholicity, a guide for intercourse, and a

Lucas, is the repetition of the same wood-cuts every year. If some other prints are not introduced, the suspicion will no doubt arise that he considers no churches worthy of pictorial representation, except those which have