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Show ST. ANNS ARM, Methodist Ministers Object to its Exhibition Exhi-bition in New York. S- 9 m. MONSICNOR 0 ' R E I L L ' S ' ? "Tr Co "?t He Traces the History of the 3 adve Tells the Ministers They Knoii, jJJJj What They Are Talking About. New Yokk, May 24. At the weekly meeting meet-ing of Methodist ministers yesterday, one of the inemhers said it was strange that Protestants Protest-ants should have stood still while a part of the alleged arm of St. Anne was exposed for worship of the ignorant in the Catholic church of St. Jean Baptiste. He thought a protest should be made. No proof, he said, existed that the so-ealled relic was reallyr what It was represented to be. Others spoke to the same effect. Monsignor Bernard O'Reill, formerly domestic prelate of Leo XIV, when told of these remarks said: "The body of St. Anne was buried, according to Ballandist in the tomb of the Blessed Virgin at Jerusalem. The legend in the south of France is that all relatives of our Lord and Virgin Mary were banished from Palestine. They took with them the body of St. Ann, and it was entombed in the subterranean chapel in the cathedral of Ant, in the south of France by the first bishop of the See, in the first century. When France was invaded by the barbarians, the entrance to the chapel was walled up and all evidences of its existence were obliterated. In A. D., 772, the vault was discovered and opened in 1he presence of Charleir agne, Archbishoi Turpin and a great company of priests and nob'e;. On the cypiess cjfiiu was inscribed: This is the bodv of St. Ann, mother of the blessed Virgin Mary.' A letter of Charlemagne to Pope Adrian J, concerning this discovery is extant. The body has been kept ever since in the Cathedra! of Apt to the great glory of the city. The relic recently re-cently exposed in this city came from the right arm which was sent to Rome to be kept in the monastery of St. Pan1. With respect re-spect to the Methodist ministers who criticise criti-cise us, said Mr. O'Reilley. "I have, only to say they should go to the libraries and read for themselves the historical proofs of the miareulous body of St. Ann." |