Show Ii I GLORIES of f CHURCH IN LIM tJ A A AA A AA AAA AA AA A AA vv UIA IMA was WR evening In old I 1 1 1 LIma The wind wag very low 1 OM and flaming banners ot of red were ere avin in the west Alo Along alt all sides or of orf e f the h th the porter were bUll buty put 4 tin ting Uj u wooden shutters hutt rs for tor the night Lights were beginnIng to fiare I in the rates as f fell n 4 Vet the thc uld uhl old city ty It was a lit hur t hear the 8 that Rood good old od lather loW mf me ut or this en d int nt of f the Catholic lie He told of rl arro the iroz whom the old ok t d ay wee u an Illegitimate te hUd l 1 Tt t t t by an unknown m the I Ii i 11 rl ho would e starved hd he be I bt bi n l by a In sow b be I In n a of th and I in after tear ear It Il had 1111 tl t fr fir hi aNi hf I was a a r tn In Ute the cause au of God an and 1 ill nd lOd even EEn though te Ie ri rive river I IlIf lIf r blood to flow through the fair val al I Ilp Ily lp lull ly or of pu I iu he a r roe J on every Ery I I IThe The Sign of the i Vh Ji his time tame ame t ti dl dI saId aid i Thy In rable hs I dalt d alt hun him the death blow as aM he knelt i t the Ow sign of th the croy crose in hi his I In p n fl It WU was hit hili lat act and andt t fit ingo fr for hie hI way ay up and down loWn I Ih h 1101 was wall by muck much ear I lla I it iR i tId or of him that tbt he rould ral or nr write and that his mur id I jr ir of 8 th the Inea n j which tt act W we of today still aty d caused by In nt that fad The writ tn 4 relate that had bed hada a agreed t give the Inca ruler bIB fly If hip hi subjects filled d the room In li h was confined with treasure to the of a made on the wall This mark wu was q ie high zt n the then n bi prisoner r could reach wIth his ti tips 8 while he stood on tiptoe Th lur wae In the form of oC plates r f gold and diver U r brought from fron the of nf the barbarIanS During the 1 I It for the riches to be the royal amused tl im lf by br learnIng words of the lan Ian of hIs k keepers Heo He had one of them ratch the name of God Cod on one fir rf his hie finger nails and It pleased him h t see that the lowliest of the followers recognized the I 1 t tiers arranged In such a novel IlaCe Pizarro Not Road On lay when called upon f flip lop royal the tatter latter held out H halll that h hl visitor might ee e but fould not teed and did not und When the C erd that bl his captors wre j than their mater th thought amu td hint him and aAd b he laughed prIde wap wa hUrt and although th ho room wao vai filled with withold old to the mark on the wall h his word ord and killed the Inca in cold I This foolish t uC of will ever ter bf be A stain U upon Ion the honor of the arms SpIn Spain Stronghold of the Church tat t e t 1 1111 tJ dds left teft m dl to hl his pu for Spa Spain I n a great t t domain I This is one or of the strongholds or of the church I am told my eon Bon that To Toledo Toledo ledo in 18 I the only onh other city In Inthe the Catholic world which has more houses of worship than Lima I be bc the number Is From Froma a high place their towers Vers and spires are almost a a numerous as trees stand standI I lug In a torf t And the they represent great TIme was when the church constituted one ev or of the t tal valuation 0 of the ct ety apt lt be bc nearly so at this date Limas Great Cathedral 1 The cathedral a as you ou tee et Is 16 a anest nest most edIfice It Is now old und 1 r the foundation wa was laid b by the lC It took ninety years ears to build It wee really reany mo more than a century before the Im towers 1011 the were wel upon I great foundations the arted PI Fl I zairo down for them The present archbishOp i is the tw In the theline line The principal portal you ou an fH from where you ar arts sitting yes you are areo right the big one in the till the Door of Purdon The Th large larg which crowns the bolf bears the statue latue or of St John the 1 t the patron of th the eatho I drat dral It is If getting lark dark and my eyes are old but bu YOU ran see the I eagle at t hl his feet md and the book and pen In his hands The d door or of the tran ept opt opens ns at the Court or of orran Orange ran e Tras which Is pr ll ely like that of p In old Seville in t On the pantheon are the i of fUe the nIU and his r ca who left Ift a for fortune fortune tune to defray detra the of hg ft a daily at the high altar To Tomorrow Tomorrow morrow you OU shall go to mass with me and after It is over I will show you ou the tombs or of the and thE very body or of Pizarro which Is ef ver very welt well preserved You can see sac w what t a i strong trong man he really was and i that he had but out one eye ee the other I having been bean put out from the blow or of ofa a Javelin during one of the intrepid I early expeditions Fou Fon etl ed Ground at Night q 1 10 not know hO how many priests and nuns there are In JAms Ilm but their thir number is very great It seems to o me meI I read 1 there were 1700 ot of them In Including eluding oU nit orders I know there was once monks In the house or of th the Franciscans an but there are Lre not 5 so many now TIle The aUe alte for the founding fir Of the house hous o of this thia order wu wee selected In an unusual manner The friars ar ap applied plied to the viceroy for a suitable place and he offered to give t them ground the they could en enclose lose n none one s an any location thc they I might ee fit U Although the Um tim was I very short t secured the lle iee materials marshaled all their rore and built a tepee fence around an er 1 tIre square This pIece or of ground con tamed d hu an orchard and a pond and completely stopped up two streets streeta The authorities au quite naturally protested this net at as an en on their rights and tie de mantled that the property be released But the viceroy favored the friars and paid for the In qu question Uon out of his own purse The order retains this choice piece of property d In the heart hart J and convent ol df the Franciscans ins are t c I mot sumptuous in Lima both interior J IV i BY FREDERIC cJ J HASKIN v vOld I Old Corridors Where Many Pious Monks HaVe Walked H Humble Children of th the Faith t 44 e 4 0 q F H Ht HC C t t i ii I p F 7 1 a m 4 r 5 S O r A I c cc c ti H HL L et 4 7 l r rr r T 1 4 1 x u jr p j I t A j Lonely Little itte Church on a Great Groat Mill Hill Franciscans Fenced this Ground Grund j ir One I nn and exterior rh The latter er have for In them I ITh Th Dominican were the 1 1 who landed in Peru PI AAA bad seven mOM or of this ord order t in his suite t r the thO prIest who tile the Inca monarch to the Catholic faith and who ho h held ld the crucifix to hiS hi UP just before beCore his 1 was wa a aDo Do saId In Lima the first celebrated in the VV Y cathedral and the tho sacrament ad administered administered ministered were all performed hy by the DominIcan frIars As a souvenir of oc the first administration of the the membern of this eider still retain the first baptIsmal fonts onti In those times the friars lived In reed huts and begged their food fiod from door to door Hundreds s of Masses Daily Yes I call oa t tell U you how man many masses are said in Lm every everT day I Shave have It In a little book booi here I kno know it Is more than a hundred every day but I have forgotten Can you make mak it out b by the light of the lamp back of you You sa say it Is in a arear year rear Yell Well that Is considerably more I than a hundred a day It I know I that about ot of e are paId for by bi the varlO varIo II brotherhoods I Another poInt you oU mIght jot down In your book my son is tb that t we celebrate I In OUI churches festIVals every year car which Is more tb than one every da day I Fortunes in Eul Furnishings I heard a statement the other day which will give lve some Idea of the for former mfr mer great wealth of some of the broth brotherhoods brotherhoods When the deCree was mate e eb b by the government that all the 1 erty ot of the various brotherhoods should be managed b by the board of relief of the poor the from the in Inventory I ot of one altar showed that the weight of Its silver service serIce was 2 2600 II pounds The heaviest pIece was a kind of hand b barrow for carrying the relics i of fm saints In This r with twelve damps comprised about half of the to total total tal weight the front of the altar and the VIrgins Virgina throne were Each em bem d with seve sev fRI at hundred pounds of the precious metal My In Informant informant formant said the monstrance eon con contained tamed more than a tl diamonds as well vell as a la g D ber ot of other valuable stones topazes and pearls I have forgotten the number of the latter lotter as west wen as the total value of the hole but it was K a sum princely IY enough to ransom a king I can assure you ou that Besides the intrinsic value or of the furnishings of the old churches here the workmanshIp on the decorations InsidE and out represents a quantity of labor that 16 almost impossible to calculate Take the wonderful carving on the front of the church or of La 1 Mer Merced Merced ced for example Where ere In the world can we find the workmen to duplicate the carving on that stately old edifice I Its splendid tower riddled with the I bullets of many revolutions and andI rumbling crumbling with the de decay s of the coo cen centuries I tunes that are pressing hard upon it I cannot annot be replaced when n once It tal fails I I Over at St Ip In a nearby street they are repairing the church I The other morning whim when I was there they were taking up the floor and cart cartIng cartIng Ing away the bones of monks burled thEre hundreds of years ago Th The new I structure will be Yr very one Une but It will willbe I Ibe be far different from froni the old one oneSt I St Rose of Lima LimaNo No mention of oC the glory of f the church In Urea would be complete without the t toiling ot of the dory stor of at St Rose Hose of LIma Uma The wonderful history of the life ot of this holy daughter of I Peru has few ew equals In sacred litera literal I ture She was Americas first saint and andI I l I warth t i I Her baptismal name was Isabella but W I I I I V as she Ja lay in her cradle radle a tiny tIDy breath breathing Ing thing there Were In her cheeks beeks and her mother saId Riel Her name must be Rose It is written that she her Ute life to God Cod when she was but five of e age From h her hervery t tery very ery youth her bet walk wu wag that ot of piety She he had purity as white as s a soul The mere tact fact that her parents parent had changed her bee lum name caused bE her great grief of spirit for tor she Me it was th result ot of their vanity and she pride of fy that jort t greatly e UY unbecoming to a worthy worth daughter of o God lOdl She was as very vel a s a achild child but steadfastly refused to dress dressIn in the py gay fashion or of the young Onee when Insisted that she W wear weara ar arI a crown of on h hr head bead she hp it to her ber flesh with an anthe and the pain she h was not f seed ered until her nu nurse late at found out she had done doneAs As a gIrl she he kept a JIrden and d bitter b herbs r pla planting them in the form of crosses When men ani am amt anit t J court hp her she was displeased d at th I I I beauty aut which hleb attracted them ri with hot AnEt sh she became a nun nUD sin b was not lOII wit with h the ordinary anti and h her r dy body with instruments trum in of The bed sh h was In ir the form of a rough wood wooden box filled with stones pl pieces of wood and ti tiles es The Tb t sate hc be kt were ere truly wonderful During the forty days of Lent she took no brauti und and at oth other times she was known to sub for fitly fifty days day on one loaf Inar tf f bread and aud a pitcher tiC If water During her bel she ht tortured her df ly 11 with iron chains her whole life wa ins a miracle She he was a saint if one ever in th flesh Her HEI little habitation was on a 3 place wh where re mosquitos were very IY thick They Y made It un UlI uncomfortable comfortable for everyone eve but on of f them never tr alighted upon the eon on rated person of the Itil saInt The birds knew hI her well Sh h command comman them Kt at hr her will When h n eb She dt them to toine OIne and sing praises pral ts to th Master they there responded and t it away tt once when she wished thom to depart The thing of I a awas I Iwas was that she he knew the rJay y and hour when she was to die and her whit soul winged Its way wa to paradise at the exact time appointed she Fifteen yea years r later leter when her body was taken up th the coffin did not s smell of the od odor r of tiP tie cay but was wa sweet with the unmistakable unmistakable perfume of roses In her Iter name man many miracles have hae bt been en w wrought here herein I in Lime Lima A blind boy set et his sight when her picture was laid upon hi A cripple stepped fi upon a gar garI m moot nt of hers and he ay down his crutch Ve e or of old Lima will ever eyer hold her ber sweet swett memory In rover I ence The venerable priest solemnly cro p himself a as he finished hed his story of sweet set Saint ROBe Roer It wit wi now quit dark The evening hours were weaving en Away off on some distant hill a abell bell was faint faintly ringing above the tu tumult tumult or of Ute the city Life LILb Is best bestIn t tIn In old Lima when the sun has gone one t the mountains and the stars are out ut Father Francisco arose and ve me his blessing Be Being a man of he continued on his way to the C prayer to light his hiB ca l his beads bead while I being a young yount iq of the world went over oyer to the pl plaza za to ti watch h the tolIe pasa d tg the band pla play |