Show ILLO N E N co J ca AC R C 0 U R 7 ak I 1 of SACRE COEUR PARIS HAT fatality over overhangs hange tho the hill of at montmartre Mont martro might WHAT bo be at this timo time when events ments afim likely to later fore with tho consecration of tho the church of sacro sacre coeur october 17 was nas tho the day chosen for this ceremony and this la is thirty nine years after tho the beginning of tho the building this anto ante Is tho the fete day of marlo marguerite who beard board voices commanding her to build a church on the top of montmartre louis XVI formed in prison the pious intention to carry out the behests of tho the voices but the scaffold robbed him of tho the chance napoleon had a more secular idea and proposed building there a temple whore where each successive peace might bo be proclaimed but he never ceased warring says a writer in the literary digest it was as the events of 1870 71 that directed the catholic mind to the project and caused its consideration by tho the national assembly under a paris date tho the london times printa prints the following pious people at poitiers wished to invoke the protection of god by erecting a temple to his worship la in paris momentarily allowed tj to lapse tho the idea was taken up by catholics in parts the difficulty was to establish communication muni cation with the outside world for the city was invested balloons were tried the pigeon post and even the bribery of secret agents but all failed und it yaa ras not until the commune had added its horrors to rherar the aar that ho he enterprise took practical shape the war minister wanted tho the site I 1 for a fort but better inspired hgr mgr guibert the cardinal archbishop of firis cried your fort will do no good and may be turned against you vou better build my citadel than yours whether or not he was moved by the argument arguments the minister gave up his project and on july 23 1873 the national assembly authorized the purchase of land for the church and even permitted the cardinal to proceed by expropriation the large majority which supported the bill shows allows how feeling in parliament has since changed on questions of church and state byzantine architecture two year years later the first stone was aid with pomp and in the presence of persons gathered from all parts of franco france almost inevitably evit ably the plan of the architect which prescribed a byzantine church was severely criticized but it ultimately triumphed the public saw the folly of attempting to rival the gothic glories of the thirteenth century by adding 1 to the splendid aerie series of chartre Cb Cli artre artres of allens amiens of rouen and noire notre dame slowly the domes and campanile and the cluster of side chapels arose on the mount of martyrs near indeed to the spot according to the legend st SL bents denis wai was decapitated and carried bis his head bead under hie his arm as if it had haa been A it crown centuries after temples to and mars had bad disappeared a d dea ulf and almost blind abbess with the ladies of her order was wais hurried to tho the guillotine on the tumbrels of the convention mount of I 1 martyrs it wa wits also for two generale ge norale shot by Comi camanna nuna ds dij philp 31 clemenceau was mayor of mont martje e the people had bad dragged gune guns for the second timo time in the history of paris up lap the steep slopes ot of the 1111 1 the first was on tho the morrow of the taking of the bastile when the mob feared vengeance tron from the royalists and the army rat saint denis dents and end the two nobce ofil cers rs h ht d gone to parley in the name of the government in their excitement tho the blew slow the emissaries without tho the knowledge and in ohp absence ot at their youthful mayor on pillars within tho the sanctuary appear the arms of towns ot of france which have contributed to tho the build ing fund each stone may bo be bald said to bear the narno ot at some community a town or village or ot of an individual catholic altara altars to st patrick and to st SL john tho the baptist murk mark the offer ings inge of ireland and canada deputies working men students and oven schoolboys havo have their part in th erection of ot this striking and majestic monument to tho the catholic spirit of franco only now after all these years 1 it l the fair fabric complete enough to be ready for or consecration place of pilgrimage the great bronze doors have lately been put in tho the paving ie AS scarcely finished and some of the altars be speaking the devotion of different parts of france are still in its present state the huge white build ing under tinder its imposing dome has cost this is precisely the sum which napoleon proposed to spend on his temple of peace it has been the aim of those who have founded tha the church to address themselves to all classes of society and the same spirit prevails today in the great sunday services at which from 1500 to 2000 men aro are present in the nave these worshipers are drawn from every section of tho the community academicians and officers of the army and navy sit side by bide sidn with artisans artl arti small shopkeepers and the very poor the church of the sacred heart hai has no pariah parish attached to it it is a place of pilgrimage and scarcely a day passes without some rome band of pilgrims climb ing the sides of the mount in the evening lights glimmer from the urn sum mit of cl the tle rock upon which is perched thi symbol of gallia poe niters et devota corroboration this is the greatest loafing place in the city he said as he drew up to me in tho the corridor of at the municipal court most of this crowd hero here has no other business than to come here bore every day r end nd listen to the cases of poor devils who get caught its a good chance to hear bear private affairs and gel a occasionally but it if I 1 was in I 1 d tako take these idlers in a bunch now look here and a sizable officer accosted my friend ofa of a minute f ive warned you before about hang ing around these courtrooms and if I 1 catch you again do a little stunt in a cage deat beat it I 1 did he touch you the officer asked me im sick and tired of see ing that KU gus and a few others lying around here this is the greatest loaf lont ing place in the city philadelphia ledger make makes five limit you may get drunk only five flye times in new rochelle city 3 idge samuel F says thavis definitely finally and absolutely the limit hoping to decrease the number of d drunk runk ards in the town and save their money for their families the magistrate haa has served notice on thai that under a provision of the liquor tax law they will be punished it they sell intoxicating to any one who haa bas been arraigned five tine times for fr in cation leation tho the judge will supply a list of euch such persons to the saloons and saya says h lit intends to act promptly and vigorous ly it if the law ie I 1 3 violated new aorl world |