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Show DEFENDING THE CRUCIFIX. An Incident of the Socialists' Anti- v Christian Campaign in France. The town of Limoges, France, which has recently been disturbed by the exploits ex-ploits of revolutionary socialists, also contains sterling Catholics amongst its working people, as the following incidents, inci-dents, related by the "Univers," prove. In a certain quarter of the city resides the corporation of butchers. Their shops are side by aide in a narrow little street, at the end of which is a small square.. In this square, facing the Church of St. Aurelian, the patron of butchers, rises a Calvary, surmounted by a great crucifix, an object for the inhabitants of this quarter of constant and pious attention. Every day flowers and candles are placed before the railing rail-ing by the corporation of butchers. Warned by recent sacrilegious attempts throughout France, the butchers informed in-formed the commissary of police that they would themselves keep watch by the sacred emblem and. by every means m their power, would resist the invasion in-vasion of their quarter and prevent any damage to their Calvary. In fact, for the past fortnight five of the most powerful young men of the corporation corpora-tion have kept strict -watch all night. A few nights ago, about 1 a. m., a score of scoundrels, wearing noiseless sandals and armed with bludgeons, penetrated stealthily into;the butchers' quarter. In two minutes a;ll the butchers 'were in the street, .called out by the watchers and by.- the barking of their dogs. The mobilization was complete. The aggressors ag-gressors 'fled with all speed, and have not returned. London Catholic Times. i . . There is a low or selfish as well as a high and noble reason for our stoop- i ing to those who lie in our way. This leaves no excuse. If we offer caste would we care whether the one who bound our wound; was a. prince or a pauper? if we offer fear would we think much of that one who withheld help from us on this score? If we offer of-fer duty is there any duty so imperative impera-tive as that which impels us to do unto others as we would they should do unto us? |
