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Show A FACT IGN0LED. Secular journals, especially those "devoted to science, have had much to say about the late An-foine An-foine Henri Becquerel. whose discovery of the phenomena now generally classed together under the name of radioactivity led directly to the sensational sen-sational discovery of radium . by Professor and Madame Currie; but in no instance that we know of has there been any mention of Beequerel's religion. re-ligion. He was a sincere Christian, and, as we have already informed our readers, died a holy and happy death. Had he been an infidel or an apostate instead of a Catholic, the fact would have been noted in every tribute paid to his memory, to confirm the notion, as erroneous as general, that eminence in science and adherence to the Church are incompatible. -Ave Maria. |