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Show HAND OF RETRIBUTION. Tragic Death of French Prefect, Persecutor Per-secutor of Nuns. On the 4th of August, early in the morning, the nuns of the Good Shepherd Shep-herd were expelled fn m their convent in Pau amidst the universal sorrow of the Catholic population and of th? poor and miserable, whose home and refuge that convent had been. Of the two men who had shown particu-lai particu-lai zeal in carrying out this hateful order of the persecuting government, whose slaves they had beocme, one was M. Franciere. prefect of the Brasses-Pyrenees. Pau that day was stunned by this cruel blow, and all seemed to return to their homes from the scene of departure as if from a funeral. That day, toward 5 o'clock, word came to Pau that M. Franciere had also been expelled from his palatial pala-tial dwelling, but by an awful hand, for death had seized him suddenly and terribly. Apparently in health whilst his victims were performing their pain- I ful journey, one of their youngest members being so sick that she had to be carried on a stretcher, Mr. Franc-icre that fame day was glorifying, at a banquet of lay teachers, the awful havoc of which he was the willing instrument. in-strument. But before the banquet was finished the hand of death was on him, and he was hurriedly taken to the city of Bayonne close by. Doctors were i brought to him, but the science of this world was of no avail, and within a few moments he fell back dead. In the hour of awful need, when the prefect of the Basses-Pyrenees lay at Bayonne. stricken down by the hand of death, it was not lay folk who were called to perform the services which the occasion demanded. Nuns those poor, persecuted nuns, whose home close by was doomed were immediately immedi-ately sent for. and came to watch beside be-side and implore mercy for their oppressor. op-pressor. Next night the body was borne back to the home in Pau. where other- nuns were waiting to resume the task of watching and praying. On arriving ar-riving at Pau the body of the deceased prefect followed the same roads which the day before had been taken by his victims. |