OCR Text |
Show HAD TO SACRIFICE WHISKERS. Authorlt.es Mide No Exception of Highland Catholic Bishop. Amid the highlands of Scotland many Catholic priests of tne mountains moun-tains and Islands have permission to ptotect their throats from the raw damp of tho winter by s, often of quite patriarchal di ius. "I remember," says a writ ood old Scottish padre who elected (much against his will) bishop of t highland see and went to Home to receive episcopal consideration with his cheeks adorned with whiskers much more voluminous than the clerical Inch' which custom or courtesy cour-tesy used to allow to all Catholic ecclesiastics. ec-clesiastics. Tho cardinal prefect of propaganda, who was to perform tho consecration ceremony, was horrified and Insisted on tho sacrllce of the whiskers before the cons ration took place Tho bishop elect submitted under un-der protest. Hut he was no sooner back In his highland fastuess than the whiskers blossomed forth again" |