[145] These letters, from the pen of the well-known Canadian writer, M. l'Abbé Casgrain, have been translated for The Catholic World, with the permission of the author.—Translator's Note.
[146] On my return to Canada, a small collection was taken up among the admirers of Eugénie, which amounted to five hundred francs, and which has been sent to Mlle. de Guérin.
His Holiness Pius IX., whom we count among the admirers of the virgin of Cayla, and designated by him in a letter as the blessed Eugénie, has deigned to accord his apostolic benediction, and a plenary indulgence, to all the benefactors of Andillac. Their names are inscribed in the archives of the parish, and the holy sacrifice of the Mass is offered for them four times a year.
[147] Napoleon got Nice and Savoy; Victor Emanuel, the Papal States. Every wise and religious man must desire that Italy should be free. The greatest enemy to true and permanent freedom is that false freedom which divorces itself from justice that it may wed itself to fortune.
[148] The Senchus Mor was sometimes known as Cain Patraic, or Patrick's Law.
[149] 1 Thess. v. 8; Ephes. vi. 11, 17.
[150] 1 John v. 4.
[151] Bien Public, n. 82.
[152] Matt. x. 32, 33; Mark viii. 38; Luke xii. 8; Tim. ii. 12.
[153] John xvi. 33; Matt. xiii. 33; John xvii. 20-23.