[342] Ibid., p. 231.
[343] Menzel, Jesuitenumtriebe, p. 297.
[344] The following passage in the speech made to the Pope by Ledochowski on his elevation to the purple, is taken from the Emancipatore Cattolico, April 22, 1876:—"And as the persecution was most bitter in that part of Poland which is now under Prussian occupation ... the honour of this sacred purple falls like a celestial dew upon my oppressed and agonised country, and seems silently to say to her, that if forgotten and abandoned of the world, she is still loved and blessed by God, of whom your Holiness is the Vicar." The very next paragraph in the same paper is headed, The Heresy of Love of Country.
[345] Tagebuch, p. 236.
[346] March 11.
[347] This is the version quoted from the Moniteur Universel in Ce Qui se Passe au Concile, p. 154. M. Veuillot acknowledged that the "hard word" was in the speech, and the above version has not been denied.
[348] Ce Qui se Passe au Concile, p. 155, quoting Gazette de France, March 20. In the Univers of April 4, quoted on the same page, Combalot acknowledged the words, and said that he was preaching at the time "by the grace and the mission of the infallible Pontiff."
[349] Tagebuch, p. 259.
[350] This trait of kindly feeling is given by Friedrich.
[351] The fullest account of the whole transaction is that in Ce Qui se Passe au Concile. But Friedrich, Quirinus, Veuillot, and Fromman have all been consulted, and show that the main particulars admit of no doubt. Dupanloup's letter is both in Ce Qui se Passe au Concile, and in German, in Friedberg, p. 110.