A CURSING PRELATE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3600, 25 January 1883, Page 4

A CURSING PRELATE.

The Bishop of Santander (Spain) has launched forth an excommunication against all the Liberal journals of his diocese, the literal text of Avhich is as folloAvs : —" May God omnipotent aud all the saints curse them Avith etonial maledictions, and may they be hurled to the devil and his angels"; may they be damned with Judas tlie traitor and Avith Julian the apostate : may the Lord judge them as Dathan and Abiram Avere judged, and may they be swallowed up alive in the earth ; may the few days of their existence be miserable: may they succumb to the horrors of famine, thirst, nakedness, and all sorts of evils ; may they suffer want, degrading infirmities, and CA-ery species of torment ; may every tiling they possess be accursed ; may they enjoy no blessing nor be benefited by any prayer, and may tlie.se rather be turned into curses ; may they be cursed iv sleeping and in Avaking, cursed in fasting, eating, and drinking, cursed iv speaking and keeping silence, cursed in doors and out of doors, cursed upon hind and upon the water, cursed from the crown of their heads to the soles of their feet; may their eyes be blind and their ears deaf ; may their mouths become mute! and their tongues cleave to their jaws ; may their hands be palsied and their feet unable to walk : may all the members of their bodies bo accursed ; may they be accursed while standing up or laying down; 1 may they be cursed from to-day to all eternity, in the final day of judgment may their light be extinguished before the Lord; may their sepulchre be that of the clogs and asses ; may their corpses be devoured by ravenous avolvcs : aud may their eternal companionship be that of the dcA'il and his angels."