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SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HAWKE'S BAY TIMES. Sir,— We often talk of human progress. Allow me to call your attention to a couple of extracts from " The Tablet" of December 1.0, 1870 (the English Roman Catholic organ), which a frieud has recently lent me. Speaking of the *< Effects of the Excommunication" (issued bv the Pope of Rome against the Italian Government), the Editor sa y ß : « The men who entered Porta pia cared very little for diplomatic remonstrances, however just and ad mirably iramed, and bow to no logic *ave that of brute force. But there is one arm which remains to the Church, and which she has never employed in vain, and that is her awful sentence of excommunication. Its effects are already evident in the moral sense, and it is sufficiently remarkable that, since it has been published, several of the )eadin<* agents of the Revolution have been attacked with sudden and unprovided death. Among others is the Avvocato Bruni, who died of apoplexy last week, after having been one of the first junta formed on the arrival of the Piedmontese troops. Another miserable scoffer who entered an hotel and asked for * Caffe alia ScommunicaJ went home and was found dead in his bed. The King himself is indisposed, and has been bled twice this week in prevision of an apoplectic attack." A little farther on it is stated;— " A New Prodigy. An event is occuring •which is ri vetting the attention, increasing the devotion, and consoling the "hearts of the faithful in Italy; viz., the movement of the eyes of the Image of our Blessed Lady, styled the 'Ave Regina Calorum,' in the sanctuary of Santa Maria della Croce, near Crema. The prodigy has been well authenticated, and. a book has been already published bv a competent authority detailing all the circumstances" [The italics are the Editoi> own ] And this is published unblushingly to the reading world in the nineteenth century ! —I am, &c, Observer.

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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 975, 23 March 1871, Page 3

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SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 975, 23 March 1871, Page 3

SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 975, 23 March 1871, Page 3

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