A SINGULAR HISTORY Story of the Preacher Who Draws Crowds in Madrid.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 270, 6 June 1888, Page 6

A SINGULAR HISTORY Story of the Preacher Who Draws Crowds in Madrid.

An old Mo!,\ ha* ju'-l l>ccn iceallcd by a sensational incident in Math id. This in t ho appeal am c 111 the chinch o{ San -lose in die Spanish capital of Father Aieitai.s. lie i> .in extiemely delicatc-lookin<_' ecclesiastic, a\ hose tacc bcais stiono tiaccs ot se\etc .•~t'id\ and ( onstant \ii>iK. Uc pro\esone of the mot '•cholaily and eloquent dnine.s i ot Spain, and his pleaching ha.s been attiactm<r innnen.-e fashionable crowds. I fo li.is deNoted his life to linunisiic studies, in \\ Inch he lias become e\etMlinoly prolicieni, and ho t-peaks L\\ont\-two lan- <_, r uane,-. He i> a llebiew by biilh, but uhenhc was a child he "was in caie of .1 r.ui.se who happemd to he a Roman Catholic. This vwmian had the miant. baptised b> a puest, and about thut) yeais a«xo t,he boy wa.s foicib!\ (aken tiom his patents- by oidei nt the Aichbishop of liolo^na to be educated in the Ifonian i nth 'The paient-. picte-'fed in \ain ayain-i thi> \iola(ionoi the ii'_dit- ot taniil\, and the French Ho\einnient took the inattei up, buli.uledto in-dvi' an inunction upon the abductors. Sn Muh'i Montenore u ent spociully to Uoino (.n beh. ill ot the child, and the Archbishop ot Canto bin y and a ho-(, ot cliMy^uioii .siuned a niotest, but to no purpo.se, and the little .lew was hidden away to be (billed as an ivdhuient of the Itoman C'hmch. This was the end until his lecent relurn (o the li^>h(, ol day. His appearance in jYJudiid as a ]>rcaeher has caused apical; .sensation, lli.s elo(|iieut --eimons ha\e so inOM'd the Spnui^h <,Hieen Ko^cnt and the I'iiiif'os and the aiistociatic ladies wio Hocked to hear him that they ha\c n> -ohed to assist him with funds foi a con\ent and chapel to be built at Onntc, in the Basque highlands.