The Obsequies Of Father Ignatius.
The divine attribute of Providence to which he was so fondly devoted
during life guided him in his last moments. He did not intend to visit
Carstairs before the 10th of October, but our Lord, who disposes all
things sweetly, had ordained otherwise, by the circumstances. The
train he came by was due at the junction at 10.35, and the train for
Edinburgh would not start before 11.50. He had more than an hour to
wait, and he thought perhaps he might as well spend part of that time
at Mr. Monteith's as at the Railway Station; besides he could get a
fast train to Edinburgh at 3.0, which would bring him to Leith a few
minutes after six, and this would be time enough, as his mission was
to commence on the next day, Sunday. Such seems to have been the
simple combination of circumstances that directed his steps to
Carstairs House, as far as human eye can see. We cannot but admire the
dispositions of Providence; had he taken any other train, he might
have died in the railway carriage, or at a station. How convenient
that he died within the boundaries of the demesne of a friend by whom
he was venerated, and to whose house he was always welcome!
And then how remarkable was that other circumstance of his being
alone. Servants and workmen were passing up and down the place the
whole morning, but at the moment God chose to call his servant, no
human eye saw him, and no hand was ready to assist him. On measuring
the respective distances from where he had turned off the avenue, to
where his body was found, and to the house, it was seen that, had he
gone on straight, he would have {505} fallen just on the threshold. It
was God's will that angels instead of men should surround his lonely
bed of death.
He must have arrived at the spot where his body was discovered about
11 o'clock. A few minutes after, one of the retainers was passing by,
and ran at once to the house to give the alarm that a priest lay dead
at such a part of the avenue. Mr. Monteith, and Mr. Edmund Waterton,
who was on a visit there at the time, were going out to shoot. They
laid down their guns, and went in haste to the spot. Monteith did not
recognize the features; they were drawn together by the death-stroke.
They searched for something to identify him. What was the good man's
surprise when he found among the papers of the deceased a letter he
had written himself to Father Ignatius a few days before. The truth
then flashed across him. It was no other than his own godfather, his
constant friend and counsellor, the man whom he venerated so much,
Father Ignatius the Passionist. Immediately, a doctor was sent for,
the body, which all now recognized, was brought to the nearest
shelter, and every available means tried to restore consciousness, but
to no effect. Medical examination showed that he died of disease of
the heart, and in an instant. The spot whereon he lay bore the impress
of his knee, and the brim of his hat was broken by his sudden fall on
the left side. As soon as they were certain of life being extinct, the
body was brought into the house, the luggage was sent for, a coffin
was provided, the secular dress was taken off, and the corpse robed in
the religious habit. The sacristy was draped in black, and two
flickering tapers showed the mortal remains of a pure and saintly
soul, as they lay there in a kind of religious state for the greater
part of three days.
Telegrams were sent immediately to our principal houses, and to
members of the Spencer family by Mr. Monteith. The shock was great,
and not knowing the manner of his death did not serve to make it the
less felt. Fathers of the Order went from the different retreats to
Carstairs, and arrived there, some on Sunday, and some on Monday
morning. Those who went were struck by the appearance of the corpse;
the marble countenance never looked so noble as in {506} death, and we
looked with silent wonder on all that now remained of one whom the
world was not worthy of possessing longer.
About 10 o'clock a sad cortége was formed, and the coffin was carried
by the most worthy persons present to the train that conveyed it to
Button. Every one on hearing of his death appeared to have lost a
special friend; no one could lament, for they felt that he was happy;
few could pray for him, because they were more inclined to ask his
intercession. The greatest respect and attention were shown by the
railway officials all along the route, and special ordinances were
made in deference to the respected burthen that was carried.
Letters were sent to the relatives of Father Ignatius by our Father
Provincial, and they were told when the funeral would take place. No
one came, and those who were sure to come were unavoidably prevented.
Lord Lucan had not time to come from West Connaught, and Lord Spencer
was just then in Copenhagen. His regard for his revered uncle, and his
kindly spirit, will be seen from the following letter, which was
published in the newspapers at the time, and is the most graceful
tribute paid to the memory of Father Ignatius by any member of his
noble family.
"_Denmark, Oct_. 16, 1864.
"Rev. Sir,--I was much shocked to hear of the death of my excellent
uncle George. I received the sad intelligence last Sunday, and
subsequently received the letter which you had the goodness to write
to me. My absence from England prevented my doing what I should have
much wished to have done, to have attended to the grave the remains
of my uncle, if it had been so permitted by your Order.
"I assure you that, much as I may have differed from my uncle on
points of doctrine, no one could have admired more than I did the
beautiful simplicity, earnest religion, and faith of my uncle. For
his God he renounced all the pleasures of the world; his death, sad
as it is to us, was, as his life, apart from the world, but with
God.
"His family will respect his memory as much as I am sure you and the
brethren of his Order do.
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"I should be much obliged to you if you let me know the particulars
of the last days of his life, and also where he is buried, as I
should like to place them among family records at Althorp.
"I venture to trouble you with these questions, as I suppose you
will be able to furnish them better than any one else.
"Yours faithfully,
"SPENCER."
The evening before the funeral the coffin was opened, and the body was
found to have already commenced to decompose. The tossing of the long
journey from Scotland and the suddenness of the death caused this
change to come on sooner than might be expected. A privileged few were
allowed to take a last lingering look at the venerable remains, many
touched the body with objects of devotion, and others cut off a few
relics which their piety valued in proportion to their conception of
his sanctity.
At 11 o'clock on Thursday, October 5th, the Office of the Dead
commenced. A requiem mass was celebrated, and the funeral oration
preached by the Right Rev. Dr. Ullathorne, Lord Bishop of Birmingham,
and particular friend of the deceased. We give the following extracts
from an account of the funeral as given by the _Northern Press_; the
Bishop's sermon is taken from the _Weekly Register_.
At eleven o'clock the solemn ceremonies commenced. The church, which
was crowded, was draped in black, and the coffin (on which were the
stole and cap of the deceased nobleman) reclined on a raised
catafalque immediately outside the sanctuary rails. On each side of
the coffin were three wax-lights, and around were ranged seats for
the clergy in attendance. Solemn Office for the Dead was first
chanted, and amongst the assembled clerics were the following: The
Right Rev. Dr. Ullathorne (Lord Bishop of Birmingham); Benedictines:
Right Rev. Dr. Burchall (Lord Abbot of Westminster), Very Rev. R. B.
Vaughan (Prior of St. Michael's, Hereford), Very Rev. T. Cuthbert
Smith (Prior of St. George's, Downside), Very Rev. P. P. Anderson
{508} (Prior of St. Laurence's, Ampleforth); the Revds. P. A.
Glassbrooke, R. A. Guy, J. P. Hall, and Bradshaw (Redemptorists);
the Very Rev. Canon Wallwork, the Rev. Fathers Walmsley, Grimstone,
Costello, Kernane (Rainhill), M. Duggan, M.R. (St. Joseph's,
Liverpool), S. Walsh (of the new mission of St. John the Evangelist,
Bootle); Father Dougall; Father Fisher, of Appleton; Father O'Flynn,
of Blackbrook, near St. Helen's; and the priests and religious of
the Order of Passionists, who were represented by members of the
order from France, Ireland, and England. A number of nuns of the
convent of the Holy Cross, Sutton, occupied seats beside the altar
of the Blessed Virgin, and with them were about twenty young girls
apparelled in white dresses and veils, with black bands round the
head, and wearing also black scarfs. When the Office for the Dead
had concluded, a solemn Requiem Mass was begun. His Lordship the
Bishop of Birmingham occupied a seat on a raised dais at the Gospel
side of the altar; and the priests who celebrated the Sacred
Mysteries were:--Celebrant--the Very Rev. Father Ignatius (Paoli),
Provincial of the Order of Passionists in England and Ireland;
Deacon--the Very Rev. Father Eugene, First Provincial Consulter;
Sub-deacon--the Very Rev. Father Bernard, Second Provincial
Consulter; Master of the Ceremonies--the Very Rev. Father Salvian,
rector of St. Saviour's Retreat, Broadway, Worcestershire. The mass
sung was the Gregorian Requiem, and the choir was under the
direction of the Rev. Father Bernardine (of Harold's Cross Retreat,
Dublin, and formerly of Sutton). Immediately after the conclusion of
the Holy Sacrifice, the Right Rev. Dr. Ullathorne ascended the
pulpit (which was hung in black) and preached the funeral sermon.
His Lordship, who was deeply affected, said:--The wailings of the
chant have gone into silence, the cry of prayer is hushed into
secret aspiration, and stillness reigns, whilst I lift my solitary
voice, feeling, nevertheless, that it would be better for me to weep
over my own soul than to essay to speak the character of him who is
gone from the midst of us. A certain oppression weighs upon {509} my
heart, and yet there rises through it a spring of consolation when I
think upon that strength of holiness which has borne him to his end;
who, if I am a Religious, was my brother; if a Priest, he was of the
Holy Order of Priesthood; but he was also, what I am not, a
mortified member of an institute devoted to the Passion of our Lord,
who bore conspicuously upon him the character of the meekness and
the sufferings of his Divine Master.
My text lies beneath that pall. For there is all that Death will
ever claim of victory from him. The silver cord is broken, and the
bowl of life is in fragments; and yet this death is but the rending
of the mortal frame that through the open door the soul may go forth
to its eternity; upon the brink of which we stand, gazing after with
our faith, and trembling for ourselves whilst we gain a glimpse of
the Throne of Majesty, on which sits the God of infinite purity,
whose insufferable light searches our frailty through.
I will not venture to recount a life which would ask days of speech
or volumes of writing, but I will endeavour at least to point to
some of those principles which animated that life, and were its stay
as well as guidance. For principles are like the luminaries of
Heaven, or like the eyes that cover the wings of the Cherubs that
sustain the Chariot of God in the vision of Ezechiel. They are
luminous points planted in the midst of our life, which enable us to
see whatever we look upon in a new light, and to enhance the scene
of our existence. Listen, then, dearly beloved, and hang your
attention on my voice, whilst I speak of him who was once called in
the world the Honourable and Rev. George Spencer, a scion of one of
the noblest houses of the nobility of this land, but who himself
preferred to be called Father Ignatius of St. Paul, of the
Congregation of Regular Clerics of our most Holy Redeemer's Passion,
a name by which he was loved by tens of thousands of the poor of
these countries, and known to the Catholics of all lands.
Father Ignatius was born in the last month of the last year of the
last century; at the time when his father was First Lord of the
Admiralty. Brought up in the lap of luxury, and encircled with those
social splendours that belong {510} to our great families, he was
educated as most of our noble youths are; sent early to Eton, and
thence to Cambridge. I will not stay to trace his early life. In his
twenty-second year he received Anglican orders, and was inducted
into the living that adjoined the mansion of his fathers, where, for
seven years, he toiled to disseminate to those around him what light
of truth had entered his own mind. He himself has recorded that he
had about 800 souls committed to his care. And here we begin to see
the opening of that genuine purity and earnestness in his character
which he developed with time to such perfection. His simplicity of
soul and passionate love of truth enabled him to see some of the
leading characteristics of truth in its objective nature. He saw
that truth was one, and that the Church, which is the depository and
the voice of truth, must of necessity be one. He found his parish
divided by the presence of the sects of Unitarians, Anabaptists, and
Wesleyans. These he sought out, conversed with them, and discussed
with them the unity of truth and the authority of the Church. But
the more he urged them with his arguments the more he found that
they threw him back upon himself, forcing him to see, by the aid of
his own sincerity and love of truth, that he stood upon something
like the self-same grounds which he assailed in them. The very
sincerity with which he read the Gospel; the sincerity with which he
prayed; the sincerity with which he strove to penetrate into those
duties and responsibilities which then appeared to him to be laid
upon his conscience; and his sincere love of souls, drew his own
soul gradually and gently towards the one broad horizon of truth and
the one authority. He had already, from reading the Gospel,
determined on leading a life of celibacy as the most pure and
perfect, and to keep himself from the world for the service of his
Divine Master. And what effect that resolve had in humbling his
heart and bringing down the light and grace of God into his spirit,
he himself has told us in that narrative of his conversion which he
drew up at the request of a venerable Italian bishop, soon after his
conversion. The results, I say, he has told us; he presumes not to
point to any cause as in himself.
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But whilst yet perplexed between the new light he was receiving, and
the resistance of the old opinion which he had inherited, he
received a letter from an unknown hand, inviting him to examine the
foundations of his faith; this led to correspondence, and so to
contact with members of the Church, and the errors which had
encompassed him from his birth dispersed by degrees, until at last
the daylight dawned upon him, and grew on even to mid-day, and he
hesitated not, even for one week, but closed his ministry, and
entered into the Church of God and the fulness of peace. Then it was
he found that the correspondent who had awakened him to inquire was
a lady, who, converted before himself, was then dying in a convent
in Paris which she had but recently entered; and he hoped, as he
said, to have an intercessor in heaven in one who had so fervently
prayed for him on earth.
No sooner had Father Ignatius entered the Church than he put himself
with all simplicity and obedience under the guidance of the
venerable prelate, my predecessor, Bishop Walsh, who sent him to
Rome, there to enter on a course of ecclesiastical studies. In 1830,
there we find him in the holy city, imbibing that Apostolic light,
and bending himself over the written laws of that truth which was to
fit him, not only for the priesthood, but also for a singular call
and an unprecedented vocation. Father Ignatius was marked out by the
Providence of God for a special apostleship, and he had something
about him of the spirit of the prophet and of the eye of the seer.
He pierced in advance into the work to which God called him, and
there were holy souls who instinctively looked to him as an
instrument for the fulfilling of their own anticipations. There was
in Italy a Passionist Father, who from his youth had had written in
his heart the work of England's conversion. It had been the object
of all his thoughts, and prayers, and hopes. Father Dominic had
moved all the souls he could with kindred ardour for this work. And
before they had ever beheld each other, the hearts of those two men
were sweetly drawn together. Let us hear what Father Dominic writes
to an English gentleman, himself a convert, ardent for the
conversion of his {512} country, on the day of Mr. Spencer's first
sermon in Rome, after being ordained deacon:--"On this day," he
writes, "on this day, the feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, Mr.
Spencer begins in Rome his apostolic ministry; to-day, he makes his
first sermon to the Roman people in the church of the English. Oh
what a fortunate commencement! Certainly that ought to be salutary
which commences in the name of the Saviour. Oh, how great are my
expectations! God, without doubt, has not shed so many graces on
that soul to serve for his own profit alone. I rather believe He has
done it in order that he might carry the Holy Name of Jesus before
kings, and nations, and the sons of Israel. Most sweet Name of
Jesus, be thou in his mouth as oil poured out, which may softly and
efficaciously penetrate the hardest marble."
This was written by a man who had never stepped on English soil,
about one whom he had never seen in the flesh, but whom he felt to
have one common object in one common spirit with himself. But it was
written by a man in whose heart God had written in grace the
words--_England's Conversion_.
It was whilst yet a Deacon, that Father Ignatius was visited at the
Roman College by a Bishop who had come to Rome from the farthest
corner of Italy, who on his soul had also the impression that great
conversions were in store for England, and who asked that his eyes
might be blessed with so rare a spectacle as that of a converted
Anglican minister; and it was at the request of the Bishop of
Oppido, for the edification of his flock, to whom the news had
reached, that Father Ignatius wrote the narrative of his conversion;
the translation of which brings us in view of another of those
remarkable men who were then preparing themselves for entering on
the work of the English mission, for that translation was done in
Rome by Dr. Gentili.
It was under the direction of Cardinal Wiseman, then President of
the English College, that Father Ignatius was pursuing his studies,
when, at the end of two years, he broke a blood-vessel, and was
summoned, in consequence, {513} by Bishop Walsh, to hasten his
ordination and return to England. Cardinal Wiseman arranged that he
should receive the order of priesthood from the Cardinal Vicar in
that very Church of St. Gregory, from which the Apostles of England
had been sent to our shores, and that he should say his first mass
on the Feast of that Venerable Bede, whose name is so intimately
entwined with the literature, the religion, and the history of
England. How Father Ignatius himself viewed these signs and his
approaching ordination, he himself expressed in a letter to Father
Dominic, in these terms: "Ten days ago I received orders from my
Bishop, Dr. Walsh, to proceed to England without delay. You know the
value and security of obedience, and will agree with me that I ought
not to doubt of anything. The first festival day that presented
itself for ordination was that of St. Philip Neri. Judge, then, what
was my joy when, after that day had been fixed upon, I discovered
that it was also the Feast of St. Augustine, the first Apostle of
England, sent by St. Gregory. It seems to me that Providence wishes
to give me some good omens. It is enough, if I have faith and
humility."
Of the grace of humility, that virtue of the heroic virtues which
had already taken possession of his heart, I cannot give you better
proof than his own communing with the heart of Father Dominic, who
had hinted rumours of his rising to ecclesiastical dignities. He
writes in reply: "I can assure you it would give me the greatest
displeasure. My prayer is that God would grant me a life like that
of His Son and the Apostles, in poverty and tribulations for the
Gospel. I must submit, if it be His will to raise me to any high
worldly dignity; but it would be to me the same as to say that I am
unworthy of the heavenly state, which I long for upon earth. Jesus
Christ sent the Apostles in poverty. St. Francis Xavier, St.
Dominic, and so many other great missionaries, preached in poverty,
and I wish to do the same, if it be the will of God."
Here you behold the heart of this ecclesiastic, so young as yet in
the Church, yet so mature in spiritual sense. On his return home, he
meets his dear friend Father Dominic {514} face to face for the
first time, in the diocese of Lucca, and the latter writes to his
friend in England:--
"How willingly would I go to England along with dear Mr. Spencer;
but the time destined by the Divine mercy for this has not yet
arrived. I hope, however, that it will arrive. I hope one day to see
with my own eyes that kingdom, which for so many years I have borne
engraven on my heart. May God be merciful to us both, that so we may
meet together in the company of all our dear Englishmen above in
heaven, to praise and bless the Divine Majesty throughout all ages."
I have lingered upon the first communing together of these two men,
because it is so instructive to see how it was not merely in the
schools, even where religion was studied under the shadow of the
successor of St. Peter, but still more by drawing fire from the
hearts of saintly men, that Father Ignatius was prepared for his
future work. Returned to England, he has left it on record how
affectionately he was received by his venerable father and his noble
brother, Lord Althorp, then in the midst of his official career as a
chief leader of the destinies of his country. Who that remembers
those days does not recall the amenities of a character of humanity
so gentle and true, that even in the midst of the most intense
political strife he embittered no one, and drew on him no personal
attack. By his noble relatives, Father Ignatius was received with
the old affection, and their entire conduct towards him was an
exception indeed to the treatment which so many members of other
families have experienced in reward for their fidelity to God and to
their conscience. For fifteen years Father Ignatius toiled in the
work of the mission in the diocese of Birmingham, generously
expending both himself and the private funds allowed him by his
family in the service of souls. He founded the mission of
Westbromwich, and the mission of Dudley; he raised there churches
and schools, and preached and conversed with the poor unceasingly.
He was called to Oscott, and a new office was created for him, that
of Spiritual Dean, that he might inspire those young men who were
preparing for the ministry with his own {515} missionary ardours.
The office began with him, and ended when he left the establishment,
although unquestionably one of the greatest functions which could be
exerted in our colleges would be the office of enkindling in
youthful hearts that fire of charity for souls which is the true
creator of the missioner. But the time was coming when he was to
pass from the ordinary life of a missioner, led in an extraordinary
manner, and to pass into that religious congregation where he was to
carry out his special mission, his Apostleship of prayer. During
those fifteen past years he had not lost sight of Father Dominic. In
1840, that holy man, with the name of England written on his heart,
reached Boulogne with a community of his brethren. In the same year
he visited Oscott, where those two men of God embraced each other
anew; and in the following year the desire and prayer of so many
years was realized. The Passionist Fathers were established at
Aston, in Staffordshire, with Father Dominic as their head and
founder; and whoever will look over the correspondence, so deeply
interesting at this moment, which is printed as an appendix to the
life of the Blessed Paul of the Cross, will see how great a part the
Rev. George Spencer had in the work of bringing the Passionists into
England.
It was in the year 1846, that, making a retreat under the Fathers of
the Society of Jesus, God revealed to his heart his vocation to join
the Passionists, and become the companion and fellow worker with
Father Dominic. He cast himself at the feet of that holy man, and
petitioned for the singular grace of being admitted to the Order.
Their joint aspirations for England had brought them together, and
their love of the Cross made them of one mind, and after the first
ironic rebuff with which the spirit of the petitioner was tested, I
can imagine the smile with which that man of God, so austere to
himself whilst so loving to his neighbour, recalled the time, long
past, when they wondered if ever they should meet in the flesh face
to face. There before him was the man drawn by his prayers into his
very bosom, of whom he had predicted, sixteen years ago, that he
would carry the name of Jesus for the conversion of England {516}
before the kings and nations of the earth. In the Order he was
distinguished by his simplicity, his humility, his
self-mortification, his patience in suffering, and his obedience. I
would gladly dwell on the traits of those virtues which formed his
personal character, but time urges me to proceed. He filled
successively the office of Consultor, of Novice-master, and of
Rector, and it was to him that Father Dominic provisionally
consigned his authority at his death. But his great and singular
work was his Apostleship of prayer for England. Many had been the
questionings in many hearts, as to whether this country would ever
in any serious numbers return to the faith or not. And many had been
the speculations as to how this could be accomplished; some dreamt
it must come by missions; others, by learned writings; others, by
the preaching of the Gospel; some had one scheme, some another, but
in each there was something defective, something not altogether
divine; something that was human, and resting more or less on the
will of man. But Father Ignatius consulted the light and grace of
his own soul, he penetrated to the true principle, he recalled his
own history, he saw that conversion is the work of God, that the
work itself is the work of grace, and that all that man can do, is
to invoke God to put forth His power. Prayer that is pure, sincere,
earnest, and of many souls, God always hears and inclines to grant.
There are many ways of approaching to God, but there is one which He
loves for its tender alliance with the Divine Humanity, for its
humility and its beautiful faith, and that is the approach through
her who is at once the Virgin Mother of God and ours. Let us plead
to God through the Mother of God, and let her plead for her sons on
earth to her Son in Heaven, and behold our prayer is tripled in its
strength. So Ignatius looked to God through the eyes of Mary, prayed
to God through the heart of Mary, and appealed through the purity of
Mary, for a people who had forgotten her. And he went forth on his
Apostleship of prayer over Italy and France, and Hungary and
Austria, and the rest of Germany; and over Belgium and England, and
Ireland and Scotland, and he corresponded with the other kingdoms of
Christendom. He {517} went before emperors and kings, and before
ministers of state, and asked them to pray for the conversion of his
country. He sought the Bishops in their dioceses, and the priests in
their parishes, and holy religious in their convents, and devout lay
persons in their houses, and prayed them to pray to God, and to set
other souls to pray for the conversion of England. His faith was
strong that from her conversion a great radiation of truth would
spread forth in the world, and that all that was needed was the
general prayer of believing souls, that God might grant so great a
grace to the world. And so the name of Father Ignatius grew familiar
on the lips of Christendom. Prayer arose in many countries; the
Bishops issued pastorals, a day in the week was appointed for prayer
for England. Prelates spoke of it in synods, and the clergy
discussed it in their conferences. And all pious souls added on new
prayers to their habitual devotions for the conversion of England.
And as for the apostle of this prayer, he went on nourishing the
flame which he had enkindled, and stirring the zeal of his brethren
until, to use his own words, often repeated to his superior, this
prayer, and the preaching of this prayer to God through Mary, had
become a part of his nature, an element inseparable from his
existence. He had but recently recommenced the work of this mission
in a somewhat altered form, basing the conversion of the English
upon the sanctification of the Irish people, but still his cry
was--Pray for England. There can be no doubt, as sundry facts point
out, but that he had a strong impression of late that his end was
drawing near. And not long before his death he called the brethren
individually to his room, and exhorted each with solemn earnestness
to be instant in the mission of prayer for England.
And what has been the result of this Apostleship? That result Father
Ignatius himself summed up but a few days before his death. On the
8th of September, he addressed a letter to an Italian periodical,
from which I translate the following passage as the fit conclusion
of this subject. He says:--
"It is more than thirty-four years since a worthy Bishop of a
Neapolitan diocese came to seek me in the English {518} College at
Rome, wishing to look with his own eyes upon a converted Anglican
clergyman; a sight so grateful to a noble Catholic heart, and in
those days so rare. On what proof he spoke, I know not, but he
assured me that the first Carmelite Scapular ever given, and given
by that English Saint, Simon Stock, was secretly kept in England,
and that he looked on this as a pledge that our country would one
day come back to the faith. Be this assertion well or ill founded,
the memory of him who made it is dear to me as is the memory of the
presence of every one who bespeaks hope and peace for England.
"What have we seen in our days? Conversions to the faith so numerous
and so important that the whole world speaks of them. And this
movement towards Catholicism is of a character so remarkable, that
the history of the Church presents nothing like it.
"It is true that other nations have been converted, whilst England
has stood to her Protestantism; but a first step has been made in
this country, which, as far as I know, has no parallel. In other
cases, it was the sovereign who made the first movement, having had
no learned opposition or persecution from his subjects; and, as in
the instance of St. Stephen, of Hungary, the conversions which
followed came easily, and as it were naturally; or conversion began
with the poor, who, though it cost them persecution and privation,
had yet but little to lose. But this has not been the case in
England. Here the work of conversion grew conspicuous among the
ministers of the Protestant Church, of whom hundreds of the most
esteemed and learned have been received into the bosom of the
Church, and also among the noble and the gentle families of the
kingdom; so that it may be said that scarcely is there a family that
is not touched by conversion, in some near or more distant member of
it. I say that this order of conversion is new, this operation of
grace is most singular. Great numbers of those clergymen had
prospects before them by remaining in Protestantism, flattering
enough, of earthly felicity, wealth, and honour; and by their
conversion they fell upon poverty, distress, and contempt,
especially those men who, by reason {519} of their families, could
not embrace the clerical state. The sacrifices of the lay gentry
have not always been so great; but even here how many have closed
against themselves the path of honours and distinctions; how many
have been discarded by their kindred and friends; how many of the
gentle sex have abandoned the prospect of a settlement in life
befitting their rank and station; while all have turned from the
world to obey the voice of God; and that, in a country like this,
where the world holds out allurements so specious and so attractive
in every kind.
"But these great results can neither be attributed to the force, the
eloquence, or the industry of man. Man has positively had no part in
the work, except by prayer, and this praying has been professedly
offered to God through Mary; through whom all the heresies of the
world are destroyed."
I have no time to dwell upon this summary of results so beautifully
told and so remarkably timed. But it is impossible not to notice
that the great tide of conversion that has flowed so unusually, has
passed through the two classes to which Father Ignatius himself
belonged, that of the clergy and that of the gentry. It is a
wonderful result following a most unprecedented combination of the
voices of Catholic souls of many nations in prayer, set in motion by
the very man who is summing up the result of the work, before he
goes to his reward; nor do I believe, although his tongue is silent,
and his features settled into cold obstruction, as we looked on them
last night, that the prayer of his soul has ceased; no, his work
goes on, his Apostleship is not dead. Purged by the sacrifice, I
seem to see his spirit all this time. For you know that when a holy
man quits this life, and has not loved it as he has loved God, he
goes away no further than God, and God is very near to us. Have you
never lost a dear parent or a child, and have you not found that
when freed from the body the spirit of that one had more power over
you; seemed to be freer to be with you at all solemn times, and to
impress you with its purely spiritual qualities and virtues, all
gross things having ceased though the purification of death and the
final grace? and so I conceive his {520} spirit standing by my side
and saying still, at each interval of my voice,--"Pray for England:
pray for her conversion." To you, fathers of the rude frieze,
brethren of his Order, with the name of Christ on your breast, and
the love of His passion in your heart, he says--"Pray for England:
pray for her conversion." Superiors of the Benedictine Order, whom a
special circumstance has brought here to-day, Father
President-General, representative of St. Benedict, as of St.
Augustine, and monastic successor of that first Apostle of England,
to you, and to you, Priors of the Order, he says--"Fail not from
the work of your forefathers, pray for England: pray for her
conversion." To you, brethren of the priesthood, men consecrated to
this mission, who know his voice familiarly, to you he says with the
burning desire of his heart,--"Pray for England: pray for her
conversion." Daughters of the virginal veil, who are his children,
whilst in the inferior soul you suffer the grief of loss, in your
superior soul you rejoice that he is with God; to you also he
says:--"Pray for England: pray for her conversion." Dearly beloved
brethren, how often in his missions and his ministries has he
written those words upon your hearts. Let them not die out. Let them
live on with something of his flame of charity. Be you as his
missioners; carry these words to your children and your brethren. He
prays yet, and will ever pray until the work be finished. Even in
the presence of his God, neither the awe nor the majesty of that
unspeakable presence can I conceive as interrupting the prayer which
has become a portion of his nature--"God, have mercy on England.
Turn, O Jesus, Thy meek eyes upon that people. Let pity drop from
Thy glorious wounds, and mercy from Thy heart. In what she is blind,
in what she sins, forgive her, for she knows not what she does. Have
mercy on England." When joined to his beloved Dominic, and with
blessed Paul, and meeting Gregory, and Augustine, and Bede, I
conceive him urging them to join yet more earnestly with the prayers
he left ascending from the earth, following his mission still in the
heavens; nay, even pressing to be heard in the circles of the
angels, whose meekness and purity he loved so well, and {521} still
his cry is: "Pray for England: pray for her conversion."
It remains for us to turn one last look upon his mortal remains, to
consider our own mortality, and to prepare us for our approaching
end. How beautiful, how sublime was his departure. Father Ignatius
had often wished and prayed that, like his Divine Lord, like St.
Francis Xavier, and like his dear friend and master in the spiritual
life, Father Dominic, he might die at his post, yet deserted and
alone. God granted him that prayer. He had just closed one mission
and was proceeding to another; he turned aside for an hour on his
way to converse with a dear friend and godson; he was seen ten
minutes before conversing with children. Was he only inquiring his
way, or did he utter the last words of his earthly mission to those
young hearts? And here alone, unseen but of God and His angels, he
fell down, and that heart which had beaten so long for the love and
conversion of England stopped in his bosom. Crucified was he in his
death as in his life to this world, that he might live to God.
When his lordship, the Bishop, descended from the pulpit, the
procession to the place of burial was formed, and issued from the
church in the following order, the choir singing the _Miserere_:--
The Children of the Schools of the Convent of the Holy Child.
The Rev. Father Bernard (Superior of the Order of Passionists,
Paris), carrying a Cross, and having on each side an Acolyte,
bearing a lighted candle.
The Thurifer.
Boys two abreast.
The Regular Clergy.
The Secular Clergy.
THE COFFIN.
The Lord Bishop of Birmingham.
The Laity.
As the melancholy _cortége_ moved along, the clergy chanted the
_Miserere_, and when the procession arrived at the vault, {522} the
coffin (which was of deal) was placed inside a leaden one, which was
again enclosed in an outer shell of oak. Upon this was a black plate,
bearing the following inscription:--
FATHER IGNATIUS OF ST. PAUL
(THE HON. AND REV. GEORGE SPENCER)
DIED OCT. 1, 1864, AGED 65 YEARS.
_R. I. P._
Placed inside the coffin was a leaden tablet, on which the following
was engraved:--
"MORTALES EXUVIAE
"Patris Ignatii a S. Paulo, Congregationis Passionis, de Comitibus
Spencer. Minister Anglicanus primum; dein, ad Ecclesiam Catholicam
conversus, sacerdotio Romae insignitus est anno 1832. Mirum, qua
animi constantia per triginta et amplius annos pro conversione
patriae laboraverat. Inter alumnos Passionis anno 1847 adscriptus,
omnium virtutum exemplar confratribus semper extitit. Angliam,
Hiberniam, Scotiam, necnon Italiam, Germaniam, et Galliam
peragravit, populum exhortans ad propriam sanctificationem, et ut,
veluti sacro agmine inito, preces fundant pro conversione Anglise.
Dum perjucundum opus in Scotia prosequeretur, calendis Octobris anni
1864, sacrificio missae peracto, ad invisendum antiquae
consuetudinis amicum (Dom. Robertum Monteith) pergens, ante januam
amici repentino morbo correptus, a Deo cujus gloriam semper
quesierat et ab angelis quorum puritatem imitaverat, opitulatus,
supremam diem clausit, aetatis suae anno 65to. Requiescat in pace."
TRANSLATION.
The mortal remains of Father Ignatius of St. Paul, belonging to the
Congregation of the Passion, and of the noble family of Spencer. He
was at first an Anglican minister; then, having been converted to
the Catholic Church, was ordained into the priesthood at Rome in
the year 1832. It is wonderful with what constancy of mind for more
than thirty years he laboured for the conversion of his country.
{523} He was numbered among the sons of the Passion in the year
1847, and always presented an example of all virtues to his
brethren. He travelled through England, Ireland, Scotland, and even
Italy, Germany, and France, exhorting the people to their own
sanctification, and forming themselves, as it were, into a sacred
army, to pour forth prayers for the conversion of England. While he
was prosecuting his pleasing work in Scotland, on the 1st of
October, 1864, and, having offered up the sacrifice of the mass, he
was going on a visit to a friend he had long been acquainted with
(Mr. Robert Monteith), when he was carried off by sudden death in
front of his friend's door, being assisted by God, whose glory he
had ever sought, and by the angels whose purity he had imitated. He
closed his life in the 65th year of his age. May he rest in peace."
When all the arrangements were completed, the coffin was placed upon
the tier appropriated for its reception, and the bishop and clergy
retired.
Thus has ended the life of one who for fifteen years pursued his
missionary work, as a priest of the Order of the Passion, with an
ardour that has seldom been surpassed. Truly may it be said of him,
"Dying, he lives."
Favours are said to have been obtained from heaven through his
intercession, since his death; and it is even recorded that miracles
have been performed by his relics. These facts have not been, as yet,
sufficiently authenticated for publication; and, therefore, it is
judged better not to insert them. We confidently hope that a few years
will see him enrolled in the catalogue of saints, as the first English
Confessor since the Reformation.
Every step we make, as we recede from this last scene, brings us
nearer to the moment when the requiescat ought to be heard over
ourselves. For
"The pride of luxury, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alike the inevitable hour;--
The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
How vain is a life spent in pursuit of riches! when the {524} shroud
that envelops our bones will have to be given us. How vain are the
appliances of comfort and pleasure which wealth can spread around us!
when the body we pamper is to be the food of worms. How vain, is power
and extent of territory! when the snapping of the thread of our
existence will leave us completely in the hands of others, and confine
us to less than seven feet of earth.
Let the example of the holy Passionist, whose life we studied, make us
recognise this truth, before it is too late--that all is vanity but
the service of God. He tasted the sweets of this world until he found
out their bitterness; let his example deter others from plunging into
the whirl of dissipation, from which few can come out uninjured. He
laid down his honours, his titles, his property, at the foot of the
cross, and he joyfully placed _its_ transverse beams upon his
shoulder. There was nothing this world could give him which he did not
sacrifice unhesitatingly. He never took back from the altar a single
particle of the offerings he placed upon it. Since the moment he
understood that the end of his existence was the happiness of the
blessed, he went straight to his eternal goal, and turned not to the
right hand nor to the left. God was always in his mind; God was on his
lips; God was in his works. We cannot admire his sacrifices, for it
would be a mistake to suppose his mind was not noble enough to feel
that all he could give was only a barter of earth for heaven.
Let the world applaud its heroes, and raise expensive monuments to
remind others of their renown. Father Ignatius sought not the praise
of the world; its frowns were all he desired. He looked not for its
sympathy, he crossed its ways, he gave the lie to its maxims, he
trampled it under his feet. But the servants of God will not forget
him. They will turn off the high road to come as pilgrims to the spot
where his pure soul left its earthly tenement. To mark out the place,
Mr. Monteith has erected a cross upon the corner of the avenue where
the saintly father fell. Subjoined is an engraving of the monument,
and it fitly closes up this history, as it perpetually points to his
example.
{525}
ON THIS SPOT THE HONBLE. AND REV. GEORGE SPENCER,
IN RELIGION, FATHER IGNATIUS OF ST. PAUL, PASSIONIST,
WHILE IN THE MIDST OF HIS LABOURS
FOR THE SALVATION OF SOULS, AND THE RESTORATION OF HIS
COUNTRYMEN TO THE UNITY OF THE FAITH, WAS SUDDENLY
CALLED BY HIS HEAVENLY MASTER TO HIS
ETERNAL HOME. OCTOBER 1ST, 1864.
_R.I.P._
{526}
Cox And Wyman,
Classical And General Printers,
Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
[Transcriber's Note: The following list contains the words and names
flagged by the spell check, and verified by inspection.]
AEgina
AEolus
Abbate
Abbaye
Abbé
Aberdovey
Aberystwyth
Acatholicorum
Accademia
Achensee
Achenthal
Acland
Addolorata
Adige
Adolphus
Adonises
Aebel
Affetti
Affi
Afra
Agneses
Agrippa
Ahamo
Aigle
Airdrie
Aix
Alban
Albano
Albemarle
Albergo
Albero
Alcantara
Alessandro
Alleine
Aloysiuses
Alphonsus
Alraschid
Alte
Althorp
Ambrosian
Amelia
Amhersts
Amiens
Amphitheatre
Ampleforth
Anastasius
Ancona
Angleur
Angliae
Angliam
Anglicanus
Anglise
Annecy
Annonciades
Antonelli
Apostolical
Apostolici
Apostolics
Apostolines
Apostolorum
Appleyard
Arcadinia
Archimedes
Archivium
Ardee
Arfi
Argentaro
Ariopolis
Arius
Armagh
Armytage
Athenry
Aucy
Auer
Augsburg
Augustin
Augustine
Augustus
Auxerre
Auxonne
Avona
Bac
Bacten
Badische
Bagshawe
Baily
Baines
Bains
Baldacconi
Ballina
Ballinasloe
Ballinrobe
Ballycastle
Ballyshannon
Bandry
Barbarossa
Bareau
Barnabites
Barnabò
Barnet
Baronne
Barras
Barrington
Basiaco
Basse
Battersea
Baudry
Bavino
Bavière
Bayerische
Beauharnais
Beauvais
Bede
Bella
Bellaymont
Belley
Benvenuto
Berchtesgaden
Bergamo
Bergues
Bermondsey
Bernardine
Bernardines
Bernardites
Bertin
Bessy
Bethusy
Beveridge
Bighi
Bingham
Birkenhead
Birr
Bishopsgate
Blackbrook
Blackstone
Blaise
Blanc
Blanco
Blandford
Blore
Blount
Bobbio
Bodalog
Bodenham
Bolognaro
Bolton
Bonald
Boniface
Bonquéan
Bootle
Bopeep
Borris
Bosketto
Bossuet
Botanique
Botolph
Botzen
Boulanger
Boulogne
Bourgoigne
Bourgoiner
Bourjéant
Bouverie
Bouvet
Bracebridge
Bradshaw
Brampton
Bramston
Brenner
Brera
Brescia
Bridget
Bridgman
Brigy
Brixen
Brock
Broek
Buckinghamshire
Bunyan
Burchall
Béguinage
Béguinages
Caesars
Caestryck
Caffi
Calasanctius
Caldaro
Caldaron
Calddaron
Callaghan
Caltern
Calvario
Camaldolese
Cambrai
Cameriere
Camperdown
Cancellaria
Canonico
Canova
Cantius
Capellani
Capellano
Capellari
Capistrano
Capitoline
Capriana
Capua
Cardham
Carità
Carlow
Carlsruhe
Carlton
Carnarvon
Carrara
Carraway
Carrick
Carrickmacross
Carstairs
Carthusian
Cartsdyke
Casiua
Castello
Castlebar
Castlerea
Catholicam
Catholici
Catholicising
Catullus
Caudatario
Cavallesi
Cavani
Cavanis
Cavendish
Cellini
Celso
Cenis
Certosa
Chaillot
Chamberry
Chanoine
Chanoinesses
Chapelle
Chargé
Charité
Charnpagnole
Cheapside
Childe
Cholmley
Chombard
Christies
Chrom
Chrysostom
Chrétienne
Chrétiennes
Churchism
Cigne
Città
Claires
Clarendon
Clerkenwell
Clermont
Clogher
Coatbridge
Coblentz
Coeur
Cointe
Colae
Coleridge
Coletines
Collegio
Collinge
Colney
Colomba
Colossians
Columb
Columbanus
Comitibus
Complin
Comte
Conden
Confrérie
Connaught
Connexion
Constantius
Consultors
Conte
Contessa
Contrada
Convardy
Conventual
Cooke
Cornelius
Corte
Costello
Cottril
Coultins
Councillor
Couronne
Courtene
Couvent
Coux
Covent
Cowper
Cranmer
Crawley
Croix
Cromwellian
Crowe
Crusoe
Cullinamore
Cullinge
Cumming
Cussel
Cuthbert
Damasus
Damietta
Dandolo
Daubeny
Decanus
Denison
Denys
Deo
Deschamps
Desgenettes
Dessin
Deum
Devon
Dezenzano
Dieu
Digby
Digbys
Directeur
Divisione
Doddridge
Doge
Dolors
Doluny
Domely
Domenico
Domini
Domitian
Domodossola
Domscholasticus
Donnel
Donnet
Doogan
Doria
Dorsetshire
Douane
Douay
Dougall
Drei
Drogheda
Drummond
Drury
Dubois
Duc
Dudley
Dugdale
Duggan
Dumez
Duncannon
Dundalk
Dundas
Dungannon
Dunton
Duomo
Durer
Durier
Durlet
Désingy
Döllinger
EXUVIAE
Easky
Ecclesiam
Ecclesiasticus
Ecoles
Econome
Edgware
Egna
Ehrhart
Elmesly
Elwes
Ely
Ennis
Enniscrone
Enniskillen
Episcopi
Eplingen
Errington
Erroye
Eryx
Esterhazy
Etonians
Eustachio
Eyre
Ezechiel
Falconeria
Ferdinand
Feretti
Ferrara
Ferrario
Ferrarrio
Ferronaye
Festus
Fidele
Fiumicino
Flandre
Florentin
Floriano
Folkestone
Fontainebleau
Fornari
Francesi
Franchismes
Frari
Fratelli
Frati
Fratte
Freakley
Fremantle
Friot
Froud
Frujberg
Frères
Fumagalli
Gaetano
Gagliardi
Gallard
Galliam
Galway
Gand
Ganymede
Garda
Gardiner
Garendon
Garnault
Gasthof
Gaudentius
Gavan
Gaèta
Genevese
Genoese
Gentili
Georgiana
Georgio
Germain
Germaniam
Germanico
Gernetto
Gervase
Gesang
Gesangen
Gesù
Ghent
Gibbs
Gideon
Gillies
Gingolph
Giovanelli
Girardon
Giuseppe
Giustiniani
Glassbrooke
Gloucester
Glyptotheke
Godley
Gorey
Gorres
Gort
Gothsburg
Gottez
Graf
Graffanara
Grahame
Gramont
Grandvilliers
Grantham
Gratz
Greci
Greenock
Grenville
Grettan
Griffiths
Grimstone
Grirgenti
Grises
Grosvenor
Grue
Grâce
Gudule
Gustavus
Guttenburg
Général
Göppingen
Görres
Görreses
Haffreingue
Hagley
Halford
Hallein
Hampstead
Handley
Handsworth
Hanicq
Hapsburg
Harleston
Haroun
Havant
Havre
Headfort
Heber
Hendren
Heneage
Heywood
Hiberniam
Highgate
Hilary
Hildersham
Hildyard
Hilloa
Hinckley
Hippolyte
Hodder
Hoffa
Holborn
Holme
Holyhead
Hornby
Hornsey
Hospitalieres
Hospitalières
Howley
Humanarianism
Hyde
Hôtel
Hüffler
Ignatii
Ignatius
Ignazio
Illyricum
Imola
Imperiale
Inglesi
Innspruck
Inspruck
Irvingites
Isabella
Isola
Italiam
Jacquenot
Jandel
Januarius
Jaques
Jardin
Jauch
Jaudel
Jeffreys
Jesu
Jette
Jeune
Johnstone
Julien
Jura
Kells
Kempis
Kenilworth
Kentish
Kernane
Kildare
Kilkenny
Killala
Kille
Kinnaird
Kirche
Kirchen
Kissengen
Kitzka
Knickerbocker
Koenigswinter
Kreutz
Krone
Krono
Kurtzrock
Köln
Kölner
König
Königswinter
L'Arco
L'Hospice
L'Hôpital
Lago
Laibach
Laing
Lanark
Lancashire
Landeck
Landherr
Lapons
Lateran
Lavinia
Lavorno
Lazarists
Lazzari
Lazzaro
LeSage
Leamington
Lefevre
Leicestershire
Leinster
Leith
Leuchtenberg
Levenshulme
Lichfield
Lichtenthal
Liguori
Lingdale
Lintz
Litchenstein
Lithgoe
Liège
Liége
Llanarth
Loewenstein
Londonderry
Londra
Londres
Longford
Lorenzo
Lorrha
Lothaire
Loughborough
Loughren
Louvain
Lowther
Lucan
Lucca
Luigi
Lurgan
Lutzou
Lyall
Lyne
Lythgoe
Lyttelton
M'Auley
M'Donnel
M'Ghee
M'Hale
MacMahon
Mackey
Macky
Maddalena
Madeleine
Maestricht
Maggiora
Maggiore
Maguire
Mahomedanism
Mai
Maison
Maitland
Malibren
Malines
Malou
Manheim
Manige
Mannering
Mantua
Mantz
Marais
Marano
Marenn
Marlborough
Marsomme
Martigny
Martyn
Marys
Maréehal
Matraey
Matsys
Matthias
Maude
Mawman
Maximilian
Mayence
Maynooth
McHale
Meagher
Melia
Mellerio
Mellon
Mercati
Mercede
Merionethshire
Messias
Methodistic
Mezzofanti
Mgr
Mildert
Millière
Mirum
Miserere
Mislin
Missionum
Miséricorde
Mittewald
Modena
Mohren
Moneti
Mongeras
Monico
Monreale
Mont
Montalembert
Montebello
Monteith
Montmartre
Montrose
Monza
Morey
Morley
Moselle
Moy
Mullingar
Mungo
Musée
Mère
Mörl
Mühler
Münster
Namur
Nannette
Nantes
Navarino
Neill
Nemfchatel
Neri
Nerincx
Nerlieu
Neuenburg
Neumarkt
Neuve
Newgate
Newry
Nicholl
Nicholls
Nives
Nobil
Nobottle
Noires
Noirlieu
Nore
Northampton
Northamptonshire
Nottinghamshire
Novara
Nuelleus
Nunzio
Nymphenburg
Nyon
O'Connell
O'Donnel
O'Flynn
O'Kane
O'Keefe
O'Reilly
OEdipus
Oakeley
Observantiae
Octobris
Odescalchi
Oldbury
Ollivant
Omagh
Omer
Oppido
Oratorian
Oratorians
Orioli
Osmond
Ospitaletto
Ostend
Osteria
Otaheitan
Oudley
Ouseley
Overbury
Ovid
Oxburgh
Oxley
Oxonians
Pacci
Packenham
Paderborn
Padua
Pagliano
Palais
Palladio
Pallotta
Palmerston
Paoli
Papi
Papin
Paroco
Pasaro
Pasquale
Passaglia
Passi
Passio
Passionis
Passionists
Passsionists
Patit
Patris
Pauvres
Pavia
Pazzi
Pearse
Peasly
Pensieri
Peppenheim
Percival
Persico
Perugia
Pesaro
Peterborough
Peterbro
Petits
Pffarr
Phillippses
Picquart
Piedmontese
Pietra
Pietro
Pilsach
Pinacotheke
Pio
Pittsburg
Placentia
Plainpalais
Polidori
Poligny
Pollien
Poole
Porte
Portobello
Poste
Postes
Powys
Poynter
Poète
Premonstratensian
Pritchard
Protase
Prémontré
Pugin
Puseyite
Père
Pères
Quarant
Quater
Quelin
Quin
Quintin
Raal
Raby
Radhoff
Raffaele
Raffaelle
Rainhill
Rathmines
Ratisbonne
Reale
Recollets
Reddington
Redemptorist
Redemptorists
Redentore
Reggio
Regierung
Reichenbach
Reichenhall
Reiner
Religieuses
Rennel
Resburg
Reverendus
Revolutionnaire
Riland
Rimini
Rios
Riva
Robertum
Roch
Rodolph
Rodrigues
Roehampton
Romae
Romney
Romonam
Rosamel
Roscommon
Rosinini
Roskell
Rosmini
Rossiaud
Rotundo
Rousses
Roveredo
Rovigo
Royale
Rugeley
Ryde
Régulières
Sabbato
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absconditum
acatholicorum
acceptatio
accuratiore
adorans
adscriptus
advices
aetatis
agmine
alb
aliquid
alle
altitudo
alumnos
amici
amicum
amplius
ancles
angelis
animi
anni
anno
annonces
annos
antependium
antichristian
antiquae
anyways
apologised
apostacy
apostleship
apostolical
apud
arbours
archévêché
ardour
ardours
argumentum
armour
arti
ascetism
athanasian
attaché
auri
availeth
avocat
banc
baptised
beforetime
behaviour
believeth
bene
benedixit
beneplacitum
benigne
blameably
blaney
blessest
blomfield
blushings
bono
bonum
borga
bowings
brava
brington
brodo
bromwich
buon
burnings
burthen
burthensome
café
calendis
candour
capite
capitular
careth
catechise
catino
celebret
centre
chasse
chemin
cheque
chequered
châlets
château
clausit
coffinless
coloured
colouring
colours
committest
confluentia
confratribus
confrères
congregationis
connexion
conseilleur
consistorium
constantia
consuetudinis
contradistinguished
controverted
conversable
conversione
conversus
convictor
correptus
corruptions
corse
cortile
cortége
counsellor
coze
cracky
credas
criticises
cudgelling
cui
cujus
curé
d'Allinges
d'Avroy
d'Ere
d'Oro
d'acqua
d'affaires
d'hôte
d'hôtel
d'état
dantis
decrepid
defectible
defence
dei
dein
del
della
des
despatch
despatching
develope
diaconate
dignitas
dignitate
diligitis
disant
disedification
disfavour
dishonour
dishonourable
diuturniore
dolendum
doloribus
dost
drogget
duelling
dum
dura
ecce
ecstacy
eilwayen
ejusdem
emisit
employments
endeavour
endeavoured
endeavouring
endeavours
endureth
enfants
engraven
equalled
erecter
esse
est
estatica
eventless
examen
examens
excipere
exhortans
experimento
exposé
extenso
extitit
fames
famille
fastnesses
faubourg
favere
favour
favourable
favourably
favoured
favourite
favours
façade
felicitiously
fer
feretrum
ferventiori
fervour
fidei
fidelium
flere
foreshadowings
formá
formâ
fourchette
fourgon
frisonnant
froward
fulfil
fulfilment
fulfils
fulness
fundant
funzioni
gardes
gathereth
genere
gentem
gloriam
goldene
goldenen
gospelling
gras
gratias
gregorine
griefs
guardia
gulph
haereticorum
hap
harbour
hast
hateth
haud
heresiarchs
hibernian
hisce
hoff
holdeth
hominem
honour
honourable
honoured
honouring
honours
hosier
humour
humoured
humours
hyaena
illum
imbuta
imitaverat
immodesties
inclinato
inito
insignitus
instructum
interpositions
invisendum
ipsi
januam
jocosely
judico
jugiter
kilometres
knowest
l'Abbé
l'Eglise
l'Europe
l'Hôtel
l'Immaculé
l'Instruction
l'estatica
l'Étoile
laboraverat
labour
laboured
labourer
labourers
labouring
labours
lagune
laquais
laudo
laus
leadeth
les
levelled
levelling
licence
licences
lille
lionised
literis
lucifers
lustre
maccaroni
magnam
maigre
malades
maraviglia
marchant
mariae
materfamilias
maître
mein
mementoes
methodistical
minutanti
mio
misdemeanour
missae
mitre
mitres
monachism
monomonia
monsignores
morbo
mortales
moulding
mêlée
nautico
nazione
necessarium
necnon
neighbour
neighbourhood
neighbouring
neighbours
nempe
nobile
nobili
nomen
novercal
noviciate
novitiorum
novum
nulla
née
octodecimo
odorem
odour
omittant
omne
omnes
omnium
onked
opitulatus
oratorium
ortus
oscott
ostensoire
ostracised
otium
outstep
partibus
passeth
passionist
pastrycook
paters
patriae
patronised
pauperis
pensionnaires
pensionnat
peracto
peragravit
pergens
perjucundum
personarum
petens
pfarren
pfeiffe
phillipps
piissimis
pirotecnico
pleasantest
populum
pourtrayed
practise
practised
practises
practising
praecesserunt
praesertim
prebendary
preces
primissario
primum
probetur
proindeque
promovere
promptings
propositionesque
propriam
prosequeretur
prostrations
près
prône
puritatem
quam
quesierat
quod
quête
ratione
realise
recens
recognise
recognised
reconquest
reductio
reflectiones
regum
reinhabited
relaxations
reliefs
relievos
remodelled
repentino
rudenesses
rumour
rumours
rédiger
sacerdotio
sacrae
sacrificio
sacro
salus
salut
sanctificatione
sanctificationem
sandalled
satagit
satis
savouring
sawney
scagliola
scarfs
scattereth
sceptical
sceptically
scepticism
schismatics
scienze
scrupulosities
scuole
semel
semper
septem
septembris
servabit
shopman
signo
souper
soupers
soutanes
spettacolo
spiritum
splendour
splendours
stertation
stipendio
suae
suggestors
supremam
svegliarino
sympathise
sympathised
sympathising
temporals
tenour
testa
testimonialibus
thurifer
thurifers
tibi
tinging
titulo
travellings
triginta
triptic
trouvés
trésor
tuo
tête
unbaptized
unburthen
uncanonically
unclerical
unfavourable
unicum
unravelling
unsetting
unviolated
ut
utterings
veluti
vento
vestiaria
vetturino
vicaire
vicario
vielliards
viewiness
vigour
villegiatura
viribus
virtutum
vis
voiturier
volumus
votis
voto
wagen
waggon
wailings
whithersoever
wilful
wilfully
wrapt
zum
Écoles
Écu
Étienne
Évéché
élite
évêché
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