M23 French colonies and foreign missions—Africa.
M24 German associations of Pius IX.—State of religion in Germany.
M25 Degeneracy of Spain and Portugal, and their colonies—Restoration
under the auspices of Pius IX.
M26 State of the Catholic Church in England prior to 1850.
M27 Pius IX. restores the English Hierarchy.
M28 Numbers and names of the new Sees.
M29 Dr. Wiseman and thirteen other eminent persons raised by Pius IX. to
the dignity of Cardinal.
M30 Success of the English Hierarchy.
M31 Increase of Catholics during the decade—1840-1850.
M32 Wonderful growth of the Catholic Church in England during the
Pontificate of Pius IX.
M33 State of the Catholic Church in Holland anterior to the restoration
of its Hierarchy in 1853.
M34 Persecution in New Granada. Pius IX. remonstrates.
M35 Persecution ceases at last in the Scandinavian countries.
M36 Pius IX. sends a Catholic pastor to Stockholm.
M37 Denmark—600 conversions.
M38 Pius IX. establishes a Metropolitan See at Athens.
M39 Germany—Wars against the Church.
M40 An archbishop and other priests cruelly persecuted. Sustained by
Pius IX. and finally by the people.
M41 Pius IX. laments the state of religion in Sardinia.—Condemns the Act
secularizing marriage.
M42 Pius IX. puts an end to the celebrated Goa Schism in 1851.
M43 Encyclical on the Immaculate Conception—1849.
M44 Pius IX. solemnly promulgated the Dogma of the Immaculate
Conception.
M45 Disputes concerning the study of the ancient classics happily
terminated by Pius IX.
M46 Accident at St. Agnes. Narrow escape of Pius IX. and many eminent
persons.
M47 Piedmont seeks a French alliance against the Pope.
M48 Pius IX. encourages Science and the Fine Arts—“Vindex antiquitatis.”
M49 Lord Clarendon rebukes Count Cavour.
M50 “_Motu proprio_.”
M51 Donoso Cortez, in the Spanish Parliament, supports the Papal
Sovereignty.
M52 Lord Lansdowne, together with all the statesmen and States of
Christendom, recognize the principles laid down in Pius the Ninth’s
“_motu proprio_.”
M53 Canonizations at Rome.—Two American Saints. Pius IX. erects four
Metropolitan Sees in the United States.
M54 New See of Laval.—Rennes becomes Metropolitan.—Restoration of the
Chapter of St. Denis.
M55 Napoleon desires to be crowned by the Pope. Pius IX. sponsor for
Napoleon’s son.—Golden rose sent to the Empress.
M56 Pius IX. godfather to Alphonso XII. of Spain.
M57 Concordat with Austria.
M58 Difficulties in Spain and Spanish countries. Errors of Gunther.
M59 Pius IX. makes a progress through his States.—His popularity.
M60 The Mortara case.
M61 New Sees erected by Pius IX. in America.
M62 Several names added to the number of the Saints.
M63 Count Orsini attempts to murder the Emperor Napoleon III.
M64 The war of 1859.—The legations severed from the states of the
Church.
3 Mr. Perkins, in his letter to the _Times_, makes out that they
forced open the houses of the inhabitants to make them give up their
wine, and that they got drunk.
M65 The peace of Villafranca.
M66 How the treaty was observed.