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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1919
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CARDINAL MERCIER
Belgium’s beloved spiritual prince,
guardian of the welfare of 2,500,000
Roman Catholics in the little king
dom whose first fierce resistance
stayed the German avalanche, Car
dinal Desideratus Mercier, was born
on November 22, 1851, in Braine
d’Alleud, a village only a few miles
from famous Waterloo, says an Asso
ciated Press correspondent.
Typical of the heroism of King Al
bert’s countrymen, this physically
frail but intellectually powerful pre
late of the church, stirred the whole
world to admiration of his courage
when, on the first war Christmas, in
lhl4, with Germans everywhere in
Belgium, he issued his famous pas
toral letter denouncing the invader
and urging his people to resist in
these words:
“Germany has violated her oath.
We can neither number our dead nor
compute the measure of our ruins.
Occupied provinces are not con
quered provinces. The authority of
the invader is no lawful authority.
Therefore, in soul and in conscience
you owe it neither respect, attach
ment nor obedience.”
Later, in protesting against the
deportation of the Belgians for forced
labor, he threatened Germany with
“the reprobation of the civilized
world, the judgment of history and
the chastisement of God.”
Fifteen thousand copies of the
Cardinal’s letter were seized and
destroyed, the printer was arrested
and fined and the brave priest was
kept a prisoner in his palace by order
of General von Bissing “until a re
traction of the pastoral had been
signed.” The Cardinal not only re- j
fused to retract his statements but he
became even more defiant.
He was given his liberty finally, I
and continued to use his voice and
pen against the “mailed fist” in crys- j
tallizing world opinion against the
Central Powers. All during the war, |
however, he was subjected to petty j
persecutions and his secretary and [
other aides were thrown into jail. He
went through the bombardments of
Antwerp and Malines and braved the
perils of the common soldier.
Cardinal Mercier was created and
proclaimed a member of the Sacred
College on April 15, 1907. Before that
he was professor in the University
of Louvain, which was repeatedly
pillaged and desecrated in the war.
ffhe prelate’s distinguished service
for Belgium throughout the war has
been told in frequent news dis
patches. Less is publicly known of
his early record as a churchman.
The cardinal studied at St. Rom
bout’s College, Malines, and the dio
cesan seminary in the same place.
He was ordained to the priesthood
April 4, 1874, entered the seminary
at Malines in 1877 as a professor of
philosophy, after taking a course in
theology at the University of Louvain,
and five years later was called to the
university as professor *of Thomistic
or liberal philosophy. In 1886 Pope
Leo XIII appointed him a domestic
prelate, with the title of monsignor.
He comes of a distinguished relig
ious family, other members of which
have won honprs in the church. One
uncle, the Rt. Rev, Adrian Croquet,
born in 1818, was a pioneer mission
ary among the Indians for thirty
eight years in the Canadian North
west. He died in Belgium in 1902,
and it is the cardinal’s wish to visit
the scene of his uncle’s labors.
Cardinal Mercier’s visit to the
United States is largely the result of
importunities from all sections of the
country. As President Wilson is ab
sent from Washington, the Cardinal
will pay his first respects to Cardinal
Gibbons in Baltimore and visit the
White House later in his tour. Ac
cording to present plans the noted
Belgian prelate’s itinerary will in
clude, besides the cities mentioned,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton,
Albany, Boston, Providence, Hartford,
Springfield Mass., Detroit, Cincinnati,
St. Louis and Chicago.
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MOBILE HOSPITAL
IN USE IN HUNGARY
BUCHAREST, Aug. 20 (by mail).—
Rumanian and Hungarian wounded
in the recent fighting around Buda
pest have been treated in an Ameri
can mobile hospital of the most mod
ern type—the last word in war hospi
tals for use in the field with a rapid
ly moving army.
The type of mobile hospital being
used is that known as the “autochir.”
It is a hospital on wheels—eighteen
huge automobile trucks equipped with
everything needful for war-time med
icine and surgery. There are auto
mobile operating rooms, automobile
sterilizing equipment, an automobile
laboratory, a pure-water machine
with ice-making attachment, an X-ray
car, electric light plant, steam heat
ing plant, a blacksmith’s repair shop
and a complete tent hospital which
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can be set up anywhere in about two
hours so as to accommodate more \
than 400 wounded men.
The hospital is a gift from the
American Red Cross to Queen Marie
of Rumania. It arrived here about
a fortnight ago, and is now being
used for the first time under com- j
mand of Major J. B. Bayne of Chicago,
a physician attached to the American j
Red Cross Commission to the Bal- j
kans. It was built by the Red Cross ]
for use on the West front but did
not arrive in Europe until after the j
armistice.
FAITHFUL WAR HORSE !
RECEIVES MERITED HONOR ]
LONDON, Aug. 22 (Correspondence ]
of Associated Press).—A gallant vet- • 1
eran of the great war took part in the I
recent Aldershot horse show and re- j
ceived the honors his long and faith- i
ful service merited.
“B-30,” as he was known on the j
books of his army command, entered {
the military service in the Dragoon j
Guards in 1912, and was among the |
first to cross the channel with the i
“Old Contemptibles” in 1914. After j
carrying Lieutenant Colonel \V. O.
Winwood through the retreat from
Mons, “B-30” took part in every ac- j
tion on the Western front in which |
cavalry was engaged, including the \
battles of the Marne, Ypres, Loos, \
the Somme, Cambrai, Gouzeacourt !
and Arras.
He is credited with being the first
horse to jump the Hindenburg line
after the infantry went over, and i
took two first prizes in cavalry horse
shows held in Flanders. He was
wounded several times, and returned
to England last April with Colonel :
Winwood who had ridden him ”
throughout the war and who brought
home with him the Distinguished Ser
vice Order for gallantry in the field.
VENERATED RELICS IN
GERMAN CATHEDRAL
.
COLOGNE, Aug. 18 (Correspon
dence of Associated Press).—A Brit
ish army chaplain celebrated mass
recently in the great Cologne cathe
dral at the altar of the relics of the
Magi, the skulls of the three wise
men who came from the East to visit
the newly-born Saviour at Bethlehem.
A number of American officers and
men from the Coblenz area attended
the services, and were permitted to -
view the relics. -
Tradition says that the Empress 7
Helene procured the bones and took
them to Constantinople, whence they
were removed to Milan. In 1161 they
were presented by Frederick Baiba
rossa to Archbishop Reinald von Das
sel, who brought them to Cologne.
At first they were kept in the chapel
of the Magi, the central chapel of
the seven flanking the choir, but since
the war they have been put away in
the cathedral treasury, near the
organ.
The bones are kept in a golden re- L
liquary, a costly specimen of Roman- -
esque craftsmanship in the form of a
basilica, said to have been made
about 1200 A. D. In the Cologne coat
of-arms three crowns are represent
ed, the ownership of the Magi relics
having suggested the design.
On account of important business
I shall be compelled to be absent from
Cordova for about twenty days. I
shall sail on the Watson on the 28th
of September and return to Cordova
about October 15.
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