ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



697 



penancea also for the souls of Christ's faithful, who 

 shall have departed this life united to God in char- 



Notwithstanding the rule of our Chancery concern- 

 ing the not granting of Indulgences ad inetar, and 

 11 other Constitutions and Ordinances Apostolic 

 whatsoever to the contrary, these our letters are 

 o remain in force for one year. And it is our will 

 that the same faith be given to the printed copies of 

 these our letters, such being authenticated by the 

 signature of a notary public, and by the seal of some 

 ecclesiastical dignitary, as would be given to the 

 original itself if exhibited or shown. 

 n. Gi J. e ? at Kome at St - Jeter's, under the King of 

 the iiaherman, this 19th day of August, 1873, in the 

 twenty-eighth year of our Pontificate. 



tF. CARDINAL ASQUINI. 

 The present Letters Apostolic were exhibited at 

 the Secretariate of the Congregation of Indulgences, 

 this 21st day of August, 1873, according to the forni 

 of the decree of the said Congregation, dated the 

 Hth day ot April, 1856. In testimony wWeof, etc. 

 liiven at Kome from the Secretariate of the Sacred 

 Congregation of Indulgences and of Holy Relics on 

 the day and year as above. 



DOMINIC SAKKA, Substitute. 



and devoted to his royal Majesty, William of Prus- 

 sia, and to the legitimate successor in government 

 ol his most high Majesty, will advance the interests 



>t his most high Majesty, according to my abilitv 

 avoid miury and prejudice to them, will conscien- 

 tiously observe the laws of the land, will particularly 

 endeavor to achieve that a feeling of awe and fidelity 

 toward the King, of love for the fatherland, of defer- 

 ence to the laws, and all those virtues which denote 

 the good subject in the Christian, shall be carefullv 

 fostered in the minds of the clergy and communities 

 intrusted to my episcopal direction; and I will not 

 tolerate that my subordinate clergy shall teach and 

 act in a sense opposed to the above. More especially 

 1 vow that 1 will not entertain any association or con- 

 nection, be it within or without the kingdom, which 

 may be prejudicial to public safety : and, should I be- 

 come aware that propositions shall be made anywhere 

 which may result in injury to the state, that I will 



SKi^iftS . same to his r J' al Majesty. I promise to 

 II all thi 



He also by a brief of July 8th granted in- 

 dulgence for a Novenato St. Peter intinculis. 

 in allusion to bis own position. 



Another feature in connection with the 

 pilgrimage to Paray le Monial, to the tomb of 

 B. Margaret Mary Alacoque, to whom devo- 

 tion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus owes its 

 modern form, was a general dedication of dio- 

 ceses, churches, institutions, and private houses, 

 to the Sacred Heart. This became general, 

 before the close of the year, throughout the 

 Catholic world. 



The Old Catholic movement during the year 

 1873 took a permanent form, yet occupied such 

 indefinite ground that, while in some respects 

 the members ceased to belong to the Roman 

 Catholic Church, under others they were re- 

 garded as still part of it. 



A committee was appointed at the Old Cath- 

 olic Congress, to decide on the question of a 

 bishop. On the 4th of June the Assembly of 

 Delegates, numbering twenty priests and fifty- 

 seven lay delegates, chose Prof. Reinkens, of 

 Breslan, as missionary -bishop without a see. As 

 consecration by any bishops in communion with 

 the Pope, was ont of the question, he was con- 

 secrated at Rotterdam, on the llth of August, 

 by the Jansenist Bishop of Deventer. Anoth- 

 er Congress or Council of the Old Catholic 

 body was held at Constance, Switzerland, in 

 September, but no confession of faith, or sys- 

 tem of discipline, was adopted. Mr. Loyson 

 (rather Ilyonnthe) and two other sympa- 

 thizers with the Old Catholic movement, were 

 elected cure's at Geneva, but Loyson disavowed 

 all allegiance to Bishop Reinkens, who, on his 

 side, did not recognize Mr. Loyson as one of 

 his clergy. 



On the 7th of October, Bishop Reinkens took, 

 at the hands of Dr. Falk, the following oath : 



I, Joseph Hubert Reinkens, swear an oath to Al- 

 mighty and Omniscient God. upon the Holy Evan- 

 gelist", that I, having been raised to the dignity of a 

 Catholic bishop, will be subject, faithful, obedient, 



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ill all this the more irrefragably in that*! "amper- 

 suaded that my episcopal office obliges me to nothing 

 which can be opposed to the oath of loyalty and fidel- 

 ity to his royal Majesty, or to that of ob'edience to 

 the law of the land. All this I swear, so help me God 

 and this holy Evangelism. 



The patent of recognition, signed by the King 

 and handed by Dr. Falk to the bishop after he 

 had taken the foregoing oath, reads thus : 



We, William, by the grace of God, King of Prus- 

 sia, etc. etc., give to know, and make hereby known 

 that we herewith, in virtue of the episcopal election 

 neld in Cologne on the 4th of June, 1873, and of the 

 consecration to the Catholic Episcopate, performed 

 by the Bishop of Deventer in Rotterdam, on the llth 

 pi August, 1873, do recognize the Ordinary Professor 

 in the Catholic Theological Faculty of Breslau Uni- 

 versity, Dr. Joseph Hubert Reinkcns, as Catholic 

 ' ; and accordingly, we command our Upper 

 Presidents Presidents and Provincial Colleges as 



m as each and every our vassals and subjects of 

 whatsoever name, position, dignity, or condition 

 herewith, graciously and earnestly, that they shall 

 recognize and respect the said Joseph Hubert Rein- 

 kens as Catholic bishop, and let the same possess. 

 have, and enjoy, fully and without question W any- 

 body, all that which may be dependent upon his 

 othce, may belong thereto, or may be exacted in 

 virtue thereof, in the way of honors and dignities 

 prom* and other advantages, on penalty of our roy- 

 al displeasure and heavy inevitable reprehension 

 without prejudice, however, to all that belongs to 

 i to our royal and territorial princely privi- 



In witness whereof we have completed this present 

 patent of recognition with our most exalted signature 

 and have caused it to be scaled with our royal signet 

 Thus given- BEELLN, September 19, 1873. 



WILHELM. 



The full purport of this step was not at once 

 seen. The new bishop took up his residence 

 at Bonn. 



Pius IX., in an encyclical, on the 21st of No- 

 vember, reviewed the dhief events of the year. 



In the consistory of December 22d, Pius IX. 

 created twelve cardinals: Alexander Frauchi, 

 Archbishop of Thessalonica; Flavius Chigi 

 Archbishop of Myra ; Louis Oreglia di Santo 

 Stefano, Archbishop of Damietta; Mariano 

 Falcinelli Antoniacci, a Benedictine, Arch- 

 bishop of Athens the four nuncios to Spain, 

 France, Portugal, and Austria; Joseph Hippo- 

 lyte Gnibert, Oblate of Mary Immaculate, 

 Archbishop of Paris; Rene Francois Regnier, 

 Archbishop of Cambray; Mariano Barrio y 



