History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . See those fatuous movements whichare hastily erected to eternize the memoryof that remarkable event. O, tyrants,how great are your delusions! Thosecolumns erected by your sacrilegioushands dyed in the blood of our ancestors,far from giving the lie to the words ofChrist, shall only serve to carry to the re-mote posterity the memory of your cruel-ties ! But let u
History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . See those fatuous movements whichare hastily erected to eternize the memoryof that remarkable event. O, tyrants,how great are your delusions! Thosecolumns erected by your sacrilegioushands dyed in the blood of our ancestors,far from giving the lie to the words ofChrist, shall only serve to carry to the re-mote posterity the memory of your cruel-ties ! But let us read those proud inscrip-tions : Diocletiano, novo Jovi, nomineChristianorum deleto. Maximiano, novoHerculi superstitione Christi ubiqui Dele-ta! To Diocletian the new Jupiter, toMaximian the new Hercules, for hav-ing at last abolished the Christian nameand destroyed in the whole world the su- perstition of Christ! Is it so, O MightyGod, is your Church destroyed? Shallyour enemies give you the lie? Haveyou, then, against your word, desertedyour Church ? Oh! Is not the blood ofyour martjTS in vain which they haveso courageously defended? Behold, now,your enemies proclaim it; your sacredname shall be henceforth an object of hor-. REV. ALBAN SCHNEIDER, O. F. .M. ror to the whole world! Will you, O,Lord, allow them to consummate their in-famous designs? See, dear brethren,those proud monuments were scarcely fin-ished, when a mysterious sign appearsin the air; the instrument of our redemp-tion, the cross, appears in the luminousskies. Guided by this wonderful sign,the Emperor Constantine, yet Pagan, tri-umphs over his enemies; the gates of 214 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF Rome are opened to him, and immediatelythe standard of tlie cross waves over thecapitol. Rome is converted, and soonafter the universe, astonished, adored theCrucified, and that Rome, inebriated withthe blood of the martyr, St. Peter, andthirty-six of his successors, on the pon-tifical seat of Rome, is recognized pu
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