The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . instruc-tions which he was deputed to give. When only inminor orders, he was assigned as Lenten preacher inthe Church of Aigues-Mortes. It was there he firstmade use of his peculiar methods. His extremeyouth provoked the derision of the people and whenAsh Wednesday arrived, the church was empty. BRIDAL 781 BRIDGE-BUILDING Undismayed, he put on his surplice and went out inthe principal streets, ringing a bell, and inviting thepeople to hear him.
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . instruc-tions which he was deputed to give. When only inminor orders, he was assigned as Lenten preacher inthe Church of Aigues-Mortes. It was there he firstmade use of his peculiar methods. His extremeyouth provoked the derision of the people and whenAsh Wednesday arrived, the church was empty. BRIDAL 781 BRIDGE-BUILDING Undismayed, he put on his surplice and went out inthe principal streets, ringing a bell, and inviting thepeople to hear him. He succeeded in bringing animmense multitude to the church who came out ofcuriosity, but when he began in a most unusualfashion by singing a canticle about death the con-gregation burstout in loud laugh-ter; whereupon heopened upon themwith such fierce-ness of denuncia-tion that silenceand amazementtook possession ofall. He was char-acteristically sen-sational. Hewrote little andgave way to theinspiration of themoment and as aconsequence h i sutterances presentat times an inco-herent jumble of in-congrous figuresand ideas, whichoften even gro-. Jacques Bridaine clash with each other and aretesque. It was Cardinal Maury who called atten-tion to his exordium in the sermon on Eternitywhich was said to be improvised. Father Cahour,, inserts it in his Chefs-dCEuvre d^loquence,and Maury who wrote it from memory declares that itwas not unworthy of Bossuet or Demosthenes. Itwas pronounced at , before an audiencein which there were many bishops, a vast crowd ofecclesiastics and men of distinction in civil andmilitary life. Bridaine assures them that in spite oftheir worldly greatness he is not abashed by theirpresence, and in the most impassioned language de-nounces them as sinners, and bids them, haughty anddisdainful as they are, to tremble before him. To-day I hold your condemnation in my hand. Opin-ions are divided about its excellence as an example oforatory; some f
Size: 1385px × 1805px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, books, booksubjectcatholicchurch
