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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
THE FREEMASONS 'QUARTERLY MAGAZINE .
SEPTEMBER 30 , 1854 .
EOMAN CATHOLIC PERSECUTION OE EREEMASONRY AT THE MAURITIUS .
A QUESTION of singular and exciting interest is at this moment occupying the attention of the inhabitants of the Mauritius . The Roman Catholic bishop , Dr . Collier , has , with the usual intolerant spirit of the system to which he adheres , refused to allow the priests under his guidance and direction , to administer the Sacrament of the Holy Communion to one of the most
respectable merchants in that island—a member of the Council of Government—Brother the Hon . H . Lemiere , BECAUSE HE IS A EltEEMASON ! A Mauritius journal , in reporting this fact , makes the following observations—which have been copied into the Times —and details the exact position in which matters remained
when the last accounts were transmitted to England : — "As may naturally be supposed , this intolerant measure gave rise immediately to considerable discontent and uneasiness in the public mind , which has resulted in a lengthened discussion in the public papers , sustained principally by writers in this journal [ the Mauritius KeporterJ and by Mr . E . Piston , in the Cerneen . The Eoman Catholic bishop replied in a letter which first appeared in the Cerneen , justifying his conduct in
virtue of the authority of a long line of Sovereign Pontiffs who have placed Ereemasonry in the list of secret societies , the members of which are pitilessly excommunicated by the Church of Eome . This letter raised the inquiry , whether the bulls of the pope aro executory in this island , unless they shall have first been recognized by the Church , of Paris , from which the Catholics of this island claim their descent . The inquiry has been very ably and fully gone into by two of our correspondents , Mr . E , Daruty , and 'A Galilean , ' who have in the clearest manner possible established the fact , that the religious laws and customs of the inhabitants VOL . II . 2 A
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
THE FREEMASONS 'QUARTERLY MAGAZINE .
SEPTEMBER 30 , 1854 .
EOMAN CATHOLIC PERSECUTION OE EREEMASONRY AT THE MAURITIUS .
A QUESTION of singular and exciting interest is at this moment occupying the attention of the inhabitants of the Mauritius . The Roman Catholic bishop , Dr . Collier , has , with the usual intolerant spirit of the system to which he adheres , refused to allow the priests under his guidance and direction , to administer the Sacrament of the Holy Communion to one of the most
respectable merchants in that island—a member of the Council of Government—Brother the Hon . H . Lemiere , BECAUSE HE IS A EltEEMASON ! A Mauritius journal , in reporting this fact , makes the following observations—which have been copied into the Times —and details the exact position in which matters remained
when the last accounts were transmitted to England : — "As may naturally be supposed , this intolerant measure gave rise immediately to considerable discontent and uneasiness in the public mind , which has resulted in a lengthened discussion in the public papers , sustained principally by writers in this journal [ the Mauritius KeporterJ and by Mr . E . Piston , in the Cerneen . The Eoman Catholic bishop replied in a letter which first appeared in the Cerneen , justifying his conduct in
virtue of the authority of a long line of Sovereign Pontiffs who have placed Ereemasonry in the list of secret societies , the members of which are pitilessly excommunicated by the Church of Eome . This letter raised the inquiry , whether the bulls of the pope aro executory in this island , unless they shall have first been recognized by the Church , of Paris , from which the Catholics of this island claim their descent . The inquiry has been very ably and fully gone into by two of our correspondents , Mr . E , Daruty , and 'A Galilean , ' who have in the clearest manner possible established the fact , that the religious laws and customs of the inhabitants VOL . II . 2 A