"Vicary" Quotes from Famous Books
... ministry. They went so far as to endeavor to poison religious instruction at its source, and declared that the students in Catholic seminaries must undergo, before ordination, an examination by civil officials. This tyrannical law was courageously opposed by the venerable archbishop, Vicary, of Friburg. (M40) Although eighty years of age, he was dragged before the courts, and placed like a criminal under charge of the police. The faithful clergy were banished, imprisoned and fined. The Holy Father, with his usual ... — Pius IX. And His Time • The Rev. AEneas MacDonell
... a shame and a sin too, Had thus on their speaker recoiled, and his malison Placed in the hands of the Devil's own "pal" his son!— He sobbed and he sighed, And he screamed, and he cried, And behaved like a man that is mad or in liquor—he Tore his peaked beard, and he dashed off his "Vicary," Stamped on the jasey As though he were crazy, And staggering about just as if he were "hazy," Exclaimed, "Fifty pounds!" (a large sum in those times) "To the person, whoever he may be, that climbs To that window above there, en ogive, and painted, And brings down ... — Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner |