A journey from La Trappe to Rome

CONTENTS. Dedication vii Author's Preface ix Translator's Preface xii LETTER I. Departure from Lyons — Sickness at Colmar — Arrival at the monastery of Mount Olivet of Our Lady of La Trappe — Reflections — The prior and his brotheo^Their death — Fire at Mount Olivet — Trial of the incendiary — The influenza — Death of two monks. — Pages 1 — 8. LETTER II. Sickness and sufferings — Leaves the monastery for Rome — Passes through Switzerland — Convalescence — Our Lady of Hermits' pilgrimage — Reflections on Switzerland — Letter to M. De la Mennais — Arrival at Paris. — Pages 9 — 15. LETTER III. Vincennes — Recollections — Arrest at Husum, in 1812 — Aix la Chapelle — Baron Desprês des Coudrais — Admirable trait — Captivity — Change of prison — The Abbé de Boulogne, Bishop of Troyes — Monsignore de Gregorio — Father Fontana — Abbate Pedicini — Entry of the Allies into Paris — Delivery. — Pages 15 — 23. LETTER IV. Church of Notre Dame de Lorette — The Madeleine — Obelisk of Luxor — Louis XVI. — Marie Antoinette — Expiatory monument — Triumphal arch — Versailles — National museum — Fieschi — French church of Chatel — St. Sulpice — St. Roch — St. Genevieve — Departure from Paris. — Pages 24 — 40. LETTER V. Journey to Lyons — Banks of the Saône — Ile Barbe — Faith and charity of the Lyonese — Fourrières — First martyrs of Gaul — St. Blandina — Church of St. Irenæus. — Pages 41 - ^49. LETTER VI. Departure from Lyons — Steamboat — Valence — Avignon — Porters, the pest of travellers — Chapel of La Miséricorde — Beautiful ivory crucifix — Picture and poetry by the good king René — Vaucluse — Laura — Petrarch — Pius VI. — La Glaciere. — Pages 50 — 59. LETTER VII. Marseilles — Steamboat Maria Christina — Nice — Cassini — Genoa — Christopher Columbus — Andrea Doria — Leghorn — Elba — Bonaparte — Civita Vecchia — Its port — M. de la Mennais — Galleys — The brigand Gasparone. — Pages 60 — 73. LETTER VIII. Departure from Ci vita - Vecchia — Monteroni — Cupola of St. Peter's church — Approach to Rome. — Pages 73 — 79. LETTER IX. Arrival in Rome — Visit to St. Peter's church — The Tiber — Santa Maddalena — Visit to the Cardinals de Gregorio and Lambruschini — Audience with his Holiness Gregory XVI. — Pages 79 — 88. LETTER X. Dress of the Pope — His court — His authority. — Pages 89 — 95. LETTER XI. Roman States — Double authority of the Roman Pontiff. — Pages 96 - 104. LETTER XII. The Popes, protectors of civil liberty, patrons of the arts, and benefactors of the human race. — Pages 104 — 113. LETTER XIII. St. Mary Major — St. Peter. — Pages 113 — 141. LETTER XIV. St. John of Latran — St. Paul. — Pages 141 — 147. LETTER XV. Magnificence of the church ceremonies — Corpus - Christi — Golden rose Agnus Dei — St. Agnes's day — Benediction of the two lambs, of whose wool the pallium is formed. - Pages 148 — 157. LETTER XVI. The Pantheon. — Pages 158 — 162. LETTER, XVII. The Coliseum. — Pages 163 — 171. LETTER XVIIL Pompey's statue — Rome the centre of the spiritual kingdom, which Jesus Christ wished to establish on the earth. — Pages 171 — 176. LETTER XIX. Sequel of the preceding letter. — Pages 176 — 184. LETTER XX. The cholera — Charitable institutions. — Pages 185 — 194. LETTER XXI. Other beneficent institutions of Rome. — Pages 194 — 204. LETTER XXII. Executions at Rome. — Pages 204 — 209. LETTER XXIII. Congregation of Roman ladies — Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia — Hospital of Santo Salvatore — Hospital of the Santa Trinitâ — Conservatorii for young women — Santa Maria in Aquiro — Hospital of Santo Spirito — Ospizio of St, Michael — Of St. Louis, for women without a home — Confraternity della Morte. — Pages 209 — 217. LETTER XXIV. On the Roman clergy — On the blessed Virgin. — Pages 217 — 224. LETTER XXV. Public instruction at Rome — Ladies of the Sacred Heart. — Pages 225 — 230. LETTER XXVI. Scene in a chapel of the Jesuits — Chartreuse of Rome. — Pages 230 — 232. LETTER XXVII. Tivoli — Subiaco — Accident — Sacro Speco — Grotto of St. Benedict. — Pages 233 — 248. LETTER XXVIII. Church of St. Sebastian — The catacombs. — Pages 248 — 259 LETTER XXIX. Father Francesco Della Grotta, former guardian of the Holy Sepulchre — Assassination of many religious of the Holy Land, by the Greeks — Pestilence at Jerusalem — College of the Propaganda — Young man of Bethlehem. — Pages 260 — 264. LETTER XXX. Departure from Rome. — Pages 265 — 267. Appendix. — Page 268. Digitized by Google.
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