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The six sisters of the valleys : an historical romance - University Library

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THE AECHBISHOP. 307<br />

l<strong>an</strong>guage !) <strong>the</strong> minute record <strong>of</strong> those<br />

affecting sufferings, whereby <strong>the</strong> mystery<br />

<strong>of</strong> redemption was accomplished on Calvary,<br />

but no congenial spirit has been brea<strong>the</strong>d<br />

into <strong>the</strong> councils <strong>of</strong> that crusading Church<br />

which bears <strong>the</strong> surname <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> lowly Na-<br />

zarene. <strong>The</strong> <strong>valleys</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Alps present <strong>an</strong><br />

example <strong>of</strong> her Apostolic pohcy. An excited<br />

people, ravaged homesteads, desolated<br />

hearths, acts <strong>of</strong> violence <strong>an</strong>d rapine, per-<br />

sonal mutilation <strong>an</strong>d agonies, have been<br />

<strong>the</strong> persuasions whereby she would win<br />

converts, not to Calvary's cross, but<br />

to her own corrupted creed <strong>an</strong>d cere-<br />

monies.<br />

On <strong>the</strong> evening <strong>of</strong> Good Friday, April<br />

23rd, 1655, <strong>the</strong> Marquis <strong>of</strong> Pi<strong>an</strong>esse re-<br />

posed in <strong>the</strong> chamber set apart for his use<br />

in <strong>the</strong> convent <strong>of</strong> La Tour. Before him<br />

were all <strong>the</strong> adjuncts <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>ficial dignity common<br />

to every age. Packets <strong>of</strong> papers, parch-<br />

ments, edicts, m<strong>an</strong>uscripts, law-books,<br />

writings on ecclesiastical <strong>an</strong>d civil jurispm-

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