Author: Henry Bedford

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780260574398

Excerpt from The Life of St. Vincent De Paul So secularised had the clergy become, that, in a Catholic country, where no excuse could be offered for such neglect of propriety, few were any distinctive dress; they went about with moustaches and boots, like mere men of the world; nay, it would appear, in some in stances, they did not take the troub e to put on their ecclesiastical attire even when rforming some of the sacred offices of their calling. Hus it is related in the life of M. Bourdoise, who on principle always appeared publicly in his cassock, that going one day into the abbey-church of St. Denis, he saw a man seated in the sacristy with a coat and short cloak on, and booted and Spurred, who was hearing the confession of a priest vested in alb and stole. He immediately went in search of the prior, and said to him, M father, come here-come and see a cavalier con essing a priest! The caustic rebuke had its effect; for the prior instantly ave perem tory orders to the sacristan to allow no suc scandals or the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.