Pray accept, with the expression of my keen sympathy for the Irish, that of the respectful regard with which I am, etc. + C. J. Eugene, Bishop of Marseilles. [To at Killarney]. Miss O’Connell 16:III in Oblate Writings Remittance of 25 Pounds Sterling. Miss O’Connell, Marseilles, April 15, 1847. I have just written to My Lord, the Bishop of Killarney, to announce that I am arranging to send to him the sum of 150 pounds sterling for the poor of his diocese. I am telling him at the same time that I will add to these 150 pounds another 25 pounds that I shall ask him to remit to you for the unfortunate people aided by the Society of Ladies in the name of which you have done me the honour of writing. This will mean that the diocese of Killarney will have received 25 pounds more than the others but I did not wish your confidence in writing to myself to go without response. The sum is small for such great needs but in our country we already have so much suffering that our charities are overburdened and this will explain to you why I have been the only French bishop so far who has dared make an appeal on behalf of Ireland, whose plight nonetheless stirs deep sympathy in France. I am happy to have been able, even in a small way, to associate myself with the merit of your good works and to have this occasion to recommend myself to your prayers and those of the ladies of your Society. I wish them for my part, in the midst of the sorrows which afflict your country, all the consolations that their charity deserves. I am respectfully... + C. J. Eugene, Bishop of Marseilles. Diary Oblate Writings XXI April 18: Mass at la Mission de France, preceded by the abjuration of a Protestant and by the Confirmation of a certain number of adults. The chapel was filled with 700 men, the greatest number belonging to the highest class of Marseillean society and who all took Communion from my hand. Nothing is comparable to the imposing sight of this fervent assembly and to the recollection which was continuously maintained during this rather long ceremony. The presence of the Holy Spirit descended upon the souls of the Confirmands was perceptibly communicated to all the whole assembly; for my part, I sensed its gentle influence and when I thought, while
Pray accept, with the expression of my keen sympathy for the Irish, that of the respectful regard with which I am, etc. + C. J. Eugene, Bishop of Marseilles. [To Miss O’Connell at Killarney]. 16:III in Oblate Writings Remittance of 25 Pounds Sterling. O’Connell, Miss Marseilles, April 15, 1847. I have just written to My Lord, the Bishop of Killarney, to announce that I am arranging to send to him the sum of 150 pounds sterling for the poor of his diocese. I am telling him at the same time that I will add to these 150 pounds another 25 pounds that I shall ask him to remit to you for the unfortunate people aided by the Society of Ladies in the name of which you have done me the honour of writing. This will mean that the diocese of Killarney will have received 25 pounds more than the others but I did not wish your confidence in writing to myself to go without response. The sum is small for such great needs but in our country we already have so much suffering that our charities are overburdened and this will explain to you why I have been the only French bishop so far who has dared make an appeal on behalf of Ireland, whose plight nonetheless stirs deep sympathy in France. I am happy to have been able, even in a small way, to associate myself with the merit of your good works and to have this occasion to recommend myself to your prayers and those of the ladies of your Society. I wish them for my part, in the midst of the sorrows which afflict your country, all the consolations that their charity deserves. I am respectfully... + C. J. Eugene, Bishop of Marseilles. Diary Oblate Writings XXI April 18: Mass at la Mission de France, preceded by the abjuration of a Protestant and by the Confirmation of a certain number of adults. The chapel was filled with 700 men, the greatest number belonging to the highest class of Marseillean society and who all took Communion from my hand. Nothing is comparable to the imposing sight of this fervent assembly and to the recollection which was continuously maintained during this rather long ceremony. The presence of the Holy Spirit descended upon the souls of the Confirmands was perceptibly communicated to all the whole assembly; for my part, I sensed its gentle influence and when I thought, while
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