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Ml* *Tsw ***** Vic * ST *Ml* *TSw ***** Vic * ST. MICHAEL S COLLEGE. - June. ; 8 / * iVf^ O-2.al\s **>.. ^ l ^ A ... MICHAEL ANGELO AND HIS DYING SERVANT. Pare 78. NAMES THAT LIVE IN CATHOLIC HEARTS: MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL .XIMENES, MICHAEL ANGELO, SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, ARCHBISHOP PLUNKETT, CHARLES CARROLL, HENRI DE LAROCHEJACQUELEIN, SIMON DE MONTFORT. BY ANNA T. SADLIER. "Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time." Longfello NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, AND ST. LOUI BENZIQER BROTH PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE. Copyright, 1882, by BENZIGER BROTHERS. INTRODUCTION. IT was with no ordinary pleasure that I watched the progress of this work, which has been truly a labor of love for my daughter. Some four or five years have already passed since she began the present series of biographical sketches of illustrious Catholics, not canonized Saints, yet worthy of everlasting remembrance. How few, of our young people especially, know more than the names if even so much of Michael Angelo of Francisco Ximenes of Oliver Plunkett of Samuel de Champlain of Simon de Montfort of Henri Larochejaquelein of Charles Carroll of Carrollton! And yet each one of these names is an heirloom of the Catholic family. Each one held a foremost place among the men of his time, whether as the prince of painters, of sculptors, of architects, like Michael Angelo Buonarotti; as Christian statesman and wise counsellor of kings, like the great Spanish Cardinal; as Martyr-prelate and faithful sentinel on the watch-towers of Israel in a dark and troublous time, like Oliver Plunkett, the last martyr of Ireland; as captains and leaders of Christian armies, valiant champions of the holiest of causes, like Simon de Montfort and Henri Larochejaquelein; as one of the founders of a new and eminently Christian nation amongst the yet unexplored forests of Northern America, like the Sieur de Champlain; as the high-souled, upright, and enlightened patriot, worthy of the proud dis tinction of being one of the sponsors of the Great Republic of the West, like Charles Carroll of Carrollton! What stern devotion to principle, what noble disregard of selfish interests, what lofty chivalry in its truest sense, is manifested throughout the whole career of these truly great men! What a single ness and unity of purpose in all, though their lots were cast in times so far apart, amid scenes so varied ! Some, like the heroic leader of La Vendee, were called early to their reward; others when mid-way up life s steep acclivity; while still others passed away in the ripeness of venerable age, crowned with years and with honors. All, however, 4 INTRODUCTION. faithfully accomplished the work appointed for them by the Great Master of the vineyard, and went down to the grave in the glory of renown. " Of these great names that truly live in Catholic Hearts," the young author of these memoirs has taken from various lands the few that could be compressed into a small volume, for the reason that it gives a greater variety to the series in thus changing from one country to another the scene on which her illustrious actors played their heroic part. This, with the difference in manners, ways, and customs of the several nations embraced in the vast fold of the Church, and the ever- changing circumstances wherein the Christian people were placed at different periods of the world s history, contributes to give a more dramatic and attractive character to the work. It has been the author s design from the first to make her memoirs as little dry as possible, and to bring out, as far as strict his torical truth permitted, whatever there is of high moral beauty and poetry in these truly noble lives, each presenting in itself a grand and most complete epic. If we would really combat the irrfmoral and anti-Christian litera ture so alarmingly prevalent at this day, we must make our Catholic books and serials " readable." Even Catholic writers, going to work with the highest and purest motives, cannot afford to ignore the lighter elments of fancy and imagination, or dispense with the graces of style. " This volume of Names that Live in Catholic Hearts" will most likely be followed by one or two more of uniform size, as the author has still a wide range before her, in order to represent even a few of the other countries of Europe and America. Her female characters will form a separate volume. Commending this first volume, then, of the series to the reading public, and bespeaking for it a kindly welcome, I leave it to its own merits. MARY A. SADLIER. MONTREAL, CANADA, March 23, 1882. CONTENTS. PAGE CARDINAL XIMENES, Grand Chancellor of Spain g MICHAEL ANGELO, Painter, Poet, Architect and Sculptor 49 SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, Explorer and Founder of Quebec.... 81 OLIVER PLUNKETT, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ire land 125 CHARLES CARROLL, of Carrollton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence 175 HENRI DE LAROCHEJAQUELEIN, the Hero of La Vendee 217 SIMON DE MONTFORT, Champion of the Cross and Defender of the Faith. 251 m^T~ Xi O thou divinely gifted man, Who made through strength thy merit known. And lived to grasp the golden keys To mould a mighty state s decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Became on Fortune s crowning slope The pillar of a peopled hope, The centre of a world s desire. TENNYSON. GRAND CHANCELLOR OF SPAIN. are far back in the we thread our [E past ; way within the ancient walls, along the picturesque streets, of the former capital of Spain the famed Toledo. We enter through the Puerta del Sol, observe its massive arches, arabesque ornaments, Moorish inscriptions, and its vivid orange color. We pass on in the shadow of the tall projecting houses, which some what obscure the light and modify the heat of a southern sun. We are struck by the coolness of the patio, a sort of interior courtyard, paved with many-tinted marbles, which add to its oriental character. This patio is at tached to each dwelling, and has a temporary cover for the day, which is always withdrawn at night, in order that the balmy freshness of the Castilian night air may penetrate the apartment. We are lost in thought. Our minds are full of the old legends that cluster like dim shades in every nook and corner of these quaint streets; the pale, yet splendid manes of departed kings and warriors throng the ambient air; but our purpose is not with them: their glory and their splendor and their power fade from before us. One giant form alone towers above them all, nor needs the heralds cry, "Room for the Cardinal!" Transported in spirit to that city of 12 NAMES THAT LIVE. his fame, we will endeavor to bring into these pages, as clearly and concisely as possible, the chief events in the life of Spain s illustrious citizen, Francisco de Cisneros Ximenes, Archbishop of Toledo, and Prince of the Church. Most biographers agree that he was born in or about the year 1437, of a noble but impoverished family, in the town of Torrelaguna. He pursued his studies principally at the University of Salamanca, for it was the ardent and cherished wish of both his parents that he should become a priest. For some six years, we are told, he defrayed the expenses of his education by giving lessons in civil and canon law. Later on, we find him setting out for Rome to seek his fortune. Twice upon the journey thither he was attacked by robbers, so that it was through the generosity of an old school fellow, whom he chanced to meet upon the road, that he was enabled to reach the Eternal City. Called into Spain by some domestic trouble, he obtained from the Holy Father a Bull empowering him to fill the first vacancy in the city of Toledo. This was a curious episode in Ximenes eventful life. The celebrated Al- phonso Carillo, theji Archbishop of Toledo, however, refused to grant him the benefice. Ximenes stoutly maintained the higher authority of Rome, at which the archbishop became so incensed that he cast the young ecclesiastic into prison, where he remained six years. During this period of confinement a priest prophesied to him that he should one day be Archbishop of Toledo. " " Father," replied Ximenes, such a commencement certainly does not promise so happy an end." These six years of imprisonment in the strong tower of Uzeda seem to us fraught with interest, when we con sider that the life of solitude and retirement then led by him may have had its influence in preparing him for CARDINAL XIMENES. 13 that wonderful hereafter. It is a fine picture: that grave though youthful figure, with its background of captivity patiently endured, thrown into strong relief by the light of its future greatness. Once released from prison, he exchanged his benefice for the chaplaincy of Siguenza, a neighboring diocese, but as the salary was larger than that of his own bene fice, he arranged that the difference might be returned to the former chaplain of Siguenza. In a short time after, he so gained the esteem and good-will of his bishop, that he was made Grand Vicar and administrator of the diocese by Cardinal de Mendoza. But the Grand Vicar heard within him the divine call, and the whisper, the "Come up higher." He renounced world, and took the habit of a gray or Franciscan friar, in a convent of the Observantines, so called from their strict adherence to their primitive rules.
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