A MARTYRED PRIEST.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13094, 20 April 1908, Page 6

A MARTYRED PRIEST.

Tfce body of Father Heinrichs, the Franciscan priest, who was (murdered before the altar by an anarchis. in Colorado, was taken to Paterson, New Jersey, where the young ecclesiastic formerly officiated. The body was to lie in state, and pilgrims to view the remains were expected to come to Paterson- from all parts./ . Never before (seye-the New York correspondent ot the "Daily Telegraph") have Ameri_an Roman Catholics—a very numerous , body—been so stirred by a tragedy, and their sentiment, if one may judge from interviews with their leaders, favours steps being taien to enter the name of Father Heinrichs in the of the Church. Priests and ..aymen alike are astounded by the discovery made in preparing the body for burial that next to the skin Father Heinrichs had wranped about hjs waist and the upper part of -his arms heavy bands of linked steel chains, and to each link was a hook, attached to the shoulders in such a way that ev-i-y movement of the priest caaised the hooks to pierce his flesh, and to remma him of the life and death oP Him m whose steps he struggled to follow. Ins rather never spoke to his fellow clergy of his mode of -penance, and no one in the monastery eurmised it. His body and upper arms wore covered with hardened patches, showing th_t when' the pain became deadened, because of tho toughened skin, ho had taken the network of claws and adjusted them so that the pain might come again with renewed force.