POSEN AND THE HOLY SEE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 135, 3 December 1875, Page 7

POSEN AND THE HOLY SEE.

A letter printed in the Austrian journals, and copied under reserve in the • Bien Public,' states that the Holy Father has made a communication to Cardinal Ledochowski, inviting him to repair to Koine as soon as he shall have obtained his liberation from Ma present unjust imprisonment. Upon hi 3 Eminence's arrival in the Eternal City the Cardinalitial berretta -will be presented to him in a special Consistory, to be held -with exceptional solemnity for that purpose. We also learn that the Catholics of Posen have formed a defensive organisation called the Polish Catholic Society, with Prince Czartoryski, a Deputy to the Reichstag, as its President. A numerously attended and enthusiastic meeting of the members has been held, at which a remarkable speech, delivered by a Catholic artisan, was to the following effect : — " I fought in the German army ; I was at the sieges of Strasburg a,nd of Paris ; I returned home to find myself heavily involved in debt, incurred for the support of my wife and children while I was helping Germany to exact that immense indemnity from France. I worked hard, I paid off my debts, but I suffer more now than when I was -with the army abroad. I have returned home to see my religion persecuted, and. my clergy imprisoned, and my native language forbidden to be used in the schools where my children are compelled by law to be educated." A letter in the ' Monde' says that the State persecution goes on with unabated rigour in Polish Prussia. Even the most innocent popular observances, which hare been practised for centuries -without offence to any Government, aTe now sternly prohibited by the Prussian police.