MONSEIGNEUR DUPANLOUP.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 325, 11 July 1879, Page 19

MONSEIGNEUR DUPANLOUP.

A FEW days since the heart of the late illustrious Bishop of Orleans was quietly brought to tke little town of San Felice, in Savoy, and deposited there in the lowly church with which so many of his earliest recollections were intimately entwined. San Felice was the birthplace of the great prelate, and to his latest day he was fond of going to San Felice. In his last testament he directed that his heart should be placed in the humble church of the village in which he was born. Affectionately and reverently his heart wa3 received at San Felice the other day. The Archbishop of Chambery officiated on the occasion, and with him there were three prelates from the neighbouring dioceses. The faithful of San Felice were present in all their *>rce, and gave every evidence of the joy with which they received the precious gift which had been so lovingly bequeathed to them. The heart was deposited in an urn and placed in a niche specially provided for it. A slab of black marble indicates the spot, and an inscription on the slab makes record of the event and of the great bishop whose heart is enshrined within. Orleans itself is about to commemorate Monseigneur Dupanloup by having erected in its cathedral , a statue of him.