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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 337, 3 October 1879, Page 5

Recently, near Keady, County Armagh, a boy, fourteen years of age, was stabbed because he refused to curse the Tope He is in a precanous condition. No one has been made amenable for the outrage. .. n i?" * » ls^ Ju l y there was a strange function in the Loyson's Galhoan Church, at Paris. Some 200 persons assisted at tho ceremony. The Swiss Old Catholic Bishop, Herzog, presided and administered Confirmation, to three girls and two boys, and gave Communion under two kinds. The entire liturgy was in French and the Bishops pronunciation caused laughter when talking of St John, instead of saying Jean he pronounced the word Can and speaking of an Angel of Heaven, instead of saying Anqe dv Ciel he was undei stood to say Aneh dv Slel. Had he need the Latin toneue as a Catholic Bishop would, his mistakes in pronunciation would not have been neticed. Among those who received Communion was Madam Loyson, who received from her husband first the host and then the chalice. M. Renal, writing of this event in the Figaro says • "That between the function in Loyson's Chapel and the functions in Catholic Churches, there wa* no other difference hit that between the parody and the reality. The parody soon terminated, and Madam Loyson, attired a» a quaJteress, lost no time in following her huiband " I he Figaro says that some groups of sight-seers gazed at that Bishop and those poor figures of priests, " who seemed more likely to make theix own religion ridiculeus than to reform ours.