HELPING THE DEPORTED BELGIANS.

New Zealand Tablet, 31 October 1918, Page 23

HELPING THE DEPORTED BELGIANS.

At the Oratory, Brompton, London, there was a service organised a few weeks ago in aid of Cardinal Mercier’s fund for the deported Belgians. Princess Napoleon was present, occupying a seat near the sanctuary, and Bishop de Waechter, assistant to Cardinal Alercier, officiated at the Benediction. The sermon was preached in French by the well-known Belgian Jesuit orator, Pere Heunusse, who is a military chaplain and has how been made court chaplain to King Albert. . He made an eloquent panegyric of the great Cardinal, who had stood out an almost symbolic figure for those two great truths for which Belgium had suffered and was sufferingthe Law and the Right. The collection was taken by several young Belgian ladies of the aristocracy, and the church was very full of a mixed British and Belgian congregation. As Princess • Napoleon left the church the organ played the “Brahanconne.”