i teresting to me, and more excited my curiosity. I made hu acquainted with a project which our Fathers had in contemplation. They wished, said I, to form an establishment at Monte Santo, and to have a school in which they would teach Greek and Theology, and to educate in the principles of the R man Church, some young Caloyers, who having become teachers in their turn, would spread abroad every where the true doctrine. Nothing would tend more to the destruction of schism. Very well," said he, “" The people there implicitly follow the injunctions of their Pastors, particularly of the Religi ous, whose words, aided by constant regularity and exCessive austerity, support their errors. People are easily taken in this snare, and it is difficult to make them be. lieve, that they who live well, can believe wrongly; and I doubt not but the reclaiming of Monte Santo would be followed by the conversion of nearly all Greece: the project is admirable, but the execution would, I fear, be difficuit. You should find missionaries who would be equally abstemious and well able to fast, as our Greeks. You will hardly find such persons in the world.” "That is not what has prevented it," said 1, " Our Fathers on the misgious of Malabar and Madura live like the penitents of those countries, and fasting never frightens men who have a truly Apostolic spirit. Ardent zeal is able to overcome nature, and enables us to become all to all "

Very well, said he, but how will you overcome the insurmountable dislike they have for you, you cannot conceive how far they carry it, and in what a light they be. hold you They have a book which they call the Mo. Bocanons; It is their only book of Casuistry and they lock upon it as another Gospel. To preserve it in the greater respect they prohibit the laity from reading it, and they must take its contents upon the word of those who are allowed to expound it. I had once a copy of it by chance and I feel upon a chapter the title of which was Peri toon Frankoon, kai Latinoon, that is concerning the French and the Latins I read it with attentition and it made such an impression upon me as I shall never forget. We are treated in its ke wolves, this is the most favourable point of view in which we are placed,

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and it is laid down as a first principle that all who are under the jurisdiction of the Pope and acknowledge his primacy this length of time past, have lost the Apostolic tra~ ditions, and are not of the Catholic Church, and live like barbarians without any law those are the usual expressions. Besides the ordinary charge of having added to the creed, that the Holy Ghost" proceeds from the Father and the son, and of using unleavened bread for consecration at Mass. They assume it as fact that our Ssviour used leavened bread, and that Judas having received the morsel went out and shewed it to the Jews. In this supposition they justify the traitor, and throw the imputation of eriminality aad prevarication from the law upon Jesus Christ our Lord.

They say that we are Nestorians and reproach us with not calling,the Blessed Virgin Mother of God, but merely Holy Mary. They accuse us of fasting on Saturdays and even though Christmas day should fall upon that day ; of not beginning lent until the Wednesday in Quinquagessima week; of not saying alleluia in lent; of not making the sign of the cross sufficiently large, even down to the ground; of not painting the history of the martyrdom of the saints in our Churches, but having merely a cross or painting of the crucifixion. They say we are wrong in allowing the Priests to shave and in prohibiting the ordination of those who are married; and of not ano nting” sinners hefore we adinit them to communion. This Chapter contains many other heads of accusation but F could learn no more than those which I have laid down.

I acknowledge, my Rev Father that what I have been told of this book astonished me, and I was surprised that the learned Aliatius who wrote so many fine treatises on the Heresies contained in the ecclesiastical works of the Greeks, had not cited this book, probably because he had not discovered the poisonous source from which the ve nom flows throughout all Greece.

How would our Religious be induced to listen to you in spite of such prejudices said my Caloyer. I told him the obstacle was not insurmountable, that by living amongst them they would insensibly be brought to see the falsity of their imputation and the injustice of their

proaches, It would be useless said he, you would only lose your time in adducing even the most clear reasons against their practices. In vain would you ask them for an answer. They would give one Apothegm as au answer to every objection." We are commanded to do so by our law." They would confine themselves to this, and obstinately hold to it. I have known, said he, some old Caloyers upon whom one of your brethren, and afterwards the doctor Rhodino, a native of the Island of Cy+ prus made the experiment which you speak of, they answered that they could not grant the permission that was looked for, because if the young Caloyers once became learned, they would despise the old ones who are ignorant, and they could not be prevailed upon to till the ground, or stoop to any servile employments, and ambition seizing upon their young minds, would lead them to quit the Monastery to look for Bishoprics; that jealousy, would soon creep in even amongst the young Religious, and they who were appointed to sing in choir, or to cultivate the land, would look with jaundiced eyes upon those who would be appointed to enter into scientific research. This answer did not appear strange to me. I suppos ed they were such objections as were likely to be made, and I thought 1 found in them the spirit and style of certain communities that can hardly be called regular. Ignorance, when placed in authority stifles, as much as in it lies, risiug merit, and it dreads the contempt which would flow from the contrast, even though its authority, should not be destroyed They also say, continued he, that if they received into their enclosure any French Religious they would be suspected by the Turks: and they would carry the story to the Czars of Muscovy whose protection aud good graces the Caloyers weuld be sorry to lose Those answers closed the mouths of the Petitioners and blew up the project.

To be Continued,