A Life Of The Rt Rev Edward Maginn

Author : Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee
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ISBN 13 : 9781331390442
Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book A Life of the Rt. Rev. Edward Maginn, Coadjutor Bishop of Derry written by Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Life of the Rt. Rev. Edward Maginn, Coadjutor Bishop of Derry: With Selections From His Correspondence The restoration of her ancient Church, and the maintenance of its liberties against all the intrigues of the Imperial power, is the chief glory of Ireland in the XlXth century. It is quite glory enough; it is a triumph without parallel in the ecclesiastical history of our times. That national churches (if the phrase can be correctly used by a Catholic) may be extinguished in blood or destroyed by schism, the ecclesiastical history of Western Asia, of Northern Africa, of some of the German States, of England, of Scandinavia, all instruct us. That the total extinction of the Irish Church was the darling design cherished by generation after generation of the greatest ministers of a great Empire, British history exists to prove. The heroic constancy of the Irish Catholics is tue very epic of chivalrous resistance to arbitrary power, and one of the freshest episodes in that epic, is the life of the late able and apostolic Bishop of Derry, which I have undertaken, at the request of his nearest surviving relations, to write. The part taken by that courageous churchman is much enhanced in importance by recollecting the Province in which it was played. Old Ulster had resisted "the Reformation" with iron fortitude, and had paid the penalty; its six fair counties were confiscated by one stroke of the first James pen; its nine venerable cathedrals were given over to the new sectaries; its once famous schools of Armagh and Bangor were overthrown and obliterated. Presbvterian communities were chartered and privileged, to hold the passes and ports of the Province; the Kirk, struggling for its existence in Scotland against kingly theories of conformity, was a recognized and favored step-child of the State from its first plantation in Ulster. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.