Among Many Quaint Relics Of The Distant
Days Of The Messrs.
Jourdain and of their successor, Monsieur Audiverti
dit Romain, we saw a most curiously inlaid Marqueterie table, dating,
we might be tempted to assert, from the prehistoric era!
Innumerable are the quaint, pious or historical souvenirs, mantling like
green and graceful ivy, the lofty, fortified area, which comprises the
Upper Town of this "walled city of the North". An incident of our early
times - the outraged Crucifix of the Hotel Dieu Convent, [77] and the
Military Warrant, appropriating to urgent military wants, the revered seat
of learning, the Jesuits' College, naturally claim a place in these pages.
The Morning Chronicle will furnish us condensed accounts, which we
will try and complete: -
LE CRUCIFIX OUTRAGE.
"An interesting episode in the history of Canada during the last
century attaches to a relic in the possession of the Reverend Ladies
of the Hotel Dieu, or, more properly, "the Hospital of the Most
Precious Blood of Jesus Christ," of which the following is a synopsis
taken from l'Abbe H. G. Casgrain's history of the institution: -
"On the 5th October, 1742, it was made known that a soldier in the
garrison in Montreal, named Havard de Beaufort, professed to be a
sorcerer, and, in furtherance of his wicked pretensions, had profaned
sacred objects. He had taken a crucifix, and having besmeared it with
some inflammable substance - traces of which are still to be seen upon
it - had exposed it to the flames, whilst he at the same time recited
certain passages of the Holy Scripture.
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