Note 344 — Front matter (continued 12)

The following passage in the speech made to the Pope by Ledochowski on his elevation to the purple, is taken from the Emancipatore Cattolico, April 22, 1876:—"And as the persecution was most bitter in that part of Poland which is now under Prussian occupation ... the honour of this sacred purple falls like a celestial dew upon my oppressed and agonised country, and seems silently to say to her, that if forgotten and abandoned of the world, she is still loved and blessed by God, of whom your Holiness is the Vicar." The very next paragraph in the same paper is headed, The Heresy of Love of Country.