Nicholas Patrick Cardinal Wiseman very ably proves that the Bible proves the real presence of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Blessed Eucharist and in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. He begins by presenting the Catholic doctrine as well as the beliefs of the other Christian Churches. He then proceeds to the proof from various portions of Sacred Scripture, such as chapter six of Saint John's Gospel and he words of institution of Jesus, Himself. He then demonstrates how the Protestant interpretation does not fit the clear meaning of the Bible. He closes with a discussion of the Catholic...

A rare book by Cardinal Wiseman. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. We often practically divide the saints into three classes. The ancient saints, those of the primitive age of Christianity, we consider as the patrons of the universal Church, watching over its well-being and progress, but, excepting Rome, having only a general connection with the interests of particular countries, still less of individuals. The great saints of the middle age, belonging to different races and countries, have naturally become their patrons, being more especially reverenced and invoked in the places of their births, their...

There have been some men in the world's history-and they are necessarily few-who by their deaths have deprived mankind of the power to do justice to their merits, in those particular spheres of excellence in which they had been pre-eminent. When the "immortal" Raphael for the last time laid down his palette, still moist with the brilliant colors which he had spread upon his unfinished masterpiece, destined to be exposed to admiration above his bier, he left none behind him who could worthily depict and transmit to us his beautiful lineaments: so that posterity has had to seek in his own...

THE following essay, published by Cardinal Wiseman in the Dublin Review for August, 1839, must always possess a peculiar interest for English Catholics: for it was this which dealt a blow to John Henry Newman's confidence in Anglicanism, from which, by the grace of God, he never recovered. The late Dean Church, in his account of the Oxford movement, gives the following graphic description of the effect of Cardinal Wiseman's argument on the mind of the great leader of Anglicanism: "In the summer of 1839, he Newman] had set himself to study the history of the Monophysite controversy. 'I have...

Excerpt: The subject of the address which I am about to deliver is as follows: Events and things which have been considered legendary, or even fabulous, have been proved by further research to be historical and true. Before coming directly to the subject upon which I wish to occupy your attention, I will give a little account of a very extraordinary discovery which may throw some light upon the general character and tendency of our investigation. In the year 1775 Pius VI. laid the foundation of the sacristy of St. Peter's. Of course, as is the case whenever the ground is turned up in Rome, a...