own free and spontaneous will; that she is without the slightest impediment calculated to disturb or annul the marriage, and that she considers and holds herself free, fit, and unencumbered to enter into it lawfully and validly. She further affirms that what is herein set forth is true, in view of the oath she has given; and she further ratifies that she is eighteen years of age, and that she does not sign because she does not know how, but makes her mark, to which I attest. JUAN NEPOMUCENO GOMEZ,

O'REILLY, Ec. Judge.

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In the city of St. Augustine, Florida, on the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, the Señor Vicar, Ecclesiastical Judge, having seen the foregoing declarations. and the unanimous and reciprocal will on the part of those concerned, ordained and ordains that the banns of marriage of the aforesaid Gaspar Hernandez, widower, and Margaret Andreu, spinster, be published on three festival days at the parochial Mass after the form prescribed by the Holy Council of Trent, and no impediment arising, the remaining necessary steps may be proceeded with-as herein decreed. I thus command and sign--attested :

At St. Augustine on said day, month, and year I had notice of the foregoing decree served on Gaspar Hernandez and Margarita Andreu.

Attested:

GOMEZ.

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I, DON MIGUEL O'REILLY, beneficed parochus, Vicar, Ecclesiastical Judge of this parish church, place and Province of St. Augustine, Florida, do certify, that in the First Book, White

Adults, deceased, on page 130, part I., No. 364, there is registered as follows:

"FRIDAY, the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, Isabel Meyar, a native of Holland, and wife of Gaspar Hernandez, some fifty-six years of age, and in communion with our Holy Mother the Church, died intestate, having received the holy Sacraments of Penance and Communion, whose body, I, Don Miguel Crosby, assistant beneficed Parish Priest, Vicar, Ecclesiastical Judge, auxiliary of this Parochial church, place and province of St. Augustine, Florida, etc., buried in the Cemetery of said Parochial church, on the day after her death, and I hereunto affix my MIGUEL CROSBY."

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This agrees with the original on the page, Part, and Number of aforesaid Book, to which I refer, and on the petition of the applicants I give this present at St. Augustine, Florida, on this fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight. MIGUEL O'REILLY,

Ec. Judge.

NOTES ON THE TOMBS OF CARDINAL CHEVERUS, BISHOP DUBOURG, AND BISHOP DAVID.

BY THE LATE REV. J. M. FINOTTI.

BISHOP CHEVERUS.-Mgr. Chabannes, Canon of Bordeaux, in a letter to Mgr. R. Seton, writes that the epitaph on the tomb of Bishop Cheverus records the prelate's promotion to the three different Sees of Boston, Montauban, and Bordeaux. Then he gives the following: Em. Joanni-De CheverusCardinali-Burdig. Archiepiscopo-Nat. MDCCLXVIII-Ob. MDCCCXXXV. Not satisfied with the evident discrepancy between Mgr. Chabannes' letter and the text of the epigraph, I wrote to Abbé J. Chaveton, who most courteously furnished me with a copy of the epitaph, identical with the above. But he adds: "Au dessus de l'épitaphe et separée d'elle se trouve la dévise suivante, DILIGAMUS NOS INVICEM." The inauguration of this monument took place July 30, 1849. Monseigneur George, Bishop of Périgueux, nephew of Card. de Cheverus, was present. The monument is so planned as to admit a statue on it: but to this day no statue has been erected. But higher honors had been paid to the memory of good Cheverus in Mayenne, on the 9th of August, 1844. In the presence of the Bishops of Mans and of Périgueux, of the Mayor, all officers, military and civil, and an immense coucourse of people, the statue of the Cardinal was unveiled on the square called du Palais. The few words of the Cardinal's nephew after the oration of the day are most touching. Turning with uplifted hand to the statue, he exclaimed:

"Oh! could those lips move again, could that heart beat again, he would repeat to you those words of St. John, he was so fond of quoting, 'Love ye one another!' . . . Could that hand be lifted once more it would only be to bless you"

-whereupon the audience catching, as it were, the spirit of the orator, fell on their knees, and the prelate, led by the movement of the people, almost involuntarily, albeit he truly was the representative of his uncle, imparted the apostolic benediction on the kneeling assemblage. The inscription engraved on the base is simply

JEAN DE CHEVERUS.

BISHOP DUBOURG.-Like Monseigneur de Cheverus, Bishop Dubourg was also translated from an American (New Orleans) to a French See, that of Montauban, to which de Cheverus had been translated from Boston. Subsequently Dubourg (1833) was appointed to the Archbishopric of Besançon. No monument over his remains. On my application for a copy of the epitaph, I was honored with the following very kind letter: "Besançon, le 26 Février, '73. Monsieur: We have not yet any inscription over the tomb of Mgr. Dubourg, for the reason that the mausoleum, which it was the intention of having erected to his memory in the Cathedral of Besançon, not being executed at the time, for want of means, the artist, who had made the cast, destroyed it in a moment of spite; and it has been so far impossible for us to find another artist who could recompose the plan. I do not despair of success.

CESARIUS, Card. Arch. de Besançon."

BISHOP DAVID breathed his last at Nazareth, Ky., and was interred in the cemetery of the Sisters. Archbishop Spalding concludes a beautiful, but, alas! too meagre account of the life of this holy bishop in the following eloquent words: "He was the faithful fellow-laborer of our Bishop [Flaget], the founder of our Seminary and of the Sisterhood of charity in Kentucky, and the FATHER and model of our clergy and people. In their memory and in their hearts is his monument reared, and his epitaph is written, in indelible characters-he needs none other!" But an epitaph was written, and an admirable one in its simplicity, although not in very classical Latin; its concluding sentiment expresses the true

feeling of a Catholic heart: "Hic Jacet-Reymus Joannes Baptista Maria David-natione Gallus-sem" Sti Sulpitii sacerdox-Mauricastr. Epus, et Barden. Epi coadjutor-Sem11 St Thomæ nec non Socis puellarum charitatis-fundator in Kentuckiâ-Catholicam doctrinam et ecclescam disciplinam -verbo, exemplo, et scriptis firmavit-Ut vixit, pie obiit, in conventu Nazareth,-Die XII. mensis Julii, A.D., MDCCCXLI -Annos natus LXXXI.

R. I. P.

"Hoc grati animi monumentum-Patri moerentes posuerunt Filiae."

[The monument to His Eminence Cardinal Cheverus has been finished since the above was written. While in Bordeaux, in 1883, I visited the Cathedral of St. André, and, having in my mind that it had been the Cathedral of the first Bishop of Boston, I naturally looked around for his tomb. In a moment I recognized the form and features of the Cardinal, with which I had become familiar from his portraits. The marble figure represents him sitting en chaire, the body slightly thrown forward and the hand raised as if in the act of giving one of those famous catechetical instructions which never failed to fill that vast cathedral.

MARC F. VALLETTE.]