Identifier: livesofirishmart00myle (find matches)
Title: Lives of Irish Martyrs and Confessors
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Myles O'Reilly
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Publisher: James Sheehy
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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mn speech ofthe traditions and prophecies which led them to expect thearrival of a peoi:)le sprung from the same stock as themselvesin order to take possession of the supreme power. He de-clared his belief that the Spaniards were this promised race.He said he recognized the right of their King to govern theMexican emi^ire, and that he would lay down his crown andobey the Si)anish Sovereign as a tributary. His grief wasvisible, for he wept. This act of submission and homagewas executed with all due formality. What a sudden changein the position of a vast empire! But the grand triumph of Cortes, and that use of hispower for which he has been likened to Judas Maccabeus,was in the destruction of the hideous Mexican idols, thecleansing of their foul temples, and the stern forbidding ofhuman sacrifices any more. Montezuma himself and manyof his chief men were present at the downfall of the idols.It must have been a glorious sight.About six months had now passed away since the Mexi- LIVES OF
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LIVES OF THE IRISH MARTYES AND CONFESSORS, By miles OREILLY, B. A., LL. D.,And rev. RICHARD BRENNAN, A. M. LL. D. ALSO A HISTORY OF THE PENAL LAWS, By PARNELL, Hi oc Illustrated with 17 Engravings, and a Colored Map of Ireland , . Showing the Localities and Titles of the Principal Old Irish Families.VU O 750 Pages, 8vo, Cloth, Elegant, $3,00. Gilt Edges, $3.75. 2 Branch (phSlthKoTftrst: JAMES SHEEHY, PUBLISHER, S Offices, i Baltimore. 74 W. Fayette St. „o, , -■* _ _ V Washington, 613 7th Street. ** Barclay Street, New Torle. S This ratiiftble work, the first that has attempted to give the public, m:S a succinct aad authentic form, a true account of -vvliat the Catholics ofIreland suffered tot their religioa during the sixteenth, seventeentlj, andCO eighteenth centuries, from the moment of its appearance received theC3 .cordial welcomy and hearty endorsement of the hierarchy, priests, andZ people of Ireland, Such a record of Irish suffering and lurlitude bad^ long been wanting, and

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