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 CHATHAM, N. B,. Sept 24, 1884. 
 
 Ukv. axi» Dkar Sir 
 
 Herewith I send for publication in your church to your ftock, the 
 J^ncyclical Letter just received.by which our Holv Fathor, Pope Leo XIIL, 
 again appeals to every member of the Cnristian Fold to earnestly supplicate 
 the aid of heaven for the struggling Church. For this end the Pope renews 
 and prescribes for the month of October, this year, the same ordinances, 
 f««r''?'* '"'^'*'«^°^«^^' which he published tor the month of October. 
 i«».i. with permission, according to the judgment of the Ordinary of each 
 diocese, to take the month of November, or the month of December this 
 year, instead of October, for the greater convenience of farmers and others 
 wi,ose work and occupations might prevent them attending to the 
 prescribed exercise in October. Acting on this permission, I hereby ap 
 point the month of November for eur diocese, as the most convenient foi 
 all classes of our people. You will, therefore, be pleased to exhort youi 
 nock, and make every zealous exertion yourself, to carry out in your 
 pastoral distnct, the n.tentions and prescriptions of eur Holy Father 
 the Pope. 
 
 Begging God to bless, guide, and fructify your devoted pastoral labors, 
 I remain, Rev. and Dear Sir, 
 
 Faithtully yours in J. C, 
 
 tJAMES ROGERS, 
 Bishop of Chatham. 
 
ENCYCLICAL LETTER 
 
 OF 
 
 OUR Most holy KArriEH, pope leo xiii. 
 
 To all the Patriarchs, Priwates, Archbishops, and Bishops of the Catholic 
 worl<f, havinyjavor and communion ivith the Apostolic See. 
 
 Venkrabi.k Brkturen, Hkai ih and Apostolic BKNKuiuTio.v.—I^st year 
 Hsyou al know, w«<lecreea hy an Encyclical Letter, that the powerful 
 Mother ot bo.l be implored, by the recitation of the most holy Hosarv 
 .lunng the whole ot the month of October, to obtain the protection of 
 Heaven ior the sorely tried Church. In this we followed our own ittdtt- 
 niont as well as the examples of our predecessors, who, in the most diffi- 
 cult times ot the Church, have had the habitof recurrinju' with more soecial 
 piety to the august Virgin Mary and of imploring her aid by fervent prayers 
 Uur will has be. n obeyed everywhere with such ardor and concord/that 
 It was made clearly evident what fervent spirit of religion and of pietv 
 ani.nates the Christian people, and Ijiow great is the universal confidence 
 in the heavenly patronage of the Virgin Mary. This fervor of a declared 
 taithand piety, has broughi Us a gr^at relief and consolation, We admit 
 in these troubles and evils, the burden of which weighs upon Us • and it 
 has given Us courage to support still more weighty evils, if it please God 
 to inflict Us with then.. As long, therefore, as the spirit of prayer will be 
 .spread on the House ot David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem We 
 will tirmly hope that God may one day favorably hear Us, and that tkkine 
 pity on the condition ot His Church, He may regard the prayers presented 
 by Her whotx^ He has willed to make the dispenser of heavenly graces 
 
 For which reason tne same causes existing which led Us last year to 
 excite public piety, We think. Venerable brethren, that it is Our dutv to 
 exhort this year also the Christian people to preserve in the mode and 
 formula ot prayer which is designated under the name of the Rosary in 
 order to merit the efficacnus patronage of the powerful Mother of God 
 .Since the enemies of the Christian name employ such great obstinacy in 
 their designs, us defenders should have no less constant a will when 
 above all, heavenly assistance and the benefits which God accords to us 
 are ordinarily the fruit of our perseverance. It is useful to recall the ex- 
 ample of thfc illustrious Judith, type of the august Virgin, who knew how 
 to repress the foolish impatience of the Jews when these wished to fix at 
 their will the day when Goi should succor the oppressed ci<iy. Similarly 
 we should observe tne example of the Apostles, who knew how to await 
 the supreme gift of ihe Holy Spirit, which was promised to them -n 
 prayer with Mary Mother of Jesus. Now it is a matter at present of the 
 highest importance and surrounded with difficulties, to humiliate m the 
 exalted strength of his power a.i old and terrible enemy : to revindicate 
 the hoerty of the Church and of its Head, in one word to preserve and de 
 fend the very bases upon which the security and the safety of human 
 society reposes. It is necessary then to strive, in these times so mournful 
 for the Church, to guard carefully and piously the holy custom of the 
 
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 Rosary of Mary, so much the more as its i)rayers are clisposed in a manner 
 to recall to mind, in their order, all the niystei ;.'s of our salvation, and 
 therehy t© favor in a great degree the spirit of piety. 
 
 In so far as Italy is concerned, it is especially necessary at this mom- 
 ent to implore by the prayers of the Rosary, the help of the most powerful 
 Virgm, for We are not only threatened hut tried by an unexpected ca- 
 lanjity. The Asiatic epidemic, passing the boundaries which nature seem- 
 ed to have placed to it, has invaded, by the will of God, the most impor- 
 tant French ports, and from there the Italian conterminous region^. It is 
 necessary then to recur to Mary, to IJer whom the Church, justly and by 
 right, calls the dispenser of safety, of heavenly assistance and consolation, 
 m order that, propitious to the prayers which are specially acceptable to 
 ^Her, she may put tar from us the impure malady. 
 
 For which reason, at the approach of the month of October, during 
 which the Catholic world celebrates the Feast of our Lady of the Rosary, 
 We have decided to renew again the same prescriptions that We macje 
 last year. We . stablish then, and or-lain, Uiat from the first day of 
 October till the second day of November following five decades at least of 
 the Rosary, with the Litanies, be recited every day in all Darisn churches 
 and in public sanctuaries dedicated to the Mother" of God as also in other 
 churches to be selected by the Ordinary. If the recital takes place in the 
 morning, if will be made during the celebration of Mass, if it takes place 
 in the afternoon, the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed to public adora- 
 tion, and the ritual benediction will be given to those present. We desire 
 besides, that the Confraternities of the Holy Rosary, wherever the civil 
 laws permit it, make solemn processions for the honor of religion. 
 
 In order to open to Christian piety the celestial treasures of (he 
 Church, We renew all the Indulgences which We accorded last year. To 
 those who, on the appointed days, will assist ut the public recital of the 
 Rosary, and will pray for Our intentions, and to all those who, preventeci 
 by legitimate cause will recite it privately, We accord for each time the 
 indulgence of seven years and seven quarantines. To those, beside, who, 
 during the said time, will hove accomplished these exercises ten times at 
 least m the churches, or, if just motives prevent them, in their private 
 Jwelhng, and who, having expiated their faults by confession wdl have 
 made Holy Communion at the Altar, We accord the plenary indulgence 
 of their sins m virtue of the treasury of ihe Church. We accord, besides, 
 this plenary indulgence and remission of sins to all t' ^^ who, on the 
 Feast of Our I^dy of the Rosary, or on one ot the days wul ,u the Octave, 
 will have received Communion and prayed for Our intention in 
 some church consecrated to God and His Most Holy Mother. 
 
 Wishing also to provide for the spiritual welfare of those who live in 
 the country, and are employed in the labors of the fields .luring the month 
 ot October, We accord m their favor that all our preceding dispositions, 
 comprising those which relate to Indulgences to be eained during the 
 monthof October, may be deferred to the month of ^November or De- 
 cember, accoramg to the prudent decision of the respective Ordinirios. 
 
 We doubt not, Venerable Brethren, that abundant fruits may respond 
 toOur efforts: above all, if it please God, through the abundance of His 
 grace, to make the good seed which We cast upon the enrth fructify 
 and which We confide to vour solicitude. We hold for certain ♦hat the 
 Christian people will respond to the appeal of Our Apostolic authority with 
 
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 N. T. S. P. LE PAPE LEON XUl 
 
 Siege apostolique. '«" fc*^"^© et en communion avec le Suint- 
 
 LEON XIII PAPE. 
 Venerables Freres. 
 r ■an'^^ti"' ^^ benediction apostolique, 
 enc,cn,"u'^ linia^^^^^^^^^^ -ons deci-ete par une iettre 
 
 Uu Saint-Ko«ai.e fut pratiquee pendant tou/t"'"- *'?/»'«"^J"« '« 'ievotion 
 ae la Mere de Dieu, afin d'obte^nir a •F.^n,« '"'"« ^^ «ctobre en I'honneur 
 i-n prenant cette decision, Nous avonf J^l": 'C' '"' "^^'""'"'^ ^" «*«'• 
 
 example de No* predeceUeunniravaenVl'h«. I? V'T'" J"'J^'"ent et 
 trouvait dans de* circonstancea nTn ;^m?/ hab tude. lor«que I'EeJise se 
 
 «ou8 I'egide de la Vierge etXX L; ^^^^^^^ ^''"l^''^''' ^« «« r^efugi:: 
 
 Or, rempressement unanh.fe av '^« < ^.*'' ^^' P'ieresardentel 
 partout a Notre appel a prouve combie?i i«f ^' ^^'i ^'^"'^"' *^"' '"^Pondu 
 Chretien et combien est prXndesaronfi! «';'^"^'e 'a piete du peup le 
 de la Vierge Marie. Cet^te SfestatJonT'''^ '^«"' ' P-'otection cele? e 
 Nous a ete, Nous le .leclaronOr„„^l * m-vgmhque de piete et de foi 
 calamites A le. ^J^si^ZalT^^^ ?--I'»tion dans le 
 
 a supporter des epreuves plus grrefencor^ «-• ^^^^ ''"' ** encourage 
 
 I)'eu. Aussi I^ngtemps, en e£w ?w:. / ■ ^'^'^ ^* ^°'«»f^ de 
 a mai8on de David et sur les habiS« ^I^ '^^ P"^''^ '^^''^ repan.lu sur 
 la ferme confiance que Dieu se lai fe rflechirTnf "/ ""'"^ «o^n«erverons 
 sort de son Eglise, il e^tendra lea crTeres^L ^" ^' ^"*:' ^^^^^ P'^ie du 
 elle qu'ilavoulului-ijemeconVtif.finT ceu*-' qui I'mplorent pour 
 
 C^est pourquoi, conZLlTZonJluT"^''''^ des graces celestes 
 ont determine a exciter la Dit/«^!ffi^ / '*' "f"'^* 'I"' ''«« d inier Vqus 
 cru de Notre devoi^Xn ^Z%tl!^^^^^^^ encore, ious ;.Tnl 
 
 peuple Chretien a persev er dL/k nrntitm^Ti'*' 5«"^«n"ee aussi, le 
 de Mane et a menler ainsi la protection ^ffioLl ^ ?^'^''u°." ^" ^^^^^ire 
 Dieu.LesadversairesdelareliSSitnnTf^- *^^ Mere de • 
 
 secours c.leste et la grac^d^Cu sTn^^u^^ ?; ^,^^^^ ^-^^^e 
 
 «atnt?Cr' ^?^:;°"V?f P'"r"' ^:^"^'«^'« ^« •^"'^ith, figure de la 
 pretendaien^l^r X^s oTirr^^^^^^ f f. ^u^tf Torstu'i^ 
 
 pays opprime. II faut aussi considerer I'exfnnif i ^«''^rance de leur 
 irent le don sublime du SainS" i?"!' i!?-^""Pi«_^*« ^P^tres qui attend- 
 t^neie avec Mane, Mere de Jesus. ""'"" *'^'""''"*'"''^ uimmmement dans la 
 
Aujouid'hm auHHJ, il M'agit on ort'et .i'uno choH« difficile ot de h«uto 
 importance; il H'agit dhutnilior 1' Antique .-nnptni dii genre huuuro plein 
 de I use et arrive a I'npogee d.i hb ptiiHHftnoe; il s'agit de rpcon<|iu'rir la 
 Iibeite d. iEgli«e et d«^ won Choi , iU'agit de conserver et <ie inuintenir 
 intacteH l-s institutionH sur lesquelle* reposent la Heourite et le walut de la 
 societe hu name. II faiit done faire <>n Morte rpie danH ces temps h\ tristeH 
 pour 1 hgli,.,. iapuMise devotion dij saint Itosaire de Marie soit conHervee 
 avec Bom, (rautant plus que ces ptieres etant co.ni)09ee8 de taoon a rap- 
 peler .lans l.-ur oidie tou» les my«tere9 de notre salut sont trcB propreH 
 a nourrir re»prit de piete. 
 
 t Pour ce qui conoeine I'ltalie, il laut iiuplorer pour elle par la recita- 
 noiidu UoHaue Taide de la Vierge tre« puiHsante, uiainienantsurtoutqu'une 
 calamity .naltendue nous a deja atteiiitM. U pesto a»ialiqn« ii, en eft\H. 
 franclu par la volonte de Dieu lew liuiites que la nature Hemblait lui avoir 
 
 I m" ^r ^ %"^"*" '*'■'* P^*"'" ''" J-'""'*^ 'J» I^yon et les contrees limitn phes 
 de Italie. Ill laut done se refutfier vom Marie, vers celle que TEglise ap- 
 pelle aveoTaison salutaire, auxiliatrice, liharatrice, aHn qu'elle daigne nouj. 
 ttpportt-r le tlecouru que nous aiirons implore par les piieres qui luisont les 
 plus agreableil^t eloigner de nous le fleau hnitiJt. 
 
 C'est pouRjuoi <;otnme le mois d'oetobre, dans lequel le monde catho- 
 Iique fete la solennito de la Vierge du Kosaii-e, s'approche, Nous avons re- 
 soiu de prescrire cette annee tout ce que Nous avons pn-^crit Tannee 
 derniere. 
 
 Nous decretons done et Nous or'Honnons qu'a partir du premier jour du 
 moisdoctobrejusqu'au second jour du mois de novembre ^ci-.^nt, dans 
 toutes les paroisses et dans toutes les eglises ou chapelles dedieet, a la sainte 
 Vierge ou menie dans d'autres a choisir j ar les Ordiiiairea, on recite tous 
 les jours au moinscinq dizaines du Rosaire, on ylftjoutantles litanies Laure- 
 tanes. Si cet exercice pieux a lieu le matin, ia I'uesse doit etre celebree 
 pendant les prieres; s'il a lieu dansl'apres midi,on exposera le Saint Sacre- 
 .ment a I'adoration des fideles et on donnera ensuite la benediction a ceux 
 qui y assisteiit. Nous desirous aussi que les confreries du Saint Rosaire 
 fassent, partout ou les lois les pei-raettent, des processions solennelles a 
 travers le^ villes afin de glorifierpubliquement la religion. 
 
 Et afin que les celestes tresors de I'Eglise soient ouverts a la piete des 
 fideles. Nous renouvelons toutes le? indulgences que Nous avons accordees 
 Ian dernier. Done a toua ceux qui dans I'intervalle du temps designe 
 auront assistea la recitation publique du Rosaire et auront prie seloa jnotre 
 intention eta ceux encore qui, empeches par une cause legitime, I'auront 
 fait dans leur particulier. Nous concedons pour chaque fois, sept annees 
 et sept quarantaines d'indulgence. Nous accordons la pleine remise de 
 leurs fautes a ceux qui, dans le temps que Nous venons d'indiquer, auront 
 pratique au moins dix fois ces pieux exercices, soit publiquement dans les 
 temples sacres, soit dans leurs maisons, par suite d'excuses legitimes, e';, 
 qui. apres s'etre confespes, se s-yront appr©ches de la sainte Table. 
 
 Nous accordons cette meme indulgence pleniere a tou«» ceux qui, soit 
 dans le jour de la fete de la t>ienheureuse Vierge du Rosaire, soit dans les 
 huit jours suivants, apres avoir epure leur ame et s'etre approches de la 
 sainte Table auront prie, dans quelque temple, Di«-u et la Sainte Vierge, 
 .selon Notre intention. 
 
 Enfin, desirant avoir egard a coux qui vivent a la campagne etquisont 
 occupes, pendant le mois d'oetobre, par les travaux des champs, Nous leur 
 
 
permettons d'^ournet ioit an moU de Novembre, soit ati oiois do decpiii 
 ore, Helot le.IugenuMit de I'Ordinaire, les t'XPrcices pr«»M«!ri^M phis Imut aveo 
 lei* indui^renccH a gugner pendant le n«oiH d'octohro. 
 
 NouH ne doutonn pas. V^onerablen Freres, (|ne de« fruitH abondants na 
 repondent a noH soiriH, »uiioutHi a (;e (|ne nous Me.nons et (jue voire Hollici- 
 tude aura arrose, Dieu accorde ratH!ioi«««Miient pur In ililluHion de si-Hgra leH. 
 NouH soiuujeN convaincus que le peuple idiretien lepondra a I'appel dtj 
 Notre autorite apostolique avec la meine ardeur de piete et de foi dont il a 
 doiujt! I'annee dt'rniere un mi inagnifiiiue exoinple. (^uela celeste patronne 
 invoquee dans lea prieres du Hosairt; nous soit prnpit-e et <|u'elle fasse que 
 leg divisions cessent, que la religion chretienne Hoit retablie partout dans 
 sea droits et que nous olcenions de Dieu pour IP^gliso Iti {»aix tant desiree. 
 Cotinne gage de oe bienfait Nous vous douwons ties att'eotueusement a 
 vou8,avotreolerg<jetauy peuples conHes a votre sollicitude, ia benediction 
 upost'<)lu|ue. 
 
 Donne a llonie, pres Saint-Pierre, le HO aoui 18H4, la septieme annee de 
 Notre PontiHoat, 
 
 LEON XIII, PAPE. 
 
VENERABfLIBVS FHaTRIBVS 
 
 LEO PP. XIII. 
 
 VEiVERABILES FRATRES 
 SALVTEM ET APOSrOLfCAM BENEDICTIONEM 
 
 8UU1US Becessorum No8troru?„ ou dimlT ^'''^'''^ ^t exampla sequuti 
 pjetati. studio ad augustam Vi?gine nftnrfr '""^ tempoSbusXo 
 precibu, jmplorare consueverun! Vnlnn. .• ^' ^P^^iq^e eius summis 
 Miorum alacritate et concordia ubl^ue lot '^'''' L"' ^'^^'^^''^^ ^anta a" 
 luculenter apparuerit quantus reSis etn^I?"/- ^^^.^'"Pe'-atum est, m 
 ohnstwno et quantam in oaeles i Si xr ^ ^^■''^'^ ^'''^''^ «^8tet in poduIo 
 reponant Quern q i^en^tlltlTlutilT «pem uSK 
 
 molestiarura et inaloruui mole «ravatornnn ^•'''^^J fervore/n N09, tanta 
 prohtemur, imo ani.nuu, addidifse aT.t^^ ^"^^•"«''' consolatione ei.iisse 
 perterenda. Donee enitn sniritus mf ^'^^"'^^^ ^u^'iue, si ita Deo placeat 
 et super habitatore« leZZmTn !nT'^ «ff"n'iitur super domum DaWd 
 do propitietur Deus, EccJesraeoue ?1 "'"''^"^ «dducimur,fore ut aliquln 
 
 precesobsecrantiumperlS^^quamfnslT?'';' ^ °*^'"' ^"^^'^^ Sem 
 admmistram. *^ ™' *^"^'" 'P«« caele>tmm gratlarum voluit esse 
 
 ^uJ^r^^j:;^:^:i^:-sr;^i^? ^^^ ^^^^-- p^etate^e. 
 
 Venerabile« Fratras, hoc quoqu^e anio ^PP"'^.''""*, officii Nostri duxhuus 
 bumsmodi precandi^atioSeTt Cnula n r T^^^^^ christiano«. i^Tn 
 perseverantes, sibi validurn maJ^De^'cJ^ -''''''''''"' ^"^-^"^^ ^icitur, 
 tur. Cum enim in oppugnatorfbus chri,M„ "°'' patrocinium demerean- 
 propoHU,, m propugnatoribus C n^^^^ -e ' es "T'"V' 5""*" ''' ^^^^''"'^'io 
 untatis, quun» praeserti.n caeleste aux H,?m 1? ^u'l^^ constantiam vol- 
 hc,a,per8everantiae nostrae saepe solemn IT *• ''''"*'* "°^« « ^^^ bene- 
 m mentem magnae iUius ludft^exem^ Ir^ ^'•"ctus.-Acrevocare iuvat 
 exhibens stultam ludeorum 7eD?es^t ' ^*"*^ almae Virginis typum 
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 temporibus Marialift Rosarii 8ancfci««iS^ ut IVictuosis hisce Ecolesiae 
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JPfSCOPIS 
 
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 Encyclicas, 
 > pi'aesklium 
 Aosarii ritu, 
 npla sequuti 
 oribus auoto 
 eius summis 
 e tanta ani- 
 um est, ut 
 t in populo 
 em univewi 
 No8, tanta 
 one leiiiisae 
 >eo placeat, 
 nuin David 
 ut aliquan- 
 at tandem 
 voluit esse 
 
 etateai ex- 
 duximus, 
 mos, Ut in 
 ?e dicitur, 
 demerean- 
 obstinatio 
 ntiatn vol- 
 Deo bene- 
 care iuvat 
 is typum 
 leve Deo 
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 Paracliti 
 » oratione 
 **iitire,de 
 iando; de 
 i tuendis- 
 salutem 
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 eque ser- 
 •sitae ut 
 ■i foven 
 
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 plicaverint ^ aede Deo et sanct.ssimae eius Matri sup- 
 
 . lis denique consultum volentes qui ruri vivunt et a^H Pnlfm«^ 
 
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 Po„t]^r»St?S leptr.- "'^ "^ Augur-MDCCCLXXXn-. 
 
 LEO PP. XIII.