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Maintenant brille le jour du cinquantieme anniver- saire de Votre consecration episcopale. Privilege tros rare reserve sans doute par le Dieu tres bou et triV grand, a nos temps tres malheureux, pour notre encou- ragement et notre consolation ! Rempli.s d'admiration, nouy rendons grjicies du fond MOST HOL a de Notre coiur u JoHus-Christ, qui a doniie a son Vi- eaire siiv la terre de parcourir uiie carriore si lon^ue SI admirable, si remplie de belles actions. Daigne le Seigneur nous accorder encore pendant de longues et tres longues annoes, de voir et de ven^rer assis dans la chaire de Pierre, un Pere que nous aimons tendrement et un DocTEUR en qui, par I'assistance divine, reside cette infailhbihte dont notre Divin Redempteur a voulu que son Eglise jouisse quand elle definit une doctrine concernant la foi ou la morale. Que la Vierge Immacul^e poui- qui Vous avez eu une piete tiliale des Votre plus tendre jeunessc, que cette Vierge Immaculee dont Vous avez proclame Tinel- table privilege, qu'Elle-meme protege et defende et ,fasse triompher Votre Beatitude. QuTlle-meme obtienne du tres Sacr^ C^cjeur d? Jesus, ce que nous de- mandons continuellement, savoir que pour les annees duraiit lesquelks ncns avons vu le malheur, nous ayions tons ensemble, avec notre Pere tres cheri, la joie de voir le gjorieux triomphe de notre mere la Sainte Eglise ! Nous implorons Votre benediction Paternelle et A- postolique sur nous et sur tons les habitants de cette Province. 'i|-: MOST HOLY FATHER, Prostrate at the feet ot Your Paternity, the under- signed Archbishop, Bishops, Priests, Clerics and Citi- zens of the Province of Quebec, in Canada, take this favorable opportunity to offer to Your PIoliness their most heartfelt congratulations. Amid the many and so great calamities which, at the present time, assail and j.fflict the Church of Jesus Christ, never have motives of comfort and consolation been wanting ; foremost among which stands the spe- cial and truly admirable protection acconied to Your Paternity. Your Beatitude has seen the years of Peter ; still more, you have seen the days ol' Peter, and even far exeeedeil them, to the applause of the whole catliolic world. Ill the very year when it was p;iven to Youii Hoi,|. NESS to open the Oonncil of the Vatican, we exultingiv celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the sacerdmal unction, which consecrated and sanctilied those luinds, that were to impart the apostolic benediction to num- berless nuiltitudes, and to hold, with such wisdom and firmness, the helm of the Church, in these most diffi- cult times. Now dawns upon ui the fiftieth anniversary day of Yonr episcopal consecration. Most rare privilege in- deed, lovingly reserved by Almighty God, fm- our comfbrt and consolation, in these our most unfortunate times ! At this admirable sight, we, from < ur inmost heart, return thanks to Jesus Christ for having vouchsafed to His Vicar uf)on earth a career so long,* so wondorfu!, a career filled with such noble deeds. For many, ma-iy long years to come, may Our Lord grant to us to see and venerate, seated in the chair of Peter, the Father whom we most tenderly love, and the Doctor in whom, through the divine assistance, resides that infallibility in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals, with which Our Blessed Redeemer lias been pleased to endow His Church. May the Immaculate Mary whom, from your most tender years, you have loved with filial piety, whose ineffable privilege you have proclaimed, may this Im- maculate Mother protect, defend, and crown Your Beatitude, with signal victory. May she obtain from the most Sacred Heart of Jesus what we incessantly ask, that during as many years as v/e have bewailed the evils of our Holy Slother the Church, we may, together with our most fondly cherished Fatlier, re- joice in her glorious triumph ! We implore for ourselves and for all the inhabitants of this Province, Your Paternal and Apostolic Bene- diction.