, driven to the wall by the Jansenists,
issued his memorable decree declaring the Jesuits to be rebels,
traitors, and stirrers up of mischief. The King confiscated their
possessions, proscribed their persons, and banished them from the
kingdom as enemies of the State.
Padre Monti, an Italian newly arrived in the Colony, was a man
very different from the venerable Vimont and the Jogues and the
Lallements, who had preached the Evangel to the wild tribes of the
forest, and rejoiced when they won the crown of martyrdom for
themselves.
Monti was a bold man in his way, and ready to dare any bold deed in
the interests of religion, which he could not dissociate from the
interests of his order. He stood up, erect and commanding, upon
the platform under the Holy Rood, while he addressed with fiery
eloquence and Italian gesticulation the crowd of people gathered
round him.
The subject he chose was an exciting one. He enlarged upon the
coming of Antichrist and upon the new philosophy of the age, the
growth of Gallicanism in the Colony, with its schismatic progeny of
Jansenists and Honnetes Gens, to the discouragement of true religion
and the endangering of immortal souls.
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