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Re: Louis Veuillot, Famous Author - Publisher. Centennial of his birth 1913 AD.
Born Oct 11, 1813 -Died March 7, 1883
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The Brief of Saint Pius X
October 22, 1913
François Veuillot, who had paid tribute to the Holy Father in the last part of his book on the 'Life of Louis Veuillot’, his uncle.
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Dearest Son,
IT IS WITH A VERY SWEET AND GREAT SATISFACTION that We received the homage of the last part of the 'Life of Louis Veuillot', your uncle, and We congratulate you with all Our heart for having brought this work of high importance to such a happy end, left unfinished by your very worthy father.
The publication of your beautiful work could not be done at an more opportune hour, since it was shortly before the memorable date of the Centenary of the birth of the eminent Catholic publisher, whose name Is now gloriously fixed in history.
Following the example of the two popes who preceded Us on this apostolic Chair, and mainly of Pius IX, of holy memory, it is pleasant for Us to bear witness to this great righteous man, irreducible defender of the rights of God and the Church.
With the flame of his apostle's zeal, he entered the bailey, adorned with precious gifts that make the writer, the artist and the thinker of genius, by which he has equaled and surpassed the most illustrious masters; for, in the holy battles of the defense of sacred principles, his pen was both a cutting sword and a bright torch. What led to the vigor of his mind, what enveloped him with light, what increased his energy a hundredfold, were, with his profound faith, the love of the Church, whose triumph he desired, and the love of his homeland, which he wanted faithful to God.
Guided by this faith, inspired by this double love, he knew how to reject as an impiety any diminution of the sovereignty of Jesus Christ and any renunciation of the teachings of the apostolic chair. He understood that the strength of societies lies in the full and entire recognition of the social kingship of Our Lord and in the unreserved acceptance of the doctrinal supremacy of His Church. With what righteous and proud soul, with such an indomitable heart he made heard, on these fundamental questions, the most courageous proclamations, confessing without hesitation and without attenuation the Catholic truth, never wanting to distinguish between the rights that the modern world admits and those it claims to proscribe. With what generous frankness he knew how to unmask liberal theories, with deductions so morbid, in the sophisms dissimulated under the name of liberty.
Convinced that the nation that is called the 'eldest daughter' of the Church through the centuries owes to her faith, to her genius, to the logic of her history should recognize in their plenitude the rights of the Holy See and the authority of the roman pontiff, he applied himself with all the ardor of his soul to dispel the prejudices and the equivocations of Gallicism and was of a powerful help in the great movement towards the apostolic See that signaled his epoch. No one ignores the perseverance with which he always rose up against the perverted minds which attacked the living sources of Christian traditions, strength and glory of his homeland.
It is assuredly a great honor for a servant of the Church to have, for almost half a century, projected on the events that have succeeded in the world the pure light of Catholic doctrine and to search out without truce or mercy the error that is plain for all to see and the errors slithering in the shadows. He retains the merit and glory of having done it with the courage, drive and enthusiasm of a man who has the Truth and who knows that this Truth has imprescriptible rights. He yet possesses the merit and glory of having done so under obedience and discipline, his eyes fixed on the directions of the Holy See. He will keep the merit and the glory of having accomplished this with a complete disinterestedness, never succuмbing to seductions, to praises, to promises, the intrigues, braving unpopularity, the antipathies, the calumnious accusations of his adversaries, sometimes the disapprobation even of his comrades-in-arms "...rejoicing that they had been counted worthy to suffer disgrace for the name of Jesus." (Acts 5:41)
All of his illustrious career is worthy of being presented as a model for those who fight for the Church and holy causes, and who are subject to the same contradictions, to the same unleashings of passion. By the example of
Louis Veuillot
they can be proud of their titles of Christians and servants of the Church; that they know God will fight with them and Will give the victory at the hour marked by His Providence.
With the testimony of all Our satisfaction, We grant you,
dear Son, as a pledge of heavenly favors, to you and to all the members of your family, to all the descendants of Louis Veuillot, the Apostolic blessing.
Given in Rome, near Saint-Peter, on October 22, 1913, of
Our pontificate the eleventh.
Pius PP. X.
******Source of Original French : TIA; Vatican Docs