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never mentioned, and there was no religious literature to be found in the Gallitzin library. The secular education of the children was, however, the object of the anxious solicitude of both parents. The young Demetrius was highly educated in the arts and sciences, particularly in the military science and in the languages; but there was, fortunately, in his inmost soul an intense longing for the spiritual; so having one day seen on the shelf of a bookstore a Douay Catholic Bible, he purchased it and was not content until he had become thoroughly familiar with its contents, and the result was his acceptance of the faith of the Roman Catholic Church, and the conversion to that faith, also, of his mother and his sister, the former of whom became an ardent propagandist of religion and her son long afterwards said that it was owing to her efforts that Count Von Stolberg was converted to the Roman Catholic Church.
The Evolution of the Apostle of the Alleghenies.
In the year 1789, that political and social upheaval known in history as the French Revolution, broke out in all its fury. The common people, goaded to madness by the merciless exactions of "the farmers general," a corporation which bought at a reduced rate the taxes levied by the extravagant Bourbon monarchs and collected them in full from the distressed peasantry, having appealed to the Minister of State - Foulon - for redress so that they might not starve, and having been told by that heartless official to go and eat grass, on the next day, or September 2, 1789, the Bastile, where political prisoners were kept, was demolished, its inmates liberated and Foulon was hanged on a gibbet. Eventually, Louis XVI, a well meaning but vacillating monarch, and his amiable queen - Marie Antonnette - were led to guillotine as were many of the nobles and members of "the farmers general" corporation, as also many of the clergy who deserved a better fate, but because from the fact that the Bourbon monarchs, as well as other monarch's, insisted on what they termed "the right of investiture" or preconization of bishops, the pope was not allowed to appoint a bishop without the sanction of the monarch those appointees and their subordinate clergy were looked upon by the Jacobin revolutionists as tools and apologists of the monarchs, met death under the descending blade of the guillotine. It has been said that although many of the clergy of earlier reigns "winked" at the sins of the profligate monarchs, that the generality of those
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