Translation.
IGNATIUS BOURGET, by the Divine Mercy and Grace of the
Holy Apostolic See, Bishop of Montreal.
To all who would inspect the present letters, we make known and certify
that the venerable Charles Chiniquy, "Apostle of Temperance," Priest
of our Diocese, is very well known to us, and we regard him as proved, to
lead a praiseworthy life, and agreeable to his ecclesiastical profession.
Through the tender mercies of our God, he is under no ecclesiastical censures,
at least, which have come to our knowledge.
We entreat each and all, Archbishop, Bishop and other dignitaries of
the church, to whom it may happen that he may go, that they, for the love
of Christ, entertain him kindly and courteously, and as often as they may be
asked by him, permit him to celebrate the holy sacrifice of the mass, and exercise
other ecclesiastical privileges of piety. Being ourselves ready to grant
him these and other greater privileges. In proof of this we have ordered the
present letters to be prepared under our sign and seal, and with subscription
of our secretary, in our palace of the blessed James, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and fifty, on the sixth day of the month of
June.
✠IGNATIUS. Bishop of Marianopolis.
By order of the most illustrious and most Reverend Bishops of Marianopolis,
D. D.
J. O. Pare, Canon,
Secretary.
