Adolphe Perraud

Adolphe Perraud (7 February 1828 – 10 February 1906) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Autun and as the superior general of the Oratory of Jesus. Quotes Great iniquities still exist in the world. Slavery has been holding her ground for the last eighty years in the United States, and was a stain upon the American Republic long before becoming the instrument of her ruin, or at least of a scandalous dissolution. In Sweden, civil liberty of conscience is still proscribed by laws of another age, and is only bought by exile or loss of property. Perfidy and violence are going hand in hand to destroy the nationality of Poland, and crush in her the last struggles of Catholic faith by the united force of schism and despotism. In fine, there is in the East of Europe an anti-Christian empire crumbling away visibly under the weight of its own corruption; whose protestations do not hinder indignant Europe from requiring an account of the thousands of victims butchered by Moslem fanaticism almost under our eyes, which empire is, nevertheless, protected by the mutual jealousy and distrust of western nations. All these facts are so many outrages upon justice, and so many insolent triumphs of might over right. Ireland Under English Rule (1864) External links Category:1828 births Category:People from Lyon Category:Catholics from France Category:Clergy from France Category:Roman Catholic bishops Category:Cardinals Category:1906 deaths