Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1860 — The Ghost of a Priest Interrupts the Mass, and Addresses the Cengregation. [ARTICLE]

The Ghost of a Priest Interrupts the Mass, and Addresses the Cengregation.

A remarkable story is current in Pittsburg, and other parts of Western Pennsylvai ia. It possesses tfe.. elements of the vihiV i lomance, f>ut ts religtottsly believed bvv v'ery many persons. We gave it us it was-givem to us*,-w ilffiout. of course, indorsing- the' uc- ■ currences- as ac-tual- facts-. - About uv9 weeks-age jin tfter vilface o ; Latrobe, in Western Pfrrnsylvania, u sol cwt! mass wor performed -ia* the Rkmar . I CaiAohc Church, for the repose of the sou ; ol a deceased priest. A riu in tier of-vvorsfiip- - ers were die church-at tin; tint-*, ffust as the olhciaimg priest was about to perform . the must so leva 1 part of rites,, his uurpo.se was checked by an astonishing appearance inr- lortii ol the oeeeo.sed priest himself ap- : pea red in trout ot thealtar,- with- hando up- ! lifted in a Warning manner. -TluroSeFatinji clergy man stepped back, wf»eH t-ffie' ghostly" i ,or priestly ghost, addrc»seThi» brother n the tlesn at.d the congregation. H * sauf they were taking unnecessary trouble r-» gi thmi out ot Purgatory. The pritwt migut ; save Lis prayers and the penitents their pennies. They could not get him out of Purgatory, because lie never was in it. Further- | *hore, there was no chance for him to get there, as there never was such a place as i urgstorv . It u as.all a mistake. He shoufi teei very inCcn obliged if tliey could get him out of the spot where lie was, but that was impossible. There were but two places of tuture existence—one of perpetual bliss and ; the other of perpetual punishment. Oily ; two priestsxmr went to Heaven —and ho was not one of them, lie therefore warned them tnat their masses for the repose of his. or any other detune; person’s soul, were useless. With that monition this re narkut ’ ghost disappeared, and the scared congregation dispersed.