Review Of The Guibord Case

The long-vexed bones of Gnibord have befen consigned to the grave in the Catholic cemetery in Montreal, Canada, in the lot which Guibord purchased years ago, but, althongh he has been dead six years, has hitherto been denied i sion. Gnibord was a niember of the j j stitut Canadien, which some years ago j came under the ban of the Catholic Churcli because in ite library werc works which had been placed on the Index ! purgatorias, tlie Chureh claiming the right to say what books itfi rnemberamay or may not read. The Institut Canadien j paid Iittle attention to this matter. I Abont this time Mr. Gnibord feil sick, ! and, wishing to be reconciled with the ; Churcli, renounccd the Institut and roceived the lost sacraments. But he got well, retumed to the Institut, and suddenly sickened and diod under the ban. He owned a lot iu the Catholic cemetery, but the parish authorities denied him burial hl it; the Institut brought an action to compel the Churcli to bury him, but was refused, as it subsequently was on appeal to the Superior Courtaud the Comt of Appeals, from which appeal Avent to the Queen iu Council, wlio decided tliat Guibord's i'riends had the right to bury in his lot iu the Catholic cemetery tiie body which, since 1869, had lain in a vault in the Mount Koyal Cemetory. So gi'eat has been the opposition to this that riots have neen iminiïKuit; but now, under the proteotion of the military, Guibord has been interred, and liiïs grave fllled in with a solid mass of cement to prevent the removal of his i-emains.