In 1874, an old Catholic priest of Switzerland, about to follow Père Hyacinthe’s example in abandoning celibacy, announced his betrothal in the following manner: “I marry because I wish to remain an honorable man. In the seventeenth century it was a proverbial expression, ‘As corrupt as a priest,’ and this might be said to-day. I marry, therefore, because I wish to get out of the Ultramontane slough.”--Galignani’s Messenger, September 19, 1874.