, 1870-04-10

bo granted bJ the Popes, roalized also faQna
e11ble su1ns for instance, the required nsP3u
ssion In the case Of marriages betWedn riooa
EelAuouA-- These must haTe ea
..etsd ss IT t1ds9 H. T. ropss e 1a!s
dom up 70 tbo fourteenth degree wofe pro
hilited from marrying. somebody has taken
hs t4oublp 10 cNcalaIe that On the sTorsgo3
cTc11 nan has living 1t least sixteen tn9asAno
Of s1ch b}ood relations, AID that u ~ M;os nlas
Of relationships be considered. ooe % mnnun
foty-eight Thousand Ave huadFed, ,.a;. ana t.on,
IL xonld be- the gum total Of his hsue .ama!.
John the Twenty -secsnd. Who set up ~.
aboyc-uen sioucd price hst, maae % Huen
rnonoy, u,at be, poor cobAefs 500, lau e1h-
teen millions of coined gold, ana -oe' 'ealeea
nihous in bullion
& considerable p.ral income xAa Do
I'D f[e1 ass aa1 tas S1'y. a,a Rs t9' 20 ele
Enpe1nzs presented With such g5Tent the
Patfiarchs and some distinguished Nahops, -
pledso Of their good grsoea- These plI0ms
ress of prrple, and richly emtr~as5ea a nm n,ln
gq r.otn at5sgSy u lend a. sueh a' phi pslun 0s to
l Dsabops, either Is = token Of biz sat
| iafactiou With their conduit, or OF con-
| hr1uation in their otiee, without aaEnS
| tho pe1mission Of tho Emperor and bom tho
ropsa laauuaed not only the e1cinaye 118ht o.
1 giving auch cloaks, but even compelled Arch
| Eorne for ths smsll charge Of thirty thousand
! giljcrs each. John VII eYen declared ever1
| Arrhhiahop deposed who did not get his pallium
| within three months. In course or time, tha
| thAt Tho cost of the cloak became too great
| for them, and It shrunk and rhrunk until
| nothing rc,uaiped but kind OF ribbon, four
| iuchcs xide. oruanented with red croHs.
These ribbons wero woven, By the hAnds Of
/ uuns, Of wool taken from la1noS consecrated
over the gr.vss OF ths apostles, aoa o. MaH;o
do most fortunato ehecp-brcoaer going, tor be
so|d hIa wool at one hundred and seventy -fre
thoueand forins per pounde These paliinuaz
brought in nice round sum, toz atchbishope
are Usually rather old gentlemen, and ever
new archbishop had 70 bnT new ono. syet
80. salzburg had 70 pay, within 1ine years
pinetg-seven thousand scud for palfurns; aht
AfchEtahop Markulf, OF MsSenco, had to sci
the left leg Of Christ Of gold TO pay for his.
Arshbisho2 A1aola, os T5e1es' ' na " 1athe ~;
tble. eert him each N infalllhle pallium, 0
coursc With the inSsllible bill for tho article
No wonder that the Fopes spent plcnty 0
money. 6i1tus II (14767ai) sPont a. Ca
diual, In two srars, aboFe two hundred thon
saud duests, and Tas f1 nore e1tarasRn
Thousand gulders- Ho imposed sone ta1es 8
infamous that VIC dare not mention them
Ills rery difficult To calculate the incomes c
The. Popcs and tho clergy in olden time.
and one can form only some ides Of The
fn1mense amount from occasional revel,
tions. When tho couyants were 2ho1iahe
during tho Freneh navolution, and the po
, 4ossions Of tho church were threatened wit
confscation, the clergy offered to compoun
: with tie National Aca1emy for four hnnAte
millions Of francs, ready money. The ten'
tiane valued tho fortune Of their clergy It tn
hundred and six millions OF ducats- Fro
i the district Of Tenice, which had only tn
| millions and half OF inhabitants, No,
. sont 10 Rome, within ten yeAsn, two millio
, seven hundred and aixsy thouaand or
: hundred And si1ty-foul sc,,di- Fro
! 4 Austria, within forty years, QUO hundred AZ
ten million four hundred and fourteen tho
l ssnd fve hundred and aixty scudi II the,
, statements be correct, and they ara taken fra
> reliable SOURCES the calculation would aee
! much too low, according to which. within q
, hundred ycars, only one billion ninetsan mi
. ion ai1 hundred and ninety Thousand Of ho1i
had been paid to Kome by al the Bonn,
I | Catholics.