The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-11-22

fresh account of the daily life OF the VEN
cradle Pontiff, which assures new interest
with his increasing age:
"Winter and summer, in spite of HE
eigbty-two- years, -PIus TX. rises at half
past ave, and dresses himself without any
assistance. He generally wakes of himself.
After some prayers he goes up to one of
his private chapels, where the Holy Sacra.
ment is always preserved, and which cop-
tains some inestimable relics among others
fragment of the crib, and large piece of
the true Gross, the veil of S. Veronica, a
considerable portion of the skull S. John
the Baptist, and some of the teeth of
s. Peter. He then prepares for his Mass,
which he says at half past seven in a smaller
and LEES decorated chapel. Those persons
who have obtained permission at the audi
Mass, and receive the Holy Communion
from his hand. The Pope celebrates Mass
with the prOfoundest recollection, and with
piety which not unfrevuently reveals it
self in tears. He then attends another Mass,
said by one OF his chaplains, after which he
gives his benediction to the priest aad his
assistants and retires. 1t is then about
three quarters past eight. The breakfast is
brought in, which consists of broth and a
cup of cafe noir. Cardinal Antonelli after
wards has conference with his Holiness
excepting on the Tuesdays and Fridays,
Wuou lis pace Is ta6en Dy Mgr Mar1nO
Marini. Towards ten o'clock the Holy
Father receives his letters and pape.s
which are, it is needless to say, always of
very considerable number. The Pope
glaDces over the Osseruatore Romano and
the Voce della Verita, but never, 1 regret
(says the correspondent of the FTdncais)
to inform my confreres at Paris, dses he ex
anime the French journals, which arrive in
large Numbers, and of which, save in very
exceptional cases, he does not even unfasten
the band After this the private audiences
commence. The ceremonial is we'll known.
Men are dressed in black coats with white
cravats, and have neither hats nor gloves.
They make three genufexions on entering,
and then kneel at the feet of the Holy
Father, who raises them up. The Pope is
seated, the visitor standing or kneeling.
Cardinals and princes alone have the right
to tabouret in the presence of the Pope.
These audiences form the most laborious
and most fatiguiDg portion of the daily life
of the Sovereign Pontiff The secretary's
department is literally inundated with ap
plications, which, during the travelling
season especially, amount to an incredible
number. Therefore, by the order of his
ply sician, the Pope, during the last few
o'clock, to take little broth, in order to
keep up his strength, followed by glass
of Bordeaux, which is sent to him by the
Sisters of S. Joseph from a vine kept es-
pecially for his use. Formerly Plus TX.
never took anything stronger than the COM
proach of his eighteenth year that he
consented to take half glass of Bordeaux
or of Capri.
Sat the audiences in the Pope's apart
ments only men are received. Directly
one visit is Terminated, his Holiness rings
little hand bell, which is placed upon his
| table, and another person is introduced by
| the Drelate in attendance,
Edwards twelve o'clock or half-past
the Holy Father leaves his room and pro-
ceeds to take walk in the garden or in
the library, or sometimes in the Halls and
Galleries. On bis way he meets families,
Populations, and persons admitted to pub
lie audiences. He blesses and indulgences
the rosaries, medals, and crosses, with
which visitors are in general amply provl-
ded. He exchanges few words with each
person, he listens to their demands, and
often he addresses little discourse to them.
| At half past one the Holy Father returns
from his promenade. He dismisses his at
tendants, and again goes up to his little
chapel, where ne remains until two o'clock
! in alteration before the blessed sacrament t.
Then comes the hour of dinner. This re-
past is invariably composed of a potage and
of some poultry, which is served upon a
large plate together with some broth and
vegetables. (This is more in accordance
with the English than with the foreign Gus
tom.) The Pope rarely touches either
poultry or broth. He takes some of the
vegetables, little Roman .fritars, and
some fruit. The train bearer and private
secretary of his Holiness, Mgr. Cinni, as,
sists at the repasts. In summer the dinner
is followed by siesta of a quarter of an
hour The rosary and the recital of the
Office in the Breviary. which the Pope says
daily with as much st-ictness as any country
cure, occupies his time until four o'clock,
when he takes second walk-in the winter
in the Loges de Raphael, and in the summer
in the gardens of the Vatican. Sumo of
thebeaur esprits have amused themselves
at the idea of this 'prisoDer," whom, say
they, every one surrounds with respect,
and no one prevents from going out. 1t is
not thelless true, that Plus TX. is morally
as closely imprisoned as if the gates of the
Vatican were all bolted fast. 1t would be
i'm possible for him to go beyond the palace
without at once exciting by his presence
N, m, fastatinns of the mnst nnnOSite kind.