New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-10

Antonelll'S Death-A Dramatic Scene.
The Gazette d'Italia gives the following
details of Cardinal Antonelli's last moments:
Cardinal Antonelli did not return to his
bed immediately after his last visit to the
Pope. It is true that the attack with which
he was taken in his holiness study was
brought on by the imprudent effort he
made to descend the marble stairs on foot,
and that he had to be carried back in the
Pope's chair; but the first fsinting fit hav-
ing passed, the cardinal refused to 90 to
bed. He would not yield, he would not
give up to death, but struggled against it
with that extraordinary force of will, that
indomitable energy OF which he had given
proof during the course of his painful
malady, when, in spite of tho atrocious
pain he suffered, be dressed as usual, and,
seated in his arm chair, received the men,
bers of the diplomatic corps Rolled up
in fiannel-fOr he suffered from cold even
during the hottest days of last summer-he
dominated the acute paugs by which he
was tortured, and with the pallOr of death
on his face, but with smile on his c,lor-
less lips, discussed the affairs Ut the East
with the representatives of the foreign
powers. DR.. Pelsgsllo, after having Wis.
tied the cardinal by the Pope's orders, told
his holiness that his eminence had not forty
eight hours to live. At this announcement
tho Pope sent for his portantina and had
himself carried up stairs. The cardinal
was dressed and seated in bis arm chair,
when he suddenly saw the Pope appear
before him. This unexpected visit i'm
mediately after the doctors opened his
eyes; he understood ut once that
his sentence was written, and that
he must die. Pale, emacisted, agi-
tated, and no longer msste. of himself, he
rose suddenly to his feet, and then falling
on his knees before Plus TX, exclaimed:
Christ, and can sbsolve me; for charity
hear me-" and here commenced q solemn
scene. The Pope acted the part of the Su-
prone Judge, whose representative he is,
and the once powerful Secretary of State,
now become an humble peDitent face to face
with death, confessed his sins. At last the
penitent became silent, and the hand which
binds and l00ses on earth and in heaven
was raised to absolve him il, articulo morris.
The Supreme PoDtiff, the Vicar of Jesus
Christ, was called to judge the government
destroyed, to call down the heavenly
pardon on the man who had been it's head,
and who had committed so many iniquities
in the name of the representative of the
Lamb of God. The moment in which the
dominion, personiied in the dying
knelt before the spiritual power
incarnste in the Pope, was certainly one Of
the grandest and most solemn in the his
tory of the papacy. We can not tell if this
dominion will one day return under another
form; all that we know is that the ancient
pontifcal government, which fell on the
twentieth of September, 1870, and was con-
fessed and absOlved by the Pope on the
fourth Of November, 1876, is dead forever
with Giacomo Antonelli. On the other
hand, the spiritual power lives, grander
than ever. When the holy father returned
The second time to visit the dying cardinal
he was delirioue.