The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-21
DAILY AUDIENCES OF Plus TX.
London Register. April Gal

| The Holy Father has for nearly six year.
been stripped of his earthly sovereignty
Ever since then be has lived in the Palace
and the Garden of the Vatican. Beyont
their precincts he has never stirred. Ant
with good reason for, in the event Of th'
Holy Father appearing beyond the WALL
of what 10 virtually his prison, there would
be imminent risk of q popular distur
bance. It will be within the recollection o
the Whole world, Catholic and non Catho
lie alike, that the mere glimpse of his whit,
raiment at one of the windows of the Vati
can awakened an outburst of enthusiasm
among the crowds collected at the time il
the grand Playa of st. Peters, which lee
| to q brutal interference on the part of the
myrmidons of Victor Emmanuel, ending il
the assault and incarceration of many limo
cent persons. His Holiness, with view
to the preservation of public peace, is con
| strained, during all those last five OF siz
years, to remain within the walls of the one
| solitary palace, the one only possession
left him by the Revolutionary Government
| of Italy out of the whole of his possessions
| There, by the mercy of Heaven, bis health
| has been marvellously-we might almost
in consideration of his great age, say mi.
| raculousl y-preserved to him through all
| the fluctuations of the seasons-tbere
having been no possibility of his seek
| ing escape from the malaria during
the most perDcious time of the year
! at the Castle Gandoipho, according to the
habit of his predecessors, and according
| to bis own custom in the happier times OF
his long Pontiicate.
Unable to go forth himself. the whele
world, SO to speak, by Reputation, throngs,
day by day, into the Halls of the Vatican,
| to PROSTATE itself at hls foot stool. The
spectacle which is being thus witnessed
from day to day ia at once marvellous and
magnificent. Deprived Of all his temporal
authority, robbed of the whole of his do
minions, defrauded of his revenue as the
Chief of the States of the Church, condemn
ed by tho deplorab!e circumstances of the
times to live, az we have said, within the
limits of his enclosure, Pope Plus TX re-
ceives upon every day of every week, in
every mouth of every year, homage from
the whole worid-from meR, and women,
aud children of every class, of every creed,
the like of which is not experienced by any
earthly Sovereign.
There is one of the prelates of the Court
OF this great Ponuff who has recently
painted in glowing CO ora the picture thus
presented to view, upon any and every
day, within the precincts of the Vatican.
the distinguished ecclesiastic we are refer
ring to s perfectly we'll known in this
country. The Catholics of England have
the happiness of knowing him personally.
He has been again aud again in our midst
here in London, and far away north in
Liverpool. We know the look of his kind
Italian face. We know the sound of his
manly Italian voice speaking to US giibly
10 our vernacular English. We honor him
for his own sake, and we honor him espe-
ciaily as one of the chosen followers and
members of the Court of his Holiness Pope
Plus the TX. Our reference here is 10 no
other than Monsignor NaTdi, who, within
these last few days, has published, in the
Foce della Verita, a noble article descrip-
tive of the scene witnessed any afternoon
in the whole twelvemonth within the walls
of the Vatican.
Midday has sounded. The principal anti
chambers of the great palace are already
thronged with a crowd of clergy of every
grade, and of laymen of the highest social
distinction. Side by side with mission
airy, it may be but just newly arrived from
Japan or Australia, you behold the uni
forms of officers of the United States, of
France, and OF England. YOnder gentle
man, dressed in a simple black frock coat,
is an eX Minister of State, to whom the
familiar. He has the opportunity, now, of
comparing them with the august court
Immediately under his observation Close
beside him is man of letters, it may be,
or a man of science, whose whole life has
been passed in his study or in his labora-
tory. Now for the first time, perchance, he
is feeling of how little avail intellectual toll
aud knowledge itself are without the light
and the warmth of a faith beyond all
philosophy. A little further off ia a young
man of ilustrious family from France or
from England-poved to the soul, he
kisses, on Blended knee, the hand which
blesses at once with paternal benignlty and
with Divine authority.
Massed together in other ante chambers
arc the humber ciass of pilgrims to the
Vatican-peasante, africans, the poorest OF
the poor-for none are refused to the
Father of all Christendom, not even those
who are outside the pale of the Church.
heretics, schismatics, unbelievers. 1t is
only the other day, as Mousignor Nardi goes
on to relate, that he saw two clergymen Of
the Anglican Communion kneeling at the
feet of the Holy Father, kissing HE hand
and weeping with emotion while Plus TX
said to them, in accents of sweetness, in the
words of Our Lord Venite ad Ne.
All this. as MonsignOr Nardi remarks il
the next breath, is but the prelude. Aftel
the ante chambers there are the .Loges
those peerless Loges-yesterday threaten
ed with ruin, but which to day the admira
| ~ ~ Pima TX haa restored will