The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-29


violet moDsiRnCri. 1t is :ableau once see
never 10 be forgotten. According to tn
y ttiqnefte Of the Pspal Court the visitor
kneei az His Holiness approaches. By BIZ
elde walks the mODsgpOre in atteD dance
Who, al med with q list of names present.
Madame Telae Made moiselie, Az Q, IDglees;
, and while Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor and Miss
. Harvey kDtel and kiss the ring upon bis
ringer, the Pope ssys few kind words
, But woe betide tbOee Whoa hot Protestant
pItJudices accompany them into the Pom
have some new additions here TO the Vat
lean gallery of atatutes,' was the remark
made by Plus TX. az, on one occasion, he
passed by some ladies whose coneciences
de them TO kDeel where their curiosity
ought never to have taken them; aI pun
gent indeed is the Pope's wit r Deuevtr he
feeis Gallo upon to use it in reproof. Soon
after be- issued condemnations of the ex
cesses in female attire, some Italian laces
appeared at audiences with their heads
dressed remarkably high. 'Santits, 10
SigDorine GuerrieIi' (Anglice Wsrriors),
said Monsignore. Il had already recognized
them by them helmets replit d Hls Hoi
ness. To foreigners he speaks in fluent
| French. He calls them all his child en-, !
even the members of those churches which,
at the Reformation separated themselves
| from the Roman communion. 'Ihey di- |
vorce themselves,' he says, from the sue
| cessor Of st. Peter, but their children are
| none the less his" When the audience is
composed entirely of Italians his manner
becomes more familiar and chatty. A lady
came away enchanted at Pho Mono having
told her she was more like her daughters
sister than her mother. 'E auella' asked
the Pope, Indicating remarkably email
woman, - casea de statura de eta" (Is she
sh0it OF y ears or of inches)f
After the Pope has passed up one side
I'm 1
which the strangers are ranged, he goes as
nearly as possible to the middle, and do |
llvers brief exhortation. HIS audience is I
u mixed one, and he uses words which NAV
be profitable TO all and hurtful to the feel
inSs OF nome ga the very last occasion he y
reminded them how rapidly their day s :
were Passing, while eternity rem aimee, itu I
mutaole. With the audiences the morn e
Dg's work is ended, and tho Pope passes l
along the Logga to enc of the small r. ons II
ADJOINING the great hall of the library, aud !,
there holds what is called his "circi,,.u to h
oin which he has generally invited some e
'ne or other of the more distinguished &c
;lesiastics or laymen who were received at q
ne special audiences. A CHAIR is placed u
or the Pope on tho middle line of the :!
loor, towards the end. The Cardinals "
present Sit on each side of him, while all "
theirs are ranged at the long reading u
esks rising behind each other in two
o"s. 1here the conversation becomes II
nore or lees general. The topics of the IN
ay-the unhappy condition of the times ef
no the inlqulties of modern governments,
ne Italian and German in particular-are ef
lecussed, and the Pope informed of the az
llnor events of the hour. Baron Visconti II! II,
III give dls Holiness an account of the VI W
lse archS illogical discovery the Com ot
'endatore Rosei will describe the newest OF
ombs; or Mgr. Nardi set forth the articles OF
some OIL against the Church or clergy Oh
lst laid before the Italian Parliauebt I'll
OF unfrequently the conversation Ieads ="
the Pope recounting incidents of his VI ~
.ay ne, as When' not long ago, the az az
resence OF the bishops who had come over at
lth pilgrimage from South America "
icited from him description, first, of the ID
N pestnous voyage he made to Chill in ~ ~
~, when, embarking at Leghorn on tue 10 70
~ OF october, on board he good snip ttLL
eioise, he accompanied the Papal Legate, oe
or. Muzi; and then the hardships thew ie
ldGTed on terra hrma, where they were tot
most reduced 10 live on aius. Or III
gain, when, soon after the battle of Sc.
an, he told of the political outbreak III ~
III, when he was Archbishop of Spoleto IN
ID how one of the revolutionists going to DC
IN for shelter, he took him in and aided pa
IN to escape. The name of the revolu. pr
onist was Louis Napoleon, and that WI as 10
10 only occasion when the two men, one wi
} become Pope OF Rome and the other th
mperor of the French, ever met. pI
PiuslX. is Italian to the core, and witty. Oh o.,
In fact are all his clever fellow. country. of
ep, even when treIching upon the sacred. t;l
any of his witticisms are historical, as az s,>
hen, on being asked by devout lady, po
no was tearfulIy lamentug the mis- he
'rtunes of the Church, if he did not fear + y,
IT the BARK of Peter" he replied that he ~,
as under no apprehension on account of an
10 bark, but he felt some doubts IA to gu
hat might be the fate of the crew. When
ardinal AntoDeli told him on one occa do
on that he had been recommended to try
10 Bagni baths for his govt, the Pope, TO
st'ngly al nding to the well known fa'ss In
ports of Antouelh's brigard origin, said of
) thought HIS Eniuenco would do " eli to ca
t upon the advice, for he had heard it int
ID the tdgni (Which IN Italian also sipui- ate
3 the huiLs'D had more than once been no
und ethcacious for members of his nj,
mlIy; Sometimes His Holires, has got In
nat he has given, as III the case OF n Ri
arly visit, some years since, to an asy- On
III for the aged. According to custom the
Pope recited the Lords Prayer; and laD
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