Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-11
DEATH OF POPE Plus TX.

According to the common accounts,
he was born on the 18th of May, 1892.
His birthplace was Sinigaglia. He was
early destined. by his own tastes, for
the clerical profession and in 1908 he
went to Rome to complete the studies in
which he had been for some time engag
ed. The hard and harsh measures pur-
sued by Napoleon /. toward Plus VII,
amounting to the virtual but pro tenapore
disestabllshment of the Church of Rome,
caused Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti
such was the future Pope's name-to
return to his home, where he remained |
till Plus VII. was restored to his old |
place, in 1914. That was the year of
restorations, in consequence of the fall
of Napoleon, and the Papacy had its
part in the changes that followed from
the triumph of the Alliance of Greek
Church Russia, Episcopalian England,
Lutheran Prussia and Catholic Austria.
In 1912, young Ferretti had been re-
quired to join the Guard of Honor, IN
situated by Napoleon L., who had hit
upon that plan to conscribe the young
aristocrats in his dominions, and so
make them hostages for their families,
while he employed them in the field;
and the Ferrettis were of the aristocra-
cy, the youths father being Count Giro
lamo Solazzi. The young man got off
by showing that he was subject to fits
of the falling sickness.
In 1918 the future Pope received no.
ly orders, and in 1923 he went to Chill,
in South America, in company with
Monsignor Muzi, apostolic delegate /;
and he was engaged as teacher and
preacher for two years, at Santiago-so
that, unlike other Popes, he saw the
Southern Cross, and the Magellanic
Clouds. At the close of 1926, he re.
turned to Rome, where he found much
: favor. He was made Archbishop Of
Spoleto in 1927, and Archbishop of I'm.
ola in 1882 and in 1839-40 he wa;
placed in the College of Cardinals. Or
the 18th of June, 1916, he was chosen
| Pope, and took the designation of Piu
: TX. AS he was known to sympathiz
y with the liberal party in politics, his ell
& ovation was we'll received in Protestan
re countries and he was immensely popula
ii in Italy, and specially SO with his ten
poral subjects, the people of the Roma
" States. He did much to justify this poi
~ ularity, his aim being to improve th
In material welfare of his people, and
m establish as liberal institutions as coul
ne be expected from parsonage in his p
j. sition. But the course of events in E.
ng rope in l947-48 brought the ultra-li
or erals to the front, and the Pope BEGAN
- alarmed ; and an instruction in Ron
at the close of 1913 led to the death
his Chief Minister, Count Rossl, al
virtually made His Holiness prisont
ion He managed to escape in disguise, pro
led ably because the republicans wished
get rid of him, and went TO- -Gast
who had established Roman Republ
Dry having previously deposed him; and
called upon the Catholic Powers for +;
I'd slstance. In response to his call,
ln- French, the Spaniards and the Austria
went to his rescue, and the Repub
-er- was overthrown in 1849, Rome surrer
ering on the lst of July. The Pope
De- turned to Rome in 1850. After ii
the time he governed in the spirit of alb
lutism. In 1854 he had meeting
Ioi' the Catholic bishops in Rome, and tn
and there he settled the doctrine of t
or immaculate conception. He soon fou
u.s. that he could not rely on the support
art France, and that Austria could not sa
herself, much less uphold his rule. L
1or event of the Italian war of 1859 bro
ell the Austrian power forever in Italy; a
it was soon followed by those occuren,
which stripped him of almost all
" temporal possessions. He sought
~ from the Catholic powers against S
'Uo' DINA, but Napoleon Ill advised
' to submit, and the Emperor's advice v
' -, law to other European government
w." whatever it might be to that of Ror
VI, The Pope would not submit, and he
."' sued bull of accommodation agai
no all and sundry who were concerned
no the attacks on his possessions. tt
no the Pope betook himself to weapc
40 which the principalities and powers
70 this world hold in more respect.
WI raised an army, which was composed
wv foreigners, and placed it under the &C
"S mand of General Lamoriciere, an el
nent French soldier of the "Africa
., school; but his army was beaten to pi
'.0 es by the Piedmontese, under the Ii
~ of General Cialdini; and nearly all
" Pope's subjects joined the victors. 7
0n Pope was deprived of almost all his tt
poral possessions, at the same time t
i'0- the Bourbons were driven from the I
w sicilies; and in the next year, IS
'eie the Kingdom of Italy was formed, VIII