The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-08
THE POPE IS DEAD.
LONG LIVE THE POPE
Accouut of His Lie, His Sick ness
His Death. and the Mode OF BE-
Iectsng His Successor.

Iecting His successor.
ROME, February THE Pope died at
4:5O O'Clock this evening. Conclsve OF
Cardinals to be called Immediately to
select his successor.
Pope Plus was in his s4th year. ana
had long been great sufferer from dis.
ease Although an invalid, corhned TO
his room and much of the time to his
bed, his mind remained clear and vigor-
GUS. Up to the last he exhibited his
wonderful energy and indomitable will.
He was much beloved by his people
throughout the world and will be. sincere
ly mourned by all faithful Catholics.
Plus IN, Pope, (Givvanni Maria
Mss,ai Ferretti) was born, Of noble
family, at Sinigsglis, near Ancona, on
the 18th of May, 1892. lie visited South
America IN 1923 on q religious misslon'
and was made Archbishop of Spotleto in
1927. In 1910 he obtained the dignity
of cardinal. lie was elected by acclams-
ton The successor of Pope Gregory XVI.
in June 1916. He granted
an amnesty to political trans
gressors, and acquired great popularity
by variou. measures of reform which he
commenced soon after his election. His
first Secretary of State, Cardinal G1zzr;
was friend Of progress and liberal
policy. The expenses of the Pspsl Court
were reduced. The censorship OF the
press was modified, and the Jews were
relieved from some oppressive regula.
tions. His reforms were partly frustrated
By the il-will of many of his function
aries, who opposed innovation. His
popularity began to decline before
the end of 1S47. Excited and elated BY
the French revolution, the Vatican and
Liberals required greater concessions
than the Pope was willing to grant.
After several violent demonstrations OF
the populace, Plus TX. escaped from
Rome in disguise, in November lS4S,
snd retired to Gaia. A republic was or
ganIzed at Rome In February, l849, but
was subyerted by French army, which
took the city in July 5, that year, and
restored the Pope.
Among the latter events of his pontif-
cate WAS the formal definition and recog-
milton of the doctrine of the Immaculate
Conception as part of the Roman
Catholic creed, (l654). During the war
which Austria waged against the French
and Ssrdinans in 1859, the people of the
Romagua and the legations revolted
against the Pope, and the Pspsl States
were annexed to the Kingdom of Victor
Emmanuel In January, 1860, the Pope
issued an anathems, or bull, against those
who abetted the invasion OF his domin-
ions. This was probably aimed al Ma.
poleon Ill. who suppressed the Journal
in which it was published. Rome was
declared the capital of the new Kingdom
of Italy in 1860, since which the
question of the Pope's tenn
poral power has remained in
suspense, as one of the great problems o.
European diplomacy. The recognition
of the Kingdom of States by the French
Court (l86l) WAS accompanied by the
reservation that "French troops shall
continue to occupy Eome as long as the
interests which caused their presence
shall not be protected in sufficient gusran-
tees" The Pope was the only power
that recognized the Confederate States
of North America" The results Of the
war between the Emperor of Austria and
the allied Kings of Prussia and Italy IN
1866 were untavorsble to pspsl domina-
ton. About the 10th of December, 1866,
the French army departed from Rome,
and Italy WAS relieved from the
presence of foreign soldlery, for
the first time probably in thousand
years. He conyoked by an encyclcsI
letter sn K:umenicsl Council, which
met al Rome in December 1869, of which
the late Bishop K. V. Wheelsn, OF this
city, was sn honored member, to assert
or define the dogma OF the Popes in.
fslHbility, which, after 8 long delibers-
ton, was finally established IN July,
1870. The Italian srmy took Rome on
the Goth of September, without serious
resistance, and the temporal power OF the
Pope wss then abolished. Plus protested
against this innovation, but he remained
in Rome.
The Pope's Successor.
A Conclsve OF CsrdInels will be called
without delay 20 nsme = successor 10 the
Pspal throne. Il hiss been given out
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