The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-02-17
DEATH OF PIO MONO.
From the PiCayuns.

4 The telegraphio message, bringing the long
unprecedented news of the death OF Pope Pius
Tears touniversal Cath olicity, whose ulembefs,
Hdisperssd over the five regions of the earth,
Hare also grateful " witnesses of the grand Dst
aeiou and unswerving fidelity of the late Pom
tiff Every ~here Will they have, in sorrowf1)
pride, acclaimed the greatness aud cherished
the virtues of lifo whose moral splendors
and unsurpassed holiness even dissenters are
mot unwilling to admit. The story of this full
measured life is none other than one of spritual
Esolicitudes, administrative labors, charitable
works and jealous wardship OF . divine trust
lrudely broken upon by cares of State, turmoil
7 Of revolutions and perceptions of enemies. II
is not ouIs, looking into the future, to forecast
the ptace whicn less prejud iced posferity
will have assigned to it in writing up Its i'm.
partial awards In this, our limited inquiry,
uch less would we look to one sided cotem
sporary history, teeming with maleVolenca,
warped by the violence of disorganizers, raw
ting in derisive assertions of social order and
popular rights, and perverted by the tortuous
of hypocritical Ksisars and Kings
adictating plars of reform in govern mont, yet
theirs hideously deformed, ,--suggestiug privi-
lleges for the people, and they, tue most ruth
less enslsvers OF nations, provinces and tribes
We prefer, in the rehearsal of that pure, sug
Igestive and holy life, harried by the soresJ of
trials and circumvented by the machinations
of Kings, to take it's subject from the humble
parish church of st. Ann, with his redeemed
icolony of ontcsste and orph ans around him, to|
the dignities of the dioceses of 9poleto and
Imols, and thence passing to the unaspired and
unexpected chair of st. Peter: Data fa'. seO~'S.
In that charge Arohbishoprio of spoloto) bel
had lsbored for fourteen years-having, mean \
while, been raised to the emineuoe OF the Car
Idinalste-wben, on the let of june, 1886. theI
great bell of Santa Maria Maggiore tolled foII
the death of Gregory the Sixteenth. The mes
leenger who delivered to Msstai- Ferretti theI
summons to meet the Sacred College, brought
to him, at tie same time, the announcement of
that death. On the 18th of June, in the Palace
4of the Onirinal at Roma fhR TolIaua nf ia rdi
GALS, fifty in number, came together for the
election of q succe ssor to Gregory. In thai
gathering occurred q soene, the mention of
which may not be ont of place in these re-
marks. Cardinal Lam bruschini, the Secretary
for Foreign Affairs of the late Pope--a man oil
great powers of Intellect and fruitful in ell
devices of stateoraft-Inust, 1t was generally VI
supposed, be the choice Of the college. On the
day of the election, two CardInSis, more najo
lruTs, were appointed-one to take the ballot
ont of the sacred chalioe, handing it TO tbeI
other to break the seal aud read the name. ToI
the latter duty Cardinal Mastai- Ferrstti weRI
assigned. By the majority of his colleagues be
was scarcely known, Have as q very pious andI
learned provincial Cardinal, whooe feet hRdI
seldom pressed the streets of Rome. Hence
the astonishment of the college when the
name of this humble candidate, who wasI
no candidate, was on the aFst ballot
read out thirteen times by his own
mouth. Who could have started this unex
pected rival of the candidate of Austria, whoI
peered in the impsssive faces Of these solemn
IotU moh III y bAln AIOe"pb W Lo0u bbo DoOEoG
their spiritual conscience The morning of
the 10th found him standing by the chslice and
rea ling out the votes, eleven times for Labru
sohini and twenty. seven for himself. No cleo
tiOn; but the question was evidently drawing
TO q CLOSE The college, in wondering exotic
ment, recessed until o'clock. Again wasI
Mast&i at his post, and With the expiring tonesl
Of the grand hymn, TSni CrO0toT SpiTitUs, began
tie reading Of the latest ballot. Once he read
his name, twice, thrice, and SO on the seven
teenth ballot without the Interpolation of any
other name. Tremulous was his hand and
quivering his voice, and whom, on the handing
+ to him Of the eighteenth ballot by his col
league, he again was compelled to read his
name, he yielded TO tho emotions of the mo
ment and begged the college to relieve him
from the duty and appoint another sorutineer
for it's performance. Cardinal MsstAi, in the
Sugleness of his heart, had not considered
hat q bAlloting thus interrupted might have
vitiated the proceedings. The conolsve, fortu
nately, thinking better, urged him to take q