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

liberalism to conservatism.
DEATH OF PIo MONO.
From the Pcayune
The eleRraphjo message. bringing the fongi
Unprecedented news OF the death Of Pope PiusI
sthe Ninth, will have come in mourning aRdI
tears 10 universal Cath olicity. whose u'embets'!
dispersed over the five regions OF the eaSn,I
Rare also grateful witnesses OF the grand 3sIl
sion and unswerving fidelity of the late Pcn.l
tiff Every here will they have, in sorrowful
pride, acclaimed the greatness and chesished|
the virtues of q life whose moral splendorsI
land unsurpassed holiness even dissenters arel
not unwilling to admit. The story of this full
measured life s none other than one of spirltn a
Esolicitudes, administrative labors, charitable
works and jealous wsrdshlp OF divine trustI
rudely broken upon by cares of State, turmoliI
4of revolutions and persecutions of enemies. al
lis not ouIs, looking into the future, to forecast
the pfsoe whcn a less prejudiced pSs5eEit9l
will have assigned to it in writing up It's I'M
partial awards. In this. our limited inquiry,
4 "a uch less would we look to one eided cotem
porary history, teeming with maleVoienoe'
warped by the violence of disorganizer", raw 1
ling in derisive assertions of social order and
popular rights and perverted by the tortuouB!
Hdeplomacy Of hypocritical Ksisars and kings,
dictating plaps of reform in govern mont, yeti
theirs hid deousiy deformed, ,--euggesSing priv
leRes for the people, end they, tue most ruth
less enslsvers of nations, provinces and tribes
We prefer, in the rehearsal of that pure, sug
eestive and holy life, barried by the soresG of
trials and circumvented by the machinations
of Kings, to take its subject from the humbl
parish church of st. Ann. with bis redeemed
colony of outcasts and orpha ana around him, to
the dignities of the dioceses OF Spoleto ano
sImols and thence passing to the unaspired and
unexpected chair Of St. Peter: 3"'a Fa': ''o"'":
In that charge (Arohbishoprio of spoleto) be
had labored for fourteen years-havipg, mean
while, been raised to the emineDoe of the Car
dinalate-wben, on the 1st of Jnne, 1886 the
the death of Gregory the Sixteeuth. The mea-
senger who delivered to Msstai-Ferretti the
sunmons to meet the Sacred College, brouRht
10 him, at tie same time, the announcement OF
THAT death. On the 18th of June, in the Palace
of the QuiriBal, at Rome. the College of Csrdi'
gals, fifty in number, came together for the
eathering cccurred a scene, the mention OF
which may not be ont of place in these re-
marks. Cardinal Lam brpschipi, the Secretary
for Foreign Affairs of the late Pope--a man OF
sgreat powers of Intellect and fruitful in eli
adevceG of statecraft-nust, 1T WAS generally
suppcsed, be the choice Of the college. On the
day of the election, two Cardinals wore mGJo
(runs, were appointed--one to take the balLo'
ont of the sacred chalice, handing 1t to the
other to break the seal and read the name: To
athe latter duty Cardinal Mastai-Ferrsti WEI
assigned. By the majority of his colleagues ne
was scarcely known, rave as very PiSns anG
Learned provincial Cardinal, who9e feet had
seldom pressed the streets of Rome. Hence
the astonishment of the college when tht
name of this humble candidate, who vas
no candidate, was on the frst ballot
read out thirteen times by. bis OWE
mOuths VINO COuIQ nave
peoted rival of the candidate of Austria, whC
peered in the impassive faces Of these solemn
old men in vain attempt to read the secret oi
their spiritual oonsoiencef The morning o.
the 10th found him standing by the chalioe snt
rec ling out the votes, eleven times for La6ru
sohIni and twenty seven for himself. No cleo
zion bat the question was evidently drawing
to CLOSE. The college, in wondering excite
ment, recessed until o'clock. Again wa
Mastai at his post, and With the expiring tone
of the grand hymn, Vsni Creator SpiTts"s, hegai
| tie resdinG Of the latest ballot. Once he res'
his name, twice, thrice, and SO on TO the seven
teenth ballot without the Interpolation Of su!
:. other meme. Tremulous was bis hand an
quivering his voice, and whom, on the handin
to him OF the eighteenth ballot by his co!
IeaRue, he again was compelled to read hi
name he yielded 70 the emotions i,f OF the M me
ment and begged the college 70 relieve MI
q lfrom the duty and appoint another sorntinet
y for it's performance. Cardinal Mastsi, in th
EAlsiugieness of his heart, had not consideTe
q thai q balloting thus interrupted might haN
a vitiated the proceedings. The conclave fort
r nately, thinking better, urged him to take