Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-14
POPE Plus NINTH,
soLEMN PONEIFIcAL REQUIEM Mass
The Services in the Cathedral Yesterday---
Eloquent Memorial Address by Bishop
Observation-Disclosures Ceremonial.

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in the sanctuary in front of the high altar
was erected catafalque, in front of which
was an escutcheon with the armorial bear
ngs of the deceased pontif, and surrounded
with the pontifcal tiara.
At 10 o'clock the procession entered the
church in the following order:
Gross Bearer.
Torch Bearer. Torch Bearer.
Censor Bearer.
Missal Bearer and Fourteen Acolytes.
Eight Surpliced Priests.
Master of Ceremonies Rev. j. Stanley.
Bishop Ireland and two Supporting Priests.
Assistant Priest, Very Rev. A. Ravoux.
l.. Caillet of st. Mary Church.
Rev. v. Stimler, of Assumption
Church.
The celebrant was vested upon the throne
and celebrated the solemn requiem ordained
by the church for the occasion, after which
Bishop Ireland assembled the pulpit and said:
cit is therefore good and wholesome thing
to pray for the dead.' He took these words
of the church, he said, for text. He was
not there to speak the eulogy of Plus the
NINTH but to fulfil for him solemn duty, to |
pray for him and for the church which was
on the death of the pontif deprived of her
supreme authority.
Plus the Ninth is dead! The sad event
comes home to all of us believing Catholics.
The announcement of this fact has created
an emotion among us unsurpassed. Why is
this? Because the late pontif is no stranger
to us; he was not merely distant sovereign,
but was closely connected with our welfare
and interest. He was our supreme pastor,
our honored father, our great shepherd near
and dear to all of us, holding his hand to
the helm of Gods church, of which we are
the children. He was appointed by Almighty
God to interpret His divine word, to lead us
into green pastures and guard us against
error. The chief shepherd, no one so closely
connected with the true Catholic as the su-
preme pontiff. His Office was the greatest
and most sublime-the vicar of Christ.
When Christ was on earth He himself was
the visible head of the church, and now that
He is away He still remains the true head,
the soul, the life of the church, but being
invisible, He has ordained visible
own mantle, given him His power
and authorized him to speak in His name.
There is no one in whom we have felt such
extreme interest as in Plus the Ninth, and
this is mark of true Catholicity. St. Am
brose has said, "Where Peter is, there is the
church." At the time Christ was in the
world, where He was, there was the church,
and when He left He said to Peter: con thee
will build My church," If you would seek
its foundation, seek Peter. If you would
enter it's portals, seek him who holds it's
keys.
The Sovereign Pontiff was the centre of
unity. Catholics are, to-day, scattered
through every continent and the isles of the
seas, still are they one-they are all brothers
accepting the same creed, adoring before the
same altar because they acknowledge the same
pontiff.
Plus the Ninth is dead He
has been called from earth by the
Divine Judge, and now what we can do fo1
him is duty we cannot omit and this duty
is especially incumbent upon us for how
much has he not done for us? Ever since
that memorable June of 1846-for thirty
long years-he has guided Peters bark amid
such storms and turmoil as never before be-
set it. During these troublous times he was
exposed to insult, calumny, threats, and even
violence itself, but he withstood them all
most nobly. You have read records of his
daily life, he said, busy with the concerns Of
the church. It is surprising how one mar
could do SO much and even when old age
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still vigorous and jealous, and his last words
we're an echo of his holy life, :" Guard tn
church have loved SO well and sacredly.'
Fighting our battles and maintaining the
sacred truth which is the light of our souls
our salvation, had he yielded to opposition
there would have been nothing left for us
In these days, men think nothing of princi
! pies, but expediency and interest with then
l are their motives, therefore can they not un
derstand his courage when he would yielt
life itself rather than yield one iota of truth
No matter how unpopular, he would supper
truth. How the facts of the church's histor
show his glorious reign! No Pontiff sine
Peter has done so much for the extension Q
the church. It was during his reign that tn
. church's light illumed the beautiful Mime
1 sofa valley, and our first bishop was commits
r stoned by Plus the Ninth. We have then
special duty to do what we can for him to
day, and the church tells us our duty is
pray for him. We distinguish the offic
from the man. In his official capacity of su
n preme pontif he was infallible. Still was b
(. man and as man he was responsible, for ever
one of his acts like other men. Calumn
says that we forget the man in the Pope
that we make of the supreme pontif ve1
God-with Instability we add impecabilit,
"a This is foul calumny. We venerated him 9
Pope but we pray for him to-day as MAJ
His soul has appeared before the supren
= throne, stripped of every vestige of b
n official power and answered for his every &C
s. We have often recognized his sanity if
l. and we defy the world to find stain upo
his holy life-he lived and died without
o, personal enemy. His political foes agai
: and again repeat that he was sain
!. The soul of the poor ignoral
- man as we'll as that of the prize
J, or pontiff stand alike before Il
70 judgment seat, and if they departed vii
any sins still not RENTED without sufficie1
reparation having been made, they are d,
tanned in purgatory. The church thereto
IN enjoins us to pray for our friends and rel
tives, and to-day begs your prayes for Il
ID repose of the soul of Plus the Ninth, al
ID should his soul be in purgatory we will pr,
= for him, that great mercy may be extend,
- toward him that he may be admitted to tn
:: triumphant church in heaven.
We have lost his courageous hand
. earth but we have gained powerful inte
er cessor in heaven. The great doctrine
ne the communion of souls those outside Il
IN pale of the church do not understan
y They think death separates t