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Pepe Pius TX.

Pope Plus TX.
Giovanni. Maria Mastal Ferret
af5erward Pope Plus IX.-was bo
May ls, 1872, at senigaglia.
twelve years he was sent TO ascho
at Volterra, Tuscany He RENAME
there until sixteen. He was orig
nallys destined BY hia father, Gonr
Feireti, for the military profession
although It was his mother wisl
that he SHOULD enter the eharch li
came to Rome with the hope of sob
tanning 4 commission - the Fopes
Noble Guard, and had obtained tbs
placing his ns Iae on the roll Of
candidates fora commission snd yaa
aMaiting a vacancy He @as:subiee9t
to rpileptic fits. however, end ier
this reaaSn The commahdant oE .Ess
then abahdoned his intended protes-
sion, and studied for the church. On.
the 18th of December, 1918, he. re-
ceived his first orders as sub-deacon,
and bis full priests orders shortly af-
forwards, on condition that he should
never celebrate mass save with an
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other priest al his elbow. This was
on account Of his tendency to epilep.
sy. This condition was subsequently
removed by Plus VII, and it is sta,
ted by some of the biographers of the
late Pope that The malady afterward
completely disaI pesred.
The Conclave of Cardinals, for the
election of a successor to Pope Greg
ory XVI, assembled at the Qnirinal
June Is, 1910. Fifty Cardinals were
present, and the votes Of thirty-four
l-two-t thirds of the members-were
necessary to elect. Cardinal Mastal
was chosen to fill the Office of reader
of the votes. To the astonishment
OF all he received thirteen votes on
! the first ballot. On the second ballot
he received seventeen votes. On the
third ballot, taken on the 18th, he
received twenty-seYen votes, and on
the next ballot he received thirty-six
Yotes-two more than the necessary
two-thirds-and was elected. He had
10 announce his own election, and
was almost prostrated by emotion.
He was ffty-four years of age at the
time, being one of the youngest Car
dinals in the Church. While the
conclaye was in session an Austrian
Cardinal was on the way to Rome,
carrying with him Austria's veto Of
the elevation Of Mastai to the Papa
cy, but he mad hardly passed the
Tuscan frontier before he was met by
the news that the Pope was elected'
and that Mastai was Che man.
Upon ascending to the Papal chair,
he entered at once on a. course ofre-
form. He resolved to extirpate all
abuses of administration, financial as
well as political, to withdraw as far
as s,possible the restrictions of person
al liberty, to secularize in many de-
ia IS the local administration, and to
4 extend the right of self government
as far as was compatible with the es-
sential institutions Of the Roman
States. He also granted an amnesty.
His reforming policy did not meet
the expectations Of the populace,
however, and in 1s4sthe Roman rev.
! olution broke out. The Pope's Prime
Minister, Count Rossi, was assassina-
ted in No4ember of that year, and
! violent demonstrations were employ.
: ed to compel the pope's assent to
measures which he repudiatsd. &c 9
was driven to confne himself a close
prisoner in the Quirinals; and at
,5hIength, in December, -heTfedi secretly
i from Rome and established himself at
Gaeta, a Neapolitan seaport, nosfa,
beyond the Roman frontier. The
ministry nj try at Rome, which was dissoly.
I ed ed by the Pope from Gaeta, formed
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