The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-02-14
plO NONO.

PrO MONO.
There seems 10 be little room now 10 1
loubt that His Holiness, Pope Plus Nth |.
has at last been gathered TO his fathers
Dur foreign dispatches state that he died at
The Vatican at about FIVE O'Clock yester- \
fay afternoon. having complsted almost !
two-thIrds of the thirty-second year Of his !
,pirituai rule. He was born on the 18th
iay Of MAY, 1892, and was elevated to his
high Office on the 10th day Of June, 1916.
He consequently was in the eighty sixth
wear Of his age al the time OF his death.
He has seen more than the years Of Peter,
beyond which il was said OF old that no
Pontifcal life could extend, and his
reign has been extraordinary.
His father was Count Girolamo Mastai-
Ferretti gonfaloniere Of Sinigaglia, and his
mother was Countess Catarina Saluzzi. In
1903 he began his classical studies in the
college OF Volterra, suspended them in 1905
in consequence Of frequent epileptic attacks,
and in 1909, the malady decreasing in in
tensity he received the clerical tonsure and
went to Rome to study theology. In 1910
he returned 10 SinIgaglia and continued his
course under the direction Of his maternal
uncle. The French authorities in ISL
placed his name on the lists Of the Italian
guards which they were organizing near
Milan, but his known infirmity caused his
release from military service. In the Au-
tumn of 1878 he attended, as a layman, the
lectures of the Roman Academy. Aiter
a short time he was encouraged 10 resume
his clerical dress, and, the epileptic attacks
recurring less frequently, he was allowed 10
receive minor orders. In 1918 he was
chosen as companion by Monsignore latter
ward CardinalD Carlo Odescalchi, in
missionary excursion in the neighborhood
of Sinigaglra. The zeal and talent he dis
played in interesting the country people
induced Odescalchi to recommend him 10
be ordained sub-deacon. Being, however,
! still subject To occasional epilepsy, he ap-
piled in person to Pope Plus VII, obtained
permission to receive priests orders in 1919,
and was appointed director OF the insti-
tuition for the education of poor boys
called Tata Giovanni In June, 1923, he
was chosen secretary 10 MonsignOre
Muzi, Apostolic delegate to Chill, where he
chiefly busted himself in ministering to the
Indian population Of the interior. On his
return 10 Rome in june, 1926, he was made
domestic prelate to Leo MI, and in Decem-
Der became superintendent OF the hospital
of San Michael Ripa. He was nonina,
ted Archbishop of Spoleto in 1872, and
created at his own expense, charitable and
industrial establishments like those he had
governed in Rome. In 1881, he induced a
body of four Thousand insurgents 10 give
up their arms to him and obtained theii
pardon from the authorities, and governed
for 4 time, TIE provinces OF Spoleto and
PerUgia. In 1892, he did much tc
alleviate the distress which followed
n severe earthquake, and was made Arch
bishop OF Imola. He was created Cardinal
December 23. 1859, and proclaimed Deem
ber II, 1910. On the death of Gregory
NNI, June !, 1916, he was Immediately
designated by the representative men of the
moderatessNational party, as the fittest per
son to succeed him. Strenuous efforts were
made by the French ambassador, Count
Rossi, TO influence in his favor the opinion
of the electors before they met in conclave
and on June l6, while the Austrian Cardi
mails, known to be unfayorable to his nomi
nation, were still on their way to Rome, he
was elected Pope. His eIeva
ton preceded the greatest politi
cal excitement in Europe-the epoch oi
lSlS-when in every transatlantic capital
the forces of revolution were as violent al
most as in France in 1889. His death oc
ours during an excitement almost as extra
ordinary and reaching into even profoundel
depths In &c and As it was simply the
political and social structure of society in
Europe that was most fervently moved
Now the religious element will be interpen,
etrated with an equal agitation. Since the
journey to Canossa, centuries ago, there ha:
been no strife between the religious and the
political instinct equal in magnitude
to that which for the first foul
years certainly, and perhaps since
the Ecumenical Council of 1865, hai
shaken Europe to its foundations. The
doctrines of the Syllabus and of Infallibil
ity precipitated the warfare between the
temporal and the spiritual power, which
has disquieted and still disquiets the OLD
World. The enunciation of the doctrine o.
the Immaculate Conception, another grea
event in the life of Pho Mono, created nc
excitement corresponding in importance
for a moment. One merely effected dog
ma of the church, the other the civil as vel
as the sacerdotal government, and entered
deeply into all points of social life, litera
ture and mundane politics.
All questions arising from this Syllabu:
and these DEGREES are now, if not yet rips
for settlement, before the world for adjudi
cation, and they must be determined. In
Germany Prince Won Bismarck has, sinct
1873, caused the incarceration of the Car
dinal-Archbishop of Posen, of the Bishop o.
Treves, and of an almost indefinite number
of minor prelates and priests. He ha.
waged warfare against the spiritual pre-,
tensions of the Papacy as vigorous as tina,
of Victor Emanuel against its temporal
power. By the operation of the Falck Law.
of Nav, 1873, he created division in the