The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-02
DEATH OF POPE Plus.

The death OF Pope P1us Is reported by
cable as having occurred at 4:57 o'clock
on the afternoon of February z. His
condition for the worse changed seri-
ously on the night before, and he re-
ceived the last sacraments. The Car
dinal Vicar was summoned to the Vati-
can, an order was given to prevent any
person not especially authorized, from
having access to the Pope's apartments.
Egress from the Vatican was also pro-
hibited. 1t is believed that an exertion
by the Pope on the day previous to walk
few steps, was the main cause of his
relapse.
Pope Plus TX, at the time of his death,
was eighty-five years of age, and had
worn the pontificial robes for nearly
thirty-fve years, having been elected
June l6, 1876.
The record says that Giovanni Maria
Mastai Ferretti (Pio Nono) was born
May, Is, 1892, at Sinigaglia, maritime
city of Italy. He received his educa-
ton at the College of Valterra, some
forty miles southwest of Florence. In
1909 he received the first ecclesiastical
tonsure at the hands Of the Bishop of
the Diocese at Sinigaglia. A month
after he went to Rome, and was placed
under the care of an uncle who held
some position in the chapter of the Vati-
can Basilica; but a year after returned
to Sinigaglia, on account of the Danish
ment of Pope Plus VII from Rome by
the Emperor Napoleon. But at the res
toration of the Pope in 1914, the young
Mastai accompanied him to Rome, and
there for some time pursued his theologi-
cal studies. In 1918, at Sinigaglia, he was
ordained subdeacon and admitted sue
cessively to the deaconship and priests
orders in the year following. In 1928 a
mission to the Spanish American Repub-
lies was conceived by Cardinal Consalvi,
the Minister of Plus the VII. Monsig-
more Muzi was intrusted with this i'm
portant undertaking, and the Abbot
Mastai was given him as Secretary and
counselor. In 1925 the delegate and his
secretary returned to Italy. Leo XII
was now Pope. He made Mastai one of
his domestic prelates, and gave him the
general direction of the mixed school
of San Michel, over which he presided
with great success as Monsignore Mastai
till May 1927, when he was nominated
and proclaimed Archbishop of Spoleto,
receiving conservation at the hands Of
Cardinal Castiglione, afterward Plus
VIII. In 1889 Pope Gregory XIV
elevated him to the Cardinalate, and he
took up his residence at Imola. In June,
1916, the news of the death of Gregory
was announced, and he was summoned to
Rome to assist in the election of sue
cessor, where Mastai himself was chosen,
after a TIME of great excitement, re-
ceiving vote of twenty-seven to eleven
His administration has been of great
events. The temporalities of the Holy
See have been lost; the doctrine of the
Immaculate Conception has been de
clared, affirmed and defined; the dogma
of Infa libility has been adopted by the
College Of Cardinals; and Rome has
been declared forever annexed to the
Kingdom of Italy, with Rome itself as
the italian Capital. Pho Mono has evel
possessed the reputation of being per
son of great native kindness of DISPOSE
ton, accessible to the people, and chart
table and benevolent to large degree