The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-27
LEO XIITS DAILY LIFE.
~ Is FULL OF OCCUPATION FROM
MORNING TILL NIGHT.
His Habits Are Much tho Same rs When
He Was "a CardInal-Daily Mass In His
Private chapei-goutine work-Holds
an Audience Every Day.

He Was IA CardInai-Daily Mass In His
Private Chapel-goutine work-Holds
an Audience Every bay.
In spite Of his great ace tho holy father
enjoys excellent health and leads a life
full Of occupations from morning till
night. He has in no respect changed his
habits since the time when he lived at
Perugia as cardinal. He rises very early,
and when at about o o'clock I'm the morn
ing, his valet, Pho Contra, enters his little
bedroom, he more often Gnd him risen
than asleep. He Is accustomed 10 sleep
littlo-not more than four or five hours at
night, though ho rests awhile after dinner.
We arc told that sometimes he has been
found asleep i'm his chair by his writing
table at dawn, not having been TO bed at
all. OF late no frequently says mass In "a
chapel in his private apartments, and the
mass Is served by Pho Contra On Sun
days and feast days he says IL In another
chapel preceding the throne room. The
little chapel is OF small dimensions, but
by opening the door into the n~eighboring
room a number Of persons can assist at
the mass. The permission, when given, Is
obtained on application to the maestro oil
camera" and Is generally conceded only
to distinguished foreign persons. After
sayin0 mass himself the holy father imme-
diately hears "a second one, said by one OF
the private chaplains on duty for the week,
whose business IL Is to take care Of the
altar and to assist. frequently ho gives
the communion with his own hands to
those who arc present at his mass. Aftor
mass he breakfasts upon coffee and goats
milk, and this milk is supplied from goats
kept in tho Vatican gardcns-a reminis-
cenco of Carpineto and Of the mountain
GERS early life.
Every day, about 10, he receives the Sec
rotary of state, Cardinal Rampolla, and
converses with him for a good hour or
moro upon current affairs. On Tuesdays
and Fridays the secretary OF state receives
the diplomatic corps in his W apart
ments, and on those days the undersecre-
tary, Mgr. Rinaldini, confers with the
pope In his chiefs place. Cardinal Mario
Mocenni, acting project OF the holy apos-
tolic palaces, is received by the pope when
no has business TO expound. On the first
and third Fridays of each month the mag
giordomo, Mgr. Della Volpe, Is received,
and so on, In order, the cardinal projects
OF the several Roman congregations, the
undcrsecretaries and all others in charge
of the various offices. In the papal ante
chamber there is n list Of them, with the
days of their audiences.
During the morning he receives the car
dinals, the bishops lad limina, y embassa
doris who are going away on leave or who
have just returned, princes and members
of the Roman nobility and distinguished
foreigners.
At 10 O'Clock he takes q cup Of broth,
hrO,cht ~, Cantra A y In tho aftornnnn
or n little earlier, no dimes. He is most
abstemious, although he has an excellent
digestion. His private physician, DIR.
Giuseppe Lapponi, has been heard to say
that he himself eats more at one meal than
the holy father eats In IA week.
Every day, unless ~indisposed, some one
is received in private audience. These
audiences are usually for the cardinal pre-
fects of the congregations, the partriarchs,
archbishops ard bishops who are in Rome
at the time and distinguished personages.
When the weather Is fIAStho pope gon-
orally walks or drives in the garden. He
Is carried out of his apartments TO the gate
In n edan chair by the liveried "sediarii,"
or chair porters, or IL he goes out by the
small door known as that of Paul V, the
carriage awaits him there, II he gets In
with the cameriere segreto participants,
who Is always a monsignore. 1t Is as we'll
to say here, for the benefit Of non-Ca.h-
olics, that monsigDori are not necessa-
rily bishops, nor even consecreted priests,
the title being really n secular one. Two
noble guards of the corps Of 30 gentlemen
known under that name ride beside tho
carriage doors. His closed carriage Is n
simple and elegant brougham having his
coat Of arms painted on the door. In sum
mer he occasionally drives In an open Ian
dau.
During the great heat Of summer tho
pope, after saying mass, goes into tho gar
den about bin the morning and spends the
whole day there, receiving every one In the
garden pavilion as he would in tho Vati-
cam. He dimes there, too, n rests after
ward, guarded by the gondarmos on duty,
to whom no generally sends n message Of
good wine-another survival of a cot ntry
custom-and in the cool of tho day he
again gets into his carriage, and often
does not return To the Vatican till after
sunset, toward the hour of Ave Maria
In the evening, about an our Latch at
al of the night" according 10 old Roman
computation of time-he attends at tho
recitation Of tho rosary, or evening prayers,
by Mgr. Mazzolini, his private chaplain,
and no requires his immediate attend
ants 10 assist also. He thon retires 10
his room, whore he reads, studies or writes
verses, and at about 10 O'Clock no eats a
light supper Pope Leo XIII and His
Household, " by Marion Crawford, In Cen