The Portland daily press., 1896-02-06
POPE LEo's DAILY ROUTINE.
His Many Exacting Duties Are Performed
in the Most Methodica1 Manner.

(Marion Crawford in the Century,
In spite of his great age, the holy father
enjoys excellent health, and leadssa life
full of occupations from morning till
habits since the time when he lived at
Perugia as cardinal. He rises very early.
and when at about O'Clock in the morn
ing, his valet, Pho Cenra, enters his little
bedroom. he more often finds him risen
than asleep. He is accustomed to sleep
little-not more than four or five hours
at night, though he rests awhile after
dinner. We are told that sometimes he
has been found asleep in his chair by his
writing table at dawn, not having been
to bed at all. or late he frequently says
mass in a chapel in his private apart
ments, and the mass is served by Pho
Contra. On Sundays and feast days he
says it in another chapel preceding the
throne room. The little chapel is of small
dimensions, but by opening the door in
to the neighboring room mum Der of per-
sons can assist at the mass. The permits
sion, when given, is obtained on applica-
tion to the Maestro di Camera" and is
generally conceded only to distinguished
| foreign persons. After saying mass him
self, the holy father Immediately hears a
second one, said by one of the private
chaplains on duty for the week, whose.
business it Is to take care of the altar and
to assist. Frequently he gives the COM
muniOn with his own hands to those who
are present at his mass. After mass he
breakfasts upon coffee and goats milk,
and this milk is supplied from goats kept
in the Vatican gardens-a remlnisceDce
of Carpineto and of the mountaineer's
eacly life.
Every day at about 10 he receives the
secretary of state Cardinal Rampolla and
| converses with him for a good hour or
more upon current affairs. On Tuesdays
and Fridays the secretary of state re-
eeives the diplomatic corps in his own
apartments, and on those days the under
secretary, Mgr. Rinaldini, confers with
the pope in his chiefs place. Cardinal
Mario Mocenni, acting project of the
Holy apostolic palaces" is received by
the pope when he has business to ex
pound On the first and third Fridays of
each month the maggiordomo, Mgr. Della
| Volpe, is received, and so on, in order,
the cardinal projects OF the several Ro-
man congregations, the under secretaries,
and all Others in charge of the various
Offices s. In the papal ante-chamber there
| is list Of them, with the days of their
audiences.
During the morning he receives the
cardinals, the bishops 'sad limina,'' en-
bassadors who are going away ON leave
or who have just returned, princess and
members of the Roman nobility and dis
tinguishad foreigners. At 10 O'Clock he
takes cup of broth brought by Contra
| At in the afternoon, or d little earlier,
he dimes. He is most abstemious, al
though he has an excellent digestion.
His private physician, DIR. Giuseppe Lap
POM, has been heard to say that b Q
| himself eats more at one meal than the
holy father eats in d week. Every day,
unless indisposed, some one is received in
private audience. These audiences are
usually for the cardinal projects Of the
1 congregations, the patriarchs, archbish-
| ops and bishops who are in Rome at the
| time, and distinguished personages.
When the weather is fine the pope gen
orally walks or drives in the garden. He
is carried out of his apartments to the
gate in sedan chair by the liveried tSe.
diarii, or chair porteFs;s or if he goes
out by the small door known asthat of
Paul v, the carriage awaits shiIa there,
and he gets in with the Cameriere Sc
| greto Parteeipante, who is always a mon
signor. 1t is as well to say here for the ben.
eft of non-Catholios that monsingori''
are not necessarily bishops, nor even con-
secrated priests, the title being really a
secular one. Two Noble Guards of the
name ride beside the carriage doors. His
closed carriage is a simple and elegant
brougham having his coat of arms paint
cd on the door. In summer he occasion
ally drives in an open landau.
During the great heat of summer the
Pope, after saying mass, goes into the
garden about 9 o'clock in the morning,
and spends the whole day there, receiving
everyone in the garden pavilion as he
| would in the Vatican. He dimes there,
too, and rests afterwards guarded by the
gendarmes on duty, to whom he general
ly sends measure of good wine-another
survival Of a country custom and in the
cool of the day again gets into his car
riage, and often does not returr<Ato the
lVatiucan, till after sunset, to1Xd the
hour of Ave Maria.
In the evening, about an hour later-at
Zone of the night" according to old Ro-
man computation of time-he attends AFT
the recitation of the rosary, or evening
prayers, by Mgr. Mazzolini, his private
chaplain, and he requires his Immediate
attendants to assist also. He then retires
to his room, whers he reads, studies OF