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Brief Sketch Of the Position He
Bs56 sts & a894 4is3
Holds in the Church and
in the World.
He Has Studied America and Its
People Practically, and
Not From Books.si3 tsssI3 Il
A Hint Is Dropped That The First
Apostolic Delegate flay Be
the Next Pope.

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Edward A. Pace, d. D. :
s.Who is your instructor" Leo XIII.
once asked student of the American
College in Rome. .tSatolli," was the re-
ply. :'Ah,'' said the Pope, sSatolli. /
have known him from his childhood
The venerable speaker had In mind the
days at Perugia, when, as Archbishop
Pecci, he had welcomed to his seminary
the lad who afterwards became his favor
lite pupil. Born at Marsciano in 1887,
Francis Satolli began his clerical studies
tat the age of thirteen, was ordained
priest in 1852, and pursued postgraduate
courses in Rome until 1870. For several
years he was lecturer on church history
in the Benedictine Monastery Of Mont
Casino, but in 1876 he returned ITO the
diocese of Perugia, and became pastor,c
his native village.
Cardinal Pecci had always been STU
dent of St. Thomas Aquinas, and when
he ascended the Papal throne as Leo
Kill, one of his first cares was to re-
store the Thomistic system Of philosophy
and the ology. With this end in view, he
issued, in 1879, the encyclical Aeterni
PARTS, and inauguarted the neo-scholos-
tic movement in the Roman schools by
appointing Professor Satolli to the chair
of theology in two leading institutions.
At the Collegio Urbano Satolli had a cos
1nopolitan audience-students from the
national colleges of the United States.
Canada, Ireland, Greece, and Armenia,
besides thoseswere gathered, under the
direction of the Propaganda, from every
quarter of the globe. In the Apollinare,
the diocesan seminary Of Rome, he ad-
dressed, the young clerics who were des-
tined in time to assume the parochlal
cares Of the city, and possibly to admin
lister the affairs of the Universal Church.
His lectures, in word, We're given, as
the well-known phrase expresses it, Urbi
ct Orbi--to Dome and to the world.
Such an academic environment was
.congenia1. Satolli was earnest in his
work and easily aroused the enthusiasm
of his students. Young men just enter
ing his class were impressed by his seri-
BUSINESS and energy; they recognized the
mater. AS time wore on they saw be-
hind the severe externals Of the seholas-
tic the qualities Of heart that made him
their friend. Metaphysician he certain
ly was, but his eloquence and his com-
mand of the Latin tongue lent a charm to
abstruce speculation.
American students found him sympa-
.thetic. Under his influence they devel-
oped certain traits which had not always
been recognized, or at least had not been
properly understood. Satolli understood
them, and gave them a, prominent part
both in the regular exercises and in those
more solemn disputations at which the
Holy Father presided. In other days the
Popes had been accustomed to visit in
person the different colleges. Stress Of
circumstances obliged Leo XIII. to gather
the students around him in the Vatican,
and on such occasions it was a pleasure
for him to lay aside the graver duties of
his office, and encourage the young de-
baters by his presence. 55
Satolli also made: it. a point to study
the Americans in their home life by fire.
quently visiting the college in the Via
DELI Unnilta. Here he saw that their
love of freedom was entirely compatible
with the spirit of discipline, and that the
principles Of manliness and honor which
the local superiors inculcated were the
best safeguards of rule. He found that
his own efforts as q teacher were ably
seconded by the energetic measures which
the rector adopted to secure earnestness
on the part of the students and stimulate
them to better grades of work. He ap-
preciated especially the brilliant quail.
ties OF Mgr. O'Connell, and in CONVERSE
tion with him got a clearer and wider.
view Of the church in this countfy-its
growth, it's conditions, its needs.
Meantime new duties have fallen to the.
lot Of Professor Satolli, and new honors
rewarded his labors As. rector Of the
Greek College, and subsequently as presi-
dent Of the College of Noble Ecclesiastics,
in which young clerics are trained for the
diplomatic service, he gave proof of prac-
tical abilities no less marked than those
which had won him repute as teacher.
In the midst Of these occupations he found
time to publish quite a series Of works on
Logic, Theology and esiastical Law to
assist other eminent scholars in founding
the Roman Academy Of St. Thomas AQui-::
mas ~ to- take part in the labors Of various
congregat.o ons; to preach the Lenten SER
mons at several Of the principal churches
in the city. The result was that in 1883 he
was consecrated Tstular5 Archbishop Of lLe-ss
panto. The position did not bring with It
any burden Of pastoral duties, but it fitted
Mgr. Satolli for an Important mission
with which he was charged IN 889. Is
A century had elapsed since the e / ssestabi
lishment Of the American hierarchy. 20
Baltimore the first Episcopal sees. some
eighty Bishops had gathered Tor the cente-.
nary celebration, and Satolli appeared IN
Their midst as the Pope represent tatiVe:
Thei occasion was an bject-leason to HIM,
Tt brought him into contact with men who
Had up and were sti |: :btl!lding up the
na0 isorous Cath Ism the treest fpffS
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