St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-02-14
POPE LEO'S DAILY LIFE.

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cardinal. He rises very early, and
when at about six o'clock in the
morning, his valet, Pho Contra,
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 sleep at all. OF late
he frequently says mass in a chapel
in his private apartments, 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
into the neighboring room a number
of persons can assist at the mass.
The permission, when given. is OBJ.
tanned on applica ton to the "Maes-
tro di Camera, and is generally con-
coded only to distinguished foreign
persons. After saying mass himself
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. FIRE.
quently he gives the communion 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 Renaissance of Carpineto and of
the mountaineer's early life.
Every day at about ten he receives
the secretary of state, Cardinal Ram.
polla, and converses with him for a
good hour or more upon current
affairs. On Tuesdays and Fridays
the Secretary of State receives the
Diplomatic Corps in his own apart
ments, and on those days the under
secretary, Monsignor Rinaldini, con-
fers with the Pope in his chiefs place.
Cardinal Mario Mocenni, acting pre-
feet OF the Holy Apostolic Palaces"
is received by the Pope when he has
business to expound. On the first
and third Fridays of each month
the Maggiordomo, Monsignor della
Volpe, is received. and so on, in
order, the cardinal projects of the
several Roman congregations, the
under-secretaries, and all others in
charge of the various offices. In the
papal ante-chamber there is a list of
them, with the days of their audi
ences.
During the morning he receives the
cardinals, the bishops lad limina,"
ambassadors who are going away
on leave or who have just returned,
princes and members of the Roman
nobility and distinguished foreigners.
At ten O'Clock he takes cup of
broth brought by Contra. At two
in the afternoon, or little earlier, he
dimes. He is most abstemious, al
though 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 week.
Every day, unless indisposed, some
one is received in private audience.
These audiences are usually for the
cardinal projects of the congrega-
tions, the patriarchs, archbishops,
and bishops who are in Rome at the
time, and distinguished personages.
When the weather is fine, the Pope
generally walks or drives in the gar
den. He is carried out of his apart
ments to the gate in a sedan-chair
by the livered "sediarii," or chair
porters; or il he goes out by the
small door known as that of Paul V,
the carriage awaits him there, and
he gets in with the Cameriere Segre-
to Participants, who is always
monsignor. 1t is as well to say here,
for the benefit of non. Ca tholics, that
"monsignori" are not necessarily
bishops, noreven consecrated priests,
the title being really a secular one.
Two Noble Guards of the corps of
fifty gentlemen known under that
name ride beside the carriage doors.
His closed carriage is simple and
elegant brougham having his coat of
arms painted on the door. In sum-
mer be occasionally drives in an open
landau.
During the great heat of summer