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CARDINAL SATOLLI.
Former Papal Delegate to
the United States Now
Project of Studies
in Rome.
A GREAT EDUCATIONAL CENTRE
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A GREAT EDUCATIONAL CENTRE

In q recent letter l announced that 1aiS
Eminencs Cardinal Satolli had been mace
Project of Studies by His Holiness, says
the Rome correspondent of the Free
mans Journal" Press of news prevented
me at the time from giving more than
a brief statement of the fact to the read
ers of the New York Freeman's Journal,
but 1 canno permit an event SO import
ant in itself and so interesting to Ameri-
can Catholics to pass by altogether with
out m Rome is looked at from
many points of view by different persons.
The archaeologist, the historian, the art
ist, the aesthetic, the pilgrim has each his
particular yearning to 1.-THE city OF the
soul,' as Byron called it in an immortal
line. But Rome possesses, perhaps, great
er interest for the educationalist than
for anybody else. Exclusive of the secu-
lar universities supported by the Italian
Government and frequented by thousands
of students from all parts of Italy, Rome
is a very hive of ecclesiastical learning.
Aldhelm says that in the sixth and sew
enth centuries the students of England
''swarmed lige bees TO the great school
of Ireland, but to-day ecclesiastical stu
dents are "swarming like bees" from all
parts of the world to Rome. The Eter-
nal City contains at least half a dozen,
great universities for the training OF the
Christian priesthood. Your path through
the city is constantly crossed by Gamer
atlas" of Church students walking in dou-
BILE file, and If you take your stand any
morning OF the steps OF the Churcn Oh ST.
Ignatius about 8 O'Clock and look down
the narrow Via del Seminario you VIII be
rewarded with such a vision of cosmopoh-
tan and picturesque studenthood as is
nowhere else TO be seen. Swarming ike
bees come the Trinitarians, bareheaded,
in their beautiful habit, the F'ranciscans
in austere brown. Olivetans. clad in white,
the German student in red cassocks and
soprano. the South Americans in black
and pale blue, the canny Scots in black
relieved by purple. Belgians, English and
a dozen other n~ationalities each CARRIED in
its distinctive n~ationalities. Pay a visit
then to the Propaganda, and you will find
students of every race and color repre-
scented in the crowded benches and drink
ing the Latin lecture with as much facil-
ity as il Latin were their native language.
1t was as lecturer on dogmatic theology
in this great university that DR.. Satolh
began his career in Rome. He leetured
still when made Archbishop of Lepanto,
and even still when made rector OF the
academy which turns out most OF the
Church diplomats. His career in the
United States, important as it was and
far-reaching as its effect will ~undoubted-
ly be, was merely and incident In ms
life, for Cardinal Satolli was always pre-
eminently and essentially a great educa-
~tionalist. 1t was to be an educationalist
tina Pope Leo brought him first from
Perugino to Rome; and his recent up
pointment to be Project of Studies in the
Eternal City shows that Pope Leo means
the great Cardinal to be an educational
list still. His nomination to this import
ant position is a pledge of a broad and
vigorous direction of the intellectual
movement in the Church, and his pro-
found learning, broad culture and grasp
of the conditions of modern life are an
augury that the bent of ecclesiastical ecu
cation in Rome will be distinctiyeiy prae-
tical and solid.