The age-herald., 1900-07-08
THE POPE'S HEALTH
How He Appeared at the Recent Public
 Audiences

Rome Letter June 12) to The Philadelphia
 Catholic Standard and Times.
 The truth is this: That the audiences, receptions and public appearances of the
 Pope during the season of canonization
 and justification have been exceedingly numerous-as many two three public
 appearances weekly and a great many
 more audiences daily. On Thursday, June
 z, his physician decided that it was neces-
 sary to postpone the pilgrimage reception
 fixed for the following day to June 9, and
 again from June to some unknown date.
 Meantime a Justification took place. On
 the morning of Sunday, June 10, the Ven
 erabe Donysius of the Nativity and Re-
 demptus of the Cross were beatified in the Vatican Basiica- If his holiness paid the
 customary visit to the basiica in the after noon, it was certain that no evil import attached to the suspension of the pilgrim age receptions
 This was a general, a popular feeling. Hence there was a general expectation and a general excitement in the throng of many thousands filling the basilica on the after noon of Sunday last. This throng was greater than it would have been had the reception taken place. So was the throng of pilgrims. On the gospel side of the al- tar were the pilgrims from Metz and Mall ta; near the statue of St. Peter those from Perugia. The excitement had something of feverish; it was also il-repressed. When, after 5:30 o'clock, the Pope was seen borne out from the Blessed Sacrament Chapel on the sedia gesta toria clad in his cassock of white and embroidered mozzetta of crim- son velvet, there broke forth, grew, swelled and re-echoed during all his long passing one of those ovations which make men weep for very gladness.
 He was pale, and he seemed to be tired I think this much may be frankly allowed But when he is not pale, and when can a Pope in the nineties of his years be free from fatigue? Moreover, he, like many less aged man, is different in healthfulness and in the manifestations of healthfulness from day to day, in ways quite unaccount- able and beyond the cure as well as the ken of physician. His highly susceptible temperament may be supposed to receive | impressions from the weather beforehand | and afterward, indirectly, imperceptibly, | and always mysteriously. Certain it is that no pledge can ever be given for the mor- | row-he may be better than expectation or | he may be more palid and wearied. It is possible and even likely that he was | influenced thus and not by indisposition on | Sunday, but it is certain that he had re- | covered else he could not have undergone such a strain and such fatigue, nor have looked so well and displayed such activity. | Thus, when he came to the statue of St. | Peter, where were the pilgrims of his for l mer diocese, he stopped for a time and l blessed them particularly with special pa | ternity, and received an equally special | ovation. In the apse, before the chair of | St. Peter, and the glory of the newly | beatified, he incensed the blessed sacra- I ment, assisted by Cardinal Alosi Masella, | pro-Perfect of the Congregation of Rites. | Then he knelt at the faldstool while the | hymn "Sanctorum Merits was sung by | the Capella Giulia he sat while the Litany l of the Sacred Heart was sung by the Au- gustinians of Santa Monica, and knelt
 while the "Tantum Ergo was sung by the Capella Giulia and benediction of the | blessed sacrament given by Monsignor de | Neckere Archbishop of Melytene. The ser l vice over, he gave audience to the relatives | of the Blessed Dionysius of the Nativity | and accepted gifts-the relics of the two
 blessed, flowers, and the lives and pictures
 of the blessed. He was greeted with an | other splendid demonstration as he was
 borne out of the basica.
 l Soldiers and sailors were raised to the | altars in the Justification of the seventy
 three martyrs of China, Cochin-China and | Tonquin. A soldier and a sailor were beat | flied on Sunday-the Blessed Dionysius of | the Nativity and Redemptus of the Cross. The former was a Breton, and therefore al-
 most naturally a sailor. He served in the | French and Dutch navies before his reli- | gious work in India. The latter was Por- | tuguese, and went to India in the national
 army Both saw and felt fire-the one by | land the other by sea. Both became Car | melites went as such in an embassy to
 the King of Achin, Sumatra; languished
 in prison for Christ's name, and died after
 great suffering and became the proto-mar- l tyrs of the sandaled Carmelites.
 | This is the last justification for the
 nonce It is the third in order, the other
 two being those of the Blessed Maria Mad
 dalena Martinengo da Barco, O. s. F. C.,
 and of the seventy-three martyrs of China,
 Cochin China, and Tonquin. The series of
 these singular ceremonies was opened by
 the canonization of St. John Baptist de la | Sa11e and Rita of Ca Scia There
 summer heats at present, but they will
 come When they have gone and the
 crowds of pilgrims marking the second
 part of the holy year have begun to ar
 rice, other Qualifications will take place,
 The first is, believe fixed for the month
 of September.
 Besides the Malta, Metz, and Perugia
 pilgrimagee mentioned above, there are