Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-08


personal valet, Chevalier Contra. Re-
! minding these latter attendants that on
last year his illness had prevented
him from admitting them to his pres
ence, he begged them to thank with
him the Omnipotent, that instead OF
being now a mere bag Of bones 'un
nero sacco d'ossa,' he was relatively
well and strong and able, with Gods
assistance, to labor yet in the govern
ment of the Universal Church"
And his labors are by no means light
Pllgrimages from all parts succeed one
another rapidly, each presided by its
own cardinal or bishops, as the case
may be. Three sections of Piedwmon-
tese pilgrims, one conducted by the
Cardinal Archbishop of Turin. The
Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, in his
turn, came with the pilgrimage from
Lombardy, accompanied by their re-
spective suffragan bishops, whose do
ceses were represented amid the pill
grims. The bishops of Liguria brought
their diocesans: those from Apulia
the faithful OF their several sees;
those of Umbria came with their arch
bishops and bishops; from Trieste,
Trent, Goritz and from various parts
of France, numbers focked to gain the
Jubilee in Rome All OF these pilgrim
ages comprised several hundred per-
sons many counting two and three
thousand. The Pope, derogating from
the original rule lain down for recep-
ton of jubilee pilgrims, gave aud
fences to each group, either in the
Sistine Chapel or in the vast Hall of
the Benediction, above the atrium of
the Vatican Basilica, those from upper
Italy, Sicily and the Abruzzi numbering
some 5000, to whom were added several
thousand persons, as spectators, being
received in the Bascilica of st. Peter,
closed to the general public. In every
instance all cardinals, archbishops and
bishops had each separate or collec-
tive private audience of his holiness.
The 500 Greek Catholic pilgrims from
Hungary attracted much interested at
tention as vesting the national cos
tume-goat skin jackets with white
over dress embroidered in colors-
others in uniform with helmet and
swords. A pleasin episode of the
Lombard pilgrimage was the execution
by the alumni of the "Scholae. Can
forum of the seminaries of Milan, of
Como and of the Lombard College in
Rome; of motel, "Oremus pro Ponti-
fee Nostro Leone" composed in TWEEN
ty minutes, by Don Perosi, at the re-
quest of Cardinal Fertari, Archbishop
of Milan, and hastily learned by the
said alumni, under leadership of the
author. The Pope. hearing of the cir
cumstance. expressed the desire to
possess the original score. which, roll
ed in an appropriate case. was present.
ed him by Chapel Master Perosi, at
the close of the audience Another
gift to his holiness was a large. ele-
gantly bound volume containing $50
autograph signatures of nonagenarians,
offered by them to the sovereign pontif
in honor of his ninety-irst birthday.
The volume further contains an address
OF homage to the Pope, together with
several eloquent Latin distichs, COM
posed by Cardinal Frisco, Archbishop
of Naples.
Thursday last, 18th of March, the
pilgrimage from the Venetian prov
ince, in number $500. presided by the
cardinal patriarch of Venice. and 300
pilgrims from the diocese Of Salzburg,