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

Russian government, was presented by
Prince Able Hohenlohe, afterward his
colleague in the Sacred College, to the
Grand Duke Michael, brother to the
Emperor Nicholas l, a passenger on
the same vessel, who at the close of a
prolonged and interesting colloquy,
said to his youthful interlocutor:
IN. liable, in few days l shall be
in st. Petersburg; tell me which do
cese in Poland you will prefer, and l
am certain my brother, the Emperor,
will willingly confer it upon you
And subsequently the Grand Duke
expressed himself as deeply Impressed
by the dignifed reply of the young
priest:
"Your imperial highness, permit me
to offer a word of good counsel; when
your august brother asks your advice
regarding the selection of an army Of
ficer, general of brigade, etc., give him
your opinion freely, but pray refrain
from counseling him as to the choice
of bishops"
Preconsized, in 1866, archbishop of
the united sees of Gnesen and Posen, in
Prussian Poland, he became in 1874
vicaim of the "kulturkampf" and was
confined two years close prisoner in
the fortress of Ostrow, during which
captivity he was raised to cardinalitial
honors, with the priestly title OF S.
Maria in Araooeli by he late Pope Plus
TX, in the Secret Consistory of March
Is, 1875. But, fortunately, unlike his
prototype, Cardinal Fisher, Bishop Of
Rochester, of sained memory, also
created cardinal titular of ST. Vitalis
by Pope Paul ILL., May %, 1888, while
imprisoned under the crowned tyrant,
Henry VIII, of England, his royal
prosecutor cleft him head wherein
to wear the red hat" On his release
from captivity, being inhibited from
returning to his diocese, which he was
finally constrained to resign in 1888, he
came to Rome, where he has since re-
manned.
Saturday, March 8, current, the an
nual solemn function in honor of the
twenty-second anniversary of the in
coronation of the reigning sovereign
pontiff was held in the Sistine, throng-
ed to overthrowing, while the spacious
ducal and royal halls were likewise
crowded with persons DESTROYS to wit
ness the imposing cortege, as the Pope
was borne with pomp and dignity, high
on the Sedia Gestatoria, between the
fiabelli, into the chapel. where, from
the throne, he assisted at the high
mass, pontificated by Cardinal Mazella,
the music being led by Don Lorenzo
Perosi, perpetual director of the papal
Sistine choir, who further executed the
'Tu es Petrus," new and splendid
composition by Don Perosi, written
expressly for and presented by the
author to the holy father on his nine
tyfirst birthday. An innovation in the
customs of the Sistine choir was the
addition to its ranks of ten boys from
the busical school of the Christian
brothers and six from that of Abate
Muller, of the Church of S. Maria
dell 'Anima, who, under the able lead
ership of Don Perosi, did their masters
the utmost credit; the chorus was like
wise reinforced by several alumni Of
the Vatican Seminary and the German
Hungarian College.
Prior to repairing the Sistine chapel
his holiness had accepted the birthday
and congratulations of his entire &C.
clesiastical and military household, as
also the good wishes Of the CORDS Of