The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-26

a gold plate with the legend, American
pilgrimage to Rome, 1900" His holiness
greatly admired the gift, thanking his
children for their loving generosity. All
professed themselves really astonished at
the relatively ford aspect of the holy
father and this with the greater salts
faction that the Liberal papers basing
their supposition upon the fact of an in
term of two days in papal audiences, had
that morning gravely announced a sud
den and alarming illness of the sovereign
pontin, with consequent prohibition by his
medical attendants of further receptions
for the time being. Nothing could be
more false, notwithstanding the existing
somewhat torrid heat, though naught in
comparison with that chronicled in Lon
don, Paris, Madrid and New York. Leo
Kill. continues to- enjoy the best OF
health and proposes. on Aug next. to
visit anew the basilica Of st. Peter for his
fourth jubilee pilgrimage of the holy year.
Inc american pilgrimage having COM
pleted Its Jubilee visits leaves Rome to-
morrow, Monday. for Florence; thence to
Venice and Tyrol, going to the passion
play at Oberammergau, to Germany,
switzerland Paris, etc, intending to re-
turn to America in September next
Notwithstanding all rumors to the con-
trary, those most deeply in the pope's
secrets declare there will be no con-
Slstory before early in January, 1901. in
Whlcn eleven cardinals will be- in all
PROBABILITY created, five of italian ma
uonal1ty, whom Dame RuInor asserts to
De the present assessor of the inquisi-
uon-the pontifcal majordomo. the papal
almoner, the vice secretary of state MOI
Irlpepi, and the archbishop of Benevento
END the apostolic nunoio at Vienna Arch.
olshGp Taliani. Those neo-princes of the
church, OF foreign birth, six in number.
are not yet publicly surnised at with
the sole exception of the prince-bishop
OF Cracow, Mgr. Puzyna, who is uni.
Versally held as sure of the red hat"
According to current gossip, the learned
canonist. Mgr. Cavagnis, will be nom;-
mated assessor of the supreme tribunal
OF the holy office; Mgr Della Chiesa.
secretary of the sacred congregation of
extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs; Mgr
Costantini, papal auditor; Mgr. Bisleti
pontifical almoner; Mgr. Cagiano de
Azevedo, papai majordomo; Mgr Mis-
ciatelli, papal grand chamberlain. and.
finally, Archbishop Tarnassi, papal inter
nunclo TO Holland, whose proposed mis-
sion to Russia meets with constant draw
backs. will succeed Mgr. Tripepi as vice
secretary of state to his holiness These
lists are in nowise Official, but merely
emoody those names of candidates sui,
! flctentlY diffused and accredited in usual
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| er persistent report Genes through the
Catholic organ, the Baheris:her Kurier.
| TO the effect that Notwithstanding the
constant denials both of Berlin ana of
| Rome, negotiations are quietly going for
ward between the Vatican and the Ger
man government relative to the estab.
lishment of an apostolic nunciature with
| In the limits OF the German empire The
project, as is we'll known, is dear to the
heart Of Leo XIII though openly an
! tagoniZed by Protestant influence as also
by certain high Catholic personalities
The question in itself is closely linked
with another important move pending
Tor over q year-that of the Inaugural ton
of Catholic faculty in the ancient Uni
versity of Strasburg. organized in 1921
and reopened in 1872. Should the pope
authorize the foundation of the desired
faculty, the emperor would give his con-
sent to the establishment of a nunciature
within the empire, in which case the
present apostolic nuncio in Bavaria
Archbishop Sambucett, so well known
to American Catholics, he having been
many years affiliated with the diocese
Of Louisville, KY, and afterwa~d en-
ployed for considerable space of time in
the sacred congregation of the Propa-
ganda as minutante or under secretary
specially charged with the ecclesiastical
affairs of the church in the Unite
States, would quit Munich and take n,
his official residence In some city of cen
tral Germany, possibly Dresden, and
Prof. Won IIertling. an influential deputy
of the German center, would be named
ambassador from Germany to the hol.
see.