The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-19

dinal MartinelA is a member of the Au-
gusttnian order this viii be the color also
of his ordinary costume like the habit
of the order. But the skull cap, beA
eta and hat are always scarlet. The
ordinary walking dress is covered with a
ferraiolone of violet MORE with collar
and facings Of the same materials. In
winter there is also a cloak of violet or
scarlet cloth with gold cording.
The cardinals di curia, or those resid-
ing in Rome, are entitled to "a yearly in
come, or piattb cardinalizio, of $1,000 lire
about S64OOTwhich is paid out of the
Peters pence.l The cardinals dwelling
ordinarily have these, special apartments:
At the entrance, an antechamber for the
domestics. Above a credence are the
arms Of the cardinal under canopy. On
the wall are suspended his two kneeling
cushions, one of red and the other Of
violet silk, and his two umbrellas of the
same colors. These last arc for covering
him when he is making a solemn entry
into church OR following the Yiaticum
bareheaded. The second room is for the
cardinals secretary The third is called
the antechamber of the beretta, because
the red beretta is placed there on a
console before crucffix. Then comes
the throne room, which has already been
described.
When cardinal asserts that the pope
has said this or that, or has given such
an order, he must be believed on his
word without being obliged tc prove It.
This IS called the oraculum vivae vocis.
Cardinals should be thirty years of
age Mgr. Martinelli wA1 be one of the
youngest members of the college. He is
now fifty-three Cardinal Skebensky.
archbishop OF Prague is the youngest,
being only thirty-eight. Cardinal Wives
Tuto comes next. He is forty-Seven,
then Mgr. Martinelli fits in
When the Sacred coIsge is cornplete
there are seventy cardinals, viz, six
bishops, fifty priests and fourteen dea-
cons. Cardinals of a lower order have,
with tie consent of the pope, the right
OF opinion to pass to higher order
he deacons can choose the vacant
places of the cardinal priests if they
nave been deacons for ten years, and
nave been ordained to tie priesthood.
The senior cardinal priest in Rome when
one of the six bishoprics falls vacant
has the option to succeed to it, with the
exception of the sees of Osita and of
Porto, which are reserved for the Dean
and the sGb-dean of the Sacred college.
The dean is the senior cardinal dating
from his promotion to one of the sees.
There are now siXty-seven cardinals,
forty Italians, and twenty of other
national1ties. 1T is said that Pope Leo
Kill desires always to have the mem
bership near the plenum or limit, and
that ne said just before making out the
recent list of twelve new cardinals:
Better that. there should he as many
as possible to choose from in the next
conclave." Pope Pious TX having had
the longest reign created the most cor
dinals, 17S; Pope Leo XIII has buried
1876 cardinals since he began his ponti-
fcate
Besides Cardinal NEartinelli seven other
cardinals have had to do with the church
in North America They are Cardinal
Cheverous the first bishop OF Boston;
Cardinal CcC4usky, archbishop Of New
York; Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore;
Cardinal TaschureaH, of Quebec; Car
dinal Persico, bishop of Savannah; Car
dinal Mazzella, the Jesuit -theologian and
professor at the college at Woodstock,
Md, and Cardinal Satoili, former dele
gate to the United States. OF these,
Cardinals Cheverus, Persico and MAJ
celia had left this country before they
were created cardinals
Most of these facts about the cardinals
are related on the authority ofJthe
learned Jesuit. the Rev. William E1um-
phrey, who has written so entertainIngly
on the machinery by which the supreme
pontiff governs the visible Catholic
church