The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-07-24
POPE LEO XIII
DIED ON MONDAY
HE DIED AS HE HAD LIVED, BLESSING
MANKIND
The Body Now Lies In State-PictureSIu
CeremOnials Following The POpe's
Death Lasting Many Days

~ uodu 10 lasG hlChet VI llit tx
spired 1T four minutes past 4 o'clock
a Monday afternoon and the PontiH
|, was at rest.
sg The period Of over two weeksthat
gRope Leo passed in the shadow of
death was no less wonderful than
= his lif". His splendid battle against
disease waa watched over with ~ m
patheti admiration and ended only
Nafter a series Of tremendous ef
sforts to conquer the weakness of
This aged frame by thp marvellous
will power of his mind. The pleuro-
pneumonia, with which his holiness
Was suffering, was scarcely as re-.
sponsible for his death as that inev
table decay of tissue which ensues
upon 93 years of life. The tested
steel which had bent 80 often before
human ills was bound to break at
last.
THE BODY OF THE POPE.
Monday night the emscated and
lifeless form which held 80 brave d
spirit lay on the bed in the Vatican
beside which almost all tho world
has prayed. The damask coverlet
rested lightly over the body, the Car
4 dinals scarlet cape was about the
shoulders, while Oh his head had
\ been placed the Fapal hood of vel
y vet, bordered with ermine. A white
silk handkerchief WAS bound about
sshisa chin, and in the hands which
shave blessed 30 many thousands had
been placed crucitix. So Pope
Leo remained until Tuesday, watched
by uniformed officers of the Noble
Guard and rough clad Franciscan
J, penitentisries, who kept ceaseless
( vigil.
! GRAND IN DEATH AS IN LIFE.
,a The Pope's final moments we're
marke | by that same serenity and
Sgdevotion as when he was conscious;
q that calm intelligence which is asso-
n $Bciated with his twenty five years
54 Pontlticate. His was no easy death.
An hour before he died, turning to
SDr. LaPponi and his devoted valet,
&Pio Contra, he murmured: "The
5#pain l suffer is most terrible" Yet
8 his parting words were not of the
physical anguish \that he suffered,
Ssbut were whispered benedlctions up
,4on ,4on the Cardinals and his nephewe,
who knelt at the bedside, and the
,Syf;last look Of his almost sightless eyes
s@as towards the great ivory crucltix
hanging in the death chamber
Il practically all the Cardinals in
Rome, kneeling at the bedside
h watched the passage of his soul
Earlier i'll the day Cardinal Seratinc
,4Vannutelli had impress,veIy pro.
nounced the absolutou in urticulc
gmortis.
SG Tho condition of his Holiness
varied from agony to COMA Wish
Sing to relieve him, DR.. Mazzoni sug
4 gested that morphine should be ad
y ministered, but Dr. Lapponi did no
agree, fearing that the end might bt
quickened.
THE poPE's SUCCESSOR.
Meantime events Of momenton,
importance to Catholic Christ endon
were occurring The death of Pop,
Leo meant tho passing of the 81.
preme power into the hands Of tn,
Sacred College of Cardinals as it
Temporary custodian during the in
terregnum.
The perfeet administrative ma
ehinery Of the Church provided
sgeinst the slightest interruption o
the governing authority, As th'
senior member Of the Sacred College
Cardinal Oreglia, to whom the Pope
,soIemnly oonfided tho interests of th
Church, has now become the expon
ent of the Cardinals until Pop
Leo's successor has been elected
Thie brought forth Cardinal Oregli
as the striking personality of tn
hour.
THE TEMPORARY POPE.
The Cardinal ia the exact antithe
eis Of Pope Loo, having none Of tn