The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-07-14
In the List of 258 There are Re-
markable Ones.
Great Fortunes Have Been Possessed
by Number of the Papal
Rulers.
ONLY ONE ENGLISH PoNTIFF

be found among them. Leo XIII. was
Gioacchino (Joa ,him) Pecoi. Plus ii
was Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini. In
noceut Y. was John Baptist Panfili
Innocent XII; Antonio Pignatelli
Clement Nil, Charles Rezzonico. q
Venetian; Leo Nil. Annibale della
Genga Plus TX Giovanni (John)
Maris Mary Mastai- Ferretti; Gregg.
~ XIV, Sfrondrate; Clement ",
Bertrand de Colt: Eugenius ",
Gabriel Condolmera; Calixtus Ill. F.,
Alfonso Borgia. Julius IL, Julian
della Revere: Julius ILL.,. Giovanni
NJ. Giocchi; Paul ", John Peter Ca.
RATA; Clement VIII, Hippilto ALDO.
brandini; Paul V 81, Camille Borghese |;
Plus VI, Barnsbo Chairamonti; Plus
VIII, Francis Xavier Castiglioni.
Adrian ". was the only Engl'shman
ever elected pope. He had q most sin.
gular nsme-Nicholss Brakespeare.
He is said to have left England as a
beggar and to have become a servant
or lay brother in a monastery near
Avignon, in France, where he stud
led with such diligence that in 1887,
at the age of 81, be was elected abbot.
Pope Eugenius Ill, that brilliant &C.
centric, soon discovered his merits
and made him a cardinal bishop. In
1854 he was elected pope against his
own inclination, and received the for
NAL congratulations of Henry ii. 1t
was Adrian ". who forced Frederick
1. of Germany to hold his stirrup
while he mounted his horse, though it
took two days to make the emperor
yield the desired homage. 1t is said
that Frederick Frustrated himself be-
fore the pope, kissed his foot, held his
stirrup and led the white palfrey on
which he rode.
Speaking OF Frederick H., nick
named Barbarosss Red Beard: Us il
not about time for that legend of the
whiskers TO round itself out? Long
after the emperor's death in the river
in Asia Minor story arose that he
was sleeping in mountain cave in
Germany, and that when the ravens
should cease to fly around the noun
tain he would awake and restore Ger
many to her ancient greatness. Ac-
cording to the story his beard has be-
come so long that it has grown through
the table beside which no sits, and it
m wrap itself three times around
BILE before his second advent.
he vatican consists OF a collection
o. buildings erected at various times
and for different purposes, the whole
constituting the papal residence, Ii
brary and a museum. The length Of
the library is 1.l5l feet, nearly five
of our city blocks. Its breadth is 767
feet. 1t has eight grand stair cases
twenty courts and over 1000 apart
ments of different sizes. The quar-
tiers inhabited by the pope are never
seen except by those who are admit.
ted to q special audience. The Libra
~ is the oldest and most cele brated in
Europe containing 40, 0co books and
25, 600 manuscripts. Neither books
nor manuscripts are to be seen they
ore inclosed In sealed cabinets. The
museum contains 10, 900 pieces of stat
uary yet so ample are It's proportions
that there is no crcwding. Here are
several of the noblest paintings of the
old masters, among them 1.-THE Jewel
Of the Vatican" the first picture in
the world. 1t is 1.-THE Transfisura.
tion." by Raphael Mr.. Morgan
would give IS, 900, 900 for it.
Juhus H., the fighting pope, who
began st. Peters's accommodated
Louis XI. The Archbishop of Auch,
the, kings ambassador at Rome, ad.
dressed the pope with the words,
Your wickedness, instead of Your
Holiness. Julius II. was not the
only wicked pope. Alexander W.,
who gave America to Spain and ASH
to Portugal, was poisoned at feast
by drinking Of bowl he had prepared
for another. A hundred thousand p,l
grims fiocked to his jubilee and pros,
trated themselves in alteration Of his
person. Singnlarly enough, his name
was Borgia. At Pope Leo's jubilee in
1898 $4,000 pilgrims were present in
and about st. Peters. Peters Pence
amounted to S;,l39.s00. Mass wa,
celebrated by the pope amid grea,