The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-19

pants of the chair OF St. Peter made
by an Irish monk. St. Malachy. more
than 200 years ago. st. Malachy's re-
markable success in predicting the line
OF papal succession in the past leads
many people to think his prediction will
be again fulfilled on the death of the
present pope. According TO the Irish
saint the next welTer OF the tiara will
be man of FIRE"
There are several canonicai DEGREES
prohibiting electioneering for the tiara
l during the lifetime of q pope. But, like
| the ancient customs Of Denmark. they
are more hOnored in the breach than in
the observance. So even before there
| is any certainty of .Ae date Of official
summons to the cOnclave the specula-
ton as to its possible choice goes on.
A few weeks ago Pope Leo. speaking
TO a foreign bishop who was visiting
him, said:
4 am very old. very far advanced in
years. Yet / require at least another
| four years of life to carry out all my
plans, my ideas; four years at the very
least God alone knows if they win be
granted me-"
In September. 1894. there was also
much talk about the papal succession.
a statement made by Cardinal Paroc-
Chi started it. Pope Leo, referring to
! this gossip in a conversation he had
| with the Duke of MontaltO, said that
] perhaps the conclave was yet far off,
as he came of lOng-lived family. most
of the Peccis having been over 80 when
they died, and then he added:
so il seems to me that certain car
dinals who interest themselves so much
as to my successor rush along too fast.
They wish to divide the skin of the
bear while the bear is yet alive"
Pope's Long Reign.
Leo XIII is now in the twenty
seventh year of his pontificate. Only
seven of the 262 popes preceding him
reigned twenty-One years. The aver
age length of the papal reign is a little
more than seven years. Ten pOpes died
within a month after their election. The
shortest reign was that of stephen II
three days. The choice of the pope IS
usually made from the cardinals, but
it is not generally known that lay
man might legally be chosen, provided
he shall take holy orders before his
coronation.
1t is known, though. that internation-
al as well as ecclesiastical politics plays
a considerable part in the election
There are two parties now in forma
active influence among the cardinals
the instransigeans or supporters of the
rights of temporal sovereignty. and the
|
measure of compromise with the Ital-
ian government. OF the first Cardina
Parocchi. the late vicar of the pope
was the candidate; OF the second Car
dinal SerafinO Vannutelli is the leader
Cardinal Rampolla, the secretary o.
state. is believed to be the ablest mar
! in the sacred college, but like manl
another statesman, this strength is hi
greatest weakness as i candidate Car
dinals Oreglia. Jacobini and Satoll
! are also regarded as available in TIT
clash of the two groups.
There are, Of course, outsiders. anC
it is in the consideration of these tina
the forecasts of St. Malachy's prOph
ecies come into immediate view in thei
application to the personality of tn
next pope.
The Prophet and His Signs.
: St. Malachy was an Irish saint. borl
> in Armagh in the year 1904. He be
came in time archbishop of that see
: He was an intimate friend of St. Der
: nard. abbot OF Clairvaux, France, ant
died in the latter's arms on Nov. ?. HAS
p in his ffty-fourth year.
His series of prophecies concerning
r the succession of popes has for severa
hundred years been a marvel to sue
ceeding generations. They are frs
Z mentioned in print by Arnold Wion.
monk of Monte Casino, in 1885, in hi
t book. ''Lignum Vitae" Another work
= written in 1870 by John Germano an
/, published in Naples, is called The Life
+ Works and Prophecies Of Holy st. Nal
. achy." The prophecies are also to b
a found in a History of the Popes.
: dated Lyons, 1888; in the Able de Val
lemont's Elements de lHistoire,' 1fO,
) and other volumes of more recent date
. These predictions are short forecasts
;. giving some noticeable trait of all tn
= future pOpes. from Celestine II, VIII
was elected in the year 1l30. until I'll
= end of time, which. in accordance wit
! this scheme. will come with the tent
: pontiff after the present incumbent
] reign is over. AS the good saint has
e however. not indicated the duration G
each reign the average mortal of toda
need have no immediate terror Of tn
i general judgment.
The condolences of the prediction
y have in many instances been most re
5 markable. Those for the pontiffs of til
present century Will serve TO. show I'll
s scope Of the prophecies and their seem
o ing accuracy.
lists of This Century.
Pope Plus VI was elected Feb. 1
1875. St. Malachy's title for him va
''Peregrinus ApOstclicus the Apps
Z
y much iourneying in France. The title
a predicted for his successors were as 70
e lows:
i 1S0O-"Aquila Rapax' RapacioU
: Eagle. Plus VII, mad a black eagle
2 his coat of arms. The eagles Of Ma
D poleon sliced his dominions and cal
ried the pope himself into exile.
was only when Napoleon was overborr
at Waterloo that he returned to Ron
and his throne. in May. 1914
i 1S23-"Canis ct COluber'-DOg an
y Serpent. Pope Leo XII was, like the:
n two natures. watchful. patient and PR
t den..
l. IS29-"Vir Religiosus Most Relig
5 Gus Man Plus VIII, was most piol
n and sanity pope.
: 1SS1-'De Balneis Etruriae'-Fro
e. the Baths OF Tuscany. Pope Oregon
r XVI was a native of BellunO and
Canaldolese monk from Camaldoli,
Tuscany.
1S46-"Crus de Cruce'-Cross from II
J. Cross. Pope Plus TX was one of q
t most afflicted of the pontiffs. He Wa
.e exiled from 1s4S to 1850 and despoil,
= of two thirds Of his possessions. FIJI
q ally in 1870 Victor Emmanuel took po
& session of Rome itself and the pope die
4. eight years later, the prisoner of Il
vatican" The royal house of SavO
his prosecutors, mas q white cross
its armorial bearings.
187S-"Lumen in Coelo''-Light in q
81 Heavens. The family crest of the Pc
If els. Pope Leo's escatcheon. has tn
$ distinguishing mark.
= End of the Papal Line.
- Only ten more popes will follow L
IF XIII. according to st. Malachy, and