The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-13
Crowned Princes of the Roman Catho-
lie Church, Embraced and Blessed
by Pope Plus.
AN IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY
THAT WAS WITNESSED BY A THRONG
OF SPECTATORS.
Titles Conferred Later by the Pope
at q Secret COnsistory-Russian
"Butcher" I'm Disgrace.

ROME, Nov. 12.-Pope Plus X held his
first public consistory to-day. Five car
dinals received their red hats. The whole
apostolic palace seemed to be excited, the
Pope himself being about the only person
who remained calra.
The ceremonies began at 1880 o'clock a.
m, when the five cardinals who were to
receive the red hat-Mgr. Merry del Val,
Mgr. Callegari, the archbishop Of Padua;
Mgr. Ajuti, the papal nuncio at Lisbon;
Mgr. Taliani, the papal nuncio at Vienna,
and Mgr. Katshthaler. the archbishop Of
Salisbury, Austria-went to the Sistine
Chapel to take the oath before Cardinals
Oreglia. Rampolla and Macchi, heads of the
three orders Of the Sacred College. Mgr.
Merry del Val and Mgr. Callegari wore
their red robes for the first time, and the
group of prelates formed a most striking
picture. the effect being heightened by the
Incompatible singing of the Sistine choir,
directed by the Able Perosi.
TIL public exercises were held in the
Sala Regia, which was filed to overlooking.
There was a storm of applause and cries
of Long live Pope Plus" and Long live
the Pontif," when the Pope descended
from seda gestatoria in which he had
been borne to the hall by eight scarlet
clad Sediarfa, thanked by the great feather
fans. Naturally there were comparisons of
Plus x with the late Pope Leo XIII. Only
a few months ago the figure which then oc-
cupied the sedia gestatoria was frail and
bowed. more like q spirit than a man. Now
His Holiness was clothed in full pontifcal
robes, with the mitre, an immense emerald
sparkling on his finger as he raised his
hand to bless the assemblage. Preceding
him We're the celebrated Swiss Guards the
cardinals coming close behind them. The
noble guards came next, escOrting the
Pontiff. who was followed by a train of
bishops, priests, monks and court laymen,
at the end of the procession being another
detachment of guards.
The Pontiff seated himself on the throne
at the end of the hall. while the cardinals
went to their stalls on either side. with the
bishops at the left. Intense silence then
fell over the assembled throng, and then
the new cardinals were introduced by the
master of who, as they knelt one
by one before the Pope, held a cardinals
hat over their heads. Thereupon the
nsnai for with real re emotion ein sa repeated the
sions. after which he embraced the five
cardinals tenderly. The newly honored
prelates then arose and went to each of
their brother cardinals and gave and re-
ceived the usual fraternal embrace. the
choir in the meanwhile singing softly.
When the ceremony of the exchange of
embraces was ended the Pope rose. be-
and then withdrew. the halls and loggies
echOing with acclamations as he passed
on his way to his apartments.
After returning thanks In the Sistine
Chapel the new cardinals, with the other
cardinals, retired to the hall of the con-
sistory to hold a supplementary secret con-
sistory, during which the Pope granted
them the privilege of participating in and
speaking at meetings of the congregations
placed the cardinals ring on their fingers
and made each of them a titular bishop of
a church in Rome. The Pope gave Cardinal
Del Val the title to the church of Santo
Maria ad Praesepe, one of the oldest in
Rome.
Among the Americans who were present
at the public consistory were the students
of the American College with Vice Rector
Murphy, Bishop Labrecque, of Chicoutimi,
Quebec, and Father Meyer. assistant gen.
eral of the Jesuits.
The sisters of the Pope sat in the box set
aside for the family of the Pontiff. They
were dressed entirely in black. with black
wells, according to etiquette. They seemed
quite overcome at seeing their brother In
the midst of such pomp and adulation. and
several times were seen to wipe away tears.
One of the sisters said after the
ITO see how the Pope is loved repays me
for the sacrifice of not living with him
any more"