Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-07-30
POPE LEO XIIIDEAD
His Splendid Battle with Disease
Watched the World Over.
Although In Pain He Whispered d Bcne-
dIctions Upon Those Around Him
An Imposing Procession
P0ntiR's Remains Taken
from the Vatican.


at four minutes past o'clock Mon
day afternoon and the pontiff now
lies at rest.
The period of over two weeks that
Pope Leo passed in the shadow of
death was no less wonderful than his
life. His splendid battle against dis
ease was watched the world over
with sympathetic admiration and
ended only after a series of tremen-
-dous efforts 10 conquer the weakness
of his aged frame by the marvellous
will power of his mind.
The emaciated and lifeless frame
which held so brave spirit lies on
the bed in the Vatican beside which
almost all the world has prayed.
Pope Leo's final moments were
marked by that same serenity and
devotion and, when he was conscious,
that calm intelligence which is asso-
,ciated with his 25-year pontifcate.
His was no easy death. An hour be-
fore he died, turning to DR.. Lapponi
and his devoted valet Pho Contra, he
murmured: THE pain | suffer is
most terrible" Yet his parting
words were not of the physical an
guish that he suffered, but were whis
pered benediction upon the cardinals
and his nephews, who knelt at the
bedside, and the last look of his al
most sightless eyes was towards the
great ivory crucifX hanging in the
death chamber.
The condition of his holiness varied
from agony to coma. Wishing to re-
lieve him. DR.. Mazzoni suggested that
morphine should be administered, but
DIR. Lapponi did not agree, fearing
that the end might be quickened.
OF this supreme moment DR.. Lap
poni said: Death occurred through
exhaustion. although in the last two
hours Pope Leo made Il supreme eff
fort to gather together all his ener-
gies. He succeeded in recognizing
those about him by the sound of
their voices. as his sight was almost
entirely lost Still he made a mar
velous display of his energy and even
his death was really grand. 1t was
resigned, calm and serene. Very few
examples can be given of a man of
such advanced age after so eXhaus-
tive an illness showing such supreme
courage in dying"
The perfect administrative machin-
cry of the church provided against
the slightest interruption of the gov
erning authority. As the senior mem
ber of the sacred college, Cardinal
Oreglia, to whom the pope yesterday
solemnly confided the interests of the
church, has now become the expon-
>ent of the cardinals until Pope Leo's
successor has been elected. This has
brought forth Cardinal OregIia as the
striking personality of the hour.
of pone Leo. having none of the late
nontiff's symDatbetic and benevolent
characteristics. He comes from n
noble Picdmontese stock and his no.
bility is shown in his baughty and
austere bearing He is not popular
among his colleagues or the Romans.
and his brusoue manner has earned
him the title of 'The Piedmont bear"
He is tall and robust and his a wears
are shown bv the whitencss of hig
hair. His face has the tawny hue Of
old parchment and is deeply lined
Rome. July 23.-.At s O'Clock last
evening all was in readiness to take
the body of the pope from the Vati-
can to the basiIica of St. Peters. ri o
mournful procession gathered around
the bier. which was lifted bv the So
diari. who in the lifetime of Leo NIT
had carried him in the sedio pes+,-
toria. The dead pontiff was clad in
all the pomD of his holy office About
him had been pIaced fbe socerdotnI
robes used only when he celebrated
= GRAND mass The vestmen+e wore
those which no ,,.oro fo,. tbo I,.+ ti,,.o
in life in tbe bau of tba copsis+ot,,
,,ban be corfrnnod tba ,rnoit, >
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