Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-07
A POPE is CHOSEN.
Cardinal Sarto Elected on the
Seventh Ballot.
The New PontIT liz 6S Years of Ago
and Is Very Popular in Venice
Where He was Bishop
He Assumes the Title
of Plus ".

hOlnC, Aug. Inc tOnCluNe
being in session for four days yes
terday elected Giuseppe Sarto, pa
triarch of Venice, as pope to succeed
Leo NH and he now reigns at the
Vatican and over the Catholic world
as Plus X.
His election and the assumption of
his holy Office were marked by a
striking demonstration and impress
sive ceremonies at the Vatican.
Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto was born
at Riese, province of Venice, June >,
1885. He was very learned in the &C.
clesiastical doctrines, is modest, en-
ergetic, good administrator and or
ganizer, a patron of the arts and his
seriousness always has been proven
bial.
Cardinal Sarto belonged to the &C.
clesiastical congregations of bishops
and regulars, sacred rites, indul-
gences and sacred relics. He enjoy
ed great popularity in his diocese.
He is honored by all for his purity,
for the strict uprightness of his life
and for liberal ideas. He is a modest
and agreeable man. highly cultivated,
very kind hearted and still strong
! and robust in spite of his 6s years.
he has never taken great part in the
political and public life of the church.
but divided his time in study and
! good works.
/ Although most faithful to the Holy
| See he was presented to the king and
queen of Italy in Venice. He was
considered among the more liberal
members of the Italian episcopate
and sacred college. 1t is said that
Leo NIL sided with him on one occa-
sion when Sarto disapproved of Ram
polla's policy.
Plus y was only % when he was
consecrated priest at Castel France,
acting afterwards for nine years as
coadjutor to the parish priest of
Tombolo, province of Padua, a small
village of $3.50 people, who were the
first to appreciate his virtues. His
| Kindness was untiring. He sought to
fill their wants and never murmur
was heard when he was called in the
middle of a winter night to a DEATH
bed which proved to be nothing of.
the kind He gave freely of his very
small means until he often went
without meals himself, but he kept
many poor familyAfrom starvation.
In 1875 he was elected chancellor of
the bishopric of Treviso, then spir-
itual director of that seminary, judge
of the ecclesiastical tribunal and final
ly vicar general.
Pope Leo, who had highly appre-
ciated his cleverncss, piety and mod
esty, appointed him in November,
1854, at the age of 40 years, bishop of
Mantua, where he remained nine
years, until 1898, when he was made
a cardinal and appointed patriarch
of Venice. He there distinguished
himself as a thorough reformer, sup
pressing all abuses, restoring the
dignity of the clergy and the earnest
ness of religion. To him is due the
revival of a Gregorian chant in the
beautiful churches overlooking the
lagoons, and to him is due the strict
return to Iiturgic rules.
Sarto became the idol of the Vene-
tians. When his gondola went
through the canals the people rushed
on the bridges and along the sides of,
the canals, ineeling and saluting, the
women eNclaiming God bless the
patriarch"
He has very modest tastes. having
retained almost the same habits as
when he was a mere curate.
The election of the patriarch of
Venice was unanimous. After Mon
days ballots it was a foregone con-
clusion that he was the only candi-
date sufficiently acceptable to all to
secure the necessary two-thirds,
which the laws Cf the church require
One of the cardinals said last night
that he believed Plus y would follow
the broad lines of Leos policy, al
though not likely to accentuate it.
This voices the general feeling here,
which is one of satisfaction.
All the members of the sacred col
lege declare that they are very well
satisfied with the election OF Cardinal
Sarto, but the antl-Rampolla party
consider it as their special victory.
The new pope is one of eight chill.
dren, two sons and six daughters.
One of his sisters is a dressmaker,
another is married to a sacristan and
peddler, a third married wine shop
keeper and the others are unmarried.
The new pope is the seventh who has
come from the region of Venice,
among whom was Benedict MI, who,
by strange coincidence, was elected
pope exactly 500 years ago yesterday.
A Cruel Omcer's Sentence.
Berlin, Aug. 5.-Details are publish
ed of the court-martial at Metzona
of non-commissioned officer named
Dunkel for maltreating private sol
diers at Moerchingen, Lorraine. Five
hundred and seventy-siX instances of
brutality, all occurring since last De-
cember, were cited. The evidence
showed Dunkel's fertile inventveness
in novel methods of punishment, such
as compelling II soldier to run ut full
tilt across room and ram his head
against a wardrobe. The court de-
cided that 366 counts of the indict-
ment had been proven and sentenced
Dunkel to two years and half i'm
prisonment and degradation to the
ranks.
Would Build IA 1IemOrIal Lighthouse.