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prince In nature before he was either
cardinal or pope
From the time he was elected pope the
city OF Rome has been In the occupa.
ton of the king Of italy and has indeed
been the political capital of Italy, the
laws of that kingdom paying no atten-
ton to the previous laws and formal
ties which the secular state supplanted
But the influence Of the pope as a spirit
OF education and of light has extended
to the most remote portions Of the
world.
Above oil other popes, and somewhat
beyond his own record in earlier life,
Leo XIII. has been O liberal politician.
DE has hailed the future rather than
deplored the loss of the past. He has
been one of the captains in the move
ment for universal education and has
strfVen TO make education and morals
confide in each other Not a single
scandal from Rome in his papacy has
been conveyed to the world Ibe has
shown a friendly disposition to the
world and could himself take place in
| almost any learned faculty or congress
and hold his own in general knowledge
with scientists, belles-lettres men and
doctors.
Elected pope In February, 1873, he
was then almost sixty-eight years of
age, and he had been for thirty.two
| years the archbishop of one quiet city,
Perugia. which once belonged TO the
papal states, but stood high among the
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its painters and men of gifts. This re-
gion, generally called Umbria. pro-
drced the highest triumphs of art in
Raphael. In Perugia and it's provilce
the archbishop was as distinctly the
foremost citizen or subject as the late
Phillips Brooks undoubtedly was in
Boston or Henry Ward Beecher I'm
Brooklyn.
He was born at n mountain town in
the Apennines, not far from Rome.
called Calpineti, on March 2, 1910. To
this little place Of about 5000 people |
his ancestors had been expelled from |
Siena about $50 years before. They |
were mobiles In Siena, but had taken |
part against their cpuntrymen when
t1et 1Medlci Of ofnneI Siena sihsss- as>-'s-
pendent ranrh,ic insnirsd with pas |
sionate hatred against Florence, made
memorable defense, but the odds |
were too strong.
Retiring into the state of the church,
the pope's family, named Pecci pro'
nounced PechD, formed new friend
ships. and the pope's father was q count
who either volunteered or was drafted
into Napoleon's service when he over
ran Italy. The pope's mother was a
countess, who brought property to her
husband.
They lived in what is called palace
IN Italy, q large building rising from
| the rocks, two stories and an attic high,
with flowers and terraces about its
base 1t appears that the pope during
all his life has known no want, but has
enjoyed q private revenue such as
4 gentleman of noble descent would be
apt TO have in any country who had
kept his estates.
He was born after the French repub-
licans had overrun Italy and been ev-
erywhere victorious and the greatest
change had taken place not only In the
Italian people, but even in the priest
hood.
The pope himself, Plus VII, had been
taken captive from Rome to France
and was only returned to Rome at the
fall OF Napoleon in 1914. He restored
the Jesuits who were the secular school
masters within the church, but they
had fallen under the hostility of several
of the kings and been for some time
suppressed. Upon their return they
opened schools and gave the city OF
Rome something of It's Old clerical ana
literary character.
In 1917 the late popes mother took
her sons to Rome and the next year
put them at school at Viterbo. city On
hill but few hours carriage ride
from Rome. This lady belonged t9 one
; of the orders of the Franciscans aad
when she died was buried in their
I brown cloak and cord. Her death was
! nearly at the same time with that OF
Plus VII
5 The next pope, Leo NIL, branched
out as an educator. The Jesuits' college
= was opened in Rome in 1924 with 1,4U
: students, and among these were the
two Pecci boys, of whom Joseph was q
0 Jesuit He was three years older than
b his brother. These boys went home tc
: their mountain town on holidays, &nc
r. the pope was IN active hunter ant
= fowler in the mountains. Rome was tC
d them like any American city to fami
/ ly which lived in the neighboring coun
u try and spent the winters in the city.
Z The name of the pope was Joachim
y Vincent Raphael Lodovico Pecci. III
r always went by the name of Nincen
L Pecci until at certain period after hi
mothers death, when he became gen
y orally known as Joachim Pecci
n He became fluent in the Latin ant
10 wrote verses and orations In II ant
Al gained prizes. After his mothers .dSa 4
Is he lived with his uncle in the NUT
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