The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-03-28
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ACCESSION OF LEO.
Story of His Election After Death
of Plus TX

Below is printed 4 letter written by
one of BrOoklyn's most respected
priests in his seminary days to a fell
low-student at Manhattan College, 1t
will be read with particular interest
just at this time because of the
Pope's Jubilee:
If you can make out this date, you
will see that it is now six months
since left home, and really I cannot
believe that is is over six weeks; the
time passes very fast here as gen.
eral rule, but this year has gone past,
l am told by those who have been
here, faster than they have as yet
experienced. cannot account for
it, except that the various occurrences
which have lately TRANSFERRED here
have tended to keep the mind in one
chain Of excitement. 1 suppose you
are as we'll acquainted with scenes
that have taken place here in Rome
during the past two months as per-
haps many Of the Romans themselves.
The death of Victor Emmanuel no
doubt astonished you, but am sure
that the sad news of the death of Our
Holy Father, Plus IN, aroused feel
ings of sorrow within your breast. I
say am sure of this latter, because
know you are no exception to the
vast concourse Of Catholics through
out the world, and 1 know no heart
beats with truly Catholic principles
that did not feel a pa1lg Of SORROW
enter that heart when the news was
told to him or her Of the death of
Plus IN. I hope his soul may be
now enjoying the reward of a we'll
spent life, the joys of Heaven. A
person does not feel at all like pray
ing for the repose of his soul. One
feels more like asking for some favor
!. through his intercession than for pray
ing for his soul, which, I know, is
| surely in Heaven. AS knelt beside
his corpse, for the first time, 1 felt
| as though 1 were looking on the feat
ures of saint, and his very appear
ance even in death, so majestic, so
affable, held one spellbound, and the
| thoughts that then and there came
through my mind are beyond descrip-
ton. Kneeling beside the body Of
him who sat on the chair of Peter
longer than any other, looking on
/ hot 70 0f %ho
strangest and glandest ever man pas
sed OH this earth, lastly, looking on the
| face of the successor of Christi will
not trouble you with any account of
his death or any account of the con-
clave, OF how the Romans received
the news of his death; but will tell
you something of how the Romans
received the news Of the election of
Leo MIL, the present head Of the
Holy Roman Catholic Church. About
p. m. on yesterday week the news
escaped from within the doors of the
conclave hall, and really believe that
in ten minutes was all over Rome
AS we were going into the Propag-
anda, the old doorman's face was
red and his eyes sparkling with glee,
even though his arm was in sling,
as he had broken it few weeks be-
fore, and he raised up the solid arm
and saluted us with that pleasant
greeting, "Habimus Pontificem." We
asked him was it so, and he nearly
burst a blood vessel in trying to ut
ter all the arguments that came into
his head all at the same instant, and
rather than cause the poor old mans
death. we took his word for what we
thought it was worth. But we were
not sitting two minutes in our class
room, when in came the Greeks,
shouting that the Pope was elected.
the Irishmen-always last in getting
at anything, but first before it is over
came in, they employed some of the
strongest adjectives their exhaustless
vocabulary could suggest to fully i'm
press us incredulous Americans that
the fact was really so-that Cardinal
Pecci was elected and had taken the
name Of Leo XIII., and so it really
turned out to be the case. Every
one seemed pleased the moment they
heard Of the election, and every day
they are becoming more pleased with
the choice. 1t is believed on all sides
that a better man could not have
been chosen, On that afternoon we
had but one hours class then we
went home, and had to remain in our
rooms until recreation time, or rather
the time for our walk. and when it
came, you may be assured we did not
tarry long about the hallway, but got
out as soon as possible, and went
towards ST. Peters. There are four
streets meeting at the Lridge of St.
Angelo, and when we reached that
point we found n long string of oar