The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-07-23

depIOred the loss or the past. lie mas
been one of the captains in the move
ment for universal education and has
striven to make education and morals
confide in each other Not a single
scandal from Rome in his papacy has
been conveyed to the world. He 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,
papal states, but stood high among the
old italian republics or feudalities for
its painters and men of gifts. This re
gion, generally called Umbria, pro-
duced the highest triumphs of art in
Raphael In Perugia and it's province
the archbishop was as distinctly the
foremost citizen or subject as the late
Phillips Brooks undoubtedly was in
Boston or Henry Ward Beecher in
Brooklyn.
He was born at mountain town in
the Apennines not far from Rome,
called Carpineti, 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 countrymen when
the Medici of Florence resolved to
conquer and annex Siena. This indie
pendent republic, inspired with pas
sionate hatred against Florence, made
a. 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 a 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 a palace
in Italy, 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 a private revenue such as a
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
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 its old clerical and
literary character.
In 1917 the late pope's mother took
her sons to Rome and the next year
put them at school at Viterbo, city on
a hill but few hours carriage ride
from Rome Ills lady belonged to one
of the or: f the Franciscans and
when g was buried in their
brown cord Her death was
nearly t ne time with that of
Plus
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