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dcplored the loss OF the past He has
been one OF the captains In the move
r7ent for universal education and has
striven TO make education and morals
confide I'm each other. Not n single
scandal from Rome In his papacy has
been conveyed 20 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 I'm 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. bat 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 its province
the archbishop was as distinctly the
foremost citizen or subject as the late
Ph'!l'ps Brooks undoubtedly was ia
Boston or Henry Ward Beecher In
Brooklyn.
lie was born at mountain town I'm
the Apennines, not far from Rome,
called Carpineu. 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 Sicna, but had taken
part against their 90 ntrymen when
the Medici Of Florence resolved 10
conquer and annex Siena. This indie.
pendent republic, inspired with pas
sionate hatred against Florence, made
memorable defense, but the DDS
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 bu.iG.lg rising from
the rocks, two stories and an attic high,
with flowers and terraces about its
base. II appears that the pope during
oil Ills life has known no want, but has
enjoyed a private revenue such as a
gentleman OF noble descent would be
apt 10 have In any country who had
kept his estntes.
He was born after the French repub-
licaps had overrun Italy and been ev-
erywhere victorious and the greatest
change Ind taken place not only I'm the
Italian people. but even in the priest
hood
The pope himself. Plus VII. had been
taken captive from Rome 20 France
and was only returned TO Rome at the
fall OF Napoleon I'm 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 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 Niterbo. n city on
q hill but few hours carriage ride
from Rome. This lady belonged 10 one
OF the orders OF the Franciscans end
when she died was buried In their
brown cloak and cord Her death was
nearly az the same time with that OF
Plus VII.
The next pope. Leo NIL. branched
out as an educator. The Jesuits college
was opened In Rome in 1894 with l,i00
students. and among these were the
two Pecci boys. of whom Joseph was a
Jesuit He was three years older than
his brother. These boys went home 10
their mountain town on holidays. and
the pope was an active hunter and
fowler in the mountains. Rome was TO
them like any American city 20 fcmi-
~ which lived In the neighboring coun-
try and spent the winters In the city.
The name OF the pope was Joachim
Vincent Raphael Lodovico Pecci He
always went by the name of Vincent
Pecci until "A certain period after his
mothers death. when he became gen.
orally known as Joachim Pecci.
He became fluent In the Latin and
wrote verses and oratlons in IL and
gained prizes. After his mothers death
he lived with his uncle in the Mutt
palace In Rome. lie somewhat knew
Pope Leo MI. and chose his papal
name with reference 10 that prelnte
He matriculated in 1890, graduated a
doctor OF theology In 1892, which was
the time tina he adopted the name OF
Joachim. and he entered the diplomatic
class In the university called Sapitnza,
CT Wisdom. In Rome. Among his
f.!ends and classmates were such no.
bios ns Duke Sforza OF the old Milan
lords.
He was acquainted with Leo. as well
rs with Plus VIII. who lived but a
short time. and then came Gregory
M IN whose household he was one
or tile prclates.