The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-07-25
POPE LEG rs DEAD.
End Came nj 4:o4 O'Clock Monday
Afternoon.


pas: four Monday afternoon. The period
of over two weeks that Pope Leo passed
in the shadow of death was no less
wonderful than his life. His splendid
battle against disease was watched the
world over with sympathetic admira-
ton and ended after tremendous efforts
to conquer the weakness of his aged
frame by the marvellous power of
his mind. The pleuro-pneumonia with
which His Holiness had been suffering
was scarcely so irresponsible for his death
as that inevitable decay of tissue which
ensues from ninety-three years of life.
The tested steel which had bent so often
before human ills was bound to break
at last.
Predicts the End.
At / o'clock, Monday morning, the
Pope suffered from a great cardiac
affection. When the doctors were
examining him, believing he was in a
stupor, he suddenly fixed his eyes on
them, and said
This time, doctors, you will not win
in your brave fight with death"
"It is Your Holiness who is brave"
replied DIR. Lapponi; but before the
remark was uttered the Pope was again
unable to understand what was said.
Parting Words.
Pope Leo's final moments were marked
by that same serenity and devotion,
and, when he was conscious, that calm
intelligence which are associated with
his twenty-five years pontificate. His
was no easy death. Two hours before
he died he murmured "The pain 1
suffer is most terrible" Yet his part
ing words were % of the physical
anguish that he suffered, but were
whispered benedictions upon the. Cardi-
mails and his nephews who knelt at the
bedside, and the last look of his almost
sightless eyes was turned toward the
great ivory crucifix hanging in the
death chamber.
His death was really grand" said
DR.. Lapponi. ut was resigned and
serene. Very few examples can be
given of a man of such advanced age,
after so exhaustive an illness, showing
such supreme courage in dying"
Funeral Obsequies.
The ceremonies attending the obse-
quies last nine days, and are very elab-
crate though not splendid, as the cost
is limited by decree. The remains now
lie in state at the Cathedral of st.
Peters. The ultimate resting place of
the dead Pontiff will be in the magni1-
cent basilica of st. John the Lateran.
On the morning of the tenth day the
Cardinals enter upon the duty of
selecting the new Pope, usually though
not necessarily, choosing n of their
own number.
A Remarkable Career.
The name of Leo XIII was one of
singular amity and good will in the
Christian world. He was the son ofCount
Ludovico Pecci and his wife, Anna
Prospect. He was born at Carpineto,
in the diocese of Anagni, in the State
of the church, March 2, 1910, and was
baptized by the names of Vincenza and
Gioacchino. He was selected Supreme
Pontiff at the Conclave in February,
1878.
In Memory OF POntiR.
Special mourning services in men,
DRY of Pope Leo will be held in every
church of the Salt Lake diocese, as in
every Catholic church and every con-
vent and monastery throughout the
entire world. In this diocese the special
services will be prescribed by Right
Rev. Bishop Seaman of Salt Lake in a
pastoral letter.
A Requiem Mass will be celebrated
this morning at z o'clock at st. Bren-
dams Church for the repose Of the soul
of the Holy Father Leo XIII.