The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-07-22
POPE LEO GONE
TO His REWARD
DEATH OF The AGED PONTEF OCCURRED At FOUR O'CLOCK
The End Came Peacefully, While Members Of The Family
College of Cardinals Surrounded The Death Bed.
Last Words Benedction All Nations
Sketch of His Life,

SionS. To the republican form of gov
ernment he showed himself a good
friend upon more than one occasion.
In his encyclicals on socialism is seen
how his sympathy for, the struggling
and aspiring masses was balanced by
his fine sense of the necessary order
and stability of society. His refined in
tellect. his simplicity of life. his unaf-
fected piety. ali exalted to eminence by
his extraordinary career, made him an
inspiring parsonage even to those who
did not recognize him as spiritual
| ruler and teacher, and Protestants as
| well as Catholics mourn his death.
The.story of the pope is an exceeding
| ly simple and pretty one. He has been
though the pontiff. as it is called, of
the most ancient ecclesiasticism in west
ern European excellent citizen of our
later world He has been good mag
| istrate. superior pastor, a gentleman
and, it may be added, prince. He was
| a 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
4 laws of that kingdom paying no atten-
ton to the previous laws and formali-
/ ties which the secular state supplanted.
But the influence of the pope as spirit
of education and of light has extended
to the most remote portions of the
world
Above all other popes. and somewhat
beyond his own record in earlier life
Leo XIII. has been liberal politician
He has hailed the future rather than
deplored the loss of the past. He has
bean one of the captains in the move
ment for universal education and has
striyen to make education and morals
confide in each other. Not single
scandal from Rome i'll his papacy has
been conveyed to the world. He ha:
shown friendly disposition to tht
world and could himself take place il
almost any learned faculty or congress
and hold his own in general knowledg,
with scientists, bellies s-ettres men ant
doctors.
Elected pope in February, 1878, HI
was then almost sixty-eight years o
years the archbishop of one quiet city
Perugia, which once belonged to tn
papal states, but stood high among tn
old Italian republics or feudalit1es 70
its painters and men of gifts. This re
gion, generally called Umbria, pr
duced the highest triumphs of art II
Raphael In Perugia and its provinc
the archbishop was as distinctly tn
foremost citizen or subject as the lat
Phillips Brooks undoubtedly was i
Boston or Henry Ward Beecher i
Brooklyn.
He was born at mountain town 1
the Apennines, not far from Rome
called Carpineti, on March 2, 1910. T
this little place of about 5000 peOpl
his ancestors had been expelled froI
: Siena about $50 years before. The
were mobiles in Siena, but had take
part against their countrymen whe
the Medici of Florence resolved
conquer and annex Siena. This ind,
y pendent republic, inspired with pa
sionate hatred against Florence, mad
:. memorable defense, but the ode
y were too strong.
Retiring into the state of the churc
!, the pope's family, named Pecci pr
= nounced PechD, formed new frien,
ships, and the pope's father was a coul
who either volunteered or was drafte
into Napoleon's service when he oye
ran Italy. The pope's mother was
= countess, who brought property to h
q husband.
!. They lived in what is called pala'
,f in Italy, a large building rising fro
;, the rocks, two stories and an attic hig
~ with flowers and terraces about
is base. 1t appears that the pope duriI
i, all his life has known no want, but hi
= enjoyed private revenue such as
gentleman of noble descent would
apt to have in any country who h
n kept his estates.
N He was born after the French repu
/. licans had overrun Italy and been e