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Brussels and was writing some of his
novels. He and the future pope be-
came warm friends So did the king
and queen take most cordially to tho
nuncio.
He busted himself mainly in rearing
up the Catholic schools and universe
ties of Belgium, which had gone into n
decline. His acutsness on political af-
fairs was such that Leopold one day
said to him, You are as clever a poll
tician as you are bright churchman'
Always moderate and always learn
ing, Archbishop Pecci was also active
for his church and raised money in Bel
GUM to found a college in Rome to ed
ucate the priests of that country
Before he returned to Rome in 1876
he visited London with letters to Vic
toria and Albert and was by them we'll
entertained and he mingled among the
best people in England and took close
observations upon the country. This
species of intercourse no doubt broad
ened his mind and made him see that
the modern world could not be reduced
to the haggard outlines of Italy.
From London he went to France and
paid visit to Louis Philippe, who was
dangerously near his fall
When he got to Rome Pope Gregory
was dying.
Pecci was we'll acquainted with Car
dinal Feratti, who soon became Plus
TX, and that pope made him archbish-
op Of Perugia at the age of thirty six
Nearly at the same time the new pope
granted general amnesty for political
offenses and was for time regarded
as man Of liberal intentions.
1t was fortunate for Archbishop Pee,
81 that he could retire to distance
from Rome in the mountains toward
Tuscany and exercise his prerogatives
without becoming involved in the ris-
ing political passions at the Eternal
City. where very soon Mazzini, Cart
baldi and others revolutionized Rome
and formed trtumvirate of dictators
and had to stand a siege by the French,
at the cio~. CT which the pope was so
heartily frightened that he revoked his
liberal dispositions.
Retired to a city of about 10000 peo-
pie. the archbishop of Perugia, as has
been said, lived there thirty-two years,
or down to the year 1873 He was a
universal reader and among the wise
saints in the Catholic age he chose ST.
Charles BorroIneo as man to initiate.
fho friv r>f 4, MI rs IL
cation He thereupon gave his mind to
the study of education in Perugia.
He made up his mind in the first
place to educate his clergy thoroughly
and to see that their habits We're indus
trious and pure. Next he set upon the
education OF the upper classes, many of
whom were contemptibly illiterate.
Finally he came down to the children.
AT one time the revolutionary ele-
ments in Perugia arose, and conflict
took place between them and the papal
troops, who We're of all nations, Swiss,
German, Irish, and even American, and
the populace was worsted.
The archbishop surrounded himself
with friends of like tastes with his own,
favorable to education and sincerely de.
sirous of seeing morals made voluntary.
He had been received in the city, when
he returned there the second time, with
a magnificent demonstration AS the
ruler. both ecclesiastic and CIVIL he in
habited the palace upon the public
square, which had on one side of it the
city hall and on the other the cathedral.
In 1854 he was made cardinal, and
this entitled him to take part in the Sc