River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-23

sured, he threw down the staff on which he
had leaned, assumed the dignity and i'm
periousness which never forsook him in his
short pontifcate of five years. monu-
ment of his greatness was the building OF the
aqueduct, % miles long. He compared him
self to Moses, whose statue he raised,
fetching water from the rock by the potent
touch of his staff. He raised the obelisk in
front of st. Peters, feat thought to be I'M
possible. There was the penalty OF death
for anyone who spoke during the process:
When the vast thing swayed and seemed
about to fall, voice rang from out the
crowd, "Wet the ropes" The obelisk was
saved; for once Sixtus revoked his word.
He founded the vatican library and crowned
st. Peters with its noble dome. He despised
Philip H., yet contributed to equip his Ar
mada. He admired Elizabeth of England
and Henry of Navarro, but for policy's sake
communicated both. In his humorous
way, he would talk of mating with Eliza
beth as the only woman who equaled him in
greatness, saying, "What match it would
be-" He was the last pope kings have had
to fear. People, hating him, marveled at
his glory-said he had made a contract with
the devil, by whose aid he had risen step by
step, and that the stipulated period having
expired, his soul had been carried away in
a tempest.
Clement VIII, 1891, absolved Henry of
Navarro, consented to his divorce from
Marguerite. In defiance of the pope, Henry
issued the Edict of Nantes.
In the pontifcate of Urban VIII, 1888,
Calico was confined in the prisons of the in
QUESTION for declaring the earth moved
round the sun. To save himself from tor
ture, upon his Bonded knees, before ignor-
ant monks, his hand upon the Bible, he re-
nounced his theory. He rose, indignant
with himself, stamped his foot and ex-
claimed, "And yet it does move" which con-
demned him to dungeons for another three
years.
In the pontifcate of Innocent X, 1914
Louis XIV. was persuaded to revoke the
Edict of Nantes.
Clement X, 1910, received into the Cath
Ollie church Christina, daughter of Gustavus
Adolphus, who had abdicated her throne.
Under great pressure from the sovereigns
of Europe Clement XIV, 1859, abolished the
order of the Jesuits From that time he
led life of anxiety, fear and repentance.
His strength failed. II am going into eter-
nifty" he said, ''and I know the cause"
The greatest work of Plus VI, ITS, was
the draining OF the FOnClne marshes. lie
had the modification to witness the abso-
lutte decay of the holy see. He lost Avignon,
was deprived of all authority in Rome by
the order of Napoleon was taken to France
as prisoner, where he died.
Plus VII, in 1900, was elected pope by
French influence, Napoleon astonishing the
world by saying, Society without religion
is like ship without compass" Plus re-
stored the Jesuits Hoping to save the
wreck of papal power, he reluctantly con-
scented to go to Paris to crown Napoleon,
who crowned himself and Gated the pope
with little respect When apoleon donned
the iron crown at Milan Plus refused to
be present. He refused to recognize Joseph
Bonaparte as king of Naples and to shut his
ports against English ships, and even threat
ened to excommunicate Napoleon himself
On refusing to renounce all claims to tenn
poral power he was taken prisoner carried
to France and confined in Fontainebleau.
After Waterloo, he was released and the
papal territories in Italy restored.
Plus TX, 1916, began ais pontifcate by
releasing all political prisoners. He pro-
claimed papal infallibility dogma of the
church Under Victor Emmanuel the states
of the church were annexed to the kingdom
of Italy and the temporal power ofthe pope
ceased to exist.