Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-29

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she sent Senior Gil a letter telling him
that ON her dcuthbod she had pardOned
him.
lie was presiding over a meeting u
the common council when the mlssivo
was handed to him He read It without
changing color ana tore II up and pro-
cccded with the affairs VI the council
II was fine example Of sclf-saCrifcc
Of the devoted official who dsdains "a
permit his own private cares and griefa
20 interfere with tho transaction ~
public business. Three days later jose
phinc died and received a pauper's bur
ial
When little Bibano was five years old
he was transferred from the founding
institution 10 an orphan asylum He
turned out an unusually tractable and
intelligent youngster and as he grew
older manifested such keen and de-
Nout interest In the spiritual teachings
| Of his pious instructors that It was de.
| Cidad 10 train him for the priesthood,
FATHER REFUSES TO ACKNOWL.
EDGE HIM,
True TO his pledge old Mark Con
| birthday and told him an about his
| puDntage and the whole pitifu story
| Of his mothers betrayal and suffering
| Apparently Il only strengthened Bibi-
| uuO In his purpose 10 devote himself 10
religious life, lie made no attempt
at the time TO communicate with his
! father but pursued his theological
studies with Increased zeal
When Is years old. released from the
seminary where he had completed his
studies, BihanO went Co Madrid and
| called on Senior Gil 20 whom the in
| teryonng years had brought great in
! crease Of riches aud Of appreciation Tor
| his distinguished civic virtues The
| banker received him with some show Of
| kindness. admitted that he was his
father, regretted that his position and
| reputation would not permit him to
! Openly acknowledge their relationship,
| commended his resolution to become "A
! religious miustrant and dismissed him
ms poor I'm pocket as when he entered
the house, He had wasted no money
| on the mother and evidently he did not
| intend to waste any ON the son,
Accepting poverty as his lot Bbiano
| Joined an order Of meudCant friars,
| He Travelled on foot through Spain, WIS.,
! iting its most famous sanctuuaries and
| ioureyed far I'm foreign lands obeying
the Scriptural Injunction with respect
TO money, subsisting entirely on aims,
| preaching the Gospel ministeriug to
| the sick and afflicted as he found op-
| portuuity and sharing his food with
any beggar who might claim portion.
After a pilgrimage to the Holy Land,
he went TO Rome. having meanwhile
| become member Of the Franciscan or
der
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fV'h blhlAN'S AMhllloN'
His piety, humility and unworldli-
ness had attracted attention I'M high
| places. Pope Leo XIII appointed him
| custodian Of the celebrated shrine dcd-
icated to the Holy Virgin Mary Della
| Quercia' COZ the Oak Tree, and there
he remained for some years His heart
! yoarned for Il fathers affection and
he paid several visits TO the Madrid
| banker but the latter pprSistently pee
| fused 10 acknowledge him openly us
his son. Advancing age, however ape
peared To exercise some sOftiug i'm
| tlucnCc ON the stern old man, and per-
haps he felt some promptings of rec
morse for his cruel treatment Of poor
! Josephine. When the young frnr hadr
him farewell ON the last Of these visits
Senior Gil kissed him for the first time
and told him that I'm his win hc would
nin, IN his for %S 'S R S" "H o Sa
he would cling to his money ami his
| reputation
II was paternal love and not wealth.
that Bibiano had sought, but the pros
pcct of having large fortune at his
disposal tilled him with JOY for II
| would enable him to realize am amhl-
ton he had long Cherished-the found