Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-25
DOINGS IN ROME.
Visit Of Prince Louis Napoleon to
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Special Cablegram to The Star
ROME, November 24.-The Nuoya Anto-
logia for November contains an interesting
article by Commentators Boni upon the leg
ends of Trajan-a subject which seems to
have been suggested to him by his recent
researches at the base of the Trajan COL
umn. The article is illustrated by a num-
Der of photographs from the Flemish
tapestries now in the Berne Museum from
the capitals of the ducal palace of Venice
as well as from medieval and renaissance
pictures engravings and majolica, which
tend to show how the legend of Trajan
and the widow changed in succeeding CEN
tures The principal sources of the legend
are to be found in the bas-relief of Dante s
'Purgatorio," and in the opening Of the
Trajan sepulchre at the base of the col
umn by Pope Gregory the Great at the
beginning of the sixth century Signor
Bonn shows how later versions of the legend
differed from the original sculpture in the
arch of Constantine, which first insured
Dante'S description, =
1t Is reported that recent decree of one
OF the Roman congregations detaches the
Marianne Islands from the diocese of
Cebu philippine islands, and submits them
10 the sacred congregation of propaganda
The Marianne Islands constituted part of
the diocese over which Bishop Hendrix
rules These islands will soon be erected
into a vicarat apostolic.
The students of the North American Col
lege have returned to Rome from their
ciiioggiatura at Castol Gandolfo, on the
higher slope of the Alban hills This col
lege has the largest number of students of
any OF the foreign colleges in the Eternal
CITY at the present time the students num-
perlng nlnety-fve, and before the end Of the
year 1t Is expected the number will be in
creased by new arrivals to 12O. The rector
is the Ri. Rev. Thomas F. Kennedy. who
succeeded the present coadjutor archbishop
n tl4
O'Connen, who retired from the rectorship
in 1901.
Prince Louis Bonaparte, who has been
passing few days here. has just left
ness brought this member of the Bonaparte
family to Rome at such time as this.
This Is one Of the sons Of the late Prince
Jerome Napoleon and Princess Clothilde,
tor Emanuel II. The father of Jerome
was King of Westphalia. to which dignity
he was appointed by his masterful brother,
Napoleon l, Emperor of France. Prince
Jerome was known in his day by the opprO-
brious nickname of Prince Plon Plon. He
was thorn in the side of his cousin, Ma
poleon III, late Emperor of the French,
and distinguished himself by his radical
days in Rome dying at the Hotel de Rome,
In the Piazza San Carlo, his wife. Princess
Clothilde, with him to the last. He had
marvellous resemblance to the first Napo-
leon In face and features, but he was much
taller than that hero, being about six feet
In height, and he was shod as elegantly
as any Partisan dame. This likeness to his
great ancestor gave rise to the saying that
Plon Plon was like a Napoleonlc medal
dipped in fat. 1t might not have been a
very elegant remark. but 1t described him
accurately enough. The presence Of Prince
Louis Bonaparte in Rome just now sets
people thinking and imagining that there
may possibly be some project Of the Bona
parties in consideration for a movement in
France at a time when the popular mind is
agitated over the struggle between the re-
public and the Vatican.