Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-07-14
FIRST PAPAL DELEGATE
He Is Nest Pleasantly Re.
membsred By All
America.
Serious Illness of Cardinal Satoui T,
Is a Matter of Grave Concern at
Present i'm Vatican-Seyen.
ty Years Old.
ty Years Old.

Rome, July 9.-The serious illness
OF Cardinal Satolli is a matter o,
grave c at present in Vatican
circles. For several years the Cardi.
nal has been suffering from a chronic
allment, which, added to his age-he
will be seventy years old this month
renders his recovery extremely doubt
full.
In the history of the Catholic
Church Cardinal Satolli will forever
be remembered as the first papal del
egate to the United States. His ap-
pointment to Washington in the early
n1neties, as many will recollect. was
hailed with mingled feelings OF de-
light and disapproval in Catholic &C.
cIes1astical circles in the United
States, and it is attribute to Satolli's
diplomacy that the ~jealousies which
were aroused at first were soon dissi-
pated and long before he had con-
cludd his mission he had won the es-
tenn and friendship of the leading
American churchmen.
Cardinal Satolli has long been fam
Gus as one of the most learned mem
bers of the Sacred College. He was
educated in the diocesan seminary of
Prug1a, then presided over by Joachim
Pecci, Archbishop of Perugia, who
later was to be called to the chair of
st. Peter as Pope Leo XIII. Sur
as he was, with associations
entirely ecclesiastical in the uniyer-
SHY town OF Perugia, the trend of Sa-
TOLLS mind from his boyhood was in |
line of priestly vocation. His first
ambitious reaching out for scholarly :
attainment brought him under the
scrutiny of a teacher more than ordi-
narlly gifted with scholastic culture
n the direction of theological knowl-
edge. His profound intellectual acu-|
nen embraced the philosophical utter
ances of the earliest fathers of thel
church. notably st. Thomas Aquinas.
ne theor1es OF pagan teachers, and
he fundamental groundwork of all
'neology as learned in the gospel of
Evangelists. With these individ-
- ' At' 80 ~ 49, I
lal elements the Jealous Archbishop
If Perugia sought to bring into theI
adjustment of the popular issues of
he day blended the teachings of the
'ast. And thus Satolli grew in touch
With the desire of his illustrious
eacher, and his ambitious min fol-
enthusiastically where the mas
err led.
When Cardinal Pocci became pontiff
Rome the scholar of his molding
vas early called to the broader cul-
ure or the Roman school,. AS he grew
this strengthening atmosphere he
ept in accord with Leo's theological
rinciples, and was his prime helper
4 the diffusion of his advanced edu-
atlonal ideas. Pope Leo placed him
l positions of high trust. He was
anon of the Church of st. John Late
an. whose foundation was laid by
onstantine. He filled with success 4
important ~professorships in the
lost renowned schools of Rome-the
and the Academy of MOI
Ecclesiastics. L
With his appointment as professor
dogmatic theology in the college1
the Propaganda, Mgr. Satolli, all
Tough a comparatively young man., '
at once one of the most eon- \
)icuous figures In the Cahtolicl }
orld. h hundreds of students /
no had the privilege of attending his :
carried back to their respec-
We countries news of the profound
'arning and marvellous eloquence of
leir respective countries news of tn
rofound learning and marvellous elo-
lence Of their professor of dogma
Satolli has been a volumin
is writer on theological questions
nd his works found their way to the
of priests all over the world.