The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-13
SATOLLI VERY
UNWELL MAN
CONDITION OF HIGH CHURCHMAN
is CAUSING MUCH coNCEPN.
AS First Papal Delegate to the United
States His Place in Religious His
tory Is Well Secured.

ROME, July 13.-The serious Hines
of Cardinal Satolli is matter of grav
concern at present in Vatican circle.
For several years the cardinal ha
been suffering from chronic ailment
which, added to his age-he will be z
years old this month-renders his re
covery extremely doubtful.
In the history of the Catholic churcl
Cardinal Satolli will forever be remem
bered as the first papal delegate tt
the United States. His appointment tt
Washington in the early '90s as many
will recollect, was hailed with mingled
feelings of delight and disapproval in
Catholic ecclesiastical circles in the
United States, and it is tribute to
Satolli's diplomacy that the jealousies
which were aroused at first were soon
dissipated and long before he had con.
cluded his mission he had won the es-
TEEN and friendship of the leading
American churchmen.
Cardinal Satolli has long been ia
nous as one of the most learned mem
bers of the Sacred College. He was
educated in the diocesan seminary of
Perugia, then presided over by Joac-
him Pecci. archbishop of Perugia, who
later was to be called to the chair If
st. Peter as Pope Leo XIII. Surround
ed, as he was, with associations en-
tirely ecclesiastical in the university
town of Pergua, the trend of Satolli's
mind from his boyhood was in the line
of priestly vocation. His first ambi-
tous reaching out for scholarly attain.
ment brought him under the scrutiny
of teacher more than ordinarily gift
ed with SCHOLARSHIP culture In the di-
rection of theological knowledge. His
profound intellectual acumen embrac-
ed the philosophical utterances of the
earliest fathers of the church, notable
St. Thomas Aquinas, the theories of
pagan teachers, and the fundamental
of all theology as learned
in the gospel of the evangelists. With
these individual elements the jealous
archbishop of Perugia sought to bring
into the adjustment of the popular is
sues of the day blended the teachings
of the past. And thus early Satolli
grew In touch with the desire of his
illustrious teacher, and his ambitious
mnd followed enthusiastically where
he master led.
Wnen Cardinal Pecci became p0ntiff
Of Rome, the scholar of his molding
vas early called to the broader curture
If the Roman school. AS he grew In
his strengthening atmosphere he kept
n accord with Leo's theological prin-
,iples and was his prime helper d the
Infusion of his advanced educational
IDEAS. Pope Leo placed him in posi-
ions of high trust. He was cannon of
he Church of ST. John Lateran, whose
foundation was laid by Constantine.
he filled with success two important
)rofessorships in the most renowned
schools of Rome-the Propaganda and
he Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics.
With his appointment as professor
IT, dogmatic theology in the College OF
he Propaganda, Mgr. Satolli, although
comparatively young man, became
It once one of the most conspicuous
igures in the Catholic world The
undreds of students who had the priv
lege of, attending his lectures carried
ack to their respective countries news
# the profound learning and marve-
us eloquence of their professor of
ogma. Cardinal Satolli has been
luminous writer on theological ques-
ions, and his works have found their
ray to the libraries of priests all over
be world.