The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-26
WILL OBSERVE POPE'S JUBILEE Great Ceremony Occurs
 in Rome. MARKS QUARTER CENTURY Plus X. Was consecrated Twenty
 five Years Ago. Canon sarto wss Overcome sy Emstioa when Informed of His Selection
 A The Bishop of
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 Rome, Sept. 25.-On November 2Srd there will occur the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the consecration of his Holt- ness Plus x to the Episcopate. It is expected that on this occasion his Holj- ness will celebrate mass In Saint Pet- among which there will be great French pilgrimage. will come to Rome during this period.
 The Pope at the time of his appoint ment to the Episcopate was Chancellor of the Diocese of Mantua. He had un- til shortly before this been canon of tho cath edral there. and had been dis tinguished for his great capacity for work. and for the marked ability of his work. Because" says one of his biographers. "of his versatile genius his profound knowledge and his singu- lar facility of adapting himself to every ofice, Canon sarto was frequently call cd upon to flI the chair of an absent professor. for he taught with equal readiness and ability. theology. Canon Jaw. philosophy, and classical htera- ture.
 His first visit was made to Rome in 1877, when fetes were held in honor of Plus TX, and when Mgr. Callegari visit ed Rome for his consecration as Bishop of Treviso, Canon Sarto (now Plus X.) accompanied him. "The good Bishop of rrvtso little thought" says the biogrs- phere of Plus X, ''as presented to the Holy Father ms humble civra general. that he himself should. twenty-thr years later, throw himself at the feet of this iowly soul, recognizing in him the Vicar of Christ and the successor of that very Pope before waom he was then kneeling. Still less did Mgr. Cal iegari then imagine that he should re. ceive the Cardinals purple from that A,.kx, A1 1.tA aafa u special favos to be presented to the Pope"
 sarto Made Bishop.
 The Bishop of Mantua, Mgr. Berenzo, had in the autumn of 1884 been pro- noted to an arehishopric, Mgr. Ap- pollonio. informing Mgr Sarto of this change, said to him, And who. think you, is the new bishop of Mantua"' T know not" replied Sarto. Then Mgr Apollonio led Sarto into his private apartments, and handed over to him the Pontificial note announcing the ap- pointment to Mantua of Mgr. Sarto Tho recipient of this news was overwhelm- ed. He turned pale. and became quite weak, and, covering bis face with his hands, he sank into seat. and entreat- ed the bishop to have him excused, for he felt unworthy of sv high an office. The bishop eomforted him and after \ long conversation impressed upon hiH' the necessity of submitting to the Dt- vine will thus manifested towards him
 The -consecratlon took place on tn gard of Noyeunher, 1884. in the AChurcn ct St. Apolinarus. attached to the Ro- man Seminary. The rite of consecra- tiSn was performed by a.s Eminence Cardinal Parent, one of the glories oi the Mantuan church and the assistant bishops. were, both of them, iliustrtous predecessors of Monsignor Sarto in the Sea of Mantua. "Of all those present on that occasion" writes the biograph- CT. none could imagine that the Epis, copai character then impressed upon the soul of the youngest of the three consecrandl would one day In the ful. ness of the priesthood be completed in the sublime mission to feed the entire flock of Christ in the See of Peter"
 Received By Pope Leo.
 And on this same evening the new Bishop, Monsignor Sarto was received in private audience by Pope Leo XIII and was presented with the gift awarded to all bishops coHsecrated in Rome a peetoral cross ant the Roman Pontihcal in five volumes. When Led XIII had named NJ lnslgnor Sarto bish- op of Mantua hedec Jared: If the dio- cese does not love its new pastor, it