The Irish standard., 1910-01-15
A POPULAR PRELATE
SuCCyMBs AT ROME
Cardinal Satolli Dies in the
Eternal City After an Ill
ness of Six Months at the
Age of Seventy Years.
Sends a Dying Message to
President Taft Hoping the
United States Would Be
An Ally of Italy.

francesca di Paola Satolli, bishop of
Frascati, archpriest of the Lateran
Archbacilica and prefect Of the Con-
gregation Of Studies, died in Rome on
Saturday, Jan. 8, 1910. Death followed
an illness that began last June with
an attack of nephritis and otrophy of
the right lung and was complicated re-
Gently with blood poisoning.
Cardinal Satolli was of Italian birth
and was born at Marsciamo July 21,
1889. His family was a noble one and
of ancient lineage. He was created "a
cardinal in 1895.
Hope for the ultimate recovery of the
cardinal was abandoned and the end
had been expected hourly. Soon after
death the body was placed in state in
the chapel of the Lateran palace.
The Pope was grieved deeply when
the announcement of the cardinals
death was made to him and recalled
that 1t was the convincing argument
of Satolli which Influenced him to ac-
cept the papacy at the last conciave.
Almost to the hour of his death the
cardinal discussed with the few who
were permitted to see him the affairs
of the Church in the United. States,
in which country he had profound
interest, following his visits, which in
cluded his mission as first apostolic
4sdelegate from the Vatican to the Unit
ed States in the fall of 1892.
He remembered well the details OF
his stay there, and recently related how
before his appointment as apostolic
delegate, he had been instructed by
Pope Leo to interrogate the American
bishops concerning the advisability or
creating an apostolic delegation at
Washington. -
To friend from America the dying
man said:
Remember me to President Taft
and tell him that I hope the day will
come when the United States and
Italy will be allied, Italy then being {.
republic"
The ecclesiast's will is dated June Is
last and leaves all of his estate to a
relative. This will protect the pur-
pose of the will in accordance with
the laws of Italy, but private instruc-
tons were left for the heir requesting
that the property be divided among
several ecclesiastical ann benevolent
institutions. The cardinal wish was
that as all he possessed had come from
the Church it should return to the
Church with his demise.
The Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Tribune says of the dead
cardinal:
Second only to Pope Plus x himself
among the high officials of the Cath
olc Church in Rome was Cardinal Sa-
tolli, loved by his fellow churchmen in
the United States. A title not con-
ferred upon him by the church, but
one which is said to have pleased him
greatly was that of the american cur
dinal,' bestowed upon him because OF
his intense interest and love for the
United States. Better than any other
member of the sacred college he un-
derstood the spirit of the country ana
valued to it's full extent the impor-
tance and the fuence which the
United States would exercise in. the
political and religious development of
the world.
Cardinal Satolli wa. best known in
this country as first apostolic delegate
from the Vatican to the United States
He came here in October, 1892, and
was then called officially by Pope Leo
XIII "our venerable brother Francis,
titular archbishop of Lepanto."
my Perugian boy" was the more
familiar and endearing term by which
the venerable head OF the Catholic
church spoke in private life of his for
mer pupil and protege.
Francis Satolli was born in Perugia
Italy, in 1859. He was educated in the
diocesan seminary of Perugia, then the
most eminent ecclesiastical school in
Italy. over which presided Joachim
Pecci, archbishop of Perugia, who was
destined some years later to be called