The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-01-10
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CATHOLIC CARDINAL ASKS RE.
NE BRANcE TO TAFT
WHEN NEAR DEATH.
WAS LOVED IN AMERICA
Pope fies Recalls Convincing Arne
n1ent Of sasoIll Which Caused
Him to Accept chsif
of ST. Peter.

Rome Tan. 9--Franrescc u f1aol8
SatoiA, bishop Of Frascati arch-priesl
|of the Iateran Arch.nasiiica and ptn
feet Of the congregation of stl4dias.
died yesterdae Death followed II
illness that hegan last Jrne wiEa II
attack Of nephritls ahd atrophr Il
lthe right lung, and was coinpii.ataI
lrecontly with blood poisonfr..
Cardinal satolH vas of llat:s4
birth and was born AZ Msrseiaao ill
1T, 1899. His family was q noble aIEs
and of ancient lineave He WAS eFc.
ated n cardinal in 1895.
Hope for the ultimate recovery al
the cardinal was abandoned yeyefa
taays ago and the end had haea eN
lnected hourly. Soon after aentff tia
hodv was placed in state in the chaea
, of the Lateran palace.
The pope was greatly erleved when
| the announcement Of the cardinals
death was made to him, ard recalle}
THAT it was the convincing argument
Iof Satolli which influenced hin To az.
cept the papacy at the last eonclave
Interested In America.
Alomst to the hour of his death the
cardinal discussed with the few whs
were permitted to see him the affairs
.of the church in the United States. ~
which country he had profound in
terest, following his visits, which in.
cluded his mission as first apostolic
delegate from the vatican in the Ifns
ted States in the faf Of 1892.
He remembered we'll the details Of
his stay there, and recently related
bow, before his appointment as apof-
tolie delegate. he mad been instructor
by Pope Leo to interrogate the Amer
lean bishops concerning the advisable
w Of creating an apostolic deega
ton at Washington, All opposed such
? move with the exception OF Arch
tishop Ireland.
TO q friend from America the diving
man said.
Reminder NE to President Taft
ald tell him that I hone the day will
Feone when the United States and
Italy will be allied. Italy then being
|1'epubHc.'
Leaves Money to Charity.
The ecclesiastic's will is dated 4,
% last and leaves all of his estate
d relative This will protect the. ~
Ipdse Of the win in accordance With
ttlc laws or Italy, but private instrue
Etions were left for the heir requas.
ing that the property be divid 1
famong several ecclesiastical ana ben
EeYolent institutions, The cardiga ;
lViSh was th"t as all he possessed hal
come from the church, 1t should re
turn To the church with his demise.
Satoli Lc"~d in America.
Washington Jan. Second o. '
to Pope PHx X himself. among the
high officials of the Catholic chrral
IL Rome, was Cardinal SatoIli lovsd
| by his fellow churchmen in the Uni
ted Strtes. A title not conferred up
On him by the church. but one whie
is sai,l to have leased him vcr
much, was that OF the American ca !.
dInal bestowed uron hin because Il
his intense interest and love for .
United States. Better taan any othtt
I MEMBER of the sacred college. he u
derstood the spirit Of this country ard
valued to it's fullest extent the ~.
Gortance and Influence which tie
4 United states wo"ld exercise in q
| roiitical.rel;sious development of t'e
world.
Cardinal Satolli WIS best known il
the United states as tne FIRST arc .
tolic delegate from the Vatican q
this country having come here o.
that mission in October. 1892 His
tirst visit to America. however, wfi
in 1889 when he was deputed by Lee
Kill to renresent him at Baltimo'
on the occasion Of the celebration
. there of the centenary of the Cath
oiic hierarchy in the United States
and also in the Inauguration in { {