The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-22
LETTER FROM OUR SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENT.
Homage to the Holy Father-cabinet
Makino-Chanqes in Rome-Papal
Document en- the Hierarchy
Expected.
London, March 25, 1911.

London, March rs, 1911.
"Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers,
our tears,
'Our love, triumphant DER our fears
Are all with thee!-are all with
thee
From millions of Catholic hearts
this week came that message, over
oceans and continents to the feet of
an old man with silvery hair and sad
blue eyes, who looks out upon the
world from the Vatican Hill in the City
of Holy Rome We can stand in spirit,
as so many of us have had the happi-
ness of doing in body, in the vast
square of St. Peters, and over the
stately colonnades to the right in the
second story of the block of the Vati-
can Palace we look upon the windows
of the Pope's apartments. Gazing from
those windows last Sunday evening
Piux X. saw the houses of the Piazza
San Pietro outlined in light while from
their f1agstaffs fluttered the Papal
colors. The Holy Father had busy
day. He said Mass at his usual early
hour in the small chapel which is
only two doors removed from his
sleeping apartment and has room for
about dozen people. His sisters and
niece were present at the Adorable
Sacrifice. Then the Holy Father, aft
er granting an audience to his rela-
tives, received one by one deputations
from five of the great Catholic socie-
ties of Italy, who came to offer their
homage. Signore Necchi spoke for the
Popular Union; Signor Medolago for
the Economic Union; Signor Gentiloni
for the Electoral Union; Signor Peri
coli for the Catholic Youth, and the
Princess Giustiani-Bandini for the
Union of Catholic Women. There was
also a deputation of the orphans of
Messina to whom the Holy Father has
been indeed parent in their dis
tress. After all these had been re-
ceived with kindly word and bless
ing, there were the thousands of tele-
grams to read and answer, those from
all the crowned heads of Europe, and
those from the Archbishops of the
various countries, many of whom tele-
graphed in the names of themselves
and their peoples, amongst them be-
ing Cardinal Logue, Archbishop Bourne
and the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal
Moran, and many more. The Sacred
College had presented their Peters
Pence offering and their fluctuations
on the eve of the feast. They came, a
splendid and stately assembly of noble
men, led by Cardinal Serafino Vanu-
telli, passing through the corridors
and halls of the Vatican, where the
Papal guards in their picturesque uni
form gave them royal honors, and, as
in their trailing crimson robes they
surrounded the white figure of the
Pontiff in the sale Clementino, cool
and shadowy, with the golden throne
given by Venice to her Patriarch when
he ascended the throne of the Fisher.
man, for background, and the lovely
Vatican gardens clothed in the first ra.
diant tints of an Italian spring, seen in
vignettes through the windows, they
made a picture of gracious harmony
fraught with historic significance that
would have delighted the eye of an
artist. After the stately ceremonial OF
the presentation was over and the
Princes of the Church had made their
own gift to the Pontiff, of 10000 lire
Piux x. fell into smiling talk with
groups of the Cardinals. The Holy
Fathers smile is very sweet and never
to be forgotten. 1t comes rarely, and
many have said that his is one of the
saddest faces they have ever seen, but
it is evoked by the love and devotion
of his children which gladdens him in
the midst of all his trials. The follow
ing day the whole Corps Diplomatique
waited on the Holy Father, the Bel
gian minister, as doyen, voicing theil
Fluctuations.
Cabinet Making.
The fall of the Italian Government