The Washington herald., 1913-08-03

vantage. however. week-ends with the
aid of autos and rapid transit Of rail-
roads have enormously increased, and
churches are more empty on Sunday
mornings than ever.
Another consistory is soon to be held
by Pope Plus Y and the new elevations
to the Sacred college will have an I'M
rortant bearing upon the results OF the
next conclave, which in the course OF
nature cannot be long delayed.
1t is stated that four Italian prelates
will be created cardinals, and two ror
Italians, an addition of six. This will
raise the Italian majority in the college
to eight. The addition will bring TIE
college up to siNtytwo, which Is well
within the traditional seventy.
The four new Italian cardinals will he.
so il is said on fairly good authority.
Archbishop Della Chiess, a Boulogne;
Mgr. Tonti, the former nuncio at LIS
bon, who was forced to resign because of
the Portugal revolution: Mgr. 'Ceppetalli.
the titular patriarch of Constantinop'-,
and Mgr. Sbarretti, at one time auditor
OF the apostolic delegation at Washing
ton and later papal delegate to Cuba.
The elevation of the Archbishop Of
Boulogne has been long delayed, as has
been that of Mgr. Tonti, in the latter
case owing to troubles in Portugal
The two other honors will go. it is re.
ported. to Archbishop Piffie. of Vienna,
who succeeded the. late Cardinal Nagi,
ard TO Archbishop Mueller, of Cologne,
successor to the late Cardinal Fischer.
One of these red hats goes to Austria in
appreciation OF the support of Emperor
Francis Joseph TO the church, and tie
other to Germany because of the close
relations OF late years of Emperor VIII
lam with Pope Plus.
Botn sees are exceedingly important,
and occupants of them are invariably
raised to the Sacred College very soon
after their conservation or investiture. 1t
is said that some of the ceremonies 0f
This consistory will take place near the
villa, out OF doors iD the Vatican gar
dens, frequented by the Pope during the
warm days.
Next Wednesday the church will OBJ
serve the festival of the TRANSPORTATION Of
our Lord. Learned men cannot tell us
for certain the date the TRANSPORTATION Of
our Lord began to be observed as a f-s-
tvaL 1t would seem to have arisen
locally as a spontaneous act of devotion.
and gradually to have made its way to
universal observance. The statements
sometimes made that the festival was in
troduced in 1457 Is certainly mistaken. A
sermon by the venerable Bede bears the
title 'On the Feast of our Lords Trans
figuration." Bede lived in the eighth GEN.
tury. And there is hymn by John Of
Damascus. who also lived in the eighth
century, apparently written for this day.
What undoubtedly gave impetus to its OBJ
servance was the act Of Pope Calixtus in
1857, who, because the Mohammedans
were defeated by the Christians at Bel
grade on August 6, which had long been
kept as the festival Of the Transformation,
ordered the day to be kept thenceforward
with special honor.
Americans are always interested In the
thing that never happened before. There
was one such feature unmistakibly in
the recent gathering Of the Worlds
Christian Student Federation at Lake
presence there Of q Greek
Catholic bishop, commissioned bS tre -
triarch of Constantinople to attend this
conference and discover all that he could
there concerning means and methods fer
the religious and moral well
fare of students. Never before has the
Orthodox Greek Church condescended to
seek religious advice from Protestants.
There were a number of other private
members of the Greek Church In. attend
ance from Russia, Bulgaria, and Greece.
but this Constantinople guest was an
ordained prelate officially commissioned
by the head Of his own holy synod.
Prof Fagnani. Of Union Seminary. Is
radical of radicals in religion and in
politics both. and he Is thought much too
extreme for theological professor even
by some folks who are thought quite q