The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-09-19
A BOQUET OF BENEDICTS
Fifteen to Date and Every One Daisy---Whafs
ina Name Revealed by Benedict History for
Thirteen Centuries.

The chosen pope indicates his taste temper and
takes By choosing that of Benedict
the latest incumbent of the PaPa throne expressed his admiration
for all Of them and for that their history and acts
Of more than usual interest at this time
The fourteen previous Benedcs extend through thirteen
u of history and the to the Ben of Bologna
dead before the United States became nation The history OF the
present bearer of the It reasonable that the self
chstened Benedict admes the policy of his elders and will
For that interesting review the policy and history
Of those who chose and bore the In doing there
little 10 be found that could be regarded complimentary the
to the latest pontif to give preference But then is
better The pop who be regarded pasaby good
few and far between and would with spiritual
name from some other source But Q the Benedcs;
Benedict Roman elected after nterregnum of
months caused by the nes that in those days always preceded
papal elections Little him he did
ing relieve the misery of the people which at that time
eme He elected in d. 574 and held the job four
Benedict also Roman who lasted pOnti for only few
months and did nothing of consequence
Benedict III the of the pop Joan the
pope who distinguished the quality of clerical cebacy
One Anaasus wanted the job and made Ben number three
to get rid of him He lost standing with the Pa by placing
deacon trial for the vena offence of turning nunnery into
brohel The third Ben lasted two years.
Benedict did better having Heaven earth and he'll
time of poncate 900 to $685. and virtue were
Tsy banshed from the church Edgar king Of England in
buche dissolution drunkenness and impu The houses of the
sodomtes They gamble and night the residence Of
pope Historians also that in the time of Bnnie the fourth
sOciety plunged buthnss profound fright
full corruption The Bnedcts beginning make record
Benedict have been something scrapper He
with Oho Emperor of the Gemans and when Oho
besged city Rome Ben mounted the rampars
City with baeax hand and anathemas in mouth to chop his
into pugaory and consgn them to hell by edct But
sOldiery much for the inble,
banished Hamburg where he died of chagrin.
Benedict VI took charge Of the world in D. 93 but lasted
few days With the death of the German conqueror Oo
sanged Ben because OF his many crimes The people OF the period
have had like hatred for foreign kings and native
and made effort to establish republic under leadership of
tackled job 974 conflict
with Bonface who contested his right with the usual At
first Bonace driven from the city, and Ben celebrated his
victory by shutting himself in the Lateran palace where he
Rome help Ben fight BOnace the prepared coup
Gl sF all % s spes G mn
with Bonface and held high revy while soldiers surrounded the
mediate execution And ten after ascending the throne the
seventh Ben removed by assassination.
Benedict VIII elected by series of ntrgue to be
onted by pope proclaimed the people Gregory
Gregory drove Ben BY help of Henry of Germany Ben
reseaed in ST. Peters chair and then carried with the
invading Saracens The of Islam overwhelmingly de-
fated their booty divided the victorious Romans Among
Of the loot the beautiful wife Of the Saracen
mande Ben cut off her head tore the jewels from her body and
remains his soldiers The eighth Ben distinguished
himself by wholesale massacre Jews
of coming back different places earth after his death He
Benedict * elevated the throne by his family the
early twelve Money and threats the of securing
be by cardinals only theory he
pOyed wtchcraft and used enchantmen He said have
the woods night and to have there sacrificed to demons He
turbulent and after dozen years Of rap Tapne %ardI
Benedict got his start by Of and violence
Nicholas ii claimed the job and pushed his claim with much force
that resigned and Nick regned The tenth Ben lasted ten
months
Benedict xI the first of the line reputation fol
dcency When Bonace made him cardinal advised
vrtuous he wished be loved by his clergy 1t therefore
that what goodness he displayed not because of the
clergy spite of them The fact is also emphasized by his
about by the administered by the priests
tried reform Too good to live long in that position h
handed the poisoned figs and died less than
Benedict XII the French cardinal Jacques Fournier Wher
said: You have chosen brh
He said to be the product of ncesuou relations between
unspeaabe John and his sister He made bluff clerical
forms praced and held in contempt the
worst hierarchy composed of robbers and murdees he