Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-08-19
POPE Plus X IS DEAD
(Continued from Page One.l

not of affliction,
"From the palace of the Vatican, the
second day of August.
(Signed)
"Pius ", Pontifex Maximus.
Cardinal Merry Del Val was reported
already to have recalled to Rome all the
members of the Sacred Clergy who re-
Gently left the city.
The Pope was born in 1885 and reach
ed the leadership of the Roman Catho'
lie church in 1908 as successor to iope
Leo y.
With the popes death there began
at once the elaborate ceremonies Whieh
have followed each succeeding supreme
\ pontiff's death for centuries past
These ceremonies, continuing for Pc
riod of nine days have long been con
eeded to be the most sOelmn, impress
sive and withal the most picturesque
funeral obsequies in the world.
Calling in loud tones to the attend
ants in the room adjoining the death
chamber for candle, the physicians,
it was said, preserved precedent, first
held the flame close to the dead pom
tiff's mouth and nostrls. The flame
being undisturbed, life was pronounced
extinct and the corpse was at once
turned over to the "pcnitenzieri " or
eonfessors of the vatican, in whose care
it will remain until removed to st.
Peters.
;. With the summouiug Of the "pcui-
tenzieri," " body of Swiss and Noble
Guards took up stations about the
death chamber.
; The "penitenzieri, " ON their part,
began at once the recitation of psalms
; and the funeral offices of the dead,
which will be continued until the Car
dinal Camerlengo's arrival to assume
temporary papal authority, pending the
election by the College of Cardinals
! of successor to the late pope.
In accordance with the perfect ma.
| chinery for the succession of the pa
paey, Plus death had hardly been cs.
tablished before Cardinal Merry Del
Val, the papal secretary of state, had
been notified He, in turn, notified
! the Cardinal Della VOlD, or lord chan.
berlain of the papal household, and the
latter began Immediately to make ne.
cessary preparations for taking over
temporary authority of the church.
t His Life History.
p The late Pope Plus Y. was born plain
a Joseph Sarto, in English Joseph Tailor
f 20 years ago on June last.
His Onrnntc trnrn rn,y p,,g,,t. 4
child he gave such intellectual prom
Use and exhibited so deep a piety while
f a pupil at the parish school at Riesc
o his birthplace, that his family deter.
d mined to send him to study at Castel
france, seven miles from his home.
Here he won a scholarship which sent
him to the seminaries of Trcsviso and
e Padua. AT both these places he dis
G tinguished himself especially in tn,
+ study of theology, and at the age OF
$ % was ordained a priest.
From the outset of his career he wa,
a beloved by the poor He denied him
d self many of the commoncst nccossitie,
L of life to give to those he considered
IS more in need than himself.
II lie was 81 when he rose from eur
e acy to the position of parish priest al
e, Salzano. There, in time, he rose to tn,
e post of canon of the cathedral, ehanccl
d lor of the diocese, spiritual director ~
the college and dean of the chaptcr
serving also during an interrcgum A.
It vicar general.
l. In lSS2 he became rector of the sem
U mary at Mantua ans TWO years late
n bishop of the Mantua diocese.
lie was made a cardinal nine wear
later and three days from the date o
es his elevation to the Sacred college h.
y became patriarch of Venice.
Sc When he left Venice to attend tb
u conelave which followed Pope To-
u Alll.'s death, the Venetians hailed hin
\ as the next pope. He himself obiecto,
y strenuously to his election, but wa
NJ ~ chosen on the sixth ballot His lif,
no even after ascending the papal throne
40 was OF the simplest He was thorouch
,e ~ democratic in all his thoughts, an,
% nus charities were boundless.
re His predecessor was much the noIti
AN' uNNUlCu himself rather I
the management of international nj
of falrs of the church. Clergymen of III
q modern type thought him old fasbione,
os put as the time passed it came TO h
a conceded even by such men as thcs
ID that ne was making Roman Catholicisr
lie new power in the world. A volnr
,v tary prisoner in the vatican. throne
ne the precedent which assumed n
e. church and the Italian state antaponi.
t. TIC as result of the latter's assam,
le non of what was once the church :,
of temporal power, he ehafed at his Ion
ne confinement, and it was more tba
It. once once rumored that a settlement WA
lg hkely of the imaginary antagonism h,
~ tween the vatican and Italy. and tbo
e. ne might be able to venture ont f.
Or exercise and variety his health r,
Is. quired. ~
AT the same time that he was a Inv,
d. ehurchman, he was a patriotic Italia
OF throughout the whole Of his life