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he was appointed professor OF theology |
in the seminary Nine years of siren
uous work followed, crowned, in 1884, |
by his assuming the mitre as Bishop |
of Mantua.
Leo XIII conferred upon Bishop !
Sarto the title of Roman Count
and in the consistory of June, 1898,
created him cardinal, giving him, the |
Roman church of San Bernardo from |
which to take his title. He was so poor
that he was unable to pay the fees
connected with the acceptance of the |
new dignity, but some of his admirers
came forward and provided him with
the necessary funds.
Creating him cardinal, Leo XIII APP
pointed him also Patriarch of Venice,
but he did not leave Mantua until a
year afterward, owing to conflict
between the Italian government and
the Holy See, over the right of the
House of Savoy to be consulted before
the appointment of a patriarch, the
government having inherited the rights
of the Republic of Venice. The dispute
was cut short by King Humbert also
| appointing Cardinal Sarto as patriarch
of Venice.
! The patriarch's relations with the
house of Savoy were always cordial
| Every time that their maiesties or the
princes visited Venice he paid them a
visit and presented his homage. He
was one of Queen Margherita 3 con
| fessors, and only n few months before
| the death of Leo XIII he was next the
Count of Turin in public, when he (the
patriarch blessed the foundation stone
of the new Campanile in Piazza San
| Marco He was the candidate of Leo
| XIII as his successor, but he so little
realized the future that when he left
Venice, in July, 1903, for the conclave
in Rome, he bought a return ticket.
Elected Pope in 1908.
In the eonclave the struggle was for
and against Cardinal Rampolla, Leo
Kills secretary of state whose ehanc-
es were lost when Cardinal Puzyna
pronounced the veto of Austria against
him, which veto was supposed to rep
resent the tripe alliance. Then, need
ing a compromise Pope, all eyes
turned to Cardinal Sarto, who at first
refused, but was after induced to ac-
Icept the high position, being elected
almost unanimously on August 1, as
Stunning the title of:
Pope Plus Y, Bishop of Rome and
Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor to St.
Peter, Prince Of the Apostles; Supreme
Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patri-
arch of the West, Primate of Italy;
Archbishop and Metropolitan of the
Roman Province and Sovereign of the
Temporal Dominions of the Holy Ro-
man church.
The pontiticate of Pope Plus X was
characterized by that spirit of modesty
which never abandoned him and by
that strong religious feeling which
made him choose as motto, ''To
+, restore everything in Christ. The day
after his coronation he was asked to
: give orders for his private apartment
in the Vatican. and while he urged the
then young Monsignore Merry del Val,
his pro-secretary of state, to occupy
2 the gorgeous Borgia apartment, he
: himself chose four small rooms in the
+ low ceilnged suite above the state
q apartment of the pontiff. which under
r Leo NH had been occupied by his
e private secretary, Mgr. Angel.
Did Not Spare Himself.
0 Plus X desired to give himself w
entirely to his work In so doing he
: did not spare any fatigue, and giving
audiences, admitting people to large
receptions, celebrating masses, preach
I ing, giving communion. reached such {
i point of exhaustion that while in the
o exercise of his priestly function in the
@ Pohne chapel, crowded with people, h
+. tainted and thus started the repor
- which pursued him ever after-that h,
4 was subject to fainting fits, which wa
D. quite untrue, that was the only oc
casion on which he suffered in tina
way, and it was entirely due to tn
heat and the Initiated air of the chapel
J. That was the first opportunity 70
70 the officials of the Vatican to step il
" and on pretext of protecting the Pope
a health, attempt gradually to isolat
r him from the world. However, the
b. were not always successful. One of tn
A. yearly American pilgrimagcs had lef
O. the United States at the beginning @
If July, 1908. On their way to Europe LIE
~ NH, who should have received then
l. died, so that they were in Rome durin
no the conclavc, and the day on which Pin
- y was elected and descended into S
+, Peters to give his first benedietio
- they were in. the Basilica, with tw
a American flags waving above the in
= mense crowd assembled there and joil
n ing their ringing hurrahs to the chez
>, ing which greeted the venerable fgur
!. Some days after the same America
-; pilgrimage was in the Vatican garden
m -, when suddenly, the work of the officia
~ having already begun, they were orde
=, ed away as the Pope was seen approac
vi ing. With true American spirit they o
. iected that they did not want to leav
Plus X, who understood something
70 what was going on, inquired, and Caro-
ca nal Gibbons, who was among those wi
14i accompanied them, explained that
c:u was pilgrimage of his eountrym'
~ who desired to pay homage to the Ho
~ Father. They had asked for an aud
~ ence and were waiting for the appoin
"a ed day. The Pontiff immediately sa
~ there was no necessity to wait al
that he would receive the American
az at once in the adjoining Museum LaI