Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-26
Secret Consist tory
Held VatiCan==Bril=
liant Ceremony and
AIIOCutiOn
Severe Thunderstorm RACES
While COnCIaye Is inSeSSiOn

Pope Plus created Is new cardinals.
A number of bishops from various
countries also we're confirmed in their
Sees.
At the same time official announce
ment was made of the creation or
Monsignor Bello. patriarch of Lisbon,
as cardinal. Ms name had been re-
served in pectore" at the consistory
of 1911.
The ceremony which was accompa-
MED by all the brilliance usual on
such occasions at the Vatican, was
preceded by a short allocutlon, after
which the names of the new cardinals
were announced, as follows
Monsignor Louis Nazaire Begin,
archbishop of Quebec, Canada.
Monsignor V. Guisasola Menen-
dez archbishop of Toledo, Spain.
Monsignor Domenico Serafini, as
SCISSOR of the Congregation of the Holy
Office.
Monsignor Della Chiesa, archbishop
of Bologna, Italy.
Monsignor Hector Irenee SEWN,
archbishop of Lyons, France
Monsignor Francis Won Bettinger,
archbishop of Munich, Bavaria.
Monsignor Felix Won Hartmann,
archbishop of Cologne, Germany.
Monsignor F. G. Piffi, archbishop of
| Vienna, Austria
Monsignor Philip Giustini, secre-
tary of the congregation of the sacra-
ments.
Monsignor Michal Lega, dean Of the
tribunal of the Rota.
Monsignor Scipio Tecehi, assessor of
the consistorial congregation.
Right Rev. Francis Aidian Gasquet,
president of the English benedictines.
The Pontiff was surrounded by all
the members of the Sacred College
living in Rome and by those who are
now here, including Cardinals Gibbons,
Farley and O'Connell
The Pope appointed Cardinal Fran
els Della Volpe to the office of cham
berlain in which position he will d.
rect the affairs of the church during
the conclave
Cardinal Diomede Falconio, former
/ iy Apostolic delegate in the United
States, also was raised to the mark
of chamberlain.
The alloeution of the Pope was a
strong appeal for political and social
peace through the restoration of relig-
| ion and the influence of the church.
The Pope in the course of his allo-
cution recalled the Constantinian jul
bilee, when he said:
THE whole world seemed to lift up
the cross of Christ as the sole source
of peace and salvation for struggling
humanity. Now, especially, men de-
| sire peace when class is against class,
nations against nations and peoples
against peoples, and war may break
out as the result of rivalries daily be-
| coming more bitter.
Men of distinction and force are
planning for their nations and for hu-
manity schemes for preventing the
calamities of revolutions and the
slaughter of war and for ensuring the
blessings of peace.
This is a noble project; but their
schemes will bear little fruit unless
they ensure that the precepts of JUS
tice and Christian charity take deep
root in the hearts of men.
To-day the question of whether the
state or civil society be at peace
or in turbulence is in the hands of
the peoples instead of those of the rul-
ers. If the peoples minds be robbed
of the truth impaired by divine reve-
| lation and if their will be unaccus-
! toned to the restraint and discipline
of Christian law, what wonder if, con-
sumed by blind passion. they rush
headlong to the common ruin to which
they are driven by cunning dema-
III, Afx-
THE assistance of the church as the
guardian of justice and charity and
the mistress of truth is, therefore, the
most efficacious for the common veal.
1t is regrettable that the opposite Of
ten occurs; but the church, like
! Christ does good and receives in
juries in return. The divine help will
never fail us. We have Christ for a
pledge and history for witness"
The allocution by recalling that 100
years ago Plus VII triumphantly re-
turned to Rome from contumelies and
captivity and was received with the
| applause of the world.
The passage in the Pope's allocu-
! ton referring to men of distinction
and force planning schemes for pre-
venting the calamities of revolutions
and the slaughter of war and for en-
surfing the blessings of peace" was
| generally interpreted as referring to
President Wilson's and Secretary of
State Bryan's endeavors to preserve
peace.
A severe thunderstorm ragged while
the conclave was in session and, as 1t
was accompanied by an oppressive at
mosphere caused apprehension that it
might affect the health of the Pope,
but his holiness appeared to stand the
lengthy ceremony very we'll
Upon the conclusion of the secret
consistory the Pontifical master of
ceremonies, accompanied by the sec
rotary of Cardinal Merry del Val and
the secretary of the apostolic chancei-
lery, visited each of the new cardi-
nails and handed him his formal notice
of appointment.
Cardinal Gasquet, the English Bene-
dfctine, on receiving his notification
said he regarded himself as represent
ing in Rome not only England, but
Ireland, Wales and Scotland, "and, If
not altogether too ambitious, l can