Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-07
POPE Plus M STUDENT
and ABLE DIPLOMAT
Was Don cs Weaver and A..
sisted TO an Education
BY Uncle.
New York r,sres.

The father cf Cardinal Ratti. the
newly elected Pore WAS rrancc~co
Rstr, = rativa ~ Rcs~no, Italy and his
mother Tcr~A CALI. n native 1 Sr-
vonno. Arhllc WAS tho third VI ax
children. iiis oldest brother. f>rmo.
and the Youngest sister, Camilla. are
stll living
Frwncesco. the father. was a Man
deere, weaver and spinner and. at
tho time NJ the birth al Ach,llc. MAS In
charge ~ tho wcsv~rs employed Ivy
'vunta cf rurlano. Later the father
wen, 60 r~rtusella aud then to Caru-
Aata fo take charge ~ the wraving
shops ~ thu Gads nrnn. The Rattd fam
Nv WAS neither rich nor poor. but b.
icnsed TO tho respectable middle class
~ artisans.
AehIHe WAS scnt TO ~rhool IN p.sio
conducted by Don Giuseppe Nolonteri
priest noted around Milan ~ an cdu-
Gator Nolonteri had started this school
hefcre Italian law mado education OBJ
hs,tory nni conducted Il for forty
three years. Ia his own house. While
n was an elementary ~,hoo, hon alu.
seppa took extra pains with tho more
promising 90 his pupils singing them
out Zoe sisclal training. ~ with
Nchile Rstti he was ono cf tho h~st
vf the 'ontndlnolli. or children OF the
middle elias s-ea. singled out by Nolon-
teii fur nhorr intensive training.
Under thls guidance, ,oung Arhile
VAS able to enter thu rrmns sium Of At
Peter Martyr one who knovs the new
fontln stated that IN 1884 after he
had been ordained 80 PRIEST and had
he'Nnc a professor ~, Milan. he went
hack 20 De~o Go Mllver the funeral
sermon IA commcmoration OF the
humble father who had conducted this
~hcol and who had given Ach,ne the
rWdim.n,s ~ education. This ~~rrnon
wrs d~'l,cr~, from the piazza Of the
isfochisl church 'etu also wrote the
.rl,erh Tor his ,eachers tomb
Helped by Ms rncc.
Another man who had much to Do
with tho formation OF the mind and
E character ~ i,atti was his uncle, Don
/ namieno Hat'i. who lives at Asso
T Young Arhi'lc had been IN tho habit OF
spending his summers at his uncic's
home for several ycsr-. Numerous
-cmlnari.ns ai-o followed the practice
scins 90 the Dams homo during the
summer. making it almost n small
seminary AT tha, period ~ the year
There ar~ p,icrts s,nl living who
were among th~sc eeni.nrAns The,
remember tho uncle rs a man OF cor.
dial and expansive good nature ~.
ward the young men who participate,
M thrs. summer studies and rar,
rcrsr'rec't, Ia finding which oc thcs,
we're Regarded by himself as aualff,c,
for tho pricethcd
n - d~ciN~wd that h,s Judgment
farcl, fwils>i IN the latter respect, and
That he never hcsi,atcd 20 ten thr
YOUNG ermtnsr'an tho Nhnnt truth n,
20 wh~thcs he war regarded ps M for
tho priesthood, one ~ ths semi.
nNrians whom Achil'e Retti met NJ
As>o wSa Mar. 81 ,slahianA after.
wards Cardinal who used to cal
young Ntu a Gloyancvc,chio-s
Young cki man,
Ia appreciation Of the influence o,
ihe uncle ugcn hse life and character
Mar iiatu In 1904 wen, back 20 A.ss
a. rrcach a, the silver Jubilee Of IN,
uncle as a priest
lrom tho gymnasium of ST. Pete
'f"f''A ''"'N NN~ Fsfli 10 tnt lNAtlf
IN the seminary ~ Nonsea. where n
rufsu~d FOR the rrst two years hi
vlN*sschi s,udi"e. the third year q
thcee s,udies being undertaken In IN
'olieso ~ st Charles Rorrumeo 4
Milan, Thence he went 20 the majo
seminary IN Milan for three years. an
- impreseci the Archbishop that tn
latter sent him 10 Rome as n studen
IN the Lombard College, where he too
his viass~s In thu Grcgorlan rniversit,
jesult Institution, spending thrr
mote wears In Rome. the man who
now Pope took his dcc,oratcs In phll
"~urh,, theology and canon law.
Embarked on library Carver.
Returning 90 Milan IN 1852. he frs
teusht thcolury and sacred cloqucnc
~ the meior seminary FOR Eve year,