The Alaska daily empire., 1922-01-23
BODY OF POPE
 NOW LYING IN
 STATE IN ROME
Thousands Are Passing Be- fore Bier-Solemn Process
 sions Is Formed.
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 slowed upon him by high dignitary of his communion as "a messenger God sent to bring peace'
 The war between Italy and Aus the Catholic religion predominate, was particularly a great sorrow to the Pope. Those near to him said he deprecated the German violation of Belgium. When the Lusitania was sunk he telegraphed to the then Emperor William his abhorrence of deed which had shocked the world.
 The successor of Plus x was said to have combined the statesman ship of Pope Leo VIII with the grace of his immediate predecessor. He the ideals and policies of those two great churchmen. But the world war, which broke the heart of Plus X, saddened the first four years of his pontificate and prevented the fulfillment of some of his aspira- tions.
 Visited by Wilson.
 One of the Iiiciuents of his pom tifical career was the visit which President Wilson paid to him on January 4, 1919, when the President went to Rome prior to the opening of the Peace Conference at Paris. Social and treaty questions were dis cussed, it is said, during the private audience at the conclusion of which Pope Benedict presented to his guest handsome mosiac reproducing Guido Reni's famous picture of Saint Peter, valued at $40,000.
 One Of the smallest men physically ever elected to the chair of St. Peter, the former Cardinal della Chiesa never expected to be thus honored oy the Sacred College and is said tol nave wept when apprised of his elec- ion. He would have preferred, hei said, to remain simple priest or, 1t most, Cardinal and Archbishop of Bologna.
 Horror of Conflict.
 On the day Of his election heE poke of the burden of responsi bilityi thrust upon lone frail brain andt expressed his horror of the world conflict then being waged and hisi hope that it would quickly end One week after his coronation, when the Fisherman's Ring was placed upon his finger, he issued an Encyclical to the episcopaey of the world in which rulers were exhorted to put aside dissensions and to ''enter into council of peace with all speed. T The appeal fell on stony ground, however, and later. on December 12, 1914, the Vatican authorities an nounced the Pope's plan for Christ mas truces was failing "because of the opposition of certain power. Reports were that Russia and Tur key had refused to acquiesce. Along thousand miles of battlefront, theI following Christmas Day, thousands of cannon thundrede an answer to Benedict's appeal to Hay down your arms" | | Again on January IS, 1915, Pope Benedict took up the task of bring ing peace to war-torn world, de- ereeing that on February ', priests and laity of the Catholic church throughout the world should unite in services and prayers for the re- storation of universal amity and good will. The next occasion Bene- lict exercised his humane preroga- tive was on July 28, 1915, the first anniversary of the war, when he is- sued an appeal to all rulers, declar- ing that blessed be he who first extends the olive branch and tenders his hand to the enemy in offering his reasonable conditions of peace" Prays for Peace.
 In March, 1916, the Pope again reiterated his prayer for the dawn of a new and better day. Each belligerent should clearly state his desires" he said but should be ready to make the necessary sacri- fees of pride and particular inter ests. Previously Benedict had written to the late Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria asking him tol shorten the war" and likewise sounded the then Emperor of Ger many aa in tho fQrma upop uhtoht