The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-20
NEW POPE HELPED
 CHIMNEY SWEEPS
Also Gave Spiritual Care to Working Girls in Earlier
 Milan Days.

years when he was the prefect of the | Am brosian Library in Milan. according The London Tablet of June 25 last, | which was just after Archbishop Ratti of Milan was created a Car | dinal, this "One Who Knows Him. who is now Pope. The article is headed E'The New Cardinal-Arch- bishop of Nilan.' It reads in part:
 'In the midst of his literary and voted to his work as a priest and director of souls. During the years of his early priesthood the nuns of the Order of the Cenac1e opened a Venezia. later in the Via Monte di Pieta, where 1t still exists.
 1.-The then reigning Archb1sh op, Mgr. Calabiana, appointed the young and to the work he devoted himself with admirable zeal to the very end of his sojourn in the city.
 'F'or over thirty years he gave to it all the enthusiasm of his sacerdota1 heart. No good work was under taken in that ever active home or good works in which Don Achine- Ratti was not the chief co-opera- tor.
 "In 1883 he organized an associa- tion of school mistresses. of which he retained the direction during the. whole period of his stay in the city. The congregations of Children of Mary for the young ladies of Milan ese high society, for those of the mid dle classes. clerks, work girls and all the social classes. had the benefit of his direction and of his elevated and edifying though simple instructions.
 Instructed Little Sweeps.
 'The hunblest of the little guests of the Cenacola were the little chin- ney sweeps, a race which has disap- peared from our country. These little fellows are gathered together ligious instruction. And the learned prefect of the Ambrogian Library, in the midst of his absorbing work, found time both to pass the after chisn to the little boys in the Church of St. Sepolcro, and also to prepare the little chimney sweeps for their first communion, on the occasion of feasts and their innocent games.
 f"This life of combined learned lajbors and apostolic works was sud- denly interrupted just ten years ago to Rome and made Pro-Prefect of the Vatican Library and assistant to Father Ehrle. whom he succeeded as Prefect in 1913, when he was made Prothonotary Apostolic.
 'NThe great war, which has chang ed so many things in this world, put an end to Mgr. Ratti's career as a li- brarian. The war had not yet come to an end when. on April 25, 1918, Pope Benedict XIV. sent him out as Apostolic Visitor to Poland in order to regulate the complicated affairs of the Church in that unfortunate country. t-. -.
 When Poland finally obtained her restored independence. the Holy the Catholic State, appointed Mgr. Ratti Apostolic Nuncio to the new Republic of Poland. creating him in the Consistory of July 8. 1919, titu- lar Archbishop of Lepanto.
 '"The sudden transference of one hitherto known almost exclusively as a scholar and writer from the tranquil life of a great library pass graphical research to the active life of diplomacy in the very midst of one of the most disturbed portions of Europe caused universal sur prise.
 Poland, after the peace of Brest- btoVsk' was still occupied by Ger man troops. although there was a l Archbishop (now CardinaI) Kakow-I ski and two others. The situation | was in every way extremely difficult | played such remarkable tact and | diplomatic skill and even heroism | that he played quite a leading part | in the final settlement of both the political and ecclesiastical difficulties | which surrounded the birth of the | new Republic.
 '1t was briefly owing to his efforts that two articles were introduced in to the Constitution of the State. the one declaring that the Catholic re- Igion occupies the first position in the Polish State. and the second pro- y1d1ng-stin more practically tm- portant-that no measures concern ing the Catholic Church may be talk en without preliminary agreement with the Holy See.
 Helped to Free Prisoners.
 H-,tr | Nuncio was able to exercise impor- tant influence in various directions. his diplomatic good offices he obtained the liberation of many prisoners and hostages from the hands of the Russian Bo1sheviki in cluding the Archbishop of Mohile and the Bishop of Minsk.
 Quite recently he was appointed on an extraordinary mission as Ec- clesiaStical Commissioner for the pleb1scite in Upper Silesia, and this at the unanimous request of Poland, Germany and the Interallied Commis- sion.
 'FTwo interesting precedents in connection with Monsignor Ratti's ap- potntment have been, noted in the Italian papers. This is the second occasion on which a Nuncio Apos- tolic in Poland has been recalled Milan and Cardinal, the same hav- ing happened to Monsignor Benedict to Odescalchi in 1713. It is stated, moreover, that the Cardinalatial ti- tle assigned to Monsignor Ratti, was leld for four years by the Cardinals Illustrious predecessor, St. Charles 
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