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No. 48.-VOL. IV.
19UBIACO, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1878.
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Arent, by tits way, but mroxAfter attending lbas, The chair of St. Peter rendered meant by °optionally esehertmesedinide at communicated. which the death of Pius IX. has, as our readers its aware, been already filled up. The Cardinale their Eminenotte retired to their apartments in conclave assembled have done their work to bred:feat. Subsequently, still accom with extraordinary celerity. Joachim Car- panted by their Conclavisti. the Cardinals, dinal Pecei receives the homage of the this time no longer wearing their rockets, Catholic world as head of the Christian proceeded again to the Sistine Chapel for church. We subjoin below details of his their arid scrutiny. Two ballots take place election, description of the eeremoniee of each day during the sitting of a Conclave, coronation, and the leading facts of his ate, one in the morning, one in the afternoon. taken from various European papers, but For the purposes of the Conclave the lower principally from the Register. Our readers half of the Sistine Chapel had been raised to will peruse the account, we are sure, a level with the floor of the upper half or The Pontiff's seat being vacant, with equal interest and pleasure.
while after hie iniesdarelen to tilit household he was rent as Papal Doilipte to Benevento, which province he itelleded, Joachim Cardinal Pecei had been elected in sweeping clear, within a eery abed Moe Of tea Conclave, and that he had assumed to him- curse of brigandage. From Bemente he self on his elevation to the Pontifical throne was sent later onto Spoleto, and eventoally is tne name, style, and title of Pope Leo the Perugia, his exceptional capabilitos is Sigh Thirteenth As it happened at the moment, city winning for him great publis esteem, but a comparatively few people had collected and very rapidly securing to hint a wide in the enormous space enclosed by the Pisua reputation. of S. Peter's. Nevertheless, these who were there welcomed the glad iddings with the APPOINTID NUNCIO TO THE COURT OF utmost possible enthusiasm, the shouts of joy BIIISSELAL raised by them soon attracting an immense the throne and canopy had been multitude, who cheered again and again in In an astonishingly short time he removed. For each of the sixty-two Car- the most rapturous manner the maugu- succeeded in reorganizing, in the most chisels present, each of them being a possible ration, thus suddenly, of a new Pontificate. satisfactory manner imaginable, the whole of Pontiff, a throne had been raised, each throne Scarcely anyone had looked forward to so the hitherto chostic system, or rather nosurmounted by a canopy, a close the of early to the of the drapery this proceedings ConOPENING OF CONCLAVE. system, of Customs on the frontlet -line baldaquin or canopy, accordingly as the dare. A day and a half only had elapsed between the Papal States and the Neapolitan It was on Monday, 18th Feb., that, the Cardinals had been raised to the purple by since the members of the Sacred College had territory) This social, litical, sad comnine days of preparation having been accom- the last Pope or his predecessor, being green withdrawn for the purposes of that Conclave mercial transformation elan entire province. plished, the members of the Sacred College, or violet. Four green canopies were alone within the walls of the Vatican Palace. Yet, as a matter of course, was not accomplished in larger numbers than ever before assem- visible, all the rest of the members of the already, the decision of the Cardinals had without the most Aprons and adventurous bled at the beginning of any Conclave, Sacred College, as it is now constituted, been arrived at with a prompitude that we activity on the part of the Delegate acting The Conclave there on behalf of the Executive Government. withdrew to their appointed places of having been created Cardinals by his- late believe is unprecedented. residence within the walls of the Vatican. Holiness. Under a green canopy to the left, which, nearly thirty-two years ago, elected Under a velvet glove Mgr. Peed had a hand When, as hitherto during the present century, or on the Gospel side of the High Altar. sat the Sovereign Pontiff as the successor of Pope of steel the firmness of the grip of which was the Conclave was wont to assemble in the the venerable senior Cardinal -Bishop, Car- Gregory the Sixteenth, was one of unusual felt in turn by the lawless brigands and (if Quirinal on Monte Cavallo, their Eminences dinal Louis Amat Di Ian Filippo E Sorso a bevity, extending to no more than forty- that be possible) the still more lawless used to walk in grand procession from a recipient of the red hat forty-one years ago eight hours altogether. But the Conclave nobles who were their protectors. Here is neighboring church, accompanied by their from the hands of Pope Gregory the Six- which has now chosen his present Holiness, an istance, which however occurred at an Conclavisti, to the principal entrance of that teenth. Under a violet canopy to the right, Pope Leo the Thirteenth, as Pius the Ninth's earlier period of his career. One of the bands regal residence, whence one of them was to or on the lipistle side, eat the senior Cardinal- successor, has been reeked with even greater of brigands was attacked by the Government emerge a brief while afterwards the supreme Deacon, Cardinal Prosper Caterini, named rapidity. The Sacred College of Cardinals, troops, when a certain Marquis in whose spiritual and temporal Sovereign of the rest. Cardinal, like the vast majority of their in the swiftness of its decision, keeps pace castle they had fortified themselves, owe to Now that the Quirinal has been forcibly Eminences, by the late Pope Pins the Ninth. with the marvelously rapid age of the steam - the Delegate and threatened him that if he withdrawn from the Papal authority, the The rest of the members of the Sacred Col- engine, the electric wire, and the telephone. did not immediately order the troops to Conclave sits once more, as it sat of old, lege--Bishops, Priests, and Deacons-were Their promptness in the present instance has desist from the attack, he would himalW go under the yet grander roof-beams of the ranged around according to the order of pre- been such that, for three of their number, un- to Rome and not return until he had received Vatican. One by one their Eminences, each cedence, marked among them by the dates of fortunately, steamboats and railways have Mgr. Pecci's dismissed. The young prelate attended by a Secretary, or Chaplain, and a their creation. Before each of the sixty-two been of no avail-not only Cardinal Saint- replied coldly bet courteously, "Very Valet, parsec( pn Mendell along the ok was C tstuail Mar9,butJacitrietl.to add, Cardinal Callen Marise, yen sat ge to Borne mutton to whim there weresritineable. oc e,aemagnific,ent structure t5 their al six other swell Slid Cardinal Mcmosrer being unable to 81 ; but only when you come out of apartments. Having passed into the interior writing -tables in the middle of the Sistine arrive in time and take part in the balloting. Like whither yon shall now go for three months, of the Vatican, the great doors were securely Chapel. Upon 'the High Altar was a large With the exception of those three members and remain there upon bread and water." locked and were afterwards carefully walled chalice, and upon the chalice rested a golden of the Sacred College, all the rest of the And while the Marquis was meditating in up, as were also the windows, save that the paten. Each Cardinal, having provided him- Cardinals were present, and took part in this prison upon this novel treatment, the troops latter had one or two panes of glass left at self with a voting paper, wrote his name on ever-memorable Conclave. At the ballot on stormed hiscastle, and captured the brigands; the top uncovered, so as to admit of some the top of it, folding that top end down and Wednesday, a sufficient number of votes liar and Mgr. Pecci, having pacified his province, glimmer of light to the apartments. Im- sealing it. At the bottom-which lower end ing been accorded to the Cardinal-Camer- received tlip warmest thanks of his own Govermediately prior to their being thus literally he afterwards, in like manner, folded down lengo, the members of the Sacred College, ment and of the King of Naples. In 1843 immured on Monday evening, many of the and sealed-he wrote some Scriptural motto, advancing one after another, knelt before Pope Gregory the Sixteenth appointed him Roman nobility, of the diplomatic body, and which he henceforth, throughout the Con- him, Cardinal Pecci being there and then Archbishop of Damietta in parttbes of other privileged persons, were admitted clave, adhered to as a mark distinctly his declared Pontiff, all the Cardinals in turn, for a while, asusual on these great historical own. Midway between the two sealed folds by kissing his feet, offering him the " Act of ieftdehatm, shortly afterwards sending bins as to Nuncio the of Brawls. When court ho wrote on the centre of the voting paper Obedience." Formerly the guns of St. occasions, to pass from cell to cell, offering Pecci, some little time later on, was their adieux and good wishes to their illus- the name of the candidate he had selected, Angelo would have announced to the people Mgr. compelled, by reason of the injurious effect trious occupants. Eventually all was closed that name alone remaining on the paper of Rome that a new Pontiff had been called the climate had upon his health, to return up with rigorous exactitude in the way al- quite open and unsealed. Their Eminences to the more than Regal or Imperial throne of King Leopold, whose regard, readyindicated. A turnstile at one point, rig!- having, one and all of the them, in this way, the Prince of the Apostles. On Wednesday southwards, even affection, he had by that time lantly watched and guarded, was even then prepared each his voting paper, one after an- the announcement of Cardinal Pecci's elec- and secured. not only loaded him with the left for the admission of the very few Car- other ascended the steps leading to the High tion, and of his assumption of the title of dinals who had not already arrived, in the Altar, averring aloud that his vote was Pope Leo the Thirteenth, was welcomed, first evidenoesofhisfriendship,among other things presenting him with the Grand Cordon of event of their reaching Rome in sufficient given conscientiously according to his con- of all, by the enthusiastic cheers of the vast time before the completion of the momentous' victions, and then, holding his voting paper multitude assembled together in front of St. his Order of Knighthood, bat commended work of the Conclave. As for the turn -table conspicuously aloft between the forefinger Peter's, and afterwards by the ringing of all him, even at that early age, in the strongest with its grille or lattice, no less rigidly and thumb of his left hand, laid it on the the bells of the three hundred and odd possible terms, for promotion to the purple, by his Holiness. guarded and watched during this prison - golden paten, from which he afterwards churches in the Eternal City, like seclusion of a Conclave, for once there tilted it into the chalice. The appointed scrutiCHEAT= CARDINAL-AlCHSISHOP Or has been no need for its daily employment neers, when all the voting papers had been FIRST BLESSING OF LEO for the transmission of food, in the shape of thus brought together, breaking no seals, read PICSUGIA. During the afternoon, at about half -past and counted the names of the candidates. four " broken victuals" from the outer world, for o'clock, the newly -elected Pontiff, the sustenance of the Cardinals. As None of the candidates having on Tuesday surrounded by all the members Consequent upon that royal commendation, of the already announced, the food required by morning obtained the legal number of votes College, presented himself before the coupled with the Holy Father's old friendtheir Eminences and their Conclavists was, requisite, that is two-thirds, as already ex- Sacred ship for the returning Nuncio, Monsignor this time, by previous arrangement, prepared plained, the afternoon or accessit ballot was people in the inner gallery of the Vatican Pecei, in the Consistery of the 19th recognised as inevitable. The same " no- Basilica. Immediately upon his appearance January, 1846, was nominated Archbishop in the interior of the Vatican. was an outburst of rapturous cheering, result " having been arrived at in the there Bishop of Perguia, a post he continued to afternoon, the voting -papers were placed the multitude outside taking up the shout occupy down to Wednesday last, when he vociferously METHOD OP VOTING. of" Long live the Holy Father I" with a small quantity of damp straw in a The cheering, in fact, was so long continued was elected to the Supreme Pontificate. At little iron fireplace with According to the regulations set forth on behind the altar in a cornera tube chimney that his Holiness himself had, at last, to give the same Consistory he was reserved in pato of the Sistine the signal for its cessation. And immediately Cartfleal. Half a year had net elapsed, howthe 15th November, 1622, in the Bull, Eteras Chapel, and there Pattie Films of Pope Gregory the Fifteenth, fire by a match andconsumed, being set on upon silence being restored, his voice --a ever, when the Holy tether breathed his tinder -box provided for clear and ringing voice-was beard for the last, and seven years were yet to run out the election of the Pontiff in Conclave is the purpoie. the ignation of thedamp first time as Pontiff before the successor of Gregory the Sixteenth, optionally in one or other of three ways- straw a dense From intoning the " Sit smoke arose from the chimney - Domini benedictum, " every knee beingnomen that is by scrutiny, by compromise, or by top into the evening bent the beloved Pontiff now too recently deeeared, air, that being the and every head bowed as his right hand gave invested him, on the 19th December, 1838, acclamation. In the ballotting, in order to world-famous sign of make any election valid, two-thirds of those that no election had the Sfutnata, indicative the Pontificial Benediction. Upon the close with the Cadinalitial dignity. A quarter of taken place. This is of this always affecting ceremonial the a century has sines then elapsed, during the present must accord their votes to the signal for which all Rome, during the siting cheering favoured candidate. Of the three modes of the Conclave, day was again taken up most enthusi- whole which long period Cardinal Peed has (already specified) of regular and canonical breathless expectation, by day watches, in astically, the Holy Father on his withdrawal resided in his diocese of Perugia. It was until the historical being followed by the loudest acclamations, only Tenney as in November last. that be election, the method usually practised in that moment arrives, was, et length Summoned from his seclusion by scrutiny, Upon the morrow of the day familiar whiff when, instead of seeing the of smoke arising from the flue, to Rome fluting the last illness of Pepe Pius His PREVIOUS CAREER. on which the members of the Sacred College the silent multitude without hear the the Ninth, whose *roan* *theta to his -having first of all attended the Mass of the muffled sound of pick and His u Holiness, ho has been thus suddenly hammer from capacity was his nomination, than, to the Holy Ghost, De Eligendo Summo Pontifice, within, the Sede Vacante, and sung together the brae their way noise of the workmen breaking raised to the highest dignity upon earth, high, sad most difficult, and most raoponsible through this the will, on day walled -up week, have completed his office Of Cardinal Oainatiengo. 'not 01140e. window at Veal (,rector Spiritus-processionally en- the back of the great balcony 6n to which, sixty-eighth year, having been born on the as is not/ inn, was but the stepptarstdoe to tered the palace set apart far the Conclave, through the aperture, when it had been ren- 2nd of March, 1810, at Carpineto. He is the loftiest pose of all as thitt of the that is on Tuesday morning at eight o'clock dered large tie now the Cardinale were aroused by the ringieg of a through it, enough to adroit of his passage descended from an old patrician family in Somme Pbnttff. las there and steps Italy, is in every thre forth of his the being a fist ;Mit C Pater Vbpe, and ISIth en bell by the Junior Master of Ceremonies, Cardinal -Deacon to announce the termina- Oaftolle among Catholics. Ills whole life *long' Umilostati and Aloes who half an hour afterwards repeated the tion of proceedings of the Conclave in the from his childhood upwards, has been detlit' ir bait been See ringing a second time, and again at nine election of a new Pope. to the ested honor and glory of the Cher* phi o'clock a third time, on the last occasion of God. Educated in the first instance at ' calling aloud, " In Cappelam Domini I" CONCLUSION OF CONCLAVE AND ANNOUNCE- the Collegio Romano, be in due couree, while' Thereupon at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, to the unyet stripling, entered the Academy of Mawr or saw Poems. precedented number of sixty-two, their Noble licelesiastica There for several minences (accompanied by their ConOn Wednesday afternoon the aperture was he studied with the utmost seal both law a clavisti) proceeded to the Sistine Chapel, made, and the person of the each wearing his scarlet berretta, and each senior in rank amongst his Camila-Deems, theology. Ordained to the priesthood at fellows, preceded earliest age allowable, he very soon afterswathed over his (=sick, band, rode, and by a close-bearer and attended cave, with a long merino mantle called the of Ceremonies appeared on the by a Master wards, in 1887, was appointed )Jo jlgreit grand balcony. and Prelate to the Throne in the croocia, especially set apart for use by them and in the midst os proton* rilenee cried -
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