ISBN: 9781153756013

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...grown up, has its roots in selflessness and its fruit in dried-up tears, in assuaged sufferings, in healed hearts and hopeful souls. It is not too much to say that Sarto, who was always a spiritual shepherd and never fully entered into the r61c of Eminence. is characterized by true lowliness of spirit. A PEASANT AT THE VATICAN. The new Pope was a peasant, and a peasant he will remain: It may have been the recollection of the modest dwelling in which he was born which inspired the sovereign THE MOTHER OK THE POPE. which, whether fact or fiction, is characteristic of the lad and the man. His mother was obliged at some period of his studies to sell a little strip of land belonging to the family, in order to pay for his tuition and keep. And now. Beppo. she said, how shall we manage to get on without it? Don''t despond, mother; God will look after us. was his reply. HIS PAST PARKER. Tombolo was his first parish, and there his first successes were gained. The moral status of his flock was gradually raised, and he was rewarded by promotion to the post of vicar of the diocese of Treviso. It was against his own will that, in 1884, he accepted the bishopric of Mantua, and five years later he was appointed Patriarch of Venice: AN EARLY PORTRAIT OF PIUS X. relished by his own colleagues, especially when applied to persons and institutions outside the communion of Rome, caused justice to be meted out to himself even by the outspoken adversaries of his Church. Whenever the archiepiscopal gondola glided along the Grand Canal or over the side waterways, the jovial gondoliers gave a hearty greeting to their smiling patriarch, who liberally scattered his blessings on all sides. When he left Venice recently for the Conclave, it... Albert Shaw, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, The American monthly review of reviews Volume 28 Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

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