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THE SE .FORTH EXPOSITOR
Biography of Pope Pius IX.
The grand (Ecumenical Council
- which is being held this month at
Rome, and which promises to be a `great
event in the history of the Roman Ca.
thous Church, . calls attention anew to
_Pius the Ninth, . upon whore the events
of his time have so often fixed the re-
gards of °Christendom. cEcurnenical
merely signifies general. The council
is to be attended, I believe, by every
Roman Catholic Bishop -in the world
who can be conveniently spared from -
his diocese, and is able to travel so far.
What questions are to be considered by
it, and how so numerous a body can de-
liberate at all, no one has informed us.
Probably, they will. be divided- into sec-
- tions, and the sense: of the whole numb-
• er will be taken only on a :fray of the
meat impoatant points. • Perhapsthe
question of the Pope's temporal sover-
eignty will be discussed, and if it is,
the bishops will.decide in favour of it,
if I may judge from the general opinion
of the Catholic priests in the :United
States. Many priests are orrposed to
the temporal sovereignty, but the ma=
jority seekdecidedly in. favour of it.
Pope Pius the Ninth, who latel v cele-
brated his fiftiethanniversary of his
first mass, has a career full of events.
striking and memorable. He is an
Italian by birth, of noble family, and
inherited from his' father the title of
Count, as well as a considerable estate.
The family has been distinguished ie
Italy for six hundred years, and has
contributed many Teen of mark to the
Oharrch .and State. Count lyfastai-Fee-
recti was destined for the career of arms;
and on leaving college, a place was pao-
vided for hini in the guard of Pope Pi-
us the Seventh, to whom he was relat-
ed, But becoming subject- to epileptic
fits, he was obliged to abandon his mi -
Wary career, and went to Rome to
study theology,
The reader is aware, I presume, that
the goodt1Lings in the Catholic Ch=ard=
in Italy, .generally fail to soaks s of noble
families. A pope is expected to ad;
vance his own relation—at least be gen-
e -ally does so, as you and 1. would, read-
er, if we were .Pope. Be re this young
Count was admitted t., Priesthood, Pi-
us the Seventh placed him at the head
of . that celebrated orph'ai,n asylum at
Rome, which was founded by Giovanni
Borgi, a• poor journeyman bricklayer,
but wuiich -is. now an • important esta-
b ishrcnt. It:. was a very good ap-
pointment, for the Count was a young
man of great benevolence, and was par-
ticularly fond of instructing the y.oiing.
&ter the ordinatiOnyliCcontinued to.
preside ovei the asylum for some years.
His life aaassecl tranquilly away, in
the peiforiilince of congenial duties, un
til his 31st year, when a' Papal N unico
was about to bt, sent on an important
mission to- C:rih, in South America,
The Nuuico asked to be accompanied
by this ydung Priest, and , his regcnest
was granted, ror•two years the future
Pope tra,s el led about among the mis-
sions of the coast of South America;
and . returning home in 1825, being
then thirty-three years of age, he was
r us=d to the rank of Bishop Three
year' after he was consecrated- . Arch-
Wain,a
Although be owed this preferment in
same degree to his rank- and wealth,
and .his relationship to the`Pope, yet be
maede himself beloved by tie people of
his el arge, nein -was conspicuously effici-
ent i the performance of his duties
He ii said to have distinguished him-
self d i•r•ing the ro olut ionary ferment
in . 1030, - in quieting the minds
of his :oaak, and preventing a premature
and isastrous rebellion. In 1840,
when he was forty-eight years of age he
was - roclatirned Cardinfil. All this
peiod he was in high favour ')oth with
the Church and people, and though
• theyoungest of the Cardinals, •
frequently spoken of as the pro- t
succcessoi: of Gregory the Six -11
inmates of the debtor's prison at Rome.
Be also distributed 114,000 in :mar-
riage portions to poor young girls.
Three weeks after coming to the throne
-he pardoned -and released the whole
body of political prisoners, some thous-
and in number, and this he did uncon-
ditionally.– He next abolished sortie of
the most.oppressive distinctions between
Jews and Christians, which had existed
many any centuries. Poor Jews weregiven, the same claire on public charity
as poor -.Christians, and the Jews were
no longer obliged to •lire in one quarter
of the city. - Ile introduced severe
economy into his ovirn Household, abol-
istied.. useless offices,' taxed th�.priests
and religious' orders, ai;nd thus made the
revenue of his..dominion less unequal to
the ,e .pinditru,e. He founded some
schools for mechanics, and took meas-
ures for establishing a system of univer-
sal education, and promoted the :culture
of rice in the useless marshes es of his d o -
minion. Railroads, which Gregory the
Sixteenth bad prohibited in lie PapalStates, Pius the Ninth permitted and
encouraged.
I cannot tell you,'. wrote .a geutle-
man in 1846, from -Rowe to a French;
paper not friendly to the Papacy,--" I'
cannot tell you how agreeable life is in
Rome at this tirne. Concord, security,
contdense in the future, - beam in the
coiintenance of the people. Crimes and
disorder are heard of n� more: The
exanip'.e of the sovereign, the - fear of
t1isp1easing him,: have d'=ir'e' all hearts,
and ameliorated the lot `'of all classes.
It is impossible for' me to say how good
the Pope is, how benevolent, how just,
how enlightened. No people, p=erhaps,
has ever had the happiness of being
governed with such love, wisdom, and
l aternaal; solicitude. Nothing can ex-
ceed the veneration and gratitude felt
for the Pontiff`."
Europe heard this wonclerfli intelli-
gence Ivith much amazement 'and someincredulity,, and the a istolaishrnent of
hien was unbounded';hen they heard
that the Ape wanted to concede to his
people' an unshackled press.
The popularity ,.of the Pope, how-
ever, was not of long duaation. !le
found_ it infinitely ad-ier to propoase than
to execute i,eforms. The Cardinals op_.
pOseLl his measures. The prinsses and -
nobility of the Papal provinces opposed
. ,
themAustria., . especially, was a most
determined enemy to the Pope's liberal
measures ; and lie proved unaableto car
ry out his views against an opposition
su various and forniinlable. Nor were
a all. the people of'tle Roman States sa.tis-
f=ed. WVben , the P e1•n 's reforms were
frustrated by the (`. rdinals• and their
adherents, the cry arose, , and was,
thundered into the ears of the Pope as
he r assecl : "No `` M=ore, priests in the
Government."
Tumults arose, min inters ''ere . ap-
pointed '-and rernov€:d, . and one odious
Minister, Coiint` Rossi, was assassinated
in the streets -of Rori e
The disorder at length rose to such a
height that the Pope abandoned t.onie,
and went tp Naples, where he asked an
a'asy1urn from the King. From bis,re-
trcat, near;Naaples, he appointed a com-
mission to govern= the 1? pal States, but
the Junta refused to o;.ey it, and de-
clared the " Papacy fallen, in fact, and
no right, from the teannoral power," azul
proclaiine:d a rare clemirocracy,' under
the name of the Romain Republic.
Never would he have returned to the
Vatican aas Sovereign Prince, but far the -
intervention of Louis Napoleon, `who
sent an army to restore and protect hi.m
He has been =maintained in power ever
since by the arms of Fran;e.
Personally, the Pope is; extremely
popular with almost all classes of his
,
people. He is a i ,n of'blameless life,
L and the best passible intentions; but he
adheres: to the.icle.a<s of the pas.,, both
political and theological, with a tenacity
hat is truly surprising, especi�ill v ,to
eis power' as a temporal sovereign. He
s a man of the simplest ri arium•s and
iabits. A distiug fished Priest of the
Roman Church., • who : spent several
months at Ronie a few years art° tel
anion
he wa,
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In
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clinal
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On th
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846 the Pope died: I,u due time
ai.rdivals asse=mbled to elect his
or. An oid school -urate of Car
la,stai proposed his rime to the
, -and warmly urged his election.
second day these efforts were re -
1 with success, and he was elea,t-
is said, by acclamation. He
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toot= the name of Pius the Ninth, in
honor of his relation and benefactor,
Pius -t ie Seventh. The first Pope Pius t
died it t- e year 157. I -le "caistingi isl►- .T
ed himself in defending the doctrine of
the resurrection of the' body, and by
instituting' the festival of Eai.St^i', and
he wail apontaarieously called The Pins
grateful Chu•cli. lie lived in ti
n of Antonin us. who was mimed a)
;d this, I sup]rise su nested the `
tioii of the word to the Pope. i,c,
the Ninth was elected as a Re .ti
,and -on ascending the Pontifici iii
a,
e,. be be;, ari .by ' in ikir►g great 4.1.
ons to the liberal party. The t,;
oni among the 'confectioners iu R.arne, originallyby it.
o send presents of candies to the Pope, bing'le membership, $7.00 Joint member -
which he gives with his owri. _Halide to ship, for a nnan and wife, t,14i.()U. This, in
the Cardinals having ,charge of_School5_ a faaJl 1}ivision, =ensu=es your lift; for as,UUO.
°riot's and self denying than these Car
mals,. who. have upon their hands the
inn two hundred millions of people..
id to Whom coniplicm,ed affairs- and
d for areitration. - He also asserted
hit the city of Roree 6 SO we.11 .pro
y the fault of those who live. charge
The Pope is no‘v spverth -seven yeais
f age, and has been Poee twentv-three
ars Travellers describe Lim as a
gorous old nian, of most benevolent
d venerable aspect.
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