THE POPE'S EPISCOPAL JUBILEE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 710, 8 January 1910, Page 9

THE POPE'S EPISCOPAL JUBILEE.

; ■ : MANY: CONGEATOIiATIONST' ■?i .The-celebrations'/in, connection/with; the. silver jubilee■'of.'the Pope's;.episcopate passed off, as-his ■Holiness-! desired, with-.' out much. forma'lityC(says*.the3omb.-,odr-: J respondent. of:the,."Gatholic .Times").-In' • tho; ChurcH , of! S. v 'Apblliriare.'Higli;.:Mass was celebrated^y 'his Eminenco.Cardinal! . Eespigi,-; Vicar-General: of : :-Bom.ej'; on •No■vqmber IC*.'.''.The. \'supefibrs\.;ari.d': ;profes>; isovuxl' staffs, Italian'-and-'for-- ' oigu icolleges'were' v ptes i out'at'tlii' , Beryico,' :along with'anv; immense -.concourses of' laity, for ./this 'was the" official recognition of the ■•jiibilcoV on 'the ; .parfc V.of. *the■ citizens. of congratulation* reached-.tiie»HolylFathef from ; monarcßvyTieiidsTof, ,'gtjitf"CCardiJi•hls, secular.princesi;Bishops^irelißi.ouS'so- 1 cioties, municipalities/ianai cdnntTess"pn-: . .v'ato individuals, in'.; every., part ..of,'ntue world. : Among;.the'crowned -heads who, telegraphed felicitations : to the/:.; Holy . Father,.invaddition to the-Emperprof . Germany and the King of Spain, were , 'the • Emperor ■'; of rKussia,.-King:: Manuel.'of. ' Portugal,.-the-'Emperor:pf Austria,";and the - PrincotEegent; of''Bavaria.!., The, . Thanksgiving.'- Mass. offered -up .by... his. Holiness, is-as'said in" hisjp'rivate chapel.;. Only- his sisters and. nieco, a. few. personal' ' friends, : ,'.the . Patratch",jj{.'.; Venice, and', the Bishop" :of Mantua-^vho'had-ttdW-,'clled to ißonio' specially to assist -PiusX . ■ at; tho altar, on . this':occasion-r:wcro.'priv-ileged -to; be;; present, v Throughout -sthe •. large ]minhers:bf. : th«vfaitKful.''fe-' paired -to- St.'''Peter's: to , ' ; pray , , for, the Holy Father- at the Tonib ; of S. ore, >where tho''students; of:.tho: -rNorthAmerican/.'Frohch, Irish,: Englislv.Canadian,'.:'Spanish,,'': Gapranicah, .Leonine, South 'American,"and- other!':Cpllcges : attended; Father "Zocchi,-"; 5.3., delivered, a discourse, on the 'PopoV quarter p 'of a : century, of -lifo as .• d/Bishopi ''Perhaps, "no- more ; - appropriate V selection : of'. a -.preacher could, havo been made of 'the-aged'. Jesuit priest,.;for':.it: was'ho who preached- on ■- tho.. occasion, .of 'the jubileo.'nf Pius IX.'-leo/XIII,. and .last, year of Pius X at his Golden' Jubilee cele-. orations. :' ■■''.'■:■ '■"■'.'.:..-■~'.'■-.:•'..■■.'■•..•:.'.";'':■■■■'■; '.' The most'interesting'.receptionsto for-: eignors granted bythp Holy Father .dur-j ing tho'wcbk were-thoso-giyen to ihp'.resi-'i dent prelates.ofithe-Vaticaii;/who , ropaireil' in/ a body t» : the privatq apartments" biV : tho Pope, with ; Cardinal iliTorry-.'del -V.ali . and.Cardinal-Gasparri,.to offer"congratu-,' ktions for .tho 'jubilee of -his '''Holiness;' . Tho, Bight Ee.v'../Dr. Sebastian 'VValsh;, Bishop of Pbrtlnnd.'U.S.A., 'and tho . Right Eov. Dr. Burton;: Bishop: of ■' Clifton, who arrived only a few days : previously on their visit ad limina, were nls'o received.' Audiences of a less : oflicial kind were those accorded lo tho Cardinal Patriarch of :Veriicn,nnd Ufa , . Paolo,-.Bishop ..of> Mantuiv—both intimate friends'of the ■Holy Father-ami to .Cardinal; Pcrrari, ; Archbishop of, Jfilan,. who; presented ■: a largo body: of the/citizens, of tho northern, capital.•■:-But while Pins X is. ,•' visited bythe great ones, of ■Church: and State;/ he does not forgot', those 'who aro not: so highly Dlaped,. as is evident 'from .his action with- .regard-;to -an-nged lay :brpther .of . the '',I , rancisc'an:'VOrder 1 : '; the completion of-whoso, fiftieth-yonr as. a. veligious was observed,..in/ America the. other day. When informed", by, tho Very Kev. lather Eobevt li;:MacNeo!y,- Brother ; .r Jerome, of' St. Francie'e -".College, Btook-

lyn,-;JJ.S.A., had justifinislied fifty '■ yearp--: I ' ■■'£■ in--t'lie Third. Or.dcr, 0f...th0 Seraphic ,'V Father of Assisi, his Holiness enipowered'. v-*: his. inforraant to'sfend -the . Apostolic Bene-; •''• '.: diction' in' his namo-Hi; message .Father \ y •■: llac.Ncely. executed with no. little pleas- I'l' ' - ure. ,-■' '■■;' .■<•■.'-■-..■■'. ' i-.':■:'■■■.';> ■'■'■'■■■':.'•'..•■■'?