THE POPE'S LATE CONFESSOR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 918, 10 September 1910, Page 9

THE POPE'S LATE CONFESSOR.

The brief biography of the lato Bishop Piil'eri, ■'■'Sacristan of■'•'.the ;Vaticau -and : confessor,' to . the Pope, which. .has; just been :issued'.:by;;".'the Vatican!'■■" 'printinghouse; recalls', a' -remarkable • priest.' Though he had peached his .ninetieth year, the .Augustinian;Bishop may :>be said to' have- died ,in.harness,';as up to. the last he 'had been, punctual in the fulfilment of his .duties.; Going oyer .the life of. the,deceased in a brief manner, tho biographer/mentions the various offices which BishopPifferi filled in the Order : of. St.,; Augustine until his/.services wore, requested at ;,th'e;. .Vatican. For the space of thirty years 'the good religious. held/the office • of . Sub-Sacris-taii iii: the Apostolic Palace, after, which time twenty-three years wero' : passed as Sacristan/and as;titular' : bishop. : At the close' of the'.work—which, -by the way, has been received by .the Holy Father ■with'much pleasures-appears a circular addressed : by the Very Rev. 'A Father Rodriguez, General of; the Augustinian Order,-to tho religious of/his institute, ■reminding theni how. much. Bishop Pifferi merited.-their Times."■■'•:..■•, ■".'• ■ ■■ : -.' : .'■/ "; ■■'.':. ..;,'■■'