THE POPE AND ITALY.
6 . A YEAR OF MOURNING. By Telderaph—Press Association—Copyright. Rome, December 11. Owing to festivities having been decided upon to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Italian Kingdom, the Vatican will observe 1911 as a year of. mourning. For many ages until Pius. IX's reign, with some comparatively short breaks, the Popes or Soman Pontiffs bore temporal sway over a territory stretching across mid-Italy from sea to sea and comprising an area of some IG,OOO square miles, with a population finally of somo 3,125,000 souls. Of this dominion the whole has been incorporated piecemeal with the Italian Kingdom (viz., liomagna. Unibria, and the Marches in ISGO. and the residue, including Rome itself, in 1870). Furthermore, by an Italian law dated May 13, 1871,. there was guaranteed to his Holiness and his successors for ever, besides possession of the Vatican, and Lnteran palaces and the villa of Castel Gandolfo, a yearly income of 3,225,000 lire or .£129,000, which allowance (whose arrears would in 1910 amount to 125,775,000 lire, or ,£5,100,000) still remains unclaimed and unpaid.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 998, 13 December 1910, Page 5
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