THE ELECTION OF POPES.
It was only in a.d. 1275, says the ‘ Hour,’ that Gregory X., at the second Council of Lyons, obliged the Cardinals to sign and seal a statute which was to regulate irrevocably the proceeding of a conclave on the death of a Pope. This statute enacts that on the tenth day after the death of a Pope, the Cardinals are to be shut up without waiting for absent members of the College, in a single chamber of the deceased Pope’s palace, where they are to live in common. All access to them is strictly prohibited, as well as any writing or message. Each is only to have one domestic, and their meals are only to be received through a window too narrow to admit a man. If they do not agree in three days, their repast is to be limited for five days to a single dish; after that they are only to have bread and wine. Such was the arrangement settled by Gregory X. to prevent the scandals which pieceded his election. Whether or no the Cardinals will be at the next election starved into unanimity, or rather to the proper majority required of two-thirds of the whole number, is by some considered doubtful.
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Evening Star, Issue 3430, 18 February 1874, Page 3
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209THE ELECTION OF POPES. Evening Star, Issue 3430, 18 February 1874, Page 3
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