WHO WILL SUCCEED PIUS IX?

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 195, 22 November 1872, Page 6

WHO WILL SUCCEED PIUS IX?

The most likely successor to the present Pope is, says the ' Gazetta, d'ltalia' of Floreni-e, Cardinal Antonia. Maria Panebianco, of the order of St. Francis. He was born at Terranuavo, in Sicily, on the 14th of August, 1808, and was made cardinal by Pius IX. in the consistory of tb.e-27th of Se-.t. 1861. He has always professed great admiration for Pope Sixtus V., whose life was his favorite study, and in whose cell he lived. One day, while in a reverie, he suddenly heard a knock at his door, and a voice, told him that he would be a cardinal. This announcement did not surprise him; he merely replied, " Lo sapevo, " and he will, says the ' Gazetta,' doubtless say the same when he learns .that he has been elected Pope. Cardinal Panebianco once swore before Canoya's monument to Clement XIV. that he would restore the Order of the Jesuits to its former greatness; and this is said to be the great object of his life. He'is the* intimate friend of Father B.eckz, the general of the order, but like his model Sixtus V., he is excessively reserved, carefully concealing from every one his intentions for the future. He praises the' Syllabus, and defends 'the principle, of infallibility with, extraordinary skill I and theological knowledge. As for Pius IX., he has thoroughly believed in the Cardinal since a young Italian girl-prophesied;some twenty years ago, that the next Pope would be a monk of the order of St. Francis. " Mystical," concludes, the' Gazetta,* "as Sav-! onarola, Panebianco is the slave of a, mediaeval Utopia which moves him: to revive the Church of the thirteenth century;' and the Society of Jesus, which does not believe in mysticism regard hiiir with. anxiety, not. quite, knowing whether he is a friend, or an, enemy."