THE LATE POPE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 175, 27 July 1903, Page 2

THE LATE POPE.

b: quests to the poor

PBB PBBBB ASMtOIATIOV. Received 26, 5.30 p.m Rome, July 25, The Pine has bequeathed 60,000 lire (£2000) to tin poor of R mi and 30 000 lite (£1200) to the poor of Perugia.

THE AKOHBtSHOP TO HIB OLBRQT.

Archbishrp R d >o d has issued the ! l'o-ving circular Lvter ti the pr<e»ta of the archdiocese cDncerning thedeith of Pap, L«o XIII.: - " Yui iiav-i had wi'h dfepregre*, • n iv ioT wih nil Catholics through ut 1119 woilJ, th) sad news cftho demise f our grw't »nd leWed Pops Lw XITI., on the 20 h ion*. Accordingly I hereby enj >i;■: 1. Thit, beside the h'gh mt»B3 of requiem which I ordered, by telegraph, to bo celebrated on the first possible .lay in all th pariah churches of the archdiocese, oue, or more, requiem mies be said in eve<y church and chipt-1 cf the paid archdiocese. 2. That, for nine days after the receipt of this letter, the Da Profundis bo said in English after every mass aud public service, with any appropriate prayer which the clergy m:y think fit to add. S, That, j§ to implore tbo Divke protection and guidance upon the conclave, in the election of the successor of Leo XtlT., Col'ect, e'e, from the naare Ds Eligendo Summo Pontifice, Scde Vacimto, be Rdded to every macs and benediction of the B Sacrament, until the news of the elfnii in reiches you, 4. That a solemn Pontifical High Mara of ivquicin be celelvatad in the B»cred Heart Or.utch, Wollington, on Tuea* day, 28 h July, a'. 9 n.m., which all the clergy of the archdiocese who can posfibly coma r.re invifcd and expected without fail toi'tt'nd."