ROME—The Sacred College

New Zealand Tablet, 31 December 1908, Page 31

ROME— The Sacred College

According to the correspondent of a Home exchange the bacred College is at present reduced to fifty-six Cardinals. No fewer than twenty-four died during the pontificate of the, present .;H.oly : Father, ~-Pi us K. Of the "^y^^^S-Princ^/'of-^he^ahiirch^ohe^was created by " Pius IX., forty by Leo XIII., and fifteen' by Pins "X -• The oldest; Oardmal- is his Eminence Cardinal Gruscha, PrinceArclibishop of .Vienna,!. who' is 89, You'd the youngest is Cardinal Merrry, del Val, who is only 43 ' ~ • .