More that the discreet charm of the landscape, it is the light that seizes and delights, this Italian light, at a time hot and deep, all to sweet and ardent tower, even burn that escapes to all analyzes, and that can compare itself only in light of 'Attiques or the oriental countries.

To the heart of the village Saint's white church rises - Mathieu, with his/her/its campanile to the slim arrow,; of the church the main street leaves, edged of pretty houses, half notes them also, of orchards and vegetable gardens.

People are there simple, first welcoming, of energetic and vigorous aspect, silent workers living, in major part, of the work of the fields.

Do they suspect of the antique and the historic celebrity of their modest village? To the Middle Ages, Riese was called Rescium or Rexium. Presumably the Romans have it known as Rezium, as seems to indicate it an enrollment discovered in 1730 in the ruins of a Roman villa.

Riesse possesses a castle heart, mentioned lès the years 1255, that belonged to the family of the Rieses, Lords country until the year 1570, and whose last descendant died out, to this date in Castelfranco, W their munificence defined st a magnificent canvas of the Tintoret, the Virgin's Marriage, that decorates the parochial church. Among his/her/its famous children, Riese counts cardinal Jacopo Monico, patriarch of Venice, that, to the first years of the XIX century, played a role considerable years the diplomatic business of Austria.

But, more that d e his/her/its long history, more that of all his/her/its big men of once, Riese boasts understandably of the glory to have seen to be born Joseph Sarto.

The family of the Sartos, original of the Villa of appears, came to settle in Riese in the XVIII centuries, she/it was the humblest condition. The first known ancestor is Paul Sarto that lived at the end of the XVIe century. Of this ancestor's great-grandson, Joseph Sarto, that the first of his/her/its family settled in Riese, was born John the Baptist Sarto, this one married Marguerite Sanson that returned it father of ten children, of which eight lived: two boys and six sons: Joseph, Angelo, rose, Theresa, Marie, Antoinette, Lucie, Anna,.

To make live this numerous family, the father had the fifty cents of his/her/its" daily treatment" of cursore, it is - to - to tell a small quest, and "some others poor incertuccio coming from his/her/its office, and nothing of pus. (3).

The mother had to especially exercise on the soul of his/her/its children an indelible influence. In his/her/its beautiful book on Magpie X Réné Bazin took pleasure ` has draw, to his/her/its rich manner, carried it this to Subdue admirabilis. After having retailed the physical features, he/it writes:

This woman of the Italian people seems of dignity, of seriousness, of goodness, of natural distinction. In truth, she/it is of nobility: she/it is one of these faith princesses, of acceptance of the duty, domestic tenderness and silence that lives unknown of the world, in all Christian country,; she/it is the pope's mother, and Magpie X resembled to him a lot. (4)

Probably, the father had one world influences in the education of his/her/its children, But he was himself man to owe, devout, attending every day the Mass, and in the evening, in family, explaining the catechism and reciting the prayer.

It is June 2, 1835 that was born, in Riese, the eldest son of Giovanni Battista Sarto, then aged of forty-two years, and of Margherita Sanson, aged of comes two years, Giuseppe-Melchior Sarto. The birth certificate of the future pope appears in the register of the Saint-Mathieu parish, under the number 3a, It is drawn thus (for more of clarity we will give it here in French, with the proper names also in French):

June 2, 1835, is born and has been baptized the 3 of says it, by me, Pellizari, chapelain, Sarto Joseph-Melchior, legitimate child of Sanson Marguerite, living with his/her/its husband, and of Sarto John the Baptist, staying to the n 3o, gotten married in Riese, February 13, 1833, one and the other owners.

The godfather was Sarto Antoine, owner, staying in San-Vito, the godmother Zorzan Françoise.

The word" prppriétaires ", attibué to the spouses SARTO, don't lack a flavor: for all" property", indeed, they possessed their house, very small, at only one floor and very poor, three thin pieces of earth valued to" twelve lampoon" or acres and a small cow. (5)

Since his/her/its to stretch childhood, the small Giuseppe-Beppi, as one calls it familiarly-make proof of an exceptional piety, simple and ingenuous, but already reflexive, energetic; he/it has the taste of the holy things; he/it never misses to the catechism; very quickly he/it dons the cassock of the choir children, it is eager to serve the Mass, to carry the candles in the altar, to handle the censer. TO eleven years, he/it becomes master of the cérémonies. (6).

"Again child, deposited grant Eugene Bacchion, vicar, honorary canon of the cathedral, of Trévise, God's Servant showed a particular taste for the Christian doctrine; and I heard the old to tell this anecdote: to the school of the catechism, the master interrogated it and promised him in reward a mingled (an apple) if he could tell him a place where God was not. "And me, he/it answered, I will give you two of them to you, if you know how to tell it to me."

The same witness adds: "I held M. Ferreton, previously chapelain in Riese, that, all child, Giuseppe Sarto distinguished itself of the children of his/her/its age by his/her/its goodness and his/her/its respect with regard to his/her/its superior (7).. "

How to make? his/her/its family was also poor, poor the good lasted of Riese. The Providence stayed up, in 1313, a Bolognese, named priest Campion, had made a foundation destined to provide to the expenses of instruction and maintenance of young people without fortune. The assignment of the purses was let some to the judgment of the patriarch of Venice. However, in 1850, the patriarch of Venice was merely the cardinal Jacopo Monico, himself child of Riese. Don Fusarini wrote him to interest it to his/her/its dear parishioner, and made support his/her/its demand by the general priest of Trévise, the Casagrande canon, one month after, the answer arrives "on the knees, Beppi, told Giuseppe the vicar of Riese, and thank God, who has surely some intention on you, soon you will enter to the seminary, and, as me, you also you would be ready (12)." What joy in the humble house and in the whole neighborhood! Shortly after, September 19, 1850, in the church of the village, before the united parish, Beppie received the cassock of the hands of Fusarini grant, That day, Margherita Sanson ordered to his/her/its other children of more to be familiar their brother, the abatino, but to tell to him: you.

Of other part, to the parochial church, our abatino is all especially applied; to make the catechism to the children and to direct their song, as signals it, in his/her/its deposition My Lord Bressant: "When he/it was small clerk in parish, he/it took care a lot of the catechism and the sacred song, and made part of the "small singers" cantores fanciulli - goodwill that he/it kept since in all his/her/its situations (13)."

Don't this child and this first youth have-them not the freshness and the grace moving of the more them dawns? The "Lord seems to take pleasure in enveloping Beppi Sarto of the gentleness of his/her/its predilection, distinguished grace that this domestic atmosphere all penetrated of faith and whose sovereign Pontiff will never forget the impression. distinguished Grace that the poverty where the soul and the child's body, of the young man, soaked themselves of energy and a vigor that would make it capable to the rough combata. Distinguished grace that the presence of the excellent priests that was his/her/its first benefactors. But also, as Giuseppe answered all these graces, to so many others! Some brief words but suggestive "testimonies" of the Summarium tell some long on that:

I saw the big influence, on his/her/its formation (of the young Giuseppe Sarto), of his/her/its mother, of the vicar of the parish Fusarini grant and priest Jacaszzi grant, I heard to say by his/her/its contemporaries that he/it always shone by the conduct, the piety and in the studies. He/it was of character quick and gleeful indole vivacious ed allegra - but always very reserved - my sempre molto riservato, his/her/its brother and his/her/its sœurs always had for him a sort of reverence, what gives me to believe that his/her/its first youth should have been exemplary (14).

And all testimonies on this period of life Giuseppe Sartos agree fully in their remarkable objectivity.

And Pauline Busato pushes its dires on quantity of anecdotes.

But the most moving testimony maybe on so much virtue, so many qualities, so much very accomplished in Tombolo by grant Giuseppe Sarto, remember it mixed fond reverence that the Tombolanis kept their priest. One would like to recall here so many facts that would be able to, to them only to form a book deciding otherwise of Fioretti. The newspapers of the country told the raving enthusiasm that seized of the village to news of the election of the Sato cardiona to the supreme pontificate. When on this occasion a photographer presented herself/itself to take views of the village he had touts the pains of the world to aim his/her/its objectives of everywhere, one ran indeed, in crowd. "Since the Saint Father will see our church, it is necessary that he also sees us. I have been baptized by him, shouted a voice. He/it made me two years the class.. said another. An old man, with tears, asked the photographer to make him a portrait, so that he gave it to the pope: You will tell to him that I am even living and that I don't feel more happiness than I would know to tell to find me in picture before him." (18)

The very day of his/her/its elevation to the sovereign Pontificate, tell Luigi Daelli, merchants of Tombolo saw in Trévise a priest who passed. They stopped it and asked him: "Like that, is it true? Is he/it therefore a pope, our priest?. Yes, did answer the priest; it is certain. Is it well true, let's do see? Don't make me swear. It is absolutely certain; I was at the prefecture when the dispatch arrived. Thank you: see-you, I tremble some of joy. It is as if I had won the big prize to the lottery." Then the other merchants ran, agitating in air their traditional sticks, the faces flaming, crying together, wanting to know again if it is true, only protesting himself when everybody knew the news (19)

While writing these lines, we have under the eyes a photograph, taken to the same date, of a numerous group of men of Tombolo, faces of rough workers endimanchés for the circumstance, with in the middle of them the vicar of the parish. The group titles itself proudly: Group of the pope's former friends in Tombolo. This humble document decorated us of an inestimable price.

Very meaningful also the accomplished official gesture, May 1, 1904, by the City council of Tombolo, saying to affix, on the house lived by grant Giuseppe Sarto, a plate of marble with this enrollment,:

GRANT GIUSEPPE SARTO ORA PIO X QUESTA CASA ABITO DEL 1858 AL 1867, HIM MUNICIPIO

When one enters in the parochial church of Tombolo, one can see, public testimony of the respectful and faithful attachment of the parishioners towards their "very beloved "Giuseppe grant, on the right-hand door, a bust made of marble of Magpie X, work of the sculptor Franceschini Vicenza di,: this bust was inaugurated solemnly, at the time of the election of Giuseppe grant to the supreme Pontificate, by three days of feast, and a big speech of My Lord Cavallari, patriarch of Venice. Below the bust, one reads these words:

To PIO DAD X DAL 1858 AL 1867 CAPELLANOS DI TOMBOLO QUESTA CARA MEMORIA I PARROCHIANI RIVERENTI ED ESULTANTI

On his/her/its side, grant Giuseppe Sarto always kept for his/her/its first spiritual sons a to stretch affection. In his/her/its Biographic Notes, doctor Daelli tells this feature;

One day he/it was then bishop of Mantua, he/it met in Padua, or he/it was, a c company of merchants of Tombolo. They gazed at to surround it while shouting: "Don Beppi! Don Beppi! " For him, happy to see these brave people again, he/it wanted to make road with them, and he/it went up in third class until Trévise, to cause to them for longer. One can see these shy faces of businessmen touched of so much goodness then, to cover itself/themselves with the larmes (20).

"Bravi Tomboloni, he/it wrote later when he/it had just been named cardinal and patriarch of Venice, I will never forget them. Because in reminding them to me, I remember the most beautiful years of my life."

Clean-archpriest of Salzano (1867-1875).

In 1867, by dated letters of May 21, grant Giuseppe Sarto was named, by the bishop of Trévise, vicar archi priest of Salzano, close to Mirano, in Veneto. This parish, the most important of the district, he/it had gotten it to the contest, indeed, on his/her/its bishop's formal demand, Giuseppe grant had made itself write down among the competitors, the brilliant manner of which he undergoes the proofs written and oral of the contest made it classify first, He was thirty-two years old.

The parish of Saint-Bartholomew of Salzano counted then about three thousand five hundred inhabitants, brave people, calm and hard-working.

This time, the country was all agricultural. One comes there comfortably today, by the railroad of Venice in Trévise. The station is to two kilometers about the village: Beautiful fertile country: the ditches, the greenery is everywhere abundant and little high one sees the well built farms there, that have porches opened to the noon, of the old wells in hard stone, of flared shape like marquees of hollow columns or the chain descends while shouting. To him-over of the well leveled earths, of very far one sees the campanile of the church and the calm angel all to the summit. The road turns to enter to the village. One finds the church flanked of his/her/its high tower, preceded of a garden that can be only vicar's garden, soon! " It is there that the vicar of Salzano lives in. Of the time of Giuseppe grant, the rectory, built to the bottom of the place, nearly touching the church, He/it has been demolished (21)

In the beginning of his/her/its deposition to the apostolic Suit, on the period that occupies us, My Lord Bressandit,: me then die that, in the achievement of this load (vicar-archpriest of Salzano), he/it was exemplary in all.. The praise is brief and meaningful, besides the witness of explicit. on his/her/its side, grant Joseph Pescini, in the beginning of his/her/its deposition on this same period, declare in summary: "During nine years, he/it was archpriest of Salzano, and he/it returned this country a country models to the viewpoint of the religion and the morals. The effects of his/her/its passage and his/her/its œuvres last again today, as I could note it personally and his/her/its memory is in blessing (22)."

The inhabitants of Salzano, seeing to happen to the new archpriest in very modest crew, whereas they waited for some "monsignor", were first well disappointed. The former priest of Tombolo, deposit grant Eugene Bacchion, was welcomed with a lot of coldness by the people and by the authorities, because they were accustomed to have for archpriests of the professors of the seminary Syndic made itself the interpreter of the feelings of the population and complained to the bishop of a nomination so unexpected. or of the canons of the cathedral. The S.Exc.Mgr.Aaainelli answered: "If you are not happy today you him will be tomorrow. " One after, says it Syndic, Paolo Bottocini, came back at the bishop to thank it: "We never had a vicar of so big valeur (23)." Since the first contact, to the church, the Salzanienses were conquered. Their new pastor came to them with one so simple and so ardent cordiality, he already radiated of so much virtue! His/her/its first words were to declare to his/her/its new "children" that he/it "would be entire to the service of all". "During more of one hour, he/it developed, with big clarity and precision, his/her/its vicar's mission, and he/it finished by this prayer: "My God, what big responsibility is mine, since I must give account of all these souls confided to my cares. Give me your help and your aid, oh Lord (24)!."

In Salzano, as àTombolo, as, besides, everywhere or he/it will pass, and always more when more seemed impossible, his/her/its life is the sublime realization of the speech of Vincent saint of Paul, of that it liked so much to speak: God's will is not to live for oneself, but for all."

"Copy in all", said My Lord Bressan. He/it is first, he/it seems, by the worry and the practice of the religious instruction. "It was there suo campo particolare (25)," He/it knows well that it is the shape the most necessary and most urgent of the Christian charity; he/it also knows as she/it is disregarded, and as, therefore, the ignorance in religious matter is immense. It is why he/it gives the biggest cares to the catechism, of the children,; but he/it spreads to all his/her/its parishioners the teaching catéchistique; he/it gives it Sunday to the children in presence of their parents; assisted of the his/her/its two priests, he/it organizes some meetings for contradictory conferences or he/it exposes the Christian doctrine while answering the objections, and or run soon of the supporters, of the parishes neighbor. "The major part of the pains of the world repeated it often, comes from the lack of the knowledge of God and His/her/its Truth." This young pastor already has the sense of the passion of the popular instruction in religious matter and the Christian education of the childhood. He visits the schools regularly; he/it encourages the masters; himself provides to the children poor books and notebooks; he/it doesn't hesitate to beg for his/her/its dear schools, in order to provide to the needs of the teacher and children. Of the top of the chair, he/it often speaks of this question, for him capital, of the Christian education of the childhood, recalling his/her/its poor and laborious childhood and his/her/its feelings of gratitudes gladly opposite the good cleaned of the native parish.

Charity of the souls by the grant of the Truth, then by the practice of the religion, that he/it will apply to develop toues the manners; him to intensify the cult of The Eucharist, and in this goal revives, with the contest of the carme Lorenzo Calzavara, the confraternity of the Saint-Sacrament organized since 1400, but that had disappeared nearly completely. He/it buys some lamps to make burn them before the Saint-Sacrament. He/it establishes the devotion of the Path of the Cross of which he/it acquired the stations with produced it of a lottery and with fees of the sermons preached in the chairs most famous, in Trévise, in Vicenza, in Castelfranco, in Venice. He/it institutes in his/its parish, "Marie's Month"; he/it celebrates with the biggest care the liturgical feasts and all ceremonies of the church. Already he/it wants that the supporters pray on beauty; in that was, to assure the beauty of the church song, he/it constitutes a choir (26). under the hand of Sarto grant, God's house, the parochial church, became flourishing. He/it had found it in a miserable state, salt, gnawed by the saltpeter, spoiled, emptiness of furniture, nearly without sacred vases. At the cost of enormous sacrifices, he/it paved it all made of marbles, to the big joy of the population, handed to nine the organ and the tribune, redid the walls, returned life to the frescos of Die Santi that had painted, without the dome. Saint's ascension has Bartholomew, and, on the walls, various episodes of his/her/its predication in Persia, in India and in Arabia,… Adjoining to the church is the room of the catechisms. He/it redid it to nine (27)

Also the bishop of trévise, My Lord Zanelli, visiting the parish of Salzano while one gave a mission there, he/it could turn around some amazed, and to mention the archpriest solemnly as the model of the pastors.

Charity of the souls, charity of the bodies. Since the first instant, of day, and the night, Giuseppe grant is at the disposal of its parishioners. The room of receipt of his/her/its rectory, composed of a table, of some chairs, of a stuffed bench, désemplit not: the miseries of all sorts give themselves of it appointment, welcomed by the priest's inexhaustible charity. Here it is necessary to note a detail that not only shows this charity, but this sense of the popular organization that was so deep at Magpie X and that one too generally underestimates: "He/it took care of the poor wretches emigrants with so much goodwill as the cure of Salzano became soon a sort of secretariat or flowed the letters coming from Switzerland, Austria, Serbia and Roumanie (28)."

To the poor people, therefore Giuseppe gives without counting; he/it strips himself/itself of all to rescue them. In Tombolo he/it had put already, to the Pawnshop the two only precious objects that he/it possessed: his/her/its watch and a table setting of money. IN Salzano, he/it lets at the disposal of each the poor crew who had brought it: a convertible and a horse. The horse, by dint of trotting to the service of all, is well tired to assisted by one his/her/its friends, Giuseppe grant succeeds in selling it; but the car, impossible, so much she/it is exhausted; one can "sincerely offer it to a Christian. " Don Giuseppe, obligated to keep it, is not able to more lend it that to
those that have a horse.

He/it gives without counting. L. Daelli tells the following feature:

A clergyman that Sarto grant had invited to lend the fast saw, the very day of his/her/its arrival in Salzano, a big battery of wood in a run adjoining to the church: It was the provision of winter of the vicar. The second day, he/it observed that she/it had decreased considerably, the third, she/it was reduced of half, some days after, all had disappeared. Surprised, the preacher, while speaking business and of others asked to the archpriest, with whom he/it was intimate: "But that you did make your wood therefore? Did you sell it in detail? No, simply answered Giuseppe grant, I gave it to the poor people. There is so much that suffers from the cold weather of it! But you, how will make yourselves? It is well simple, I will do without it. (29)."

The remonstrances of Rosa or Anna, his/her/its sœurs, were not able to anything there. Invariably, their brother answered: "The Providence never misses."

The pantry was often empty, and the poor sœurs his/her/its debated laboriously to manage to nourish the incorrigible donor "Beppi, tells him Rosa one day, there is not anything anymore for the dinner. Not even two œufs?…" did ll remain two eggs that the whole meal was.

To the surplus, he/it often arrived to the archpriest to keep to eat lunch of the priests come to see it. Was soup well short, that to make? "Acqua, acqua! " answered Giuseppe grant, "lengthen, and all will go well."

One day, his/her/its sœurs having left some instants, and a poor having presented itself/themselves, surreptitiously he/it withdrew the unique cut of meat that cooked in the pot to give it to the poor wretch.

To what stratagems should have resorted his/her/its sœurs to protect the strict necessary of his/her/its cloakroom, to substitute for too worn-out dresses of the new clothes!
Only the unlimited charity of the "pastor" of Salzano, the features abound, all very moving and supported on a real mass of testimonies (30).

In 1873, a tragic circumstance was going to put in a relief exploding the heroic charity of Sarto grant.
In our countered, tell My Lord Marachesan, here more and there less, the cholera reaped the human lives, in this opportunity, Giuseppe grant showed what well, material and moral, can make a good vicar among parishioners sick discouraged e, It was everywhere present, there is a dead to bury, one patients to confess; this house lacks the necessary; in this other, no one can help the patients, to give them some remedies in time,; therefore it is necessary to be going, to see, to rescue, to counsel. And Giuseppe grant, all goodwill, all charity, of night and day; at all hour rescued and counseled.. Knowing that the duty of aid to the patients first looks at the vicar, it didn't absolutely want that the priests exposed themselves to the danger, but, as much as it was able to it, ran close to the patient, and most of the time, didn't only give him the spiritual help, but, with a lot of affection, the material aid, and made like a real male nurse, until frictions with ice. They inspired courage to all; first with the physician, he/it counseled the remedies of the moment. (31)
Doctor Daelli adds the following details:
.. So much that the epidemic lasted, one had to transport the victims of it in a land very distant of the cure. One night that the archpriest had come for the funeral conduct he didn't find to wait for it that three carriers. The fourth, to give itself/themselves of courage, had amply, as one says in Veneto, "raised the elbow", and he/it could hardly be held on the feet, Indignant, Sarto grant seizes it by the arm and sent back it at home while saying: "go, you are then unworthy of such a ministries", as he/it had been impossible, so big was the fright of the contagion, the world one of the stretchers of the stretcher took to find a fossoyer, himself, after having recited the prayers on the cadaver, in ratchet and in stole, the most naturally, and the four carriers of which one was the archpriest, went at the cemetery while alternating you the psalms of the deaths.. (32)

On the conduct of Sarto grant in this circumstance all testimonies agree, more cordial the some that the other, in the newspapers and the biographies, in the depositions of "witnesses" to the various diocesan and apostolic suits. "in the time of the cholera, attest My Lord Bressan temperately, he/it assumed the visit of all patients personally, and accompanied them, to the death, to their burial. This, I have it collected lips of the Servant of God and others in the middle or I lived (33)."

"He/it was always at the disposal of the poor wretches affected by the terrifying curse, either of day, either of night, deposited grant Eugene Bacchion. And when someone had died, he/it encouraged, by his/her/its example, the parents to made the cemetery transport the cadaver, and at the time that missed a carrier, himself offered itself to replace it. I remember that a certain Pellizon Rocco told me with a holy pride: "To Arciprete lei, non tocchera the onore toccato has me: Io ho portato al cimitero a morto idiot him Papa(34)."
To such a régime of life, the rigorous constitution of his/her/its Sarto could not fail to bend, especially as it kept the law of the residence strictly, and that if it sometimes left, it was not to grant any distraction, but for reason of ministry, religious exercises or predications (35). One of the archpriest's friends, Carlo grant, having come to visit it, can of time after the end of the epidemic, was frightened to his/her/its aspect, "You are very badly! shout him il—Vous believe, answered him with the biggest calmness Giuseppe grant - S ' he/it is badly! chains his/her/its sister Rosa briskly. See therefore, he/it has the bones and skin only! How would he/it be some otherwise? He/it never plans; he/it makes himself/itself the servant of all. Not only he/it removed himself/itself bread to give it, but he/it also gave up the rest that would have restored it! -Your sister is right, says Carlo grant, made you too much, recall yourselves the proverb; go so much the crock to water... - Bravo, answered while laughing Giuseppe grant, there are you very eloquent!…"
He/it was time to act, and for such a man it was necessary to go there energetically and expeditiously, Don Carlo alerted the old therefore cleaned of Tombolo, therefore Costantini, retired of the ministry for reason of health, and that kept a to live affection for his/her/its "Beppi caro". Don Costantini wrote without delay to the bishop of Trévise, My Lord Zanelli, to ask it to intervene of authority by the "imprudent saint"… The bishop, intervened indeed and summoned in Giuseppe grant the order to plan and to take care of itself/themselves. Confused, but the humble and docile, Giuseppe grant obeys in the whole measure where allowed it to him his/her/its habits too much anchored in his/her/its life.

The Providence that never" misses, as liked to say it the archpriest, don't miss to him - especially since she/it had her/its views on such a topic. The bishop also had already his/her/its views, having noted personally and by the public rumor, the exceptional qualities of Giuseppe grant. A stall of canon was vacant and the seminary having need of a good spiritual director, the archpriest of Salzano appeared to him indicated quite for these fires functions. To the surplus, it would be a means efficient of stops this impenitent donor and executioner of himself in "charitable "pranks" You will arrive from it, had him i him of one day, half seriousness, half laughing, to make seize the objects of the cults" In short, the double nomination was made and was notified in Giuseppe grant. He/it welcomed it with quick pain. He/it implores the bishop to let it at his/her/its station; He/it was only a "poor vicar of country"; that would know-him to make to the Episcopal palace and the seminary! Of so high functions passed his/her/its capacities. And then, as he/it finally liked the poor people of Salzano, the children, the patients, the whole parish!… He/it had beautiful to "pull all games", as one says, the bishop ordered. He/it obeys. Another works hard had just had to him to leave his/her/its two Rosa sœurs and Anna that he/it liked tenderly, because henceforth he/it would lodge at the seminary, it was, of part and others, an extortion. (36)
Is he/it need to say that it was also an extortion for the parishioners of Salzano? Don Giuseppe had conquered l ' admiration and the affection of all, by his/her/its devotion to all, by his/her/its ministerial goodwill, by his/her/its abnegation and his/her/its admirable virtues. The poor people were especially inconsolable; the bourgeoises and the rich regretted it briskly. He/it had known how to appear as delicate, as prudent, as sage as good and generous and firm. The less saddened was not even a Jew, Novel Jacour, big owner of l‘endroit, in Salzano a factory of sheet occupying three hundred worker. The archpriest had won the esteem and the loving reverence of the rich Jew and his/her/its family, that, often helped it in his/her/its multiple works.
Following the biographies and journalists, one could mention a lot of moving features that attest the regrets of the parishioners of Salzano. We will be content with saying that they wanted to offer themselves his/her/its badges to the new canon. Later, when he/it was elected bishop of Mantua, they offered him his/her/its crosier and, when he/it was named patriarch of Venice, "an object artistique(37)."

Don Giuseppe Sarto took possession of his/her/its canonicat November 28, 1875

Trévise, written Daelli, was one of the most important places fortified of Republics of Venice, His/her/its Surrounding wall bastionnée, his/her/its defensive walls and his/her/its ditches exist again. All to the entour, the shooting sources and the greenery give to the country the most laughing aspect. Also the Lords and the rich families of Venice have here their s villas, touts the industries have prosperous factories there. In spite of the invading industry, Trévise didn't lose anything of his/her/its particular seal, made of the mixture of the bass tones monuments of the Means-Angel with the hotels and other modern constructions. It is one of the most flirtatious cities of Veneto, the channels of the Cile, edged of greenery, reflect a Gothic lodgings gracefully soon, soon a palace Renaissance, and them his/her/its get married with large and spacious streets sowed of Middle Ages houses and all imposing, as those of the palace of Three Cents and Saint-Nicolas, that make one so happy contrast with the dome of the cathedral.

This one rises on the ruins of a very old chapel, therefore one sees the dizziness again in the cloister, and that one transformed, in 1141, in basilica to three naves, she/it keeps of that time of the paintings and the remarkable mosaics, of the fragments of enrollments, of elegant standoffs and the shrine and Liberal saint, placed in the crypt, under the high altar, toward 1485, P.Lombardo undertook the restoration of it; but he/it made change the Middle Ages only in a cold Renaissance; besides, his/her/its work stayed incomplete, One retook it from the XVIe century, then in the XVIIe and in the XIXe. One added there then, in the style of the inside, a porch with monumental columns and the lions of the Romanesque style, of a primitive turn that recalls the ancient basilica. He/it is inside easy, to follow the varieties superimposed of the styles… One also notices two tombs: one Renaissance, beautiful work of T. Lombardo, the other of the decadence,; a Worship of the Shepherds, of the Trévisan Pâris-Bordone, a holy Catherine of Bissolo and especially an Annunciation that is one of the Titian's most beautiful œuvres…

Among his/her/its illustrations, Trévise counts the pope Alexandre VIII who was, as Magpie X, canon of the cathedral and the blissful Benoît XI, of the family of the Boccasinis, Dominican, elected pope in 1303 (38)…

It is finally in Trévise that Giuseppe grant had received the minor orders. To this title Trévise was known especially already and dear to the canon.

The canons of trévise, according to old decrees emanated of the Senate of the" Sérénissime Republic of Venice ", had right to wear a costume of cape rape and coat to train, cassock, collar, belt, every and also purple, the mémorialistes of the time, people everywhere slanderous enough, pretend that the good canons resulted from these badges; they even add that more and more, the purple turned with time, to the red. This innocent, inclination is as much all old that news. However that may be, Monsignor Sarto (the canons were called Monsignori) didn't share, known r this point, the tastes of his/her/its colleagues, since the beginning, and without saying anything, he/it took the habit to take in negris, without other badge of his/her/its canon title that the purple collar. One judged" it singular", and one doesn't make him known; he/it didn't answer, and he/it continued. Finally, all old canons nearly imitated their new colleague (39).

In Trévise, the young canon immediately had opportunity of not to remain idle that that, besides, had been impossible to him. Stroke on stroke, so to speak, My Lord Zanelli, in 1875, named it candlestick of the bishopric and primicier of the cathedral; It bar it in his/her/its Council; besides, the general priest, who aged, delivered between his/her/its hands most business. In the exercise of all his/her/its functions to which it is necessary to add the one of examiner synodal and member of the officialité, Mgr, Sarto is revealed an administrator immediately out of equal, a mind expeditious to all to seize, a sure and clear doctrine, the treasures of devotion, intelligence and wisdom that hid under a simple and smiling simple good-heartedness have middle of unceasing importunities, a deep piety, a singular distinction, won to the new chancellor estimates it and nicest admiration of the bishop first, that proclaimed to have known" chancellor as regular, as faithful to the timetable, never also to all authorize and happy to treat with all takes people and solved very complicated cases that Mgr, Sarto", of the priests then of which it often had to unravel the difficulties. "As chancellor, deposited grant Eugene Bacchion, he/it enjoyed the biggest esteem and confidence of the ready of the diocese. He/it managed gorgeously.. The clergy, as I told it, appreciated it and venerated it (40).

He/it gets, by a real grant of persuasion, the most unhoped-for results. And the good cleaned of these regions said fluently: "That one at least consist of our agricultural populations and our role in the middle of her (41).

His/her/its role to him, My Lord Sarto, with what high virtue he/it didn't consider it, with what conscience he/it filled it! Nothing was able to less to accept to a so ardent, so active and so sensitive nature, in love of movement and a devouring goodwill, that this desk life, this work without horizon and in appearance without soul, where one is invaded literally, devoured of visits, business the most often tangled and trying. However, in one life so little made for his/her/its temperament, My Lord Sarto kept for all and until the last the same full welcome willingly, the same patience and the same exactness of mind. "It was maybe there, says René Bazzin and we share his/her/its feeling that he/it gives one of the strongest proofs of his/her/its virtue (42). "

Of such a mastery of oneself, of one so untiring ardor in the achievement of his/her/its task, we possess a very eloquent testimony; it is the declaration made by the professors of the big seminary to an editor of the Cross of Paris at the time of the election of the cardinal Sarto to the supreme pontificate.

Hold for certain that he/it always made the task of four. The first survey, he/it was the last whose lamp died out. AT four o'clock it was standing, and in the evening, at half-past eleven, it worked again. As soon as one of us arrived to the chapel to say his/her/its Mass, he/it met My Lord Sarto qu finished his or began his/her/its action of graces already. Every morning, he/it made in a high voice the meditation for the seminarians; canon, he/it sang the office at the cathedral, then he/it went to his/her/its office of the bishopric.. When he/it had spent to the bishopric his/her/its morning, a morning that lasted until two hours, because it is at this hours that, during school years, instead leu our meal of community, he/it arrived here (to the big seminary), bringing with him the files to strip and the notes to make send. And he/it sat down to this table, smiling, because, in this multiplicity of occupation, one never lives it anxious, preoccupied, agitated. The spiritual protrusions, the agreeable teasings abounded on its lips. He/it had the happy courage, and spilled around him this robust good mood… It was his/her/its only recreation: he/it went back up at home to work.

The task, indeed, was immense, because, besides the absorbents works of the curie, to My Lord Sarto was incumbent to the spiritual direction of the big seminary, and this function was especially dear to him. He/it put tower there his/her/its heart, being already deeply convinced the fundamental importance of the formation of the clergy. For the seminarians, he/it prepared and made with the biggest care the religious instructions and the mediations.

It is to his/her/its entry in the seminary, that began to be make the instructions and the meditations, wrote Marchesan that was in Trévise, the spiritual son of My Lord Sarto. Each of his/her/its words was listened with the quickest attention by all sucking pupils to the ministration. In the meditations, My Lord Sarto knew, without self-conceit, without ostentation, a quiet voice, of a spontaneous movement, to transport and to introduce the soul his/her/its young people in innards of the Christian truth that he/it proposed to meditate… In the instructions, he/it was eminently convenient, he/it didn't get lost in vain speculations (43)

As well, the speeches of My Lord Sarto, always simple, fattening pond, convenient, penetrated of God's love, abounded in texts of the writing and Fathers; they were ornamented of examples, of comparisons, of quotes that indicated a vast culture,; sometimes a joke, very suitable and always worthy, sharpened the attention and helped to engrave the truths better in the souls. Often also gushed of milk them of light, of the dense formulas that already announce the doctrinal pope. Of these formulas, My Lord Marchesan kept us a good number of it. Here is some some - some hardly, My Lord Sarto said, talking of the Catholic religion: She/it exercises the pre-eminence of certainty, above all heterodox systems, to the over also of all liberal arts… The absolute truth is unchangeable… That that the first man and all those of the former Will believed in germ, is believed again today by the Catholics. The ancient faith and ours meets and binds to the unique and undissolvable center of truth: Jésus-christ. On the contrary, study the history of toues the sciences, and in the successive alteration of their theories, you will find the mark of their fallibilities (44)

It is precisely why he/it wanted that the future priests cultivate the scienc, because the true science" brings closer God" and the fact better to know and also because the science is today more than ever necessary to the fertility of the apostolate. But in accordance with the recommendation of Augustin saint said: "Liked the science, but prefer the charity", he/it wanted that they cultivate before all and above all the piety, the virtue, because they had to be" the salt of the earth."

Mgr.Sarto confessed and directed the biggest number of the seminarians, a testimony of several elders disciple, <has Trévise, his/her/its direction was marked" of a triple character, the humility, goodness, firmness. In public as in particular, he/it recommended the prayer intensely, the liturgical goodwill, the respect of the regulation, the perfect holding to the church. one day, he/it blames the signs of the crosses badly made" strongly like to hunt the flies", say-il.(45)
Only "one thing, declared his/her/its colleagues of the seminary, excited at Mgr, Sarto the t impatience nearly the repulsion; it was the softness or the plaintive kind among the seminarians (46). "

His/her/its spiritual direction was perfectly adapted to the special needs, to the particular nuances of the souls. "He/it didn't waste time, told his/her/its former disciples; few words, but that cut short to the scruples and to the melancholy, that showed with safety sees it to follow brought and the peace to the heart well more that of long demonstrations". He/it liked his/her/its controlled enough to know, when him the faillait, to be stern. "They should be priests! he/it told a friend one day, And if now one doesn't teach them to walk right (filare dirtto) what race of priests they would become ever. (47)! ". but his/her/its severity always came with one so big goodness that no one took offense some and that it inspired, on the contrary, a whole confidence. "Although very occupied, he/it didn't refuse anybody, declare a controlled elder, when one exposed him some doubts, he/it listened with an attention without hurry, without giving signs of impatience ever, taking interest to the situations that one had just exposed to him, to the puzzlements and to the anguishes for which one asked for his/her/its advice, that he/it gave with security, bringing back in the souls courage, the tranquillity and the freshness of the peace (48). " "One had the impression, said another, that of it spoke to him the Lord, because his/her/its speech always answered our needs and dissipated all fear (49). "

He/it gave a lot of time in the court of the penitence. Here is on this point the memories very moving of Mgr, Marchesan,:

In this miserable piece reserved for the confession of the boarders, he/it made indeed, especially at the hours of in the evening, a Siberian cold weather. He/it seems me again to see it (My Lord Sarto), our bravo and near patient spiritual Father, seated on a very modest chair, the returned shoulders and as supported to an absolutely naked wall and cold sandstone, his/her/its person all envelope of his/her/its coat, He/it was held there, in in the evening advanced of the whole hours to listen to the confessions of the clerks and schoolboys, which, come lastly, were until more of hundred sixty (50) "

Did this admirable spiritual director spread his/her/its solicitude to the requirement even material of the seminarians, or even of their family, some seminarian was he sick? He/it surrounded it with sounds: Mrg Marchesan mentions, among others, the case of the young Giovanni B.Coli. When the death came to take someone of his/her/its" sons ", it let pour out itself his/her/its pain some since words all penetrated of deep tenderness. Such was the case for the youngster Urban Gaspardin; one can read in Marchesan this moving narration and the pathos speech decision ` has this opportunity by Mgr, Sarto. Nothing that his/her/its financial situation was of the poorest, it helped seminarians materially in the need, and even to their family; so he found of in the evening to the morning hundred fifty liras for the family poor people ashamed of a boarder. (51)

A professor of the seminary, Mgr, Lorenzo Brevedan, could say in all justice: " I have been at the seminary fifty years ago; I knew the superior and professors, but none that filled his/her/its duties of state as My Lord Sarto (52). "

The activity of My Lord Sarto didn't limit itself to the care of the seminarians. It was always ready to help indifferently to his/her/its colleagues, replacing them if need be, for some manner that of stock, teaching, with an equal talent and one equal clarity, the theology, the right cannon, philosophy, the literature,. Besides, he/it prepared to the first communion the children of a secondary college annexed at the big seminary. He/it even professed, in 188-1884, a course of religion to the pupils of the classes superior of this college, and, to say it of all witnesses, he/it excelled, either in the teaching of the elementary catechism, either in the courses of religion. The days of vacations and Sundays, he/it united some young people and made them some religious conferences. (53)

Authorized so many labors, so absorbing and so delicate, Mgr.Sarto found the means again not to disregard the predication He preached several times to Trévise, in Venice, in Vicenza, in Rovigo, Monselise, in Mirano, ` in Catelfranco, in Padua He gave, in various diocese, the spiritual exercises of the clergy. He/it gave the sermon for the fifth twenty birthday of the enactment of the dogma of the immaculate Conception, to Major Saint-Marie of Trévise, and this sermon was reputed one of his/her/its best. He/it finally gave many other sermon of circumstance (54).

What of astonishing that, for Mgr, Sarto, the days begun since four heurs of the morning continue long before in the night. His/her/its neighbor of room to the seminary, professor grant Franceso Zanotto, challenged it through the baffle: "Eminence, go take a rest… TO too to work, one works badly - You are right, François grant answers him, go you bedtimes and sleep well."

"Many times, the servant of the seminary who presented itself the morning, to make the room, had only to return itself/themselves of it, because the bed was not undone." "In short, he/it worked for four", as said it a canon professor in the seminary (55) And with it, always happy and sower of joy among his/her/its colleagues. Himself and his/her/its commensaux being all day occupied, he/it didn't want that, during the meals, were landed of the serious and too serious questions. Marchesan tells that, to a commensal too prune Mgr, Sarto, okay with his/her/its colleagues, forbidden to pronounce the "logical word" even, at the risk of a light fine to pay for the advantage outbuildings (56).

Living perfects agreement of it with his/her/its confr`res of the seminary, him state indeed the soul of the conversations, so that" Mgr's apparition", Sarto to the refectory was always a feast.. he "Heard someone to complain about food, either for the quantity, or for the quality, never complaining himself, he threw qeulques good words that calmed everybody (57). "

Here is to summarize this period of the life of My Lord Sarto, the text of the official deposition of My Lord Bresan in the Suit Apostolic Roman:

In 1875, he/it was named candlestick of the curie of Trévise. He/it had the dignity of primicier. Lodged at the seminary, he/it filled the functions of spiritual Father there and during some times he/it was a professor in the high school, he/it took possession of his/her/its canonicat November 28, 1875, He/it was regular to the choir. As candlestick he/it was very exact, so much that bishop Zinelli rented it incessantly. He/it tried to satisfy cough that applied to him, the bishop, the general priest, all others officers of the curie were happy of him, and him himself while making the idea of an exceptional man.

To the seminary, he/it carried joy at all, by his/her/its gracious manner, but always with moderation; as spiritual Father, he/it filled the office of it for the clerks (about 70) and for the schoolchildren (vicinity 160). He/it was suitable every week for the confessions and several confessed to him, every Sunday, he/it made one conference at the whole seminary. Every Wednesday evening, he/it made a conference to the clerks, and every Thursday morning a meditation. In the last time, after the recitation are prayers of in the evening, he/it came" dettare" the meditation for the pupils. So some clerk needed advice, he received it at his/her/its room. In some case, he/it even helped materially, by help made of silver, the young people who had need of it. I believe that in that time, he/it practiced the predication extensively, the first speech that he/it made to the seminary, as spiritual Father, raised a big admiration for the doctrine and by the manner to expose it. He/it didn't make of journey, Of all this I am control personal, because I was then at the seminary, and the last two years. I was charged of the vestry office (58).

November 24, 1879, Mgr. Zinelli, since some time hit of apoplexy, died, attended himself last moments by My Lord Sarto. Three days, after, this one was named to the unanimity, by the chapter, capitular priest. The future pope was therefore, without wanting it, to the head of a diocese that intended two hundred parishes and three hundred fifty thousand souls to govern. Since December 1st, in a letter full of spiritual cordiality and the noblest ministerial feelings, he/it took contact with the diocesan clergy (59).

As capitular priest, he/it immediately dealt with the representatives, notably to the royal steward of Venice, loaded during the vacancy of the seat to provide to the expenses. Without delay, Mgr, Sarto wrote to him that the curie of Trévise was in a very laborious financial situation; that she/it had had to assumes heavy expenses to the bishop's death and that she/it didn't have some means to pay them. He/it expressed the confidence that The royal steward, who touched the incomes of the mense, would take the appropriated measures. Regally, the steward granted a monthly subsidy of, hundred liras, whereas Mgr, Sarto had to pay out, to mention this example only forty liras per month for the only expenses of station! It is the high irony and a flagrant injustice.

My Lord Sarto qu was not already man to flatter the power, and that was not a candidate to the episcopate, took his/her/its beautiful feather, and wrote a quiet and worthy protest.

Hundred liras per month!… The poor people are forced well to be content with the crumbs that fall of the table of the rich, but since the Right cannon and the civil Law allow there enough clearly I don't want that one blames me for not having asked for the justice for my reason. (60)

As capitular priest, on the occasion of the fourteenth centenary of Benoît saint, he/it published, in the newspaper trévisan, l 'Echo Sile del, an article or rather a sort of circular on the founder of the big monastic Order. After having exalted the virtues and the size of the role of Benoît saint and his/her/its work, he/it invited all diocesans to contribute for their offering to" to make splendid the demonstration of honor, affection and gratitude to the Patriarch of the west monks ".

As capitular priest again, he/it wrote a circular to recommend work of the Saint Childhood; he/it signalled the goal and direct object that are" the acquisition of the children of the homicidal hands of the idolaters" of it, and therefore cooperation with Christ to the acquisition of the souls"; he/it showed" an efficient means there for the Christian parents to educate their own sons", he/it recommended to the supporters the diffusion of the Saint's Annals - Childhood, like one antidote against the bad books,; he/it finally showed, in this work, an excel manner to train the people to compassion to the charity, to the faith, He/it wanted to address to the colleagues of Saint's Company also - Vincent - of - Paul the speech yearly, burning advocacy of his/her/its heart in favor of the charity

To the consideration of the clergy, so much as capitular priest that as simple chancellor of the bishopric, said Marchesan, he/it always used soft manners and mind the conciliation; one can affirm that almost always his/her/its speech resounded like a prayer more that like an order. Then, when he/it had found (the one didn't arrive hardly ever) in some priest the refusal unreasonable to adhere to his/her/its prayer, made itself then feel in him the other quality that was clean to him: strength, nothing irritated it more that the disobedience at a priest. (61)

Finally, to really fill his/her/its functions, a capitular priest must be good administrator: this quality is part of the prudence virtue. Already during his/her/its ministry in Salzano, My Lord Sarto had shown what high idea he/it made himself/itself of the administration of goods of the church and, in this matter, he/it had pushed the scruple as far that he was possible. Chancellor and capitular priest, in more elevated offices he/it showed evidence of conscience and even more remarkable capacities, while resorting, when he/it was need, to stern measures against neglectful or incapable stewards, and also often taking sure skinny personal pays to repair, in favor of the poor employees, the vices of the previous administration. (62)

Finally, at the time of the nomination of the new bishop of Trévise, Mgr, Gallergari, professor to the seminary, of Venice, at the time of resigning his/her/its functions of capitular priest and chancellor, Mgr, Sarto addressed, June 26, 1880, to the clergy of the diocese, a moving letter. We will mention the adult bets, because she/it decides on the customary form of the letters of this kind: Since I am going to put an end in my public office, I need address souls son of this diocese, two words only. A speech of thanks: in the RR.MM. the Canons, in the RR. Deans, who used their advice and their action, that had compassion of my weakness, of which I felt of as much more misery and that more famous was the office to which I had been called; in the RR. Cleaned that, himself dependent with goodwill for the a lot of souls, helped marvelously to what I can deposit in some days, without too bass tones reproaches of the my conscience the dear deposit that had been preserve me ` in the RR. Professors of the seminary, who gave me so many kindliness proofs, contributory by their sacrifices to the chandelier and to renown always bigger of the institution diocesan; in all RR. Priests of the diocese thanks to them the six draining months will often come back me to the memory, recalling me the consolations that I especially received those that, invited to change parish, or to go in the more difficult villages answered submissively to my voice, without opposing difficulty, with a mind of underwrite, ready to make the good, and didn't oblige me to repeat two times a prayer. I thank you all, oh venerated brothers, of this although you made, and I ask God to reward you of your work without which, instead of collecting the tears of our sorry Church, I would not have been able to in my misery that to make sentire of it the widowhood.

To this act that returns public my testimony, and that comes naturally of my heart, allow me to add a second speech; the prayer to continue with courage, to make as much and better, if you can make better in the future. in the middle of the other battles of our century, the priests and the people are exposed continually to fall in the ambushes, to yield to the contracts, to be afraid before the attacks of the mean, that threaten to remove us the precious treasure of the faith, by which only we can be saved, So therefore we have need of someone that helps us, that guides us, that teaches us, let's abound entirely us to The one that is given us of the sky like support, chief, master. Let's listen to his/her/its words, let's imitate his/her/its example, let's obey his/her/its orders. Still and in all circumstances, let's be unite him heart and mind, as is united him e to the Sovereign Pontiff. As well as we find in our Prelate a famous and distinguished character to whom the diocese confides its dearest expectations, in the same way, that finds us to him of it a docile, zealous clergy, submitted, a people that in affection for his/her/its bishop doesn't give up it to anyone (63).

During the two years that My Lord Callergari remains on the Episcopal seat of Trévise (June 26 September 1880-25, 1882), he/it maintained his/its former schoolmate and friend Mgr, Sarto in his/her/its chancellor's loads, of primicier, of spiritual director of the seminary,; he/it named it, besides, general pro-priest. When he/it went to Rome to be consecrated there, he/it wanted to bring there My Lord, Sarto. It was the third time that this one went to Rome, He/it had gone there, the first time in the month of July 1877, on the occasion of the Episcopal jubilee of Magpie IX,; the second time, in October 1881, on the occasion of the national pilgrimage of repair for the outrages committed by Freemasonry against the august ashes of Magpie IX. My Lord Callegari presented its friend to Léon XIII. The big pope, of a rare clairvoyance and that knew the exceptional merits of the of My Lord Sarto already, the blessed lovingly, without speaking to him, for the meantime of something else.

In the month of September 1882, My Lord Callegari was transferred to the bishopric of Padua, and replaced in Trévise by My Lord Apollonio, already bishop of Adria. This one kept by him My Lord Sarto, as general priest, while maintaining it in his/her/its functions of chancellor and spiritual director of the seminary. The new bishop was very active, Mgr, Sarto found a few relief to his/her/its exhausting life. He/it was also possible to him to take care more of predication. "This is how in 1884 he/it fished the fast in Castelfranco, to Appears the eulogy of the blissful Béatrice, two times in Padua the sermons of the Triduum in honor of the Saint" (holy Antoine of Padua) (64)

The spectacle of so much virtue, of wisdom, of joined firmness to a charity so singular could not fail to hit the witnesses, faraway or near, of such a life, Also one said My Lord Sarto fluently: "material of bishop". He/it answered, with an angry vehemence, to one himself cousins, priest of big merit, therefore Giacomo Sarto: "let calm material and the tailors. The cross, so much that the priest carries it under his/her/its dress, is a soft weight. But if he/it carry it on his/her/its dress, suspended to a chain of gold, she/it overwhelms and oppress."

In Trévise, in Venice, the rumor got used however, more insistent that representing My Lord Sarto like candidate to the episcopate, The anguish to the heart, it wrote, August 3, 1879, to his/her/its cousin, Giacomo grant,;

U little smoke, dear cousin, to the what you know how much I hold little! To whoever will speak to you me, very clearly say that I know too small to long for such a station. A certain experience made after four years of curie made me know the thorns, the perils, the inherent responsibilities in this station, which is not at all compensated by the vainglory of bishop's crosier, because it vanishes when one thinks of the speech of Philippe saint of Néri; And then? .. And then?… and then the death (65)!

In a second letter to the same, June 30, 1880. He/it wrote:

When to the noises that spread on my account (one said it named auxiliary bishop of Mgr, Antonio floured, bishop of Vivence) are persuaded well that this are of simple gossip, propagated without the lightest foundation, but that makes so much pain to my heart. Deny them so much that you will be able to, assuring your friends and knowledge, that I am very far from wanting this sublime.Je stations know my misery, and it is in the consideration of this misery that I accepted one of the last offices of my diocese, the one of chancellor of the bishopric, again too elevated for my low capacities. Of the rest, I assure you that I have beautiful to endeavor me to make the indifferent and to laugh allégrement when one asks me the question, I suffer nevertheless and I suffer a lot. (66)

Foreign property to all ambition, My Lord Sarto only thought about humiliating itself/themselves besides in the feeling quicker of the responsibilities. To an intimate and very dear friend who had addressed him some vœux on the occasion of his/her/its birthday he/it wrote, June 3, 1884.

What skinny consolation to have reached the half century, and, so close to the redde rationem, to be so distant of the arrangements that make auspicious. The one that judges the judges themselves! Don't wonder; this and the thought that occupy me the whole day and the other aspect, more splendid, of the aspirations of the apostolate, the martyrdom, to which inhaled holy Antoine, doesn't succeed in banishing this thought of my mind (67).

To the morning of September 16, 1884, Mgr, Giuseppe Apollono presented itself at the office of work of his/her/its general priest", make - me, tells to him him, the pleasure to follow me, because we have need to pray together for a thing that touches us one and the other" And he introduced My Lord Sarto in his/her/its oratory individual. After a short prayer, he/it stretched him a papal ticket: Léon XIII named Mgr.Sarto bishop of Mantua. It was for the humble priest like a love at first sight, He/it vacillated, covered itself the face of his/her/its hands, subsided on a seat while sobbing, He/it implored My Lord Apollonio to refuse, in his/her/its name, a honor of which he/it didn't believe himself/itself worthy. The bishop comforted it better of his/her/its, with a lot of affection; he/it exhorted it to take this heavy cross courageously on his/her/its shoulders; him amount a crucifies hanged at the wall: Here is, he/it says, how the Lord liked us: He/it made himself/itself obeying until to the death ". TO these words, My Lord Sarto recovers, dominate his/her/its emotion as far as pronouncing, of an one pleasing, these words: "Indeed, Eminence, I lacked it only!… "in the evening, gone back at, him, he/it wrote to Léon XIII, him Protestant that he/it was not made for the honor of the episcopate. "Obbedizca! " made him transmit the Sovereign Pontiff, Mgr Sarto didn't hesitate anymore. These facts, that, in a moving simplicity, makes to think of the most beautiful pages of the Co of the Saints, are attested unanimously by the contemporaries (68); the Acts of the Suit confirm the authenticity of it. We read, for example, in the deposition of My Lord Bressan:

When My Lord Apollonio received the ticket of nomination of My Lord Sarto to the bishopric of Mantua, he/it called it in his/her/its chapel to receive communion it to him. My Lord Sarto exploded in sobs (scoppio in pianto) and he/it didn't want to accept. He/it writes to Léon XII to ask it to exempt to him; but uselessly, when he/it lives in Rome for the consecration, he/it presented himself/itself to the Saint - Father, who tells to him: "You wrote me to be dispensed to receive the episcopate. But We wanted that you went to Mantua." To that God's Servant answered humbly: "We are to Your feet, oh Father Saint, to make Your will" This episode, I learned it of the books of God's Servant himself (69).

Recommended without the consistory of November 10, My Lord Sarto was dedicated the 16, in the church Saint - Apollinaire, by the cardinal Lucido Maria Parocchi, priest of His/her/its Holiness, native of Mantua, attended of Mgr, Burped", the Athnase of Italy ", and of Mgr, Berendo, archbishop of Udine, one and the other predecessors of the new bishop. By a very meaningful coincidence, the gospel of the day (third Sunday of November) told the parabola of leaven q'une woman mingles to flour, and that makes raise the whole dough, Other coincidence to which must be hoes sensitive the soul of My Lord Sarto, this same day was celebrated to Mantua, the feast of the patronage of the Blissful Virgin Marie Immaculate.

In the evening of his/her/its consecration, My Lord Sarto was received by Léon XIII that offered him a very beautiful pectoral cross and a papal Roman gorgeously bound, of it told to him: "If the Mantouanses don't like their new Pasteur, it is sign that they won't be able to like any of it, because Mgr, Sarto is the most agreeable s of the bishops (70). "The same day, My Lord Sarto telling his/her/its audience to his/her/its friend My Lord Callegari, bishop of Padua, wrote to him:

The Holy Father my welcomed in all goodness, he/it wanted to tell me the motives for which he/it have welcome my prayers… What cross, Eminence, what martyrdom! And would be able to I, me, will say with Jesus: That your Will is made (71)!

Is he/it need to add that the promotion of the new bishop didn't cause hopeless surprise? All those that knew it waited for it, with a happy admiration mingled of regrets. In Trévise, as everywhere where he/it had passed, priests and faithful comforted themselves badly of his/her/its departure. The weekly newspaper The Marca, announcing the news of the election of My Lord Sarto, wrote:

So Mantua makes a precious acquirement - and we are sincerely delighted some - we don't want to make yet that our city is our diocese coalesces a big loss (engraves pedita) and we cannot not be distressed.

After having received of the Trévisane population the cordial and unanimous testimonies of his/her/its regrets, My Lord Sarto wanted to make a visit of adieu to his/her/its former parishioners of Salzano. He/it surrendered of it therefore Sunday February 8, 21885, celebrated the Mass there; the gospels he/it recalled with big affection to these brave people, ran in crowd, the last years to the surroundings of them; after the vespers, a second time he/it went up in chair, and it was for recommends the devotion to the Sacred Cœur (72).

Since March 5, 1885, the new bishop wrote to the syndic of Mantua:

You will find in me a priest who has for flag the flag of the peace, for li the law of love. Court new bishop is poor of the all but rich in heart. He/it only intends a goal: the one to save it the souls and to make of all his/her/its diocesans only one family of friends and brothers (73)

March 18, he/it addressed to the clergy and the people mantouan his/her/its first pastoral Letter, imprinted of big nobility. He/it said there:

Pure the souls, I won't save worries, nor eves, nor fatigues. I won't have anything besides to heart that your salute. Maybe someone will ask me on what I lean to achieve all these promises. I answer; on the hope, of which I chose purposely in my weapons the emblem; The anchor, the hope, as says the writing (74), is the anchor sure and firm of the soul; the hope, unique companion of my life, the biggest help in the doubts, the strongest strength in the impotence; the hope, but not the hope in the men, that, when she/it believes to bring the biggest happiness, bring the worse disasters on the contrary, but the hope in the Christ, that, based on the celestial promises, invigorate the weakest man and returns him, with the divine help, the size of soul. Me the s knows for the salute of the souls, I should support some tests, to meet some perils, to endure some offenses, to face the storms and to fight relates the pain, but my people will always find me firm to my station, always soft and full of charity (75).

According to the Italian constitution of this time, he/it belonged to the government to grant to the named bishops the legal recognition, The royal exequatur in favor of consuls having to linger to varnish, My Lord Sarto résolut to be going to pass the Week Saint and the feasts of Easter to Riese.

It was written, René Bazzin, for the family and for the country of surrounding, the most beautiful Easter that one had seen, We can imagine some of words that were exchanged (between the bishop and his/her/its me`re and his/her/its sœurs); but the stranger that we are is only sure of two among them. All countries know them by heart. He/it tells that the bishop nearly spread the hand while arriving and says; "Hold, watch, mom my beautiful pastoral ring." The mom watched, then of his/her/its wrinkled fingers, she touched the alliance of money that she carried herself to the left hand, and says to him: "It is true that he/it is beautiful, your ring, Giuseppe, but you would not have it, if me me opinion had not this one (76)! "

Is the fact exact? The word is well pretty, This other is maybe more authentic, in his/her/its picturesque and humble simplicity. A canon of Trévise surrendering, to this time, in Riese, My Lord Sarto asked it to be going to greet his/her/its old mom. "Well gladly, does say the canon, but how would recognize - me the house? - It is well easy, answers the bishop, there is always a pair of low red in the window." To seize the flavor of this answer, it is necessary to know that, in Veneto, the poor peasants carried some low reds.

The exequatur in favor of consuls having arrived, after three months of waiting, it was necessary to decide to win his/her/its station, the night that preceded his/her/its departure of the seminary of Trévise, My Lord Sarto cannot sleep. Feeling that he/it would not have courage anymore to see his/her/its colleagues and his/her/its dear seminarians again, he/it wrote a letter of adieu, penetrated of fond and full emotion of paternal advice,; he/it handed it to the rector, Romanello grant, while telling to him: "You will read it at the refectory, when I would not be there." He/it ordered in big secret a carriage, that had to come to take it, not to the door of the house, but in an a lot more distant tie, that one could not see some windows. And he/it left, only bidder his/her/its pain. (77)

(1) one can read a pretty description of Tombolo in: Camille Bellaigue, Magpie X and Rome, p.2145,
(2) Marchesan, op.cit., p.97
(3) testimony of Maria Sarto, Sum.Ic.., p.31
(4) René Bazin, op.cit., p.30
(5). Sum,Virt.,p.717.
(6) Cf.Marchesan,op.cit.,pp.113-114
(7) Op.cit., p.110
(8) according to Girolamo Dal Gen., Magpie X Him Dad Santo, priceps,1940,p.30 edition,
(9) Cf. Marchesan,op.cit,p.119 A.Rfinaldi,Prov.Apoist.Tarvisinus,vol.i.p.194
(10) deposition of grant Joseph Pescine, szxecrétaire particuleir of X magpie, Proc. Apost, Romanus,vol,II, p.810, sum, Virt., p.126. CF.Zanuotto, SdumI.C.p.75. S. Pilotto and Cavallin,Proc, Apost. TARVISINUS, FLIGHT, i,PP.183 AND 706
(11) Cf. Marchesan,op,cit., pp 116-119-1313-132 Maria Sarto I.C sum. pp.31-33 Anna Sarto, ibib., p.58.l'Andretta, ibid.p.624,
(12) Cf.Marchesan,op.cit.,p.124
(13) testimonies of S. pilotto, Sum.I.C. pp.580-=581, Pontarello,m ibid., 8g3
(14) Don J. Pescini,Proc, Apost, romanus,vol.Ii p. 810, Sum, Virt., p.126 Cf.Marchesan,op.. cit., p.113
(15) Marchesan, op., p.136,
(16) Cf.Marchesan,op.cit., p.124
(17) Témoignagnes of Maria Saarto, Sum., I.C., p.32: of Don Pellizari.ibid., p.587
(18) added on by the Dr Luigi Delli in his/her/its libvre: Pio X, Cenni biografici, Bergamo, 1906, French Translation by the Boissonnnot canon, in the Mame bookstore, Tours, 1906.
(19) Op,cit.p.68
(20) Op.cit.p.68
(21) René Bazin, PieX, éd, pr., pp.421-42
(22) Proc. Apost. Romanus, vol.Ii.p.812, Sum.Virt,pp.126-127,
(23) Proc. Apost, Romanus, flight, II, p.96. Sum, Virt., P.719, Cf. Marchesan,Op.cit.p. 146
(24) dal-gal op.cit., ed.1940.p.30
(25) E.Bacchion, Sum. Virt., loc.cit
(26) Cf. Marchesan, op.cit., p.161;Bagaglio, Sum.I.C., p.602.Prevedello, igbiode., p.578
(27) Daelli,op,cit, in the traduciton Boissoonnot fançaises, p. 79
(28) ibid., p.80
(29) ibid., pp.75-76
(30) Cf., among others, Marchesan, op.cit.pp152 eet suiv. Daelli, loc, cit., and suiv. Maria Sarto, Sum.I.C. p. 35. Bagagliok, Sum.I.C.p.899 Prevedello, Sum,I.C. p.577 and, Cf,surotut: Leettre of the Servant of god èa grant Jacuzzi, quimontrer that Giuseppe grant pourvooyait èa to pay for the penseion d,un young séminaristee, età to help others young people so that they can continue their survey - this in Marchesan,op.cit.p,164, Sacerd,Luise, Sum,I.C. p,l621 My Lord Romanello,ibid,np,556, 3I, Op. cit., pp.159-16
(3I) Op. cit., pp.159-16
(32) op. cit., French taduction, pp.77-78,
(33) Proc. Apost, romanus, flight, I.p41, Sum Virt., p.28
(34) Proc. Apost, Tarvisinus, p.101.sum.Virt.,p.720,
(35) Cf. Sum.Virt., p.719
(36) Cf. on these events, in particuliermMarchesan,op.cit.,pp.174 and suiv.
(37) Daelli, cf. Marches
(38) L. Daelli, op. cit., pp.81 83 one can also read a magnificent description and a long history of Trévise in Marchesan,po.cit.,pp167-174
(39) Cf. Marchesan, op.cit., pp.216-217. Mgr.Zanotto. Sum I.C. p. 78
(40) Proc.Apost, tarvisinus, p.104 Sum.Virt., p.721
41) Cf. Marchesan, op, cit, pp.215-216 Mgr Zanotto, Sum, I.C. p.77 Mgr, Romanello, p ibid,m. 366
(42) X magpie, Pr.p.52 ed.,
(43) Cit op.., pp.186-187.Cf, Sautinon grant, Sum.I.C.p.610,
(44)Marchesan,op.cit.,p.196 Cfs. My Lord Zanotto, Proc. ord. romanus, fol.174,
(45_ Cfs. Sum., I.C.., forgiveness
(46) declaration to the correspondent of the Cross of Paris, already mentioned.
(47) bag, L. Ferrari, Tile crumb memorie, p.37,
(48) My Lord P, Settin, Proc, Ord, tarvisinus, p.1048 Sum, Cvirt., p. 855
(49) My Lord G. Trabughelli, Proc,Ord, Tarvisinus, p.998,
(50) Po,cit.,p194. Cf My Lord Romanello, Sum, I.C. pp. 564-565.
(51) Cf. Marchesan,op.cit., pp.193-194 Mgr, Romanello, Sum, I.C., p.566
(52) testimony of My Lord Bressan Ct. J.B.Parolin, Proc. Ord, romanus, p. 708
(53) Cf. Marchesan, op.cit., pp.195-196 My Lord Romanello, Sum I.C., pp.565-566
(54) Cf. Marchesan, op.cit., pp.202-203
(55) Cf. Marchesan, op.cit., pp. 204 Romanellos, Proc, Ord, Tarvisinus, pp, 42-43, Parlin, Ord, rom, p. 627 City by Dal-Cheerful, Beata PioX, 1951, pp.90-91,
(56) Cf. Marchesan, op.cit., pp.198 Cf. Bag, Traducelli-Onisto, Sum I.C., p.654
(57) has. Romanello, Proc, Ord, Taravisinus, p. 3g. Sum. Virt., pp. 780-781
(58). Proc, Apost, Romanus,vol, I,pp.41,42,50. Sum. Virt., pp.28 and 33
(59) Cf. Marchesan,op.cit.,pp.217 Maria Sarto, Sum.I.C.p.37,
(60) to the Archives delacurie of Trévise. Cf. Marchesna, op.cit., p. 214
(61) Op.cit., p.215 Cf.A.pozzi, Proc, Ord,Tarvisimus. P ..111
(62) Cf.bacchion,Proc, Ord, tarvisinus, p, 513,; and and Apost, tarv., pp.144-145 Maria Sarto, Proc, Ord, romanus, p.50, Novelli, Proc, Ord, tarvisinus,p.403,,
(63) city by Marchesan,op.cit., p.221 X-3 piex
(64) Cf. Marchesan, op,cit., pp.221-223 Mr. Romanello,Sum, I.C. p.567 Mgr, "anotto, ibid., p.79 Maria Sarto, ibid., p.38
(65) letter kept in the "PieX museum" of Riese, Quoted by Dal Gen., op, cit., p. 99
(66) ibid, Dal-Gai.,op.cité cité,par. p.99
(67) Cf, Marchesan,op,cit., p. 236
( 68) to see, among others Marchesan, op, cit., p. 238
(69) Proc. Apost, Romanus,vl, 1, pp. 44-45 Virts sum., pp. 29-30
(70) Cf. Marchesan,op.cit., p 353 Maria Sarto, Sum.I.C. p.38
(71) letters of the Sarto ardinal, patriarch of Venice to the bishop of Padua, G.Callegari, Mentioned Dal Gen., op.cit., p. 105
(72) sermon" bellissiomo", said Marchesan, op.cit., p. 233
(73) Marchesan, op.cit., p. 236
(74) Hcb., V. 19
(75) archives of the Mantua bishopric, Mentioned of Marchesan, op.cit., p. 337
(76) Op, cit., p.69
(77) My Lord Romanello, Proc. Ord, Tarvisinus, pp. 55-56, Sum, Virt., p. 784

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