One
of the first preoccupations of the patriarch ut his/her/its clergy.
The clergy of Venice, to this date, was, from a ministerial viewpoint,
in better was that the clergy of Mantua to the arrival of My Lord
Sarto. Under the report of the mœurs, the general holding,
the piety and the goodwill, there was not to deplore bass tones
shortcomings, However, because of the weakness of patriarch Agostini,
predecessor of the cardinal Sarto, who had been a holy man, but
very weak (molto debole), a lot of things didn't work well. The
vicars had taken a few of them too much to their joy to act by
them even (to far da sé), so that patriarch Sarto could
say, while joking that, at least thirty among the vicars were
not cleaned, but bishop. The cardinal opened out the biggest goodwill
for the discipline of the clergy, for the nomination of good vicars,
for the healthy predication. (24).
God's servant, said Pescini grant again, looked scrupulously after
the choices of the vicars (25). " And the witness mentions
two very typical cases, where, of his/her/its own authority, in
opposition to the judgment of the examiners of the contest, the
cardinal nominee the elected. The first time, it was for the nomination
of the vicar of Saint-Étienne, parish of big importance.
For this parish had competed a certain Clementini, priest a few
advanced in age, and that previously", had frequented the
lounges and the pharmacies a lot, his/her/its creating some relations
thus, but that little successful dan the field of the apostolic
ministry". The examiners designated it. Nevertheless, the
cardinal conferred the parish, no in Clementin, but in the Rév.
Paganuzzi", a very zealous priest who had already given excellent
proofs. Of course, this last had also succeeded him, to the contest."
Equally, when it is about the parish of the holy Ermagorases and
Fortunat, the patriarch separated the candidacy of the Rév.
Tressich, good priest, but somewhat light and less capable to
the pastoral ministry"; to his/her/its place, he/it named
the chancellor of the ecclesiastical Court, the Rév. Don
Francesco Marchiori. He/it was, to this topic, accused of injustice.
later, when the cardinal Sarto had become pope, the Rév
Tressich himself made justice of the calumny while publishing
the cardinal's extraordinary goodness to his/her/its consideration
(26).
With a sustained goodwill, the cardinal used himself/itself to
develop by his/her/its ready the ecclesiastical discipline on
all points, and of a special manner with regard to the care of
the religious ceremonies; he/it heard that on that are respected
his/her/its orders perfectly, it even occurred him to deliver
itself/themselves to a holy anger, when he/it saw a priest misses
to the regulations that he/it had carried. The relative feature
to My Lord Apollonio, archpriest of the cathedral, is tasty and
meaningful.
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My
Lord Apollonio,a set down My Lord Bressan, was cultivated very,
but a type a few strange. Of the time that he/it was cleaned in
Saint-Marcuola, he/it came for him from the Holy See, on the demand
of God's Servant, a papal distinction. I remember that I carried
him the ticket of his/her/its nomination, and he/it didn't nearly
want to receive it. One day, to the cathédral, while God's
Servant made the homily, the archpriest made sound the bell of
the vestry to announce the end of a low Mass, (It is necessary
to know that the cardinal had first defended of celebrated of
the low Mass to Saint-Marc during The solemn papal office, in
order to not to disturb the ceremony,; thereafter, he/it allowed
the celebration of the low Mass, but forbidden positively to sound
the bell, either for the exit of these Mass, is even during these
Mass - and always for the same very reasonable motive.) UPON his/her/its
return to the palace, in presence clerks of the seminary, the
cardinal says with energy: "Don't imitate this rebel's example
(27)"
Don Pescini, that tells the same fact, declare that the cardinal's
features was altered some visibly (28). The control" Jeremich,
in the suit information of Venice, is even more explicit. After
having exposed the act of disobedience of the archpriest for a
long time, he/it declares:
… The patriarch was indignant of it, but he doesn't give
sign of his/her/its irritation during the papal ceremony, but
when he came back to the palace turning toward the clerks, he
says severely: "Learn to obey", and he/it added other
speech of disapproval some, the clerks were impressed some deeply
and, hardly back to the seminary, they returned to me you what
had arrived. When to me, I verified the fact lorsqu I was going
to take news of Mgr Ligugi Bagato, that were then sacriste and
that had reminded to the archpriest the interdiction carried by
the patriarch (29).
There was two shortcomingses qu the patriarch could not tolerate
at a priest: indolence and the disobedience. A young priest, named
to a parish moved away from Venice, exposed him his/her/its difficulties
to admit this station, adding that he would like to rest in the
city: "Go, answered the patriarch, because he/it would displease
me a lot that you cannot celebrate the Mass anymore." The
small priest understood the inflexible dilemma to obey expeditiously,
to another qu didn't accept, to be chapelain in an island of the
estuary, because of the character difficult of the vicar, he repeated
energetically: go and to the first incident, write-me, I will
see myself in person to finalizing the something (30).
 To
realize the state of his/her/its clergy precisely as also of his/her/its
diocese, the cardinal Sarto undertook; since the beginning of
his/her/its patriarchy, in 1895, the pastoral visit. The first
had to not end that in 1897. It is that the diocese was spread
very, containing of very numerous parishes, and that in parishes
in individuals those of the Lagoon, were of very difficult access.
But no difficulty, no fatigue was able to stops God's man. In
these visits, as previously to Mantua, he/it realized scrupulously
of the least details, especially of the given care by cleaned
them to the catechism and the predication, making observations
and recommendations, multiplying the encouragements with a lot
of goodness and e charity, thereon but of a manner that admitted
neither retort nor disobedience, in the same way, he/it looked
with a jealous care after the exact convenient of the religious
ceremonies, solemnization of the feasts, sacred song, in a word
to everything that represented the cult and that interested therefore
to the highest point the bne of the souls.
In these visits pastorale, the cardinal gave himself/itself so
much pain and opened out so much goodwill as his/her/its priests
worried some for his/her/its health of their chief and Father
venerated. Thus, to the term of the visit to the parishes of the
Venetian estuary, after the long relation of the visit makes to
Murano, a good priest wrote with interest to wait, in the Catholic
newspaper of Venice,:
… We will add a prayer. Lasting tan of month, we were orphan
of father; today, after processes and sighs, we possess it. And
well! The prayer that we allow of address to our patriarch is
this one: that he/it thinks a few more about himself. It is well
that he/it is insensible to fatigue, to the labor, but the sons
that like their father want that he/it plans somewhat, so that
they can enjoy of pleased to him a long time: it will be an affection
concerned persons, but still an affection (31).
In 1989, the cardinal Sarto held a diocesan synod and of particularly
importance. No synod n,avait been held since thirty years. The
testimony of the Pescini grant is of special interest.
…
He/it celebrated with a big solemnity and of beneficent resulted
the diocesan Synod, structural of excellent arrangements so that
was maintained the good mind of the clergy and developed the ministerial
goodwill, among the decisions synodales, has place to notice this
one: That the hosts and wine for the holy sacrifice of the Mass
had to be bought at the Sœurses of Saint-Joseph that offered
the surest guarantees. This obligatory general decision for all
knocked many local interests, by that that until then it was the
individuals who had, so to speak, monopolized flour and wine his/her/its
to be able to give the necessary guarantees in a thing so delicate;
in spite of toues these protests, the patriarch maintenance the
order assured the exécution.(32 of it).
In the synod were carried of capital importance others decision:
on the teaching of the catechism; on the predication; on the ecclesiastical
conferences, that had to have for object: the dogmatic theology"
ordered to the needs of the time"; the moral theology"
especially in his/her/its reports with the physiology and social
studies"; the sciences biblical; the Christian archeology;
the social economy politicizes; the creation or the development
of the charitable societies, in particular the Conference of Saint-Vincent-Of-Paul,
of the patronage and other œuvres for youth; of the decisions,
besides, on held it ecclesiastical in his/her/its least details:
"That the costume, the hairdressing, the pace outside, the
speech, all finally, either in perfect correspondence with the
holiness of his/her/its vocation (of the priest) "absolute
interdiction was made to the clergy to go to the theater and worldly
spectacles; on the sacred music, about which was carried of the
stern orders excluding the profane and too loud" music rigorously,
and all this i qu could give God a theatrical aspect home (33)
".
This synod caused to the cardinal an immense fatigue. It is that
he/it had put an extreme care to prepare it. Besides, attest Mgr,
Bressan,:
He/it wanted exclaims all decrees himself of it, of his/her/its
own hand (di suo pugno). I remembered, continue the witness, that
he/it was not able to some anymore because of this enormous labor,
and one morning, to the return of one visit to the monastery of
the Visitation, he/it felt badly, the famous physician, doctor
Paganuzzi, declared that it was about an angina pectoris"
attack". Month, without God's Servant perceived some, I made
come the physician of the seminary of Trévise (of which
me me recall not the name); the one separated the diagnosis of
Pagenuzzi and says that it was about weariness due to an excessive
work. He/it ordered to God's Servant to take rest and to go himself
of it for fifteen days in the Lido, then in Crespano. God's Servant
obeys to counter heart because he wanted to continue his/her/its
work (34).
The cardinal Sarto had well that all excellent prescriptions of
the synod would remain dead letter, or of the less would not produce
the fruits that to wait needed some, if the priest didn't have
the goodwill and the worry of his/her/its personal perfection
above all, didn't work to his/her/its own sanctification. Also,
without speaking of the individual and collective exhortations,
of the encouragements lavished with a tireless and paternal charity,
he, of all his/her/its strengths, to intensify this goodwill and
this care, used himself/itself. It was there for him a real obsession,
a solicitude notes and often anguished. By the means of ministerial
sanctification of which he/it assured the practice rigorously,
let's mention his/her/its fidelity to the yearly withdrawal and
to the monthly récollection.
To maintain the good mind of the clergy, declare My Lord J. Jeremich,
he/it put the biggest goodwill to what the priests make the spiritual
exercises, and himself in person intervened every year, He/it
also applied to the monthly récollections; he/it preached
them himself, and in the first years, he/it had the habit to write
his/her/its meditations fully. He/it also wanted that "in
the shape of his/her/its dress, the clergy conformed precisely
to the Roman use" of which, besides, a small number only
departed (35)."
His/her/its clergy, the cardinal Sarto wanted it, not only devout
and of perfect ministerial dignity, but again docte; docte especially,
he/it is going without saying, in the sacred sciences, but also
in the profane sciences. He/it often represented to his/her/its
priests the obligation that they especially impose the needs and
the mind of our time, to get in measure to answer the difficulties,
to the questions of the supporters, to the "pretensions of
the modern laic culture", and of not to show them lower to
the laymen concerning human knowledge (36). In this goal,
He/it organized, in his/her/its own palace of the obligatory scientific
conferences for the whole clergy,
he/it reminded to the order those that abstained of these conferences,
even when they put forward their big age and that didn't have
need of survey anymore. "Come nevertheless, he/it said, you
will be able to help the other (37).
He/it required his/its priests, in their apostolate, with an all
special insistence, in the first place the teaching of the catechism,
first to the children, but also to the adults. To his/her/its
will, the ignorance of the Christian doctrine is the main source
of the pains that reigns in the society.
The priest has a particularly pressing duty therefore to fight
this ignorance and to make know the doctrine of the salute. The
cardinal Sarto wrote in its pastoral Letter January 17, 1895:
No lament is, nowadays, more legitimate, maybe more universal
that the one that deplores the ignorance of the necessary something
to know for the eternal salute, the heart bleeds to see how much
are numerous those that live so to speak at random concerning
religion. It is of such an ignorance that comes all pains that
we deplore; ` has this ignorance follows the half-caste of the
religion disregarded by that known pain, and the loss of the faith.
(38)
And descendant on the land of the practice, the cardinal opened
oratorical again and again patronage for the children, of new
schools of religion for the young people, of the schools of catechist
formation, and enjoined to all vicars a very neat, continuous
and uninterrupted teaching of the catechism and the Christian
doctrine, while Sundays he happened to himself to improvises it,
soon in a church, soon in another, for insures that his/her/its
orders were followed precisely (39).
Of the rest in Venice as to Mantua, the cardinal gave, the first,
the example and paid his/her/its person extensively.
It is especially in the pastoral visits that he/it took to this
humble and big apostolate, by the children and adults,: It is
also in Venice, either in his/her/its cathedral, either in the
other parishes of the city, he/it intervened personally and actively
after the fall of the radio-masonic City council, to get the new
clérico-moderate Council that the religious teaching was
introduced in the elementary schools, but only outside of the
timetable (40)."
IN second place the predication of God's speech. This duty is
bound intimately at first. They are held and complete themselves
one the other, the priest preach: It is the example and the recommendation
of the Mr., it is urgent her recommendation of the Apostles, in
particular of Paul saint: mini vae if non evangelizavero. But
he/it must preach the gospel, to teach to the world the teachings
even of the Christ, which is hello and life", and it go off
the track lamentably that to preach it of something else and to
preach otherwise.
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cardinal insisted with an extraordinary strength by his/her/its
clergy on the obligation on preaching; he/it insisted all as much
on the manner on preaching, he/it wanted it evangelical, therefore
simple and accessible to the simple as to the scientists, really
instructive convenient t. On that him made hear stern words. In
the same pastoral Letter of January 17, 1895, he/it said:
Some
sermons remain in the high spheres of the chair, closer to the
hoses of organ that of the heart of the supporters. One preaches
too much and one instructs too little. That one puts therefore
of side these speeches in bloom and that one preaches to the people
(pianamente: all would translate holy François beautifully
of Dirty) and merely the truths of the faith, the precepts of
the church, the teachings of the gospels, the virtues and vices,;
because he/it often arrives that even people poured in the profane
sciences ignore completely or know the truthfulness of the faith
badly, and know the catechism a lot less that the silliest children.
That one thinks about the a lot of souls more that to the impression
that one pretends to produce. The people is thirsty of truth;
that one gives him that of which he/it has need for the salute
of his/her/its soul, and then, educated in his/her/its own language,
penetrated, touched, he/it will cry his/its mistakes and will
approach of the divine sacraments. That the preacher fled in this
oratory tribunitienne, and apostolic, profane and non sacred,
that doesn't let any sacred trace nor any supernatural efficiency,
and whose supporters don't pull any profit; the supporters, them,
while leaving the church, will remain the empty soul; they applaud,
but moan some not, and they leave the temple there as them had
entered. "They admired, says holy Augustin but, didn't convert.
On this point, as on all others, the cardinal gave the example,
providing to his/her/its priests initialed it model to follow.
In the pastoral visits, he/it never failed to preach to the supporters
united at the church. He/it preached outside of the visits. Every
Sunday, he/it made the homily in the cathedral; he/it often preached
in the various parish of the city", IN Venice, attest My
Lord Jeremich, he/it continues to practice with goodwill and with
fruit of sacred predication, in the solemn circumstances as in
the plain ceremonies (41).
He/it even preached gladly outside of the diocese, when one called
it, and always with the quickest success. On that the testimonies
are unanimous (42).
God's Servant, declare My Lord Rosa, very often preached, even
out of the diocese. One noticed that, while his/her/its predication
was very loving and full of heart, when it had to refute some
mistake or hit (colpire) some faction state of mind, it was penetrated
of a big strength that succeeded very efficiently. (43)
It is necessary to add qu his/her/its predication in Venice, as
to Mantua, besides always simple accessible to the people, evangelical
and cordial, was doctrinal and convenient, fed of writing Saint
or Fathers of the church", taking big account of the definitions
of the Councils, of the cannons of the church, of the decisions
of the Roman pontiffs (44) ", finally adapted and suitable
to the audience.
About the cardinal's predication and in particular Rosa let us,
in his/her/its deposition, this very moving memory, his/her/its
dominical homily, Mgr,:
Well often, when he/it had composed a homily, the day before pronouncing
it, he/it read it to me (notice that Mgr, Rosa was then all young
priest), asked me with big simplicity and humility my judgment,
and accepted s gladly my observations. I was very confused of
it, especially as he/it suppressed the points entirely that I
signalled to him (45)…
He/it
is another point on the cardinal Sarto stayed up especially in
the apostolate of his/her/its priests: The administration of the
sacraments. He/it didn't tolerate on that to dawn it carelessness
that it was about the sacraments of Penitence and Eucharist or
The extreme - Unction. And he/it didn't hesitate to make the lesson
to the delinquents, in a manner as strong as charitable. As always
and in all, he/it gave the example: "Personally, says his/her/its
secretary, Pescini grant, he/it was always suitable at all ministries,
and well often, he/it hardly had finished to eat, He/it hastened
d to leave to run where the duty called it (46). "
Heedful Pasteur, the cardinal Sarto asked his/her/its ready a
lot, looked after what they fill their duties, But as he liked
them! It is first and especially on them that he/it poured the
treasures of his/her/its charity, and we don't hesitate to say:
of his/her/its paternal tenderness. That he/it had to exhort or
to straightens. ll made with strength and firmness, but always
of a manner where one felt to pass his/her/its heart of father
and saint, aiming in all that the glory of sound Mr., the a lot
of souls and first of all his/her/its priests them - same. "It
was his/her/its cleverness to unite the justice with the charity
(47). "
Poor people, writes Dal Gen., he/it rescued them as far as stripping
itself/themselves of his/her/its own clothes; discouraged by the
difficulties of the ministry, him sustaining them of his/her/its
encouragements rich of experience and wisdom,; calumniated and
insulted in hate of the church and his/her/its ministration. He/it
rose with a bishop's pride to defend their authority and to revenge
their honor; sick, he/it interrupted his/its work to surrender
to their bedhead, to help them, to comfort them and to manage
them himself the last sacraments (48).
Good and charitable for all, he/it had the particular considerations
and a sort of predilection for the clergy of the country that
mother (he/it knew it well of experience) an obscure life of deprivation
and sacrifices. His/her/its more most charming tenderness went
to those that came to solicit his/her/its forgiveness for the
defaults that, the torn heart, he/it had to have repressed; they
went, more again, to those that had made it the more to suffer
or that had offended it in a few manner and some serious that
stock the offense. jurisconsult Augustin Vian deposited"
the next one:
I know the case of the Rév. Rubinato, that had left the
cassock and printed a very bad weekly newspaper. Many had used
themselves; to has his/her/its conversion, not only of the priests,
but of the bishops, among others the bishop of Padou, without
success. To a certain moment, the newspaper doesn't succeed anymore;
shortly after, him I was given to see the Rév. Rubinato
to the patriarchal palace, in dress laymen. The patriarch received
it with a big affection and kissed it. When Rubinato had left
after the audience, the patriarch asks me if I knew it, very well.
Then him addition: If he/it knew how many prayers, how many tears,
he/it cost to me (49) | "
One
remembers that at the time of the nomination in the parish of
the holy Hermagorases and Fortunat, the candidacy of the Rév.
Tressich had been separated by the cardinal, in opposition to
the judgment of the examiners, the cardinal was attacked briskly
to this topic and accused of injustice by Tressiches and his/her/its
partisans, the cardinal only took vengeance some while filling
good his/her/its slanderer. This one made himself justice of the
accusation while writing a letter deposited by Pescini grant to
the informative Suit, and where he/it exalted the patriarch's
goodness to his/her/its consideration. We will only mention some
lines of it.
Venice, March 12, 1905,
Very dear Eminence.
 Here
is all near the celebrates Joseph saint, baptismal onomastics
of our saint - Father Magpie X. I come to pray you, Eminence,
to want to really present to the Holy Father my devoted homages
and my vœux, to which I will add, Sunday 19, the celebration
of the holy Mass for him.
I remember the loving and paternal goodness of the Holy Father
to my consideration, in so many circumstances, when he/it was
among us.
My consideration is necessary good when he/it wanted to confide
me the institute the Ladies of the Sacred Cœur. He/it was
good when he/it wanted to grant to my orphan nephew a free place
to the Marion institute.
He/it was last year good for me when I came to Rome, and I hope
that his/her/its goodness for me is not exhausted.
She/it knows, dear Eminence, in what inextricable situation I
am, and he/it is not no one that would know how to unknot it.
I hope, as I told it to him in Venice, that the only one that
can unknot it, it is the Holy Father.
Patriarch Sarto, today Magpie X, wanted me of the good, I hope
again for Him something, that I would call the sign of the forgiveness…
D. Giovanni Tressich (50).
Finally, how to pass maybe in silence over this fact of all the
most moving and most admirable: One day in Venice, deposited My
Lord Rosa I stood up before his/her/its office and named the priests
who had caused him of big displeasures. He/it escaped me this
exclamation: "What makes the pain, it is that all one t been
filled with kindness by your Eminence", God's Servant took
a stern air and of a tone of reproach told to me: "Oh! What
nasty speech! I would not have expected to hear to utter it by
you,: is it that by chance one makes the well reward? Don't say
it anymore! "
I know that he/it subsidized extensively same the priests who
had appeared ungrateful towards him (51).
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regard to the religious the cardinal Sarto showed an esteem and
a deep friendship always. Already, bishop of Mantua, according to
the deposition of My Lord Bressan", he/it encouraged the more
that he/it was able to the religious Orders and the religious communities.
He/it called to Mantua the Brothers Minor Franciscans and confided
them the sanctuary of the" Madonna of the Graces". He/it
was besides tertiary of Saint François Of foundation, since
the period of Trévise. In Venice, he/it sustained and helped
the religious institutes already existing; he/it encouraged the
creation of the Silvestri institute "; he/it provided ` has
the fusion of some religious houses, poor people of topics, of financial
means and that had need of reforms, with strong Institutes, as the
Sœurses of the Charity Capitonio della… He/it encouraged
entered it in Venice of other religious Institutes, among which
the institute of the nuns of the Sacred Cœur. HE/IT had a paternal
solicitude appeared the cloistered Orders (52), even worrying not
to let miss them of the necessary food.
What of astonishing that the work of pastoral reforms accomplished
by the cardinal Sarto got a complete success? By dint of charity,
devotion, total personal abnegation and copy virtue, the cardinal
Sarto conquered the admiration, the esteem and the faithful attachment
of all his/her/its secular, regular clergy. The various testimonies
are thereon in agreement. On his/her/its side, become pope, the
cardinal kept his clergy of Venice a memory excellent and full of
kindliness to the point to feel some, assure My Lord Jeremich, a
certain nostalgia and a regret mingled of sweetness (dolce rimpianto)(53)
".
As to Mantua, the seminary was, in Venice", the heart of the
heart of the Sarto cardial. With a really difficult goodwill to
equal it, he/it vowed all his/her/its efforts, the best, the strongest
and most tender of his/her/its devotion to operate the necessary
or useful reforms, the progress and most advantageous perfections.
To this topic, we possess a document of very big price; the"
testimony" of My Lord Jeremich, this testimony passes all others
in importance, so much on the report of the precision and the accurateness
that us the report of the witness's authority.
Everything that me report on that, declare My Lord Jeremich in his/her/its
deposition, I return it of my knowledge personal, first as pupil,
then as Mr. of Room, and since 1899 as vice-rector of the seminary,
law professor Canon and saving. Although
I was young and student, I could not not realize the conditions
of the institute (seminary) that me then to define thus: excellent
rector, but not energetic: vice-rector invalidates; the teaching
staff composed of elements even extra diocesan, allowed on the request
obvious of the government, the professors in good number lived at
the seminary. He/it was added of it some external laic professors.
The pupils extinguish divided in clerical college and college séculier`environ
about thirty pupils in one and in the other. He/it was added of
it an externat of about two hundred pupils, inhaling them was not
admitted at the college without having passed before by him (high
school), except some come of The estuary.
There was not a priest loaded of the spiritual direction, the confessors
lived out of the seminary.
A Father of Jesus' Company came for the weekly conference and the
monthly retirement. As for the disciplinary and moral progress,
nothing considerable to raise. The union let to want among the professors,
and the pupils themselves realized it.
The prefecture of the studies was independent of the rector, what
didn't go without damage for the progress of the studies.
God's Servant realized the conditions of the seminary with calmness
and level-headedness, frequently visiting it,; but didn't remember
that he/it immediately took measures of some importance. In the
month of June 1897, toward the end of the pastoral visit to the
patriarchy, he/it visited the most meticulous manner the seminary.
He/it called to the vote all superior, all professors, some pupils
of theologies, maybe also of philosophy, but I don't remember it.
At the end of the visit, he/it unites all colleges to the oratory
of the a lot of Saint Trinidad, and their tin a serious speech on
the ecclesiastical vocation.
Following this visit, God's Servant dismissed six professors, among
which five diocesan extra priests and a layman; decorate soon he/it
dismissed the steward. He/it suppressed the secular college, returning
thus the seminary to his/her/its destination that is to train the
priests, and he/it admitted at the ecclesiastical college of inhales
them even of the gymnasium, that they were from the country or the
city. He/it named the spiritual director, giving him the assignments
that he confers today the papal regulation.
The staff bachelor was replaced by priests recognized by him appropriate.
He/it wrote himself, of his/her/its own hand, a regulation that
concerned the progress of the discipline as the order of the studies:
regulation that, later, served like a diagram of the first regulation
for the seminaries, that he/it promulgated himself as pope.
Among measures them takes following the saint visits, one of the
main was the deletion of the Convitto of the professors: God's Servant
took this measure because the major part of the professors had their
own family in Venice and some even load of souls, and it is why
the Convitto had become like a" Inn", according to the
expression of God's servant himself.
Besides, he/it made adopt a local interior of the seminary like
chapel for the seminarians, procuring them a bigger convenience
thus for the mediation and the practices of piety to the holidays,
without must go up to the" Temple of the salute".
The effect of these measures was beneficial, either for the ecclesiastical
formation of the pupils, either for the growth of the vocations
that was considerable.
God's Servant always exercised a regular vigilance on the seminary.
In 1899, he/it dismissed five people again, among which the spiritual
Father, the steward, the vice-rector and two professors the some
for reason of seniority, the other for lack of faculty to their
office.
He/it very frequently visited the seminary, surrendered himself
in the classes and interrogated the pupils, especially approaching
the sacred Orders; he/it realized.
He/it
liked all pupils, without any preference, paternally. In 1900, God's
Servant, after having prepared the premises appropriately, called
for the service of the kitchen and lingerie the Sœurses of
the Charity Capitonio della.
The last year of his/her/its patriarchal government, he/it gets
the pope Léon XIII that in Venice was erected, first ad experimentum,
the Law school, canonical that was accommodated years the premises
of the seminary. This Faculty was frequented, with big profit for
the cultural formation, by the clergy not only of Venice, but more
dioceses suffragants and of the Orders reg places.
This same year, he/it instituted at the seminary, the course of
the spiritual exercises in the beginning of the school anée;
himself gave these exercises for the first time to the theologians
and to the philosophers (54).
These details so precise, d,une size so edifying and that answered
with so much by force to the multiple and tight questions of the
judges of the informative Suit, would be confirmed and completed,
if he/it was need, by the next one collected in the deposition of
Pescini grant:
God's Servant reorganized the studies and the discipline of the
patriarchal seminary, he took the biggest care of the piety of the
seminarians, he developed it by the spiritual Exercises, the monthly
retirement, and the weekly conferences, given for now by the P.
Luca Padova di, today archbishop and secretary of the Community
of the religious.
With a large mind, he/it flew that the seminarians were trained
according to u cycle of study that, possibly, if they didn't follow
the ecclesiastical career, made them capable to face some exams
for a civil career.
Those that gave particular expectations, he/it sent them in Rome,
so that they can improve in the studies of Theology and Right Cannon,
and also to make capable to occupy some stations worthily in the
diocese, I can mention, in this respect, My Lord Jeremich, My Lord
Betanza (today deceased) and My Lord Sapnio, today general priest
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wanting to allow us the least commentary, that would be able to
some that to weaken the exceptional size of such acts; how not to
underline, besides the pastoral goodwill and the Pontiff's piety,
the worry of the intellectual culture at the same time as the worry
of the formation moral and religious of the clerks? how not to underline
that Magpie X the peasant… the vicar of country.. " didn't
wait to be Chief of the church to carry solemn instructions on the
ministerial culture; but that, already to Mantua and on a vast scale
in Venice, he/it had accomplished realizations practice worthy of
the highest admiration thereon?
"Cooperatores Christi that himself impendant and terrific impendant
pro animabus."
It is probably to glorify it God, to honor the ministration and
the church, while sanctifying itself/themselves themselves, that
the cardinal Sarto, wanted such priests, trained such seminarians;
it was, just as well, for the salute of the souls, to make maximally
the priest capable to cooperate with the Christ in his/her/its infinite
love heart that is the Redemption.
The salute, the redemption of the souls,: cardinal Sarto appears
us of this sublime thirst, the highest shape of the charity. It
is" for the salute of the souls" that he/it came to Venice,
as he/it declared to his/its entry; "for the salute of the
souls", he/it didn't save, according to his/her/its own words,
nor fatigues, nor fights, nor tests; and all his/her/its life, his/her/its
interior life, his/her/its outside life, gave itself with, an exceptional
fullness, an exceptional intensity to this divine work.
We saw, about his/her/its clergy, the ardor that haunts it for his/her/its
people's Christian instruction, his/her/its goodwill for the teaching
of the catechism and the Doctrine, to all degrees and with all necessary
adaptations; his/her/its goodwill for the evangelical predication.
We saw like, on this point, him to pay his/her/its person, catechizing,
preaching, getting used all to all, extensively and same goodwill,
without relaxation, stern and full of charity, for the administration
of the sacraments, supplying, if need be, him - even, of the faltering
priests.
But, in all these ministries of the pastoral load he/it is well
moving d to see with what particular affection the cardinal gives
generously with regard to the humble, of the small, of the poor
people, of the poor wretches of all sort, of the" outlaw ".
It is with a marked joy that he/it catechizes the children, that
him they receive communion of his/her/its hand, that he/it manages
them the sacrament of confirmation. One little to say, in all truth,
that he/it is the" cardinal of the children" before in
to be the pope. To this topic, one would know to notice of it too
this attestation of one "witnesses" to the apostolic Suit
Roman, jurisconsult Augustin Vian
In what looks at the First Communion of the children, already as
patriarch, without giving more official arrangements, he/it exhorted
the vicars to examine the small children and if they found them
sufficiently conscious, to admit them, without other condition,
to the sacrament, without worrying too much of age (56). Of other
by, on the occasion of Easter, he/it reserves to celebrate the Mass
and to give the communion to the convicts of the judicial jail.
He/it surrenders in the same way, every years, for the feast of
saint Mayor - Madeleine, in the jails of women, in order to carry
spiritual comfort there and of manages the sacraments there (57).
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to this topic, meets the following feature. A prisoner, touched
of the cardinal's extraordinary goodness, presented him a sonnet
where him expressing his/her/its reverence and his/her/its gratitude
softened. We will give the very imperfect translation, that returns
badly the charming feeling of the Italian verses of it.
Say, good Pasteur, whom ever drives you e
In these lugubrious and painful walls,
Where are held recluse the thief and the homicide
And other people opprobrium of the world?
Where still the dark pain resides,
Where are so much thorn without rose,
Where the torments, the deprivations and of other screams
Do tear you the heart through ways obscure?
It is not anointed, certainly, to win a reward
Of the vain world, No! But the devout genius
Guides you to comfort so much people
Drowned have the pain, as I am it.
Oh true champion of the charity,
Oh eminent Apostle of God (58)!
In his/her/its pastoral action to the close to the people, the cardinal
applies with an extraordinary strength to fight the sin; he/it delivered
a war all particular to the blasphemy, that he/it always had in
special aversion, one remembers how, priest in Tombolo, he/it had
given some some striking proofs. In Venice, he/it creates among
the supporters a league against the blasphemy, and it occurs him
to take saints angers against the blasphemers. To this subject,
therefore Pescinei deposited the two following facts:
If he/it heard to blaspheme, he/it became of fire. One day, I live
it to put the head suddenly in the small window of the gondola to
apostrophize the gondoliers who had blasphemed: "Enough, enough!
Unhappy, you therefore are not Christian"? In another circumstance,
he/it surprised a gondolier blaspheming and polished him: "I
will make you put assembly-line! " (To put assembly-line, in
Venetian dialect, mean to make attaches the gondola to a chain during
a certain number of towers, during which the gondolier remained
deprived of his/her/its profession.) without the knowledge of the
cardinal, had been present to the incident a local assessor that,
in fact, took the number of his/her/its gondola and inflicted to
the gondolier ten day of chain. After two or three days of punishment,
the gondolier presented himself/itself to the patriarch with all
his/her/its numerous family. The patriarch was surprised very to
see it while remembering more the all the incident; but that had
heard everything, he/it wrote himself to the assessor so that was
put back the rest of the pain (59).
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In
the same way, use himself he/it of all his/her/its strengths, of
all his/her/its ingenuity, to develop and to intensify the piety,
the convenient faith life, in the soul of so populates, so, first
of all, he/it orders and, for his/her/its account, convenient in
perfection that the ceremonies d cult is celebrated everywhere with
the biggest care; and on this point he/it won't hesitate to appear
stern and demanding, by his/her/its priests.
So for the religious song. It is at home, for a longtime, a principle
well decree, let's say a deep feeling better, that music, the song
is precious adjuvants for the prayer, for the piety. He/it wants
a really religious music therefore, really inspirer of the feeling
Christian, really clean to raise the soul toward God. Implacable
war to the profane music in the church, to this music inspirer of
movements more or less sensual, to see a soft, or merely sentimental
piety; war also to this loud, tumultuous music, too often adapted
in the churches under pretext to exalt the souls, good at most to
kill the contemplation, the real union to God That the sacred music
is indeed religious!… One remembers as to Mantua My Lord Sarto
had succeeded in suppressing the municipal fanfare in the ceremonies
of the cult, and as with his/her/its seminarians it had constituted
a choir in conformity with his/her/its ideas. His/her/its dream
was to succeed in making sing by the mass of the supporters the
liturgical parts of the Kyrie Mass, Glories, Creed, Sanctus and
Angus Dei, and there successful many times. In Venice, the cardinal
Sarto had to accentuate again to develop it this apostolate of the
sacred music.
Friend of the first hour and defender of the religious music, written
L. Daëlli, it was he the august Maecenas of Perosi grant, who
must him the ecclesiastical vocation. He/it gave him the first Orders
and protected it in his/her/its studies and in various circumstances
of his/her/its. Lil sheltered it to the patriarchy and all day admitted
it at his/her/its table. Saint's Lombard association - Grégoire
for the conservation of the liturgical song finds in the cardinal
a protector and he was in Venice the restorer of the Gregorian song.
He/it organized to Saint-Marc chants it alternate of vespers, with
voice of men and voices of children; he/it bars the song of the
Tantum ergo on an air theater and the presence of the women in the
chœurs, as also the pianos and the loud instruments. The received
opinion was that, in the ceremonies of the church, the liturgy was
only at the second place and to the service of music. In a pastoral
letter of the 1st but 1895, he/it protested against this principle"
The sacred music, he/it said on the contrary, is part of the liturgy
merely and is his/her/its humble maid. " And he/it finished
while addressing to his/her/its ready this cordial call: "Venice,
that was during centuries the protector of fine arts, will be again
and always, as in the time of his/her/its splendor, the protector
of the religious music (60). |
(24).
deposition of grant Pescini Proc. Apost, Romanus, flight, II p.
823, Sum. Virt., pp, 129-16,
(25), Loc. cit., p. 131
(26) deposition of the Pescini grants, ibid, Sum,Virt.,p.131
(27).
Proc. Apost,romanus, flight I, p.72. Sum Virt., p.41
(28). Ibied., p.130
(29). Proc.Apost, venietus,pp.164-165. sum, Virt., p.507
(30). Cf.Dal-gal.opé cit., p.112
(31). Cf.Marchesan,
op.cit.360,
(32). Proc.Apost, romauns, flight, II,pp.832-833 Sum.Virt., pp.132-133
(33). Pescini, loc,cit., Cf pé135. Marchesean op,cit.pp.396-397.
To the archives of the Patriarchy: z Constitutiones ab E,mo and
R.mo,D,,D, josephp (tit, S, Harnaradi year Thermas), S.R.E. Prsgytero
cardinali saarto miiseratione divina, S, Metroolitaanae Ecclesiac
Venetiorum Patriarcha, in synodo dioecesano VIII,IX,X dicbus,
Augusti mensis mdcccxcviii promulgatae, Venetilis, 1898,
(34). Proc.apost, romanu,vol, I.PP.69-72 sum.Virt.pp.39-40,
(35)..Proc.apost.
venetus, p.89, Sum, Virt,m p. 488
(36). Cf. Synodus Diocesanus, etc,. 1898,p.194 et Append X. p.41
(37). Cf. F.Silvestrini, Proc, Ord.Venelus, p.1459
(38). Cf. Marchesan, op.cit.,p.549
(39). Cf. Marchesan. Op. cit, pp.350 à 406 témoignages
multiples des procès informatifs, en particulier L Meremich,
Pro, Apost, Ventus, p.98 Sum, Virt, pp. 491-492 P.Paganuzzi, Sum,
I.C. p.490-491-492 P, Pagnuzzi, Sum, ImC. P, 490 `Vian, Porc,
Ord, venetus,vol, I. P. 952 sum, Virt, p.599.
40). Jeremich, loc, cit., p.492
(41). Proc,Apost, Venetus, p.99. sum,Virt., p.492
(42). Cf,Marchesan oi.cit., p.484
(43). Proc. Ord, romanus, vol, II p, 1023. Sum, Virt,,pp.365-366
(44). Jeremich,loc, cit.,p.501
(45). Proc,Ord,romanus, vol,II.1036 sum,Virt, p. 371
(46). Ibaidp.823 Ibid.,p.130
(47). Mgr. Rosa, loc, cit, p.370
(48). Texte traduit dans La Croix du jeudi 21 juin 1951. Cf, Marchesan,
op, cit, Marchesan cite le cas du prêtre don Carlo Silvio,
curé de Saint-Cassien. Le cardinal, en personne, prit sa
défense dans le journal La Diesa du 15 octobre 1895. Il
fit de Zandanel
(49).Proc. Apost, Romanus, vol, II. P. 1014 Sum, Virt., pp.160-161
(50). Ibid, vol.II.ibid., pp. 133-134
(51). Ibid.p.1032 Obod., p.370
(52). Cf. Jeremich, Proc, Apost, Venetus, pp.116-121 sum.Virt.,
p.496
(53). Ibid ., p.189
(54). Proc.Apost, Venetus, pp,89-92. sum, Virt, ,. Pp.489-491
(55). Proc. Apost, Romanus, vol, II, pp. 829-830 Sum.Virt., pp.131-132-
Au sujet de la faculté de droit Canon, dont parle Mgr.
Jeremich, il faut ajouter, d’après d’autres
témoins, que cette faculté avait le droit de conférer
les grandes académiques, et qu’il y fut établi
des cours spéciaux et conférences de théologie,
d’exégèse biblique, d’histoire ecclésiastique,
d’archéologie chrétienne, de sciences économique
et sociales, Cf. Dal-Gal, op., cit., p. 244
(56). Proc.Apost. Romanus.vol,III p.1032. sum Virt,p.165
(57). Cf. Jeremich, Proc.Apost.Venetus.pp.121-121 Sum.Virt. p.497
(58). Marchesan,op.cit., p.411
(59). Proc. Apost. Romanus, vol.Ii p. 826 Sum. Virt. P.130
(60). Daëll, op.cit., pp.201-202 Cf. Marchesan.,op.cit.pp.381-384
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