Holiness
Pope Magpie X-5
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This
pastoral Letter, that would deserve to be mentioned for a long
time, is a chief-d'œuvre of musical taste and religious sense.
He/it is not exaggerated to see there as the basis of the Motu
Owner by which Magpie X, November 22, 1903, reformed for toue
the church the sacred music (61).
to make refleurir the Christian life, the patriarch of Venice
organized of the sumptuous feasts of which to sustain it is stayed
living. The point culminating of these feasts is, undoubtedly,
the Convention eucharistique that was held in Venice of the 8
to August 13, 1897, followed of a religious art exhibition, was
a triumph that testifies, as much that of the cardinal's apostolic
goodwill, of his/her/its mind of initiative and his/her/its powerful
influence.
The first idea of this Convention seems he to have come at the
time of congressional eucharistique from Milan, to which it had
attended and taken the speech in the beginning of September 1895.
He/it wanted that the "queen of the Adriatic" returned,
her also, a solemn homage to the divine Sacrament of the altar.
But he had, more again, the desire and the need to sharpen his/her/its
people's devotion for the Eucharist, the desire and the need to
repair, by this public homage, the outrages, the sacrileges of
the God of love,; It is besides, on this idea of repair that,
in his/her/its speech to the Convention of Milan, September 3,
1895, he/it had the most strongly insisted. In this speech, where
expresses itself in words of was the patriarch's devotion towards
the Eucharist, after having described the excesses of the sectarian
hate against the sacrament of our altars, he/it let overflow thus
his/her/its pain: Once, one could question these attempts; but
now, they were himself in full day. Today one cannot deny the
infinity of the crimes more committed against the holy host today
us know that, in a city, a convention of freemasons declared the
war to the Christ, while committing a set of sacrileges against
the tabernacles and the hosts. (Allusion to the sacrilege committed,
April 6, 1895, in the church of the Carmelites removed.)
Since the month of September 1896, the cardinal took advantage
of the meeting of the bishops of the province of Venice, to expose
his/her/its intention and the big lines of a project that he had
already studied under all aspects. Intention and general program
were welcomed with big enthusiasm, the bishops promised that Naples,
Turin, Milan, Orvietos would unite in Venice to make an imposing
demonstration of faith and love to Jesus-Redeeming (62).
The cardinal wanted, above all, to submit his/her/its project
and his/her/its program to the Sovereign Pontiff, and to solicit
his/her/its advice. September 24, 1896, a letter of the cardinal
Rampolla expressed to the Patriarch the most cordial assent of
Léon XIII, with his/her/its paternal blessings.
Among toues the joys of the soul, there he/it said, there is not
some maybe of nobler, of purer and of softer than this to surround
the benefactors of these loving cares that the recognition suggests;
because the kindness has some rights and the love wants to be
paid back. From then on, very dear son, you cannot imagine with
what joy us announce you that, encouraged and blessed by Our Holy
Father Léon XIII, he/it will dye next year in Venice a
Convention eucharistique, in the goal to honor the best possible
manner Our Lord Jesus Christ, qu united and uncommunicative all
tenderness of his/her/its ineffable charity in the divine Sacrament.
I am assured that as reading this simple opinion you will share
my happiness, and that you will have at heart to make more ardent
your recognition towards God, who offers you one so beautiful
opportunity to show your love par excellence for the mystery of
love.
The cardinal exposed then with big strength the Christ's rights
on the society; he/it deplored the war made to this Christ Sauveur,
the injuries, the profanations against the Sacrament of the infinite
love, the apostasy of the peoples driven by unworthy chiefs, and,
with an implacable precision, he/it said:
Today, one hunts the Christ of the families whom however will
only be happy while modeling itself/themselves on the family of
Nazareth: one hunts it of the school, as if one was able to without
God rising youth; one hunts it of the legislation and the social
institutions to fall again in the pagan naturalism. It is to the
point that us, Catholic, we must estimate ourselves happy of what
the invading profanity didn't penetrate again in our churches,
in order to make there quit the sacrifice, to extinguish the lamp
of the sanctuary there, for, then, to close the doors of it!
And, in a sort of prophetic evocation, he/it had the sinister
events glimpsed that, in kingdom of the eldest Girl of the church,
would darken so cruel manner the beginnings of the pontificate
of Magpie X.. The cardinal finished this moving pastoral Letter
while enumerating the kindness for that he hoped of it eucharistique
(63).
It is with the quickest enthusiasm and an extraordinary impetus
that clergy and faithful welcomed their chief's projects This
one found at the vicars of the city and the diocese, among the
professors of the seminary, the canons of the metropolitan church,
the representatives of the religious orders, an immediate and
devoted contest, probably, there was as always and in all good
intention of the unhappy, of the envious, that tempted, more or
less overtly to create some difficulties. The cardinal was not
man to s,en to let defeat. And, immediately, he/it entered in
action; he/it had to reveal, under one day new, and with a singular
burst, exceptional talents, let's say better, his/her/its genius
of organization, who was fully at the height of his/her/its goodwill.
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to it, wrote L. Daëlli, all was foreseen admirably, and
one didn't forget anything; nor the big things, as the order
of matters to treat before the Convention, the order of the
exposure, the choice of the local, the solemn receipts, the
feasts, etc…, Even the things of least importance as the
lodging, of the participants at a congress, their lodging, everything
that could return them the easy stay as the service of the gondolas,
that, under the direction of the City council, is, besides,
so perfectly organized
(64)
But it is to the religious preparation
of the souls that the cardinal gave his most attentive cares:
to this effect, he/it ordered, for example, that were given
of the missions in five churches of Venice (65)..
The Convention opened up, August 9, 1897,
in the Saint-Jean-Et-Saint church, coarsely SAN ZANIPOLO, one
of the most beautiful of the whole Italy. Attends the convention:
four cardinals: the one of Venice, the one of Bologna, the cardinal
Shoed, archbishop of Milan, the cardinal Manara, bishop of Ancona;
twenty-nine bishops, three Abbots mitrés. Several dioceses
of Italy and the stranger were represented there; the oriental
Rituals also sent some delegates, drive by the archbishop of
Trajanopolis, Mgr, Ghiurekian, that even celebrated one of the
solemn Mass according to the Armenian ritual.
The cardinal Sarto inaugurated the feasts eucharistiques by
a speech rich of doctrine, piety and apostolic vigor, on the
Christ's reign, ardently; listened and applauded by the crowd
(66).
The splendor of the feasts was heightened
by the magnificent talent of the Perosi grant, It is he that
organized and directed the songs according to the tastes and
the patriarch's will, that means in accordance with the holy
conception of the sacred music. In this circumstance solennel,le,
August 9, 1897, for the first time, was executed this IN CEONA
DOMINI that opens the immortal TRILOGIA DELLA PASSIONE.
We are not able to, he/it is going without saying, to retail
the narration of these unforgettable feasts for longer, let's
Say only that it was a triumph without equal to this date, on
the day of the fence, the cardinal could exclaim lawfully, while
thanking the participants at a congress:
…
Thank you, Eminences, and you, messeigneurs, to have attended
with so much patience and courage our meetings,; I ask Our Lord
Christ to reward you himself of it. Tomorrow, you will want
well again to add a sacrifice to so many others, while taking
part in the procession of in the evening, Jesus, in his/her/its
Sacrament, will come out of Saint-Marc; he/it will browse the
port of or embarked the Venetian captains once to the conquest
of new earths, and or they always brought covered of glory in,
because, with them, he/it had carried away Jesus in his/her/its
Sacrament.
Thank you to all those that worked to the success of our solennités;
thank you, especially, to the Venetians and to the strangers
who gave us the consolation to see to come so them numerous,
until the middle of the night, to adore Jesus-Eucharist and
to pray for the happy exit of the Convention.
In some liturgies, at the end of the Mass, when the supporters
are going to leave, the deacon sings; "Return in peace
", and the people answers: "In Christi nomine, amen.
"And me also, I tell you:
"Return in peace. "We won't meet again more probably
on this earth; but we will meet to the feet of the eternal Tabernacle.
The disciples of Emmaüs, who received the visit unexpected
of the Savior, turn it to disappear as soon as they had recognized
it. But immediately, these men who had moved away by fear of
Jerusalem, returned there: they had heard the resuscitated Christ,
they had contemplated it, and now they preached them, Follow
their example, sermons what you felt, what you saw and the ardors
of your souls, spill them, communicate them to the other
(67).
"To these words, tell, L. Daëlli,
the enthusiasm of the crowds cannot contain itself, and they
covered their cordial applause the Patriarch's voice
(68). "
Léon XIIJ, that had followed with
the biggest attention the phases of the Convention, receiving
few days after a Venetian priest, tells him with a very quick
expression of joy: "Him cardinal vostro so é fatto
molto onore (69). "
The "witnesses" of the informative
suit are unanimous to signal the triumphal success of the Convention
eucharistique. We will only mention these lines of Jeremich
grant:
In 1897, he/it organized and celebrated the Ve Convention Eucharistique
National, that succeeds splendidly, with the presence of five
cardinals, of thirty-five bishops and the people's big involvement
to the ceremonies (70).
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of the big attractions of the Convention was the exhibition eucharistique
that the cardinal had wanted, in spite of the of strong oppositions.
Inaugurated August 9 by the patriarch in person, in the beautiful
room of the Conference of Saint-Roch, in presence of the cardinals,
of the bishops, of the syndic of Venice, of the general or provincial
advice, of the officers of the city and the government, of the
members of the judiciary, she/it got an unhoped-for success. It
is that she/it had been organized in order to give him a significance
and a range at a time religious and patriotic.
What you admire here, Gentlemen, was able to die the cardinal
Sarto, didn't come from the faraway countries, but suckled introverted
only in Venice and in the region governed other time by your glorious
Republic, and that protects again, with a noble pride, the lion
of Saint-Marc, to which these provinces owe their happiness and
their prosperity.
During close to two months, the Conference of Saint-Roch became
the appointment of all Venice and strangers. One could admire
the artistic chiefs-d'œuvre that revealed the piety of the
Venetians towards The Eucharist there: sacred vases, among which
the chalice says Lamon, the oldest of the chalices to miniatures,
following Mr. deRossi,; oriental alabaster chalice, of sardoine,
of onyx, of crystal of the mountains, inlaid of pearls and diamonds,
vase Byzantine, ornaments, treads, dalmatiques, stoles, veils
of the highest price, sparkling of precious stones, of gold, of
velvet, of brocade,,; multicolored gonfanons of the highest antique.
But what gave to the exhibition his/her/its most particular seal,
it is indeed the collection of lace Venetian unique in their kind
(71).
The cardinal's goodwill had to limit himself/itself
to this triumph eucharistique. But during his/her/its patriarchal
government, add Jeremich, he/it made celebrations of extraordinary
feasts: the centenary of the Dedication of the basilica of Saint-Marc,
in 1895, transferred to the previous year,; in 18987, the centenary
of saint Pierre Orseolo,; in 1900, if I have good memory, the
centenary of Gérard Sagredo, all these celebrations were
made with big solemnity and with the biggest efforts to procure
the spiritual fruit among the supporters, by the means of the
predications preparatory. , etc (72).
Of the rest, dawns to remember, dawned of
demonstrations of the Venetian, national or patriotic life, that
the cardinal marked some of an our deeply religious that stayed
engraved in the souls. To all these rejoicings, he/it brought
the radiance of his/her/its crimson, of his/her/its charming goodness,
of his/her/its ardent piety. This is how the feasts of the arsenal,
the launching of the Francesso battleship.
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Ferrucio,
the inauguration of the working city of Murano, and especially
the blessing of the chapel dedicated to the Redeemer's Virgin
Mother on the most elevated summit of the Venetian Alps, the Grappas
mount, to one thousand seven hundred eighty four meters of altitude,
were heightened of his/her/its presence, his/her/its speech and
his/her/its prayer.
(73)
But the most important event, in this order
of things and after the Convention eucharistique, was the reconstruction
of the campanile of Saint-Marc. This t monument, erected since
centuries, to the evangelist's glory, had collapsed suddenly July
14, 1902, crushing a stall built to his/her/its basis e t decorated
of low reliefs of the Sansovino. After having, in a public ceremony,
thanked the Providence of that that he/it had there to deplore,
no d accident no one and of that that the marvelous cathedral
herself had not been touched, the patriarch wanted that the campanile
was rebuilt. Grant it and the contests were unanimous and enthusiastic,
not only in Venice and in Italy, but again, on behalf of all friends
of the arts, in all parts of the world. April 25, 1903, of it
celebrates it of Saint Marc, took place the solemn pose of the
first stone. For the circumstance, the city was decorated splendidly
and paraded. In the tribunes had taken places the official personalities
and the representatives of the world of the politics and arts.
To the center, the count of the Turin prince of the house of Savoie,
representing the king of Italy, close to him, the too famous ministers
of the public instruction, Nasi, whose miserable end was near
Mr. Chaumié, ministers of public Instruction, represented
the government of the French Republic. Near that he/it had blessed
the first stone, answered" the pathetic speech of Nasi that
had not known how to say the a lot of homeland without offending
a prince of the church (74) ",
to the speeches of the count of Turin and count Grimani, mayor
of Venice, the cardinal Sarto pronounced a speech then or each
puit to admire, in exceptional and delicate conjunctures, the
political sense and the patriarch's tact.
Following this ceremony, in one interview to the Figaro's editor,
Mr. Chaumié spoke thus of the cardinal Sarto:
Imagined a man of beautiful stature, very right, with the high
forehead, the colorful cheeks.. I would not have given him more
than sixty years, in spite of his/her/its white hair. I was hit
by the majesty of his/her/its face, and it is in vain that I looked
for to bring closer the imposing face of this prelate of the one
of other clergymen of my knowledge. His/her/its look was soft;
he/it was as the reflection of an intelligent, soft soul, was
also his/her/its voice, she/it produced me the effect of a paternal
voice. He/it addressed the count of Turin with a perfect distinction.
In him nothing obsequious nor of haughty. Sound maintained was
the one of a man that knows how to hold his/her/its place perfectly…
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patriarch of Venice was not content with developing, by all means
and industries, the Christian education and his/her/its people's
Christian life; as to Mantua, as everywhere he/it had passed,
pus again by that that the needs; had become even more immense,
he/it spilled to streams the treasures of the bodily charity,
besides inseparable of the spiritual charity that is the principle
and the soul of it, That he/it is moving this past word; in diction
at the Venetians: "To make the charity, our patriarch would
hire all saints of the Paradise! "
In fact, he/it first hired all sound to have, all his/her/its
person. The incomes of the patriarchy were well modest: about
twelve thousand liras. That was it for the cardinal's charity!
His/her/its secretary, My Lord Bressan, made some remonstrances;
perfects administrator of it (because the cardinal Sarto, to the
inexhaustible charity, managed and trust to manage with the care
the most scrupulous and most accomplished, goods of church) he
handed him in the beginning of every month adds it of five hundred
liras for his/her/its aumônes, three or four days after,
of it didn't have a cent. Then, the patriarch hired until his
Episcopal ring. It is that all distresses resorted to him, and
him himself effort to relieve them all. To Mantua, he/it had,
one remembered it, put to the Pawnshop his/her/its ring and his/her/its
watch. In Venice, one found the means to stop it from making some
as much, and he/it was grieved some. To an old friend who teased
it pleasingly about a superb gold watch that he/it had pulled
his/its pocket, he/it said: Don't speak of it to me! the astute
no one that offered it to me had the awful idea to make engrave
on the case the patriarchal weapons. As I am him impossible to
hire it. You conceive what scandal that would be if one recognized
it! "
… But of the personal grants that were to him make, even
most precious, all as fee that he/it could receive for his/her/its
sermons or other circumstances, all passed to the poor, once he/it
had provided to the d needs are first of his/her/its poor: his/her/its
clergy, his/her/its seminarians,; because he/it was thereon the
most heedful and most clear-sighted of the fathers, as attesting
it unanimously the "witnesses" of the informative suits.
But it is maybe again in his/her/its manner to rescue the hidden
miseries that the cardinal was the most moving. A person who had
possessed a beautiful fortune previously had fallen in an extremely
laborious situation, the patriarch made him visit", I am
distressed, tells to him him, I don't have anything more absolutely;
but take this that is an object of value art, you will be able
to have a good sum of it. And stretched him a crucifies sculpted
richly.
His/her/its pastoral charity, the cardinal Sarto didn't only spread
it to the Catholics. He/it appeared full of kindliness and generosity
with regard to the dissidents. "In Venice, according to Mgr,
Bressan, had infiltrated" of the Protestant. God's Servants
organized an association whose members were loaded of visit their
hospitals or hospitable residences (75).
"
I remember, declare on his/her/its turn
grant Joannes Jeremich, that in Venice, he/it used himself/itself
of all his/her/its power to the return of the dissidents to the
Catholic faith, that he/it took care of the preparation, that
himself in person received their abjuration of it, and that he/it
conferred them the baptism and the other sacraments with big spiritual
satisfaction (76).
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Pasteur, the cardinal Sarto liked to mingle familiarly with his/her/its
people. So much time he/it stayed late before the boutiques or
with the poor people met on the street or at the seaside! And
l' one of the most beautiful praises that has been awarded to
this big" man of good" is in these humble and fervid
words, sprung of his/her/its people's heart: There is our dear
patriarch who passes, occupied to a few good action! That God
blessed it! That God also blessed the mother who carried it! "What
retort of the immortal speech addressed to the previously Mr.
divine: "Blissful his that carried you! "
We will only mention two examples. The winters of 1872 having
been especially hard, he/it made a cordial call to the people
to rescue the poor, giving the first the example of the most complete
generosity.
It is especially in the public calamities that the Pasteur's charity
exploded. August 20, 1897, Venice, the disaster of Calle Redivido
buried some workers that, with big courage, were used themselves
to extinguish a fire. The cardinal addressed to his people an
extremely moving Letter, to ask for the help in favors of the
tried families. September 3, he/it attended the very solemn funeral
ceremony of the victims, in the cathedral Saint-Marc, and he/it
gave himself absolved it
(77). to Give
one, to give itself/themselves oneself, that was, for the patriarch
of Venice as for the bishop of Mantua, as for the vicar of Salzano,
as later for pope Magpie X., the essential manner and probably
the most efficient to make the social action, to solve the social
question. But really be be set up himself unjust that to ignore
or to underestimate the senses deeply social of the patriarch
of Venice, the fertile social initiatives that he/it achieved.
Everything that could contribute to the people's material improvement,
the cardinal Sarto had some as the agonizing obsession; big realist,
he/it never limited himself/itself to élucubrer of beautiful
theories, he/it went right to the convenient, apply to create
the institutions, of the œuvres of the biggest possible extension,;
he/it created or reorganized the societies, the cooperatives,
the circles, already specialized, In the parishes or existed,
of the less in embryo, of the œuvres of this kind, he/it
required that the cases of which lived these works had a better
direction. Already putting in action the true doctrine of the
Christian democracy, after having founded twenty-seven working
cases, he/it created the Bank of Saint-Marc, central treasury
of all these cases. About this bank, in his/her/its deposition
to the informative suit, jurisconsult Augustin Vian delivered
us of very interesting details:
Among the initiatives of social character, he/it especially imports
to mention the foundation of the "Bank of Saint-Marc"
that always prospered and is now even flourishing, the cardinal
grouped people meeting, competent enough, to that he confided
the writing of the statutes. To the article 2 one reads"
The society has for goal to procure guaranty and profit (impiego)
to funds and to contribute to the growth of the œuvres Catholic.
"To the article 18 one reads: "The net profits will
be assigned like suit…cinq tenth of the profit of the Catholic
works after splice with the diocesan Committee of Venice of the
work of the Conventions. " |
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patriarch subscribed the first as shareholder, and, thereafter,
he looked after the working order of the bank, getting an immense
help for all good œuvres and the good initiatives",
The same witness adds: "He/it encouraged the society of insurance
a lot; "the Catholic ", of Verona. He/it founded in
Venice the work of the" Bread of "Antoine saint and
he/it arranged that of the ricavato, that was always big, he/it
was assigned of the good of bread of a half kilogram each: a part
this this bread was put at the disposal of the vicars, another
part was given to the conference of Saint-Vincent, a third was
affected to the patriarch so that it could assign it at the industrious
religious Institutes, in particular to the cloistered Orders.
The work was indeed providential and gave unhoped-for results.
The patriarch never failed to intervene in all questions that
emerged concerning the work of the workers, and he always used
himself/itself to encourage the class to the humblest, some times
with a full effect (78)…
The cardinal revived and developed with a big goodwill the famous
industry of the laces (Merletti) that occupied six hundred workers
divided in seven sections soon. He/it interested to this work
the ladies of the nobility. By a Letter of March 24, 1897, he/it
recommended to the bishops, vicars, rectors of touts the churches,
to develop this beautiful industry so advantageous for the many
populates. January 13, 1898, visiting a house of training for
the lace, he/it let him, written of his/her/its hand, an admirable
attestation of joy for the efforts and the progress achieved (79),
Of a tireless goodwill, he/it will encourage and developed the
People's Secretariat, that had for object to procure to the workers
an assured work and exactly salaried (80).
the cardinal's ascendant became soon so considerable on all classes
of the society and in particular on the people's people, that
more of once it was called to judge the disputes, to dirimer the
conflicts between bosses and workers.
This is how the workers of the factory of tobacco of Venice having
started a strike, he/it didn't hesitate to recognize the legitimacy
of their demands; he/it proposed them his/her/its arbitration
to the close to the bosses, that was accepted unanimously and
crowned of full success.
To the apostolic suit of Venice, Jéremich grant declares:
He/it encouraged the Movement Social Christian, and kept epistolary
relations with Tonolio and especially with the Paganuzzi account,
with that he/it was already in relations, of the very time or
he/it was bishop of Mantua, and that resorted to him for the adviser
(81).
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the impossibility to mention touts the initiatives, all social
works of the cardinal Sarto, us will recall only, and to conclude,
that, to the second Catholic Convention for the social studies,
held in Padua in the month of August 1896, the patriarch pronounced
an admirable speech or already sum up all his/her/its program:
"The intaurazione di tutto Cristo in (82)
"
In the same way, or rather in intimate and deep unit with the
social action, the cardinal Sarto applied, with a goodwill as
active as illuminated, to organize and to develop, in his/her/its
diocese. The Catholic action. He/it had on that the ideas the
cleanest and firmest. He/it was perfectly convinced, and already
for a long time, as he/it had shown it to Mantua, of the necessity
of the apostolate of the laymen around their ecclesiastical chiefs.
In this sense and in this goal, he/it multiplied the parochial
committees that answered the associations of Catholic action of
our time, and understood the groups or sections of men, of young
people, of the feminine sections. To these committees, to their
members, he/it preached before a whole personal Christian life,
copy, and then a really constant action.
He/it said, for example, November 23, 1895, to the members of
the Xe Venetian regional assembly of the union of the Catholic
Conventions: One only in speech, to recommend you only one thing,:
the action. No a lot of speeches, because the chats must be let
to the homes of the politics; to us the facts. The members of
the parochial Committees must be the vicar's collaborators, helping
it in all works of the ministerial goodwill, in the teaching of
the Christian doctrine, in the good direction of the patronage,
in the restoration of peace in the families, in such a way that
the Christ's Priest can count indeed on the people for the defense
of his/her/its rights, otherwise it cannot be any good, nor religious,
nor moral… And above all, it concluded disciplines, obedience,
abnegation. Work, but without temporal goal, but without private
interests, without personal ambition, showing a blameless conduct
in the achievement of our duties towards God, towards the neighbor,
towards ourselves (83).
He/it liked to unite by him the members of the parochial Committees,
to exhort them, to encourage them, to give them his/her/its instructions
and to infuse them his/her/its flame. He/it made his/its palace
centers it of the Catholic action of Venice. "I thank you
for having come to find me, he/it said July 13, 1896, to the term
of the diocesan meeting; this house is the your; when you will
want to meet, come here around me. "
This insistence to group around it the members of the Catholic
action was only founded too much and answered necessities that
the patriarch's realism seized marvellously. The work of the Catholic
Conventions (Opera dei Congressi Cattolici) was ell very important
association that had, for now, his/her/its seat in Venice and
centralized, under the report of the doctrinal direction and the
action, the various organizations Catholic of all the Italy.
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this work, named to return big services, the cardinal gave the
biggest solicitude and the most heedful cares; with a tireless
goodwill he/it worked to strengthen it and to develop it; in this
goal, he/it recommended the creation of parochial committees heartily
(84), even revealing his/her/its discontent so some vicar lost
interest in some. To this subject, he/it said, at the end of the
meeting of November 23, 1895:
I heard to say that there are even some vicars hostile to the
parochial Committees, by inertia or bad will I don't know. It
splits me the heart!… That all vicars use themselves to
found or to develop the parochial Committee and that the Catholics
assist them, giving the example of the union, of the constancy
in the work, of the obedience to the superior. I cannot conceive
a vicar who didn't establish again in his/her/its parish a parochial
Committee, not only by what he/it disobeys the Saint's precise
commands - Father, but again because he/it goes without from a
powerful help, without which he/it won't be able to filled a lot
of loads of his/her/its ministry, or these will remain fruitless
(85).
But little by little, by the entry in the work of some dangerous
elements by their extremist tendencies, and especially when abbot
Murri pretended to renovate the work while adapting it to the
new times "and" while giving to the cathodic Italian
of unit and the strength of political party (86)
", the work was attack of a deep division, The patriarch
immediately lives the peril and he didn't stop denouncing it and
to warn it, while preaching, in all circumstances, the union,
and while putting in guard against the deviations in the politics;
he/it was obliged to make it, in particular for the" young
sections" founded by him with so much love
(87). His/her/its wise and paternal recommendations would
not be always consistent - become pope, the patriarch would have
the pain to dissolve the opera dei Congressi Cattolici
(88).
The patriarch's social action, by a sort of corollary all natural,
had to spread on the political land; the two actions are held
or rather make only one of it, because the citizen has duties
and serious duties to fill, to titles citizen, in what touches
to the government of the city, the natural right and the laws
even confer him the right and the duty to work to procure to his/her/its
fellow citizens of the men and institutions capable to achieve
to best the common good. It is a heavy misinterpretation, that
was a long time too widespread, that to pretend it the opposite.
The cardinal Sarto had too many good senses, let's add that he
possessed a too deep political sense to commit such a mistake.
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this date, by order of Léon XIII, the Catholics have for
order to be held aside from the political struggles, of the struggles
of parties, that generally put to the holds the monarchy of Savoie
with the socialist and extremist submitted to Freemasonry,; but
him important sovereignly, on the very recommendation of the Holy
Father, to work, by the legal means, it is - to say for the clever
coalitions the electoral, to subtract the municipal and provincial
administrations, and by continuation the national government,
to the domination of the masonic and revolutionary sects.
On the land, of the political and social struggle, the cardinal
Sarto had to succeed master's stroke. Let's let on that the speech
to "witness" grant Joannes Jeremich; When God's Servant
lives in Venice, he found to the power clicks it" radico-masonic
". He immediately used himself/itself to form the coalition
of the parties of order and he succeeds in making triumph, in
the local elections of 1895, the clérico-moderate list,
with the Junta Grimani that had to remained to the power in Venice
during twenty-five years. In this manner, he/it fully separated
the danger of the accession of the socialism that worked to conquer
the power. In the Junta Grimani prevailed on the outside the moderates,
that, of the rest, were religious and men of good; actually it
is the clerical that governed and Grimani himself never took any
important decision without asking or to make ask for the patriarch's
feelings, Grimani always had a big "devotion" towards
God's Servant, that, become pope, testified him a particular kindliness
(89)
This success, the patriarch had prepared it for a longtime, with
a wisdom, a prudence, a tact and a tenacity that had to make the
admiration of the enemies them - same. Before entering in action,
he/it measured his/its strengths well and didn't disregard anything
to assure the triumph, expending much energy for this reason with
an incredible energy, adding and making the action add the prayer.
In the agreement concluded between the two parties, the cardinal
took big care of hoes to specify the essential goals that he recommended:
the restoration of the prayer and the religious teaching in the
schools; the rest "festival" in the local offices, the
involvement of the municipal authority in the feasts votives;
a direction of the œuvres magpies of to protect the will
of the testators (90), "all
it was respected punctually (91)
About this success, the cardial told his/her/its friends who congratulated
to it that, during three days and three nights, it had written
of his/its own hand more than two hundred letters to the religious,
to the communities, to the priests, to the devout people of his/her/its
knowledge, to excite them to ask God for a victory that would
have a fundamental influence, in particular on the religious teaching.
He/it added: " I believe that my work was not vain, because
I intended a noble drank, and I got that success was the result
of so many prayers (92).
Of the rest, to the strongest of the struggle, the patriarch,
himself départit not one instant of the most perfect dignity,
the moderation and the mind of charity.
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This
victory, could write the Correspondent of August 10, 1903, didn't
attract him of disappointments, because the opinion knew him the
right of in to be satisfied, and returned homage to tact and to
the prudence of which it had given the proof during the electoral
struggle.
About these elections, yet, the cardinal had t to face particularly
laborious attacks. Accused doesn't need to make a little too common
reason with the liberals, and for this motive, Léon XIII,
in a certain audience, made him some observations. But the patriarch
exposed that these liberals were, of which the profession of the
Catholic faith and the practice of the sacraments were notorious,
for example, the Syndic count of Grimani, and he added that he
was absolutely forced to be held in friendship with them to prevent
the triumph of the masonry. On the other hand, he/it made well
observe how he/it didn't give up in anything on the questions
of principle. The Holy Father was fully satisfied with these explanations,
as God's Servant had to say it in my presence (93).
To the surplus, Léon XIII wanted to testify his/her/its
satisfaction in a public and solemn manner. He/it addressed a
brief to the young Catholics of Venice, congratulating them on
to have known, obedient to their patriarch's voice, to fight energetically
to assure to their city an administration worthy of her and of
their faith: rectum civitali regimen omni ope secundoque exitu
contendistis (94).
Of the rest, the testimonies of the suits plain and apostolic
of Venice are full of this event. All newspapers of Italy, Catholics
and non Catholics, spoke to of it, the first with big applause,
the second with an anger badly content", because they felt
well that after the victory of strengths healthy of the city,
a revenge of their part would not be more possible (95)
".
The Adriatic, liberal newspaper of Venice, wrote the following
day of the victory: "The clerical defeated and they defeated
noisily as in no other mentioned of Italy, with a crushing majority.
"
In the administrative elections of July 31, 18999 the last that
took place under the patriarchy of the cardinal Sarto the victory,
by the number of the Catholics entered in the local administration,
were four years later, even more resounding. The adversaries had
gotten ready for the revenge, but they were beaten to the immense
shame of their main candidate: the freemason prof. G. Bordiga
(96).
Finally, on this point so important of the elections, all "witnesses"
of the suits signal that" it was not the Catholics that,
extenuating their principles, came to the moderates, but the moderates
who turn to the Catholics (97) ".
Pie X magpie had to a too high degree the sense of the realities,
of the contemporary needs the most urgent and most serious, not
to feel, with a sort of acuteness, the necessity of a press distinctly
and courageously Catholic. |
This
one was, to his/her/its eyes, the surest means our only to fight
the press hostile to the church, but again to protect all religious
interests. Of the rest, in the election campaign led to Venice,
he/it could have measured the influence of a good newspaper, as
the Difesa. One knows the word of My Lord Ketteler: "So holy
Paul came back nowadays, he would make himself/itself journalists"
And Leo XIII didn't have - him not already declared that"
a Catholic newspaper was a perpetual mission in a parish ".
The cardinal Sarto didn't think otherwise: c in vain, he/it said,
you will build some churches, you will fish some missions, you
will found some schools; all your œuvres, all your efforts
will be destroy, if you don't know how to handle the defensive
and offensive weapon of the faithful and sincere" press at
the same time. As he of all his/her/its strengths to sustain used
himself/itself and to develop the organs of the Catholic press,
in particular of valiant newspaper of Venice, The Difesa.
To his/her/its arrival in Venice, the cardinal found this newspaper
in an almost desperate situation; he/it returned the situation,
to the point to return this newspaper one of the most prosperous
of Italy, expeditiously. The patriarch declared, in a meeting
of July 12, 1896:
What humiliation for the Venetians and for myself, if the newspaper
had to fall! But it will never be, because I don't want that he/it
falls, and I must add this: to help The Difesa, so that her quick
and prosperous, if I don't have anything else to give, I would
give my ring, I will give my cross, and he/it won't tallow me
of one made of metal, I will even give finally this red dress,
I will give all, but I want that the newspaper lives
(98)!
The testimonies abound, unanimous. He/it defended with the last
energy the Catholic newspaper The Difesa, and he/it even sustained
it by pecuniary sacrifices ", declare Jeremich grant (99)
"Lasting sojn patriarchy, declare Pescini grant, he/it sustained
and defended all his/her/its power the Catholic press, especially
the newspaper The Difesa. "
The same witness tells how, in a very delicate circumstance, he
saves this newspaper:
A disagreement having emerged between the director of The Gazeta,
Macola grant and the Father Zocchi, director of The Difesa (about
the the attitude to keep at the time of the elections of 1895,
with regard to the moderate liberal party), the patriarch didn't
hesitate to sacrifice this last, although he estimated it a lot,
and he made it call in Rome as editor of the Civilta cattolica.
Thereafter, become pope, he/it received it and made him a particularly
loving welcome, the P. Zocchi being distant,; the patriarch put
to the head of the newspaper the Comm. Saccardo, of a tried value
and audacious faith (100) |
Big
' social', big politics, the patriarch of Venice, during all his/her/its
patriarchy, succeeds to live in peace with the public powers.
The fact is attested unanimously by them '. Witnesses '' of the
various suits and by the contemporary historians. '' To the look
of the politics, declare Jeremich grant, he/it maintained a big
balance and a tact accomplished, but always while feeling the
honor of the Holy See loud, and of his/her/its load (101).
Always respectful and full of deference for the legitimate authority,
he/it was only firmer of it to rise against all attempt to the
religious liberties, to the holy Church, to the Christian morals.
This is how he/it protested publicly and with the biggest energy
against the project of law on the priority of the civil marriage
and against the project of law on the divorce. He/it published,
January 10, 1902, a pastoral Letter on the Christian marriage
and the divorce, medicated for a long time of the doctrine of
the Christian marriage under his/her/its various aspects. Besides,
he/it held, to the patriarchy, a conference against the divorce,
conference in which took part, among others, l e Grimanis syndic
and several municipal advisers (102).
In the rooms, the projects were separated momentarily.
When, returning us one instant behind, we throw a general œil
stroke on this period of the life of the cardinal Sarto, how not
to subscribe to this so firm and so shaded judgment of René
Bazin:
This man was better one of the gifted of his/her/its time, One
can only say he excelled in doctrine without hearing to affirm
that he also excelled in charity; nor that he/it excelled in charity
without the proof is provided that it had an astonishing power
of assimilation, the most extended knowledge of the religious
history and the profane history, a taste very sure of artist,
and the innate sense and already the long practice of the authority.
The extreme development of one of these qualities is called genius
commonly, it is not not also genius's man, the one that possesses
it all to the highest degree, and one can pretend that such a
set of natural grants and wealths acquired constitutes the genius
of perfection or government and that it was the sharing, the mark
and the glory of the Giuseppe Sarto Not the whole glory, however,
nor all the explanation of this big man. Above all, he/it was
God's friend, a soul without no pride, all flexible, from then
on, between the hands of the divine grace. And the heedful grace
that he/it had prepared from afar, seeing that he/it had never
been rebel to him, went because of it, to give him to govern the
three hundred millions of Catholic and how much soul beyond that
fills the world (103)
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of astonishing that Léon XIII professed the highest esteem
for the patriarch of Venice! One day that, in a meeting of cardinals,
he/it had noticed his/its absence: "He/it misses, says the
pope, the pearl of the sacred-college, the patriarch of Venice".
It is not only the cardinal has, of tail manner that it is, shown
opposite the Holy Father what had been able to, resembles to the
obsequiousness; it would be blasphemous to use the expression
only: that he/it never courted the Sovereign Pontiff. No one was
more faithful son, more tenderly and more strongly attached in
Léon XII; no one also followed with one to perfect docility,
in all matter, instructions of the Chief of the church. One remembers
as, in all opportunity, he/it preached to his/its supporters the
respect, the obedience, the love towards the pope. Definitely;
as for the rest, rather of the reserve. Man of his/her/its load
and his/her/its station, ". he/it rarely moved away from
Venice, in solemn circumstances or he/it could not elude an invitation.
He/it didn't even go often to Rome, to the point that Léon
XIII made him known amiably that he wanted to see it often pus.
(104) ". The last time that
he received the patriarch's visit, he tells to him: ". a
presentiment Us aware that it will be necessary to return us to
the call of the Lord soon.. It would be able to that you are called
to follow Us. "And as the cardinal appeared amazed and unhappy
of such words, Léon XIII added: "We know that you
will be able to help the biggest in the church" The Witnesses
are unanimous to attest that the last illness and the death of
Léon XIII plunged the cardinal in a deep pain", The
news of the death of Léon XII afflicted it deeply, declare
Pescini grant, by that it was very religious to him and that it
was seen very well of this pope (105) "
". God's Servant learned the death of Léon XIII with
big pain, said grant Eugene Bacchion, because he held it in big
esteem and reverence (106). "And
"witness" Jeremich is more explicit and more precise:
When Léon XIII fell in its last illness, the cardinal lost
his good usual mood, appear very preoccupied, ordered some prayers
for his/her/its recovery, and he was afflicted very of his/her/its
death, the day or appeared the announcement of this death, I surrendered
to the patriarchy to present him my condolences. The seer to cry,
I took the liberty to observe that there was not to wonders of
his/her/its death, considering his/her/its age. He/it answered
me: "But you sieve not as he/it wanted me of the good (107)
"
He/it is need to underline what of moving has and of providential
in such a reciprocity of esteem, of reverence, of friendship!..
How much exactly the Dr L. Daelli could write:
The new years that the cardinal Sarto went by Venice were the
period of his/her/its fullest life by a stupendous activity, the
most fertile in results, again, talking only of the main facts,
we saw these one thousand details that he surrounded himself of
a deep modesty and a delicate reserve, these facts of every day,
with every instant, that took place without burst, as flows out
without noise, through the prairie, the beneficent stream that
hides his/her/its source in the depths mysterious of soil (108)
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(61).
Pie X Acta, I.I.pp.75-87
(62). Cef. Daëlli. Op.cit.p.169. Marchesan op .cit.p.570
(63). Atti del XIX Congresso eucharistico,Ve Itraliano, celebrato
nell Agosto, 1897, in Venezia, p.10 Venezia 1898
(64). Op. cit.p.176
(65). Cf. Marchesan op.cit.p.371
(66). Voir atti.cit pp.118-119 Cf. Marchesan, op.cit.,p.371
(67). Voir Atticit.,pp.345-346
(68). Op.cit., p.182
(69). Témoignage d prêtre A. Frolio, Proc, Ord, Venetus
p.593 Vité par Dal-gal, op.cit. p.284
(70). Proc.Apost.Venetus, p.101 sum.Virt, p. 492 .On trouverait
dans Daëlli, op.cit., pp.176 et suiv. une longue et brillante
description de ces fêtes.
(71). Cf. Daëlli op.cit., locéit
(72). Proc. Apost.Vetus p.101 sum.Virt. p.492
(73). Cf. L.Daëlli et Marchesan op.cit
(74). L.Daëlli
(75). Proc. Apost,Romanus,p.40 vol,I, pp. 69-72 sum.Virt.p.40
(76). Proc. Apost.venetus p. 142 Sum.Virt. p. 502
(77). Marchesan, op.cit.p.408
(78). Proc. Apost,Romanus, vol.III. pp.1030-1031 Sum. Virt, pp.
164-165
(79). Marchesan, op.cit. pp.495 et suiv.
(80). Cf. La Didesa de Venise, 13 juillet 1896 Mgr. Pescini, Proc.Ord,
Romaus p.334
(81). Proc. Apost. Venetus, p.120. Sum. Virt. P.497
(82). Cf. Marchesan op. cit. p. 425 Voir texte du discours dans
Atti e Documenti du Congrés p.102 Padoue ,1867
(83). La difesa, 25 novembre 1895
(84). Voir, entre autres, lettre du 1 mars 1895 à l’abbé
prof. Antonio de Angelo, Cf. Marchesan op.cit. p.497
(85). La Difesa du 25 novembre 1895
(86). Programme –Appel du journal II Domani d’Italia,
fondé par Murri, 7 novembre 1900
(87). Cf. La Difesa 31 juillet 1900
(88). Sur cette crise douloureuse voir Dal-Gal.op.cit., pp. 295-300
(89). Proc. Apost, Venetus, pp.116-121 Sum. Virt., p. 497
(90). Cf. témoignages de Pellegrini, Sum. I.C., p.410 de
Blais Ibed pp. 476-477
(91). Marchesan op.cit. pp. 412-413
(92). Cf. Pescini, Proc. Ord. Romanus p.396 Daëlli op.cit.pp.
204-206 Marchesan , loc.cit
(93). Déposition de don J. Pescine, Proc. Apost. Romanus,
vol.II. p.833. Sum,Virt.p.133
(94). Cf. A. Vian. Proc. Ord. Venetus, p. 960 Cité par
Dal-gal, op.cit. p. 275
(95). La Difesa de Venise, 29-30 juillet 1895
(96). Cf. Dal-gal., op.cit. pp. 275-276
(97). Voir entre autes . prof. Pellegrini, Proc. Ord. Venetus
p. 284 Dr. E. Sorger, ibid pp. 193-194 Dr. Tagliapietras ibid.
Pp. 264-265
(98). La Difesa de Venise , 13 juillet 1896
(99). Proc. Apost, Venetus pp. 98-100, sum. Virt,m p. 492
(100). Proc. Apost Romanus, vol. II. P.830 Sum. Virt. P. 133 Cf.
Marchesan op.cit.p.419
(101). Sum. Virt., p.96 Cf. Marchesan op. cit.. pp. 413-414
(102). Marchesan op. cit., pp.394-395-396
(103). René Bazin Pie X Éd. De 1928 Flammarion.
(104). Jeremich, Sum. Virt. Pé. 488
(105). Proc. Apost. Romanus vol. II p. 840 Sum.Virt p. 135
(106). Proc. Apost. Tarvisinus p. 176 Sum Virt p. 722
(107). Proc. Apost. Venetus p. 122 Sum. Virt. P. 498
(108). Op. cit., PP. 213-214
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