Following days of the conclave

July 28, 1903, near to have, the morning, conferred the Orders consecrated at the seminary, the patriarch, accompanied of his/her/its secretary, Mgr, Bressan, and of his/her/its valet Gornati, left for the conclave. His/her/its departure had to appear, to the eyes from all over the world, as the proof the most vivid and most moving of the affection of the Venetian people for his/her/its patriarch. Let's let the speech to an eyewitness, of Dr Daëlli:

In Venice, July 26, 1903, at two o'clock of in the evening, the sound of all bells made itself hear all of a sudden: the cardinal Sarto left, him also, and the cœurses were folds of emotion. The strands of the big channel covered themselves in one instant with the crowd of his/her/its excellent diocesans, that was anxious to send to the father their salute of adieu. TO the station, cleaned of the city, priests, laic of all rank and all conditions invaded the rooms, took assault the embankments: each stole to give the first to the cardinal the testimony of his/her/its respect. The gondola landed at two ten. The patriarch's first impression was the one of the quickest joy. He/it turned toward the crowd and blesses it. Smiling of his/her/its so good smile, he/it repeated: "Mercie, thank you! " To his/her/its entry in the station, the screams of joy and the applause greeted it. One was urgent it of toues parts; his/her/its secretary, My Lord Bressan, had difficulty opening him the path, he advanced slowly, smiling always, thanking, letting itself/themselves to seize and to kiss the hands, seeing an adviser of the municipe, who was a physician and came to greet it, he tells him with his/her/its usual mind; "Oh! Dear doctor, thank you; there are the circumstances where a physician is always the welcome." One was only to two steps of him, and one was some far, and one moaned. He/it arrived thus, rather carried by the crowd that leading, to the waiting room. There, he/it congratulated in touched words the Venetians of their eloquent demonstration. "You prove, he/it says, that you understand the importance of the event to which I am going to work. Be sure that I will never forget this vivid and sincere proof of the love of my children. Living or dead, I will never forget my dear Venice. She/it will live there in my heart. While waiting, pray for me. "A Slavic of applause covered these words, and the eminence went up in the wagon; there, she/it stood at the window, blessing the crowd until the train started, while all houses greeted sent some kissings. The bridge of the Lagoon was full of the Youth partners; they can see the eminence by the window of the compartment; she/it now let freely itself invade by the emotion. A secret presentiment that made increase only with the length of the conclave broke the heart of Venetians; one said itself that one would not see it anymore again. Maybe this presentiment invades it also the patriarch's soul, on time where, abandoning his/her/its city, it crossed the restful lagoon, smelling of salty exhalations in this afternoon of summer. It felt like a thrill of sadness to seize his/her/its heart and to oppress it; and this sadness aillait crossant as in light of the sun lying down the verdant plains of Italy took place under his/her/its eyes; he/it thought about the sea that surrounded dear Venice far away, and on which, during so many years, his/her/its placid look take a rest every day (1).

On his/her/its side, the historian so perfectly truthful, Marchesan, let us, of this departure, a magnificent description whose details agree with the precedents, as with the articles of The Difesa of July 26, 1903. In their deposition to the informative suit, Mgr, Bressan, Maria Sarto My Lord Jeremich signalled with big strength the demonstration of attachment of the Venetians to the cardinal. They add than repeatedly, the Venetians to the cardinal. They add that repeatedly, the Venetians let to explode, of various manners, their fear of pne more to see the patriarch in their city again, and implored it to come back. "The people afflicted, says My Lord Bressan, shouted: "He/it won't come back anymore (2)! " God's Servant, of the window of the train, said: "Living or dead, I will come back! "… By the deposition of My Lord Bressan, we also know that to the "cardinal's departure, to the imposing demonstration" took leaves the duke Carlos grant of Bourbon and his/her/its wife (3).

During the journey e Venice in Rome, the cardinal appeared alone, as usual. IN Rome, he took lodging at the seminary Lombard: it is from there that he/it surrendered to the meetings of the Sacred - College; it is there that to the happy free he/it received your numerous people who came to pay a visit to him; but, says My Lord Rosa in his/her/its deposition", he/it appeared annoyed to go to the parlor for visits (4) ".

He/it also had to answer numerous letters, of which most asked for help, protection, subsidies and made it to exclaim, Daëlli meeting, often: "If I don't run away as soon as possible, I will be obliged to borrow what to return to Venice (5). " Besides, ` has his/her/its departure for Rome, poor had not he/it been obliged as always, to borrow a few hundreds liras?

Enter time, in adjoining the opening of the conclave and in spite of his/her/its multiple occupations, the Sarto cardial didn't forget his, He wrote, July 29, to his/her/its brother of Riese,:

Rome, 29-7-1903,

I had promised of exclaims you and I hold my promise before entering in conclave, that will open up next Friday known evening. I want merely to tell you that I am well and that I find tolerable the heats of Rome compared to the siroco of Venice. Greet the families Marsili and Magnanis amiably, and believe me forever, with a cordial kiss, your loving brother.

Joseph Cardinal Sarto P. (6)

The days that he/it went by the seminary Lombard, during the recreations sil mingled to the pupils, conversing joyously with them.

It is also before the conclave, in one nine preparatory general communities, that he/it was seated after the cardinal Lecot, archbishop of Bordeaux, this one, wanting, without locker, to make acquaintance with his/her/its neighbor, some had minded, besides, to the curiosity, asked suddenly in French the Sarto cardial: Is "your Eminence probably an archbishop in Italy? In what diocese"? The cardinal answered, in Italian: I don't speak French. "My Lord Lecot asked then in Latin: "In what diocese are you archbishop? I am patriarch of Venice", answered in Latin the cardinal. Don't speak to "you French, continued My Lord Lecot; is not you therefore papable; because a pope must speak French. - No, Eminence, concludes the cardinal Sarto, I am not papable: Deo gratias (7)! ".

July 31 (to the morning), meeting Mgr Bressan, he/it left by coach from the Lombard seminary, greeted by the clerks and surrendered in Vatican. The apartment that was assigned him was on the third floor, where until lived in the cardinal secretary Rampolla then. Seeing that the camérier was prevented by the transportation of the suitcases, I arranged the cardinal's bed, and himself wanted to help me, not only to prepare his/her/its bed, but again to prepare mine (8).

He/it would pass our setting curiously to make here the history of the conclaves for the papal elections, or to recall the ordes of election of the Sovereign Pontiff, that has vairé with the centuries.

It was Grégoire X that, the first, to the second council of Lyons in 1274, by his/her/its Constitution Ubi periculum establishes, in the essential lines, the legislation of the conclave. The main prescriptions of this Constitution were the following: the conclaves should be held right side up where will have died the defunct pope. After one stationary period of ten days, the cardinals will meet in the palace lived by the Pontiff and will lock themselves of it without others continuation in that a clerk and a layman. They will remain separated of the rest of the world the whole length of the conclave, without communicating with no one without saying anything of the election, at the risk of excommunication. If they linger too much to name the pope, one will decrease them the supplies progressively. First discussed because of his/her/its severity, this legislation ends up imposing itself/themselves. With light modifications, Urban VIII, in 1625, Clement XII in 1732, gave him his/her/its definitive status. These arrangements were sometimes modified, in particular circumstances, but only on secondary points and exceptionally. This is how to the eve d, 'to be brought prisoner in France, Magpie VI published a bubble that allowed the cardinals to hold the conclave right side up that they would judge the most appropriate and convenient. VI magpie dead state in Valencia, the conclave for the election of his/her/its successor meets then in Venice under the dependence of Austria.

After the establishment of Victor Emmanuel in Rome, the situation of the church being again uneasy, Magpie IX published three bubbles intended to protect the liberty of the cardinals in the future conclaves. Without the first, dated of August 23, 1871, he/it recalled arrangements taken by his/her/its predecessors and affirmed the exclusive right of the cardinals again to elect the Sovereign Pontiff, rejecting all intervention and interference of the laymen, some was was their dignity or their situation. He/it let to the Eminences the right to designate the place of the conclave, either in Rome, either elsewhere. He/it enacted that, for the validity of the election, the two third of the voices of the present cardinals, by secret bulletin and on the same person, were necessary the election capable to make itself/themselves without tarnishing account of the cardinals prevented by the illness or another reason legitimizes and not staying in the place of the conclave.

The two other bubbles of Magpie IX were about questions of simple coordination; they yet came back on the imperious to owe to exclude all interference of the civil powers in the election of the Sovereign Pontiff.

The last conclave held in 1878, for the election of Léon XIII, sub potestate hostilli, following the expression of Magpie IX and Léon XIII, happened without incident, the Italian government had the good mind to let to the cardinals all whole liberty, it made supervise even by his/her/its troops the surroundings of Vatican, so that the conclavistes doesn't gush uneasy in their mission.

To his/her/its death, Léon XIII let to the cardinals, in view of the conclave, of the recommendations full of wisdom and firmness, he renewed there would prescribe them d of his/her/its predecessor and asked the rigorous observation of it; he/it added: The election will make itself as early as possible and quickly, all foreign intervention must be banished of the conclave. One won't take hopeless account of the propositions that will be able to beings made to the Sacred - College in the intention to limit a candidate's free choice. That if the cardinals foresee the dangers or separations, they will name a pope, some either their number, without waiting for the arrival of the foreign cardinals. In case of absolute necessity, they will be able to depart to the general rules.

To the first threat against the liberty of the deliberations, the Sacred College should look for asylum out of Italy.

Each seizes without pain the opportunity of similar prescriptions. The event went, once besides, to show wisdom and the necessity of it.

Such were the essential arrangements that governed the conclave of 1903, that was going to elect pope the cardinal Sarto. (9).

Friday July 31, at ten o'clock in the morning, the cardinals, in purple cappa and dresses of the same color, penetrated in Vatican. In the Pauline chapel, the cardial S. Vanutelli sang the solemn Mass, of the Saint - Mind. Don Perosi directed the songs. No stranger attended there, except His/her/its Highness royal Xyste of Bumblebee. The Mass finished, Mgr, V. Sardi, of the Secretaryship of state and the Community of the Rituals, pronounced the speech Of Eligendo Pontifice. After having recalled the book Of Consideratione addressed by Bernard saint has pope Eugène III, Mgr Sardi retraced with big strength duties of the papacy. "… Holiness, science, justice t charity, such must be the virtues of the future pope. When Pierre passed in the streets, one took the patients, so that his/her/its only shade heals them: so the Pontiff's shade, that is his/her/its charity, must reach and cover all poor people and all grief-strickens. He/it must be the shelter of the poor wretches, the comforter of the forsaken. the hope of those that lacks all, the œil of those that doesn't see anymore… "This speech made a quick impression. Interrogated on his/her/its opinion, the cardinal Sarto answered: "He/it clearly spoke and honestly, as knows Bernard (10)."

But, in his/her/its deposition to the informative suit, My Lord Rosa, that had been invited by the patriarch of Venice to come of Mantua in Rome in this circumstance, told these very suggestive details:

During the speech pronounced by My Lord Sardi, Of Eligendo Pontifice, after the Mass of the Holy spirit celebrated in the Paulina chapel, God's servant appeared very touched and very pale of face, while he returned to the Lombard seminary, someone, to the coach, making allusion to the speech, said that he had been very beautiful, and that he had defined the Pontiff's duties gorgeously. The cardinal interrupted it, saying,: "if had not finished you, make me come you the desire to return at home in Venice" I had the impression that he/it says it as frightened by the possible weight of the pontificate (11).

This same day (July 31), at five o'clock of in the evening, the cardinals met again and entered in conclave.

Since four hours, tell L. Daëlli, the cardinals began to enter. One since first arrived was the Mathieu eminence, pure curie cardinal France and resident in Rome; very eager, he/it welcomed amiably and guided his/her/its colleagues of France, less informed than he of the mazes of Vatican, the other eminences arrived then, the some by coach of pomp, the other by simple car of contract driven by two horses black, only the cardial archbishop of Vienna, A. Gruscha, appeared solemnly in a car escorted of a hussar of the embassy of Austria, who was seated next to the coachman, all proud of his/her/its beautiful uniform and kolpak in head. Behind the coach, some carriages drove the valets and of the suitcases (12).

Let's recall here some relative details to the French cardinals. "Our six cardinals, tell the" witness"., around the article on" The last days of Léon XIII and the conclave", published in the Magazine of the Two Worlds of March 15, 1904, and that is not other - that, is more today a mystery for no one - that the cardinal Mathieu himself, arrived for last general communities. Him s was welcomed by their colleagues with a lot of readiness and loving reverence. Two had shown a true courage while getting on the way: the cardinal Coullié, whose health was very precarious, and the cardinal Lagénieux, that raised of a serious illness. When to the cardinal Richard, who was the dean of age of the conclave, he/it had supported the fatigues of the road, having the habit to heal itself/themselves of himself indispositions by one journey in Rome, valiantly. M.Delcassé had testified the desire to see them all in before their departure, four answered the invitation and were pleased of his/her/its welcome; he/it tells them q'il counted on their known patriotism to name a pope of idea moderates and feelings favorable to France. With a sharpness all Italian, he/it avoided to pronounce a proper name, but he/it was understood. In Rome, our compatriots didn't think about punishing France of violences of M. Combes. They remembered that there is an embassy that is not responsible of it and that represents our old traditions worthily. He/it paid a visit to ambassador and accepted to eat lunch at home. With the cardinal Mathieu, them extinct to the number of seven. As soon as they met they found perfects agreement of ideas and feelings of it and during the whole conclave they formed a compact and very cordially united group (13).

When the cardinals were all arrived to the Sixtine chapel, the camerlingue recited the prayer to the mind Saint, which the helpers answered; Amen. The cardinals sat down to their respective place. One introduced the field officers of the conclave who had to take oath between the hands of the cardinal camerlingue: S. Exc. M,O. of Azevedo, former majordome that had the load of governor of the conclave,; prince Chigi, marshal of the conclave, with the five in command of captains to the towers, the prince's court,; the commanders of the bodies armed of the papal palace. Next, the cardinals so much remaining only in the chapel, of it closed the doors of it. By order of the cardinal dean, one read a posthumous Constitution of Léon XIII, in which this last protested against the situation made to the pope by the civil power, justified his/her/its attitude in front of this power, exhorted the cardinals to take courage and there to unite to elect a successor in all independence. Reading finishes, one opened the doors, and the cardinals, escorted of the noble care, won their rooms. Soon, all enclosed doors, and verification made by the cardinals of the of order, the Eminence Macchis, Netos and S. Vnutellis, that no intruder had remained shut in within the conclave, the cardinals extinguished prisonniers…La day had been oppressive. In the night, to the third floor of the palace, a window remained a long time illuminated, like one ardent and mysterious flame; it is the one of the room carrying the number 57, where lived in the cardinal Sarto.

Au matin du 1 août 1903, l’appel In Capellam Domini retentit le long des galeries du conclave, et les cardinaux se réunirent à la chapelle Sixtine, afin élire le successeur de Léon XIII.

Les cardinaux électeurs étaient avec le cardinal Sarto, soixante-deux,. Manquaient : le cardinal Moran, archevêque de Sydney ( Australie), et l’archevêque de Palerme, empêchés le premier par la distance, le second par son grand âge.

le conclave était composé comme il suit ; outre le cardinal-prêtre Joseph Sarto, du titre de Saint-Bernard des Thermes, à Rome :

Cardinaux- évêques :

Lugi Oreglia di Santo-Stefano, doyen du Sacré-Collège
Serafino Vanutelli, sous-doyen du Sacré-Collège, grand Pénitencier
Mario Mocenni, évêque de Sabina
Antonio Agliardi, évêque dAlbano, vice-chancelier de la Sainte Église romaine
Vincenzo Vanutelli, évêque dePalestrina
Francesco Satolli, évêque de Frascali, archiprêtre de la basilique de Latran.

Cardinaux- prêtres :

Casimiro Gennari
Alfonso Capecelatro, archevêque de Capoue
Salvatore Casanas y Pagès, archevêque de Barcelone ( Espagne)
Giseppe Prisco, archevêque de Naples
Pietro Geremia Michelangelo Celesia, archevêque de Palerme ( il N’assista pas au conclave, en raison de son grand âge)
Victor- Lucien-Sulpice Lecot, archevêquede Bordeaux
Antoine-Joseph Gruscha, archevêque de Venise
Domenico Svampa, archevêque de Bologne
Serafino Cretoni, du clergé romain
Angelo di Piertro-Léon de Skrbenski, archevêque de Prague.
Jean ‘niaz de Kozielsko Pyzyna, évêque d’État de Léon XIII, archevêque de la basilique vaticane
Adolphe- Louis- Albert Perraud, de la congrégation de l’Oratoire de Paris, évêque d’Autun
Sebastiano Martinelli, religieux augustin
Joseph-Marie-Martin de Herrea y de la Iglesia , archevêque de Compostelle
Gennaro Portanova, archevêque de Reggio ( Calabre)
Bartolomeo Bacilieri, évêque de Vérone
Cyriaque-Marie- Sancha y Hervas, patriarche des Indes occidentales et archevêque de Tolède
Giovanni Battista Casali del Drago, du clergé romain
Giuseppe francica-Nava di Bontife, archevêqueabarella
Achille Manara, évêque d’Acône et d’Umana
Domenico Ferra
Pierre-Hector Coullié, archevêque de Lyon
Benoît-Marie Langénieux, archevêque de Reims
Michel Logue, évêque d’Armagn ( Irlande)
Francesco di Paola Cassetta
Humbert-Antoine Fischer, archevêque de Cologne
Pierre-Lambert Goossens, archevêque de Maline
Jean Katschthaler, archevêque de Stasbourg
Patrice-François Moran, archevêque de Sydney ( Australie) (n’arrive à Rome qu’après l’élection de Pie X)
Claude Vaszari, de la congrégation des Bénédictins de Hongrie, évêque de Gran ( Hongrie)
Jacques Gibbons, archevêque de Baltimore
Guillaume Labouré, archevêque de Rennes
Girolamo-Maria Gotti , de l’Ordre des Carnes déchaussés, Préfet de la Propagande
Andra Ferrai, archevêque de Milan
Pietro Respighi
François-Désiré Mathieu, cardinal de curie
Goerges Kopp, évêque de Breslau
Andra Aiuti, pro-nonce pour le Portugal
Emidio Taliani, prononce pour l’Autriche-Hongrie
Beniamiono Cavicchioni, archevêque d’Amida
Sébastien Herrero Y Espinosa de los Monteros, de la congrégation de l’Oratoire de Séville, archevêque de Ferrre
Joseph-Sébastien Nelto, de l’ordre des Frères Mineurs, patriarche de Lisbonne
Carlo Nocella

Cardinaux –diacre

Luigi Macchi, secrétaire des Brefs
Félice Cavagnis
Joseph Calasanz Vives y Tuto, de L’’Ordre des Mineurs Capucins
Francesco Segna, préfet des Archves du Vatican
Francesco Salesio Sella Volpe
Luigi Tripepi
André Steinuber, dela Compagnie de Jésus, préfet des L’Index
Raffaele Pierotti, dominicain

While opened up the conclave, in the t silence the prayer, to the outside, in the political world and in the press, the fever of the the elections were already in full swing.

She/it appears, writes the" witness" of the Magazine of Two Worlds, by particular symptoms that vary according to every patient's temperature. She/it essentially consists in playing the papal election as would play to the soldier of the children who believes that, it arrived, that their weapons are charged more and that they wager true battles. Among these children, there are the mean that hit in the back, and calumniate impudently, there are the liars who invent for the pleasure, there are the gluttonous that hope to catch a good piece; but most are only especially naive conceited and talkative, advanced by the craze to usurp a role and to mingle what doesn't look at them (14)

The same" witness" says again in the same magazine:

The Italian appeared especially ingenious to suppose or to imagine, and they gave account of toues the sessions, day per day, with a superb insurance. To them to believe of it, the French cardinal and the Spanish cardinal of curie, united together, had held in a general community of the violent speeches against Italy, this qu didn't have anything surprising, the French being a Gascon all nerve and all late, and Spanish a pure fanatic. However, nor the French nor Spanish had not opened the mouth. Such cardinal, to such vote, had united twenty-five suffrages; he/it had not gotten four. And so a lot of other information (15)…

As he to separate without mercy all small-talks imports that in all time causes a papal election.

But, in this case, there was also, among the contigencies humanes that was agitated around the conclave, of the more serious elements. In The article published by the Correspondent of October 10, 1903, under the title,: The politics of the last Conclave, Mr. Étienne Lamy, after having enumerated the numerous candidates whose newspapers debated the stocks at the time of the death of Léon XIII, says what the Triple Alliance appeared, since the beginning, very opposite in the Rampolla cardial.
Germany that reproached to have thwarted his/her/its political aims in Earth Saint and even in Far East: Italy could not forgive to him of not him to have returned the preponderance that she had possessed a long time in Raising it, where most numerous servants of the Catholic apostolate are Italian monks. Finally Austria, that had herché vainly to pulls of the papacy a disavowal of the happy tentative made by Lueger to deliver the vielle of Vienna of the oppressions that she/it underwent, thanks to the coalition of the incredulous philosophy and the Jewish funds, articulated a grievance again against the former secretary of state, the one to have tried to detach the emperor François Joseph of Triple-Alliance.

Con these points, the opinion of M. Étienne Lamy is founded historically, with this reserve that the cardinal Rampolla, in his/her/its political and diplomatic action, interpreted precisely and followed the thought of Léon III submissively himself.

But, where the opinion of M.Étienne Lamy surprises and even, one can say, disconcert, it is about our ambassador's attitude in Rome, with his/her/its interferences and consequences on the attitude of the French cardinals to the conclave. In his/her/its article of her Come back of the Two World that we already mentioned, the "witness" summarizes the assertions of M, Lamy, thus: A famous French writer, Mr. Étienne Lamy, published on the conclave of the pages, where, next to just appreciations and elevated ideas, are of the assertions that astonished under his/her/its feather. According to M. Lamy, France would have made, during the period of the conclave, the saddest face in Rome, where she "only harvested the humiliating sadness and the ridicule". He represents our embassy by Vatican, as being impotent, distressed and free to a complete anarchy, each of his/her/its pulling agents on his/her/its side and pushing his/her/its candidate. Mr. Nisard, the chief, held for the Tampolla cardial; Mr. Navenne, the adviser, was displayed for the Gotti cardial, the secretaries and attachés shared between the two candidates, if they didn't like to "bet better on other names", and it for motives as the worldly interest to flatter the aristocratic society, of small personal reasons of tastes or antipathies, the desire to please to Mr. Combes rather than in M.Delcassé, because M.Combes wanted the success of Gotti in the hope, that, become pope, he would push the reason of the monks and that this solidarity would provoke the rupture of the relations between the France t the church. a dispatch of M. Delcassé was necessary to bring the belated conversion of these recalcitrant and again Mr. Navenne declared him, "that if his/her/its civil servant's contest passed to Rampolla, his/her/its personal sympathies remained acquired in Gotti". It appears also that the embassy of France by the Quirinal intervened in the circumstance, M Gate is "like master's canvas that always overflows with his/her/its setting". having flattered the passion irreligious of the party to the power, it thought about preparing the election of a candidate wanted by Italy and gave itself the air of pope's maker while showing off for Agliardi. Finally, the three main French prelates who live in Rome, the cardinal of curie, the listener of burps and the canoniste of the embassy didn't get along. Although they hid their divergences, "he/it didn't escape ecclesiastical eyes that they didn't form the same vœux and didn't walk together (16)

ccAnd the "witness" makes good justice of these assertions whose history confirmed inaccuracy. It is false that Mr. Combes pushed in the election of the cardinal Gotti, to bring the rupture of the Concordat,; certainly, he/it was well capable of this Machiavellism, although, in general, he/it lacked depth in are seen; but finally, in the occurrence, he/it didn't show anything in Rome - and, as says the "witness", in the Magazine of the Two Worlds, pleasingly "what he/it hung, what he/it would like the conclave, remained the secret of his/her/its big soul". Mr. Delcassé made by the French cardinals canvasses it that we signalled, but in very discreet terms, and without a doubt he/it has given to his/her/its agents in Rome the same instructions.

In fact, assure the "witness ", Mr. Nisard, his/her/its adviser and himself secretaries acted with a tact and a feeling of the etiquettes to which return homage all those that approached them during these agitated days. They confessed their preferences highly for the cardinal Rampolla. What French could the candidate repulse to which one especially reproached of too to like France? But they didn't comment the mistake to speak loud, to threaten the veto with appearing exclusive and to run the risk of a humiliating defeat thus, and that they declared that they were not afraid of none of the papabili designated by the opinion, by that that all had given pledges of sympathy in France. It was true, and it was habile.M. Of Navenne, that was bound with the cardinal Rampolla since his/her/its nunciature of Madrid, didn't have need to be called to l‘ordre by M. Delcassé, and the hazardous supposition that he/it had wanted by the same process to satisfy the society at a time aristocratically and Mr. Combes, yours not standing. Finally, we don't know of what ecclesiastical the famous writer borrowed the eyes to see the disagreement that he signals between the three French prelates. These gentlemen believed themselves the best friends of the world and never had together the shade of a different, even about the candidates to the tiara. As well, nothing obliged them-him to "walk together" toward the Chapel Sixtine or, unfortunately, one only of the three could enter. What is exact, it is that Romans and foreign were passionately fond legally for the papal election, didn't speak anymore of something else and debated the same names constantly, calculating the odds of each of them. populates It even mingled itself of it: Mr. Lemy returns his/her/its maid's subject, that didn't want Rampolla, finding him the hard air. A coachman refused his voice to Serafino Vanutelli, because he had a cardinal brother and that it made two popes: Rome was filled of an immense buzzes of flies and the wasps of the stage coach, that, at the end of some days, became sovereignly irritating, so that a woman of mind, after a long evening where she had undergone the obligatory conversation, exclaimed with a deep conviction: Does "it become an obsession. Who will deliver me of Rampolla, Gotti and Vanutelli? (17)."

However, the cardinals, indifferent to all this vain agitation, let the flies buzz, the wasps to prick; they took care only of the extremely serious duty that was incumbent upon him. What contrast between the hubbub of the outside and the pacific asylum where were united, as in a Coterie, the voters of Christ's Priest.

Singular voters and singular candidates that these cardinals, written the cardinal Mathieu in the Magazine of the Two Worlds. This college electorate resembled, it decorated, has a magnificent ecclesiastical retirement, with cardinals in manner of vicars and votes to the places of the predications. Raised early, they surrendered to the Pauline chapel or some other oratories, to say the Mass, that would be the conclavistes there. Many remained knelt during a long time on the pavement; a lot, before being going to vote, returned before the Saint-Sacrament to pray, and, during the day, one met in the galleries all valid that going for a walk while shelling their rosary. One didn't see trace of these nasty deciduous passions and shortcomings of which this terrifying Grilled steak accuses the "fifty old men" on which it complains about not to be able to act of it; the silliness, the ignorance of the century, fanaticism, the hatred policies, the double-dealing,. A this these" old men" were not forty years old, much didn't reach about sixty and no was not absolutely deciduous… can one call them of the candidates? For one only of the serious papabili, there was trace of solicitation, but it is so natural and so legitimate that a brother recommends his brother, and the merit of the advisable was so vivid that no one wondered about the thing and didn't think about blaming it. As for the three cardinals who got the more of suffrages, the one that has been elected has, by two times, implored with tears his/her/its colleagues not to name it, and he/it has been pushed to the papal throne as to a martyrdom. For the two other, one would be tempted to say that they abused the disinterestedness. The Cardinal Gotti has been called by one his/her/its friends the "cardinal of marble", by what he has the cold marble, the polish and the solidity, before his/her/its candidacy, sil appear of ice. As him, the cardinal Rampolla didn't say a speech, nor made a step, nor inspired a gait in his/her/its personal interest (18)

August 1st, to the session of the morning, the first vote of the conclave gave the following results: Cardinal Rampolla, 24 voices, Gott, 17 - Sarto 5-Vanutelli 4 - Oreglia, 2 - Capecelatro, 2 - Di Pietro, 2 - Agliardi-1 Ferrât, 1-Cassetta, 1 - Portanova, 1-Segna,1-Tripepi, 1,

To the session of in the evening, the second vote e grant the following results:
Cardinal Rampolla, 29 voices, Gott, 16 - Sarto 10 - Richemy, 3-Vanutelli 1 - Capecelatro, 2 - Segna,1. My Lord Bressan, in his/her/its deposition notes that God's Servant appeared "very preoccupied because his/her/its name had had ten voices (19)." Daëlli tells that while coming out of the Sixtine, a cardinal of his/her/its friends approached of him, and made him notice that he had taken back five voices more than in the morning: "I hope well that tomorrow no one will remember more me, he/it answered. Today one committed a silliness; do you well know that no one knows me (20)." is The fact-it authentic? No official document permits to affirm it. It seems that, in spite of this "preoccupation" that our Mgr, Bressan, the cardial was persuaded again that it would return to Venice. A letter written by him of Rome, in the evening of August 1st, to the live-rector of his/her/its seminary, Jeremich grant, don't let of doubt on that

 Rome, August 1st, 1903,
Dear Giovanni grant,

I hope that the Episcopal conferences will make themselves fixed at the time. I recommend you as a consequence of to look after the preparations, especially to the rooms of messeigneurs the bishops. If him I occur of the obstacles, I will make you warn next week. Thank all seminarians of their dear memory, and especially of their prayers. I hope to find them all in good health. I greet you well lovingly, and I retell to myself.

Your very loving in Christ.
+Gius.card. Sarto

The following Sunday, August 2, after the religious ceremonies of use, took place, in the Sixtine chapel, the operations of the third tour of vote, it was to the opening of this vote and while his/her/its colleagues already wrote their vote, that the cardinal-bishop of Cracow, Jean Kuiaz of Kozielsko Puzyna, in the name of the emperor of Austria and king of Hungary François-Joseph, had the veto opposed by the crown of Austria in the possible election of the cardinal Rampolla known. Here is the text in Latin of this document:

Honori mihi duco, ad hoc officium jussu altissimo vocatus, humillime rogare Vestram Eminentiam, prout Decanum Sacri Collegii Eminentissimorum Sacrae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardianlium and Camerarium S.R.E., ut ad notitiam suam percipiat idque notificare and declarare modo officioso velit; nomine and auctoriate suae Majestatis Apostolicae Fancisci Josephi Imperatoris, Austriae and Régis Hungariae swears and privilegio antiquo uti volentis, veto exclusionis countered Eminentissimum Dominum meum cardinalem Marianum Rampolla Tindaro del. Romae, 2 Augustis + J.card. Puzina (21). "note of the translator". We reproduce it to documentary title:

As one noticed it, the sentence begins badly: "I make myself honor!" The cardinal didn't put a shape there, and his/her/its predecessors in veto usually said: doleo, I regret, Under pretext to have, as he/it said, a pope "who made of the politics a means and not a goal", the Austrian eminence made the well clumsily of the politics. To the rest, his/her/its message embarrassed it a lot, and it would have liked to confide it to another. He/it offered his/its small paper to several, while imploring them to give reading of it to his/her/its place. The secretary of the conclave declares that he was not able to, the cardial Dean that he didn't want. Sunday morning, he/it was going to confess his/her/its embarrassment to the cardinal Rampolla, that sent back it at the court of his/her/its conscience (22).

He/it seems that a certain press was in advance to the couranté, of the incident. A newspaper of Bologna, to tendency liberal, published, indeed, Friday July 27, 1903, the following dispatch dated of Vienna.

The action of the Austro-Hungarian government will be positively exclusive years the case of the possible election of the cardinal Rampolla… TO what one assures, the Goluchowski account is considered commel'ennemi person of the eminence. The Austro-Hungarian government will confide this mission to the Puzya…Il cardial is undoubtedly that Austria will use its right of veto.

But how explains the "odious gait ", according to the word of My Lord Merry del Valley, secretary of the conclave, of the cardinal Puzyna? It was, first of all, and at the very least, an anachronism of the most flagrant. In the time of Saint-Empire, then of the medieval Christendom, "the exclusive rights" could find a sort of justification in that that the emperor and also the kings of France and Spain, as defenders of the church, could not consider an indifferent œil the pope's election. But that could mean therefore, in the XXe century, a "exclusive rights" exercised by sovereigns who, a long time ago, were not anymore protectors of the church? It is, as well, an insolent violation of the bubble so categorical of Magpie IX: In hoc sublimi, without speaking of prescriptions of his/her/its predecessors and instructions all recent the Léon XII. The attitude of the Austrian eminence doesn't imply itself. In any case, he/it didn't expect what his/her/its words find as little by the cardinals a welcome nice.

This intervention imperial, unknown and unexpected d bigger number didn't remain without answer, Immediately the cardinal-dean rose: "This communication, he/it says, cannot be welcomed by the conclave nor to pulls official, nor to pulls unofficial, and he/it won't be taken it into any account."

Then the cardinal Rampolla, asking his/her/its turn for the speech, protested in these terms: "I regret that a serious attack is carried, concerning papal election, to the liberty of the church and to the dignity of the Sacred College by a power laïcque, and I protest therefore energetically. As for my humble no one, I declare that nothing more honorable and nothing more pleasant could not happen to me." He/it says it standing, serious and pale, with an accent of dignity that moved the assembly and where was revealed all the elevation of his/her/its soul (23).

The answer of the Sacred College was clear and conclusive: The veto gave a voice besides to the cardinal Rampolla that, Sunday evening, collected thirty suffrages instead of twenty-nine. The veto only had his/her/its "odds" increased again - if one can say - of elevation.

The cardinal Rampolla, said My Lord Merry very exactly del Valley, it was my conviction would not have been elected pope, because the majority of the cardinals was absolutely decided to designate another candidate. He/it kept the possibility however to unite the number of necessary voices in his/her/its favor following the strong indigantion raised by the intervention of the cardinal Puzyna, in the name of the emperor of Austria-Hungary, who raised a violent emotional reaction among the Sacred College and determined it to raise a solemn protest for the defense of the liberty of the conclave and the rights of the church (24).

In his/her/its article of the Correspondent of October 10, 1903, M.Étienne Lamy assigns to "the exclusive rights" of Austria the failure of the cardinal Rampolla. To this topic, the famous writer tells a feature of which one doesn't succeed in discovering the source.

Since, he/it says, the second vote of Sunday didn't allow them the hope of success anymore for their candidate, they had to make to triumph, for lack of the person, his/her/its ideas. By the suffrages that he had gotten, by the very exclusive rights of which he was hit, Rampolla stayed the most considerable man of the conclave. If he/it indicated those that for lack of himself he/it preferred, the voices acquired to the cardinal would assure to this new candidacy and less designated to the antipathies such a superiority that she/it would drag his/her/its questions the general adherence. And as he/it would designate a successor of his/her/its politics, the new pontificate would perpetuate the patient tenderness where we would find intact again our odds the day where we would stop disdaining them. The manner whose cardinal Perraud had defended the liberty of the church and Rampolla designated it as the interpreter of his/her/its colleagues by this last. Loaded by them to express their intentions, the cardinal Perraud surrendered Sunday evening by the cardinal Rampolla, and made him know that they were ready to vote for all candidate indicated by him to their suffrages the Rampolla cardial welcomed the proposition with gratitude, but apologized not to accept it. In other circumstances, he had not failed to indicate, since one expressed him the desire of it, the candidate who appeared him most capable to serve the church. But the veto of Austria imposed to him, it believed, another duty. To counsel a candidacy be give up himself his: to renounce be submit there to the exclusion formulated by Austria. He/it didn't want, was not that that by an appearance, to recognize no efficiency to an abuse of the political authority. He/it would stay therefore voluntarily passive, would not withdraw more his/her/its candidacy that he/it had not put it.

Against these assertions of Étienne Lamy, the "witness" of the Magazine of the Two Worlds (the cardinal Mathieu) protests positively. He/it even laughs at pleasingly the comparison made by Étienne Lamy with the vases Spanish named alcarazas, that loses by the evaporation of a part of their liquid, all remaining plugged, and he/it adds: "Only, to collect the steam of water, a small operation is necessary that little to alter the liquid, and he/it seems that the still of M. Lamy didn't operate a blameless manner (25)."

In fact, the imperial interference didn't produce absolutely any positive effect on the walk of the papal election. Of the confession of the cardinal Mathieu, first big reader of the Rampolla cardial, the result of the vote was not influenced not at all by the veto of François-Joseph. According to the same cardinal, the former secretary of state of Léon XIII had reached the maximum of the suffrages on which he could count. The thirtieth voice that he/it gets to the vote of was in the evening only a suffrage of pure protest against the veto.
There is not to debate the hypothesis, written the cardinal in the Magazine of the Two Worlds. The most authorized witnesses affirm that the veto was only an incident and, as said one of them, a stroke of sword in the Tiber. To the moment, where he/it occurs, the Sacred College, was divided about the cardinal Rampolla, in two equal halves that would be never, granted on his/her/its name, and one began to dread a prolonged conclave (26).

But the legends have the hard life, and he/it is the mistakes whose tenacity resists all evidence, to the blinding certainties. This is how, more than ten years after the election of Magpie X, to the death of the big pope, Mr. Édouard Trogan, in an article besides very nice to the defunct and full pontiff of just and discriminating assertions: "The death of Magpie X"., wrote while finishing"… Magpie X dies of the fatal jolt that he caused the war, this war emaciated by the, Crown that had made it pope while "excluding" the cardinal Rampolla! History has the these coincidences (27)." history here, enrolls in forgery.
Already, Sunday morning, the patriarch of Venice had arrived to 21 voices, outside of the Austrian interference, because the bulletins were written scientist that she appeared. Voicie, besides the results of the third session, (of Sunday morning): Cardinal Rampolla, 29 voices - Sarto, 21, Gotti 9 - Divers,1.
The vote of Sunday evening (fourth session) gave the following results; cardinal Rompalla, 30 voices - Sarto, 24-Gotti, 5 - Various 3 - The progressive walk of the cardinal Sarto, distinctly demonstrated in all votes, was of the most meaningful.
Finally, the concern of venerated it patriarch of Venice becomes moving. The processes of his/her/its friends come up against the resistances of his/her/its humility; he/it implores, with tears, that one forgets it. "I am unworthy! I am incapable! Forget me!" he exclaims. One sees it prostrate to the foot of the altar, praying, the face bathed of tears. He/it wants to protest publicly before the conclave that he/it will never accept the supreme load. His/her/its most intimate friends succeed in dissuading of it to him: "I remember, tell My Lord Bressan, that while he/it went up the staircase, three cardinals, among which Vincent Vanutelli, approached of him and were urgent it to accept, repeating to him,; "Accept, "accept! (28)."

As the moment approaches decisive votes, the patriarch doubles his processes so that one forgets it. "But, tell the archbishop of Cologne, this ést precisely his/her/its humility that drew our attentions and made us judge it worthy to become the priest of The one that, for us, is humiliated itself as far as making itself/themselves our servant. " The cardial Gibbons, on his/her/its side, add: Who was "it his/her/its protests full of humility and wisdom decided the favors of the conclave, did his/her/its words well make more it estimate more that his/her/its œuvres and that this that told his/her/its friends of it (29)." Finally, how could we forget the intervention so noble of the cardinal Mathieu by the patriarch? He/it commits tells it himself in one his/her/its "revelations" on the conclave of 1903, he/it asks the cardinal Sarto to receive it. I tell to him, he/it writes, that I came to assure it of my devotion, that I would be happy to give him my voice the following day, and that no cardinal would be devoted him anymore than the French cardinal of curie. He/it answered me, the altered voice, that he/it was confused of what got ready, that he/it was only a humble pastor of souls, and apologized not to know French. I answered to him that he/it would learn it quickly. I added that I counted on his/her/its goodness for our poor country France for that I asked him to bless. I got on the knees, very touched, and he/it pronounced words of the blessing, then he/it thanked me and assured me his/her/its affection for our country.

To the vote of Monday morning, August 3 (fifth session), the vote gave resulted them following: cardinal Sarto, 27 voices, Rampolla, 24 - Gotti,6 - Various, 5 - The cardinal Sarto passed therefore in head.

Here, let's let the speech to a direct "witness" and between all allowed, the secretary of the conclave; My Lord Merry del Valley. The morning of August 3, he/it says, immediately after the first meeting of the cardinals in the Sixtie chapel, the cardinal-dean, Oreglia di Santo Sefano, demonstrated me his/her/its increasing concern concerning the election of the future pope.

The conclave seemed it, could not succeed to a fast decision, if, as t said it the cardinal-dean, the cardinal Sarto, in spite of the increasing number of suffrages in his/her/its favor, persisted in his/her/its farm and energetic refusal to become pope.

His/her/its Eminence, feeling holding in conscience to make a leaves that the things don't drag too much in length, sent me by the Sarto cardial to ask him if him now his/her/its refusal, and if, then, he/it wanted and allowed to S.Ém.le cardinal-dean to make to the conclave a public and definitive declaration in this sense during the meeting of the afternoon. In this case, the cardinal-dean would have invited his colleges to think, or, all has less, to consider the opportunity of doors their choice on another candidate.

I left on-the field in search of the cardinal Sarto. One had told to me that he/it was not in his/its room and that I would probably find it in the Paolina chapel

He/it was close to noon when I entered canopy the silent and dark chapel.

The lamp of the sanctuary answered a quick gleam owing the Very Saint-Sacrament and, on the altar, some candles burned every side of the counts of Notre-Dame of the Good Council.

I saw a cardinal knelt on the pavement of marble close to the altar, damaged in the prayer, the head between the hands and the elbows pushed on a small bench.

It was the cardinal Sarto.

I knelt myself next to him and, in a low voice, I transmitted him the message of which I had been charged.

His/her/its Eminence, immediately after having heard me, raised the eyes and turned the head slowly on my side, while abundant tears sprang of its eyes.

In presence of such a tribulation, I kept my breath in the waiting of his/her/its answer.

"Yes, yes, Eminence, he/it added mildly, tell the cardinal-dean that he/it makes me this charity."

To this moment, he/it seemed me that he/it repeated words of the divine Mr. in Gethsémani: Transeat has me calix iste!

The only words that I had the shape to pronounce and that live spontaneously on the lips were: "Eminence, be courageous, the Lord will help you!

The cardinal fixed attentively on me his/her/its deep look that, thereafter, and thanks to an admirable disposition of the divine Providence, I learned to know so well, and he added merely: "Thank you, mercie." He hid his/its face again in his/her/its hands and continued his/her/its prayer.

I withdrew myself, I will never forget the impression deep indelible m, that I carried away my meeting with the cardinal Sarto. It was the first time that I entered in contact with him, and I had the feeling to have been in presence of a saint.
Some hours later, before the cardinal-dean could inform the Sacred College of the decision of the cardinal Sarto not to accept to become pope, this one yielded to the pressing processes of his/her/its eminent colleagues and, after the meeting of the afternoon, one was certain that the following day he would be elected pope to a strong majority (30

 It is probably to this moment that he/it agrees "to situate" intervention really poingnante of the cardinals Shoed and Satolli, by the humble patriarch. Here it is how told it Jean grant-Baptist Parolin (nephew of the cardinal Sarto) in his/her/its deposition to the Roman plain Suit..

… Cardinal Ferrari told to me that, prayed by his/her/its colleagues, as co-provincial of God's Servant, having been bishop of Guastalla, Côme and Milan, and "work" God's Servant so that he accepted the pontificate, God's Servant answered to him: "I give up the cardinalat, I make myself capuchin, because, while thinking to be a pope, I feel to die. " cardinal Ferrari retorts to him: Expedit ul unus homo moriatur and non tota people pereat. " The cardinal's efforts Shoed stayed useless, when this one was informed its colleagues, the cardinal Satolli tempted the test. God's Servant answered to him: "I promised to return living or dead in Venice."
To what the cardinal Satolli retorts: "Your Eminence did well to say living or dead; the accidents of railroads are so nowadays frequent (some times had taken place before the disaster on the line of Mansion Giubileo); Your Eminence wants to resist the will of God so clearly demonstrated by the Sacred College, and as Jonas escapes the face of the Lord. The Lord could really permit an accident, of which Your Eminence could really be victim, with a lot of other, and she would be in front of God responsible for so many other victims."

God's Servant answered: "By charity, me so-called not of these things that freeze me blood! " The cardinal Satolli retorts: "These things, I tell them to you because Your Eminence doesn't accept to be a pope. " It was then God's Servant, raising the hands in the sky, exclaimed: "That God's will is made! " Cardinal happy gone Satolli carries the news to his/her/its colleagues, all this, me the au so by cardinal Ferrari (31).

What drama to the heart of this man so big, in the soul of this priest so holy! He/it never knew other ambition that in the silence and the obscurity buried to stay, small "vicar of country" among the small people and the poor most abandoned; However, here it is that God's hand seizes it in an awful and irresistible embrace to hoist it to the dizziest summits, to the very heights where the mind orders. Under the terrifying embrace, previously the prophets elected trembled, tried to flee. Before the chalice stretched by the paternal and inexorable Hand, The man-God had collapsed, sweating of blood, under the olive trees of Gethsémani, and by three. He/it had implored: "Father, if he/it is possible, that this Chalice moves away of me!.." has the hour where is proposed him most sublime size, the most sovereign glory, the cardinal Sarto lived this déréliction, endured the tearing of his/her/its nature kneaded of humility, under the almighty will of The one that "exalts the humble". Because, that one doesn't speak here of "weakness" at the cardinal Sarto. This saint had all courages, all strengths that communicate an invincible faith. And if he/it cried before the size that, imperious, imposed itself to him if, against this size, he/it struggled of all of strengths, it is because his/her/its clairvoyance measured, the extent and the requirements of this size, and it is because it had to one exceptional degree, the feeling of his/her/its weakness, of the human misery, joined if need be intense to pass here below as shattered, to the example of the Mr. Divin that "being God was annihilated…" Ever, to no moment of his/her/its life, Giuseppe Sarto won't have been bigger and more beautiful than in the holocaust of his/her/its supreme elevation.

To the vote of Monday evening, August 2 (sixth session), the cardinal Sarto got 35 voices, the cardinal Rampolla, 16-Gotti, 7 - Divers,4.
The election was assured for the following day.

Tuesday morning, August 4, indeed, in a seventh vote, the Sarto cardial got 50 voices, against 10 to the cardinal Rampolla and 2 in the cardinal Gotti

The three census taker named to control the numbers, cardinal Richard Manara and Della Volpe having verified the bulletins and noted that the cardinal Sarto had not voted for him, the venerable archbishop of Paris, dean of the census takers, proclaimed the patriarch of Venice elected pope by 50 voices.

In the stream of the anecdotes, the supposed narrations or descriptions given of moments that survivrent the election, and where the fantasy mingles with the truth, we will value ourselves of it to the official deposition of the "witness" My Lord Bressan, secretary and concalviste of the cardinal Sarto and to the rrelation of the cardinal Merry del Valley.

The election made, tell My Lord Bressan, while I was very near of the Sixtine chapel, reciting my breviary, I was called. I spliced at the chapel. The cardinal I appeared like a dead, so big was his/her/its emotion. I heard that one put him (It was the cardinal-dean, Macchi) the question: Do you "accept etc" (Accept yourselves the election that has just been made of your person as pope? " God's Servant answered: "I am prepared to make "God's will The cardinal who interrogated insisted to have an explicit answer: then God's Servant pronounced with decision his/her/its answer: "I accept (32)."

Here, Marchesan and Daëllis add some slim details.

The cardinal Sarto, although he/it was ready to the sacrifice, hesitated to answer. He/it had the eyes full of tears, drops of sweat formed on its cheeks, and he/it appeared close to vanish. Nearly all cardiaux also cried, after one moment of silence, he/it answered Jesus' speech in the garden of Gethsémani: "That this chalice passes far from me! However, that God's will is made! " this doesn't have the official answer, and the dean restarted the question with a light muance of impatience. The Sarto cardial pronounced the waited speech: "I accept", but he/it added: In crucem! Cmme a cross. And, turning toward the cardiaux the closer to his/her/its person, he/it says: "I hope that you will help me to carry it." The cardinal Oreglia asks him again: "How do you want to be called? " He/it answered literally: "In memoriam Pontificum Sanctorum quorum patrocinio maxim indigeo, and illorum that ultimis praecipue temporibus persecutiones Ecclesiam in and in ipsos illatas strenue pertulerunt, Pius vocabor. In memory of the Saints Pontiffs of which the patronage I am the most necessary, and of those that, especially in this last time, supported with so much courage the persecution unleashed against the church and against them even, I will be called Magpie (33)."

The conclave was finished. To this moment were lowered the canopies of the cardiaux, except the one of the elected. The big master of the ceremonies, My Lord Riggi, gave the readings of the minutes of the elections. The Pontiff was driven then to the vestry to don the costume of the popes there. "He/it looked like a convicted to death.! Declares My Lord Bressan. I remember that the camérier was also very touched, that it sobbed and didn't know to put the shoes of God's Servant; the one - here then, with energy, took them and shoed them himself (34)."

I had the privilege, tell My Lord Merry del Valley, to cover it of the white skullcap, he/it took place then on the seat that faced the high altar and the cardinals, according to the use, presented themselves, by order of presence, and tilted before the new elected, while the cardinal-most aged deacon, the cardinal Macchi, left the Sixtine chapel in order to proclaim the election of His/her/its Holiness of the Loggia dominating Saint Peter big place (35).

"During the first homage of the cardinals, declare to this topic My Lord Bressan, God's Servant stayed very touched (36)."

When, to the central loggia of the Saint Peter basilica, above the porch, appeared the Macchi eminence, preceded of the papal and consistent cross of the conclavistes, the clock sounded eleven heurs three quarters. The innumerable crowd, jusqu there impatient and nervous, welded immobile, made silence, the silence of the sacred waitings,; one heard the officer's dry brief voice that ordered to his/her/its men to present the weapons only.

Of the top of the loggia, the cardinal annunziatore pronounces, of a strong voice, speak them ritual: "I announce you a big joy; we have a pope, sound Shreds Révérendissime the cardinal Joseph Sarto, that took the name of Magpie X." A double salvo of applause, mingled of unanimous hourrahs and raving cheerings, greet these words.

Dominating the unceasing explosion of the rejoicing screams: "Eviva, viva Pio X! Viva him Dad Pio X! ", Saint Peter bumblebee, to which answers the bells of the seven hundred churches of Rome, start to distribute on the Eternal City, then of hill in hill, the happy news. The crowd, then, estimated to more of thirty thousand person, hurry in the basilica, hurry, cram, to receive the first blessing of the new elected.

About this blessing, some journalists, of the biographers, one t "embroidered" like to pleasure.

In front of assertions, that seem us "listened to the doors of the legend", we will mention the official and public testimony of My Lord Merry del Valley, and the one of the cardinal Mathieu.

He/it is of use, wrote My Lord Merry del Valley, that, immediately after his/her/its election, the pope gives his/her/its first solemn blessing, Urbi and Orbi. The master of the ceremonies, My Lord Riggi, demand to the new elected if he/it wanted to give it of the internal loggia of the basilica or one of the external loggias, oriented toward the city. The Holy Father asks me what was the opinion of the sacred-college. On the order of the cardinal-dean consulted, I informed His/her/its Holiness that the College of the cardinals had debated this question before the conclave in a meeting which the Sarto cardial had not attended, and, while expressing the opinion that the papal benedictine had to give himself/itself on the territory of the basilica, to the example of Léon XIII, he didn't hear to limit the liberty of His/her/its holiness and let him the care of décider.¸ "I would let myself guide by the judgment of the Sacred College". Answered the pope. Having asked him if he/it wanted to surrender immediately to Saint-Pierre or if he/it preferred to send back the blessing to later in the evening, he/it answered that it was indifferent to him and that he/it would make what was the more indicated. I took the liberty then to tell to him that he/it was worth not to delay the ceremony better, what he/it accepted (37).

On his/her/its side, the cardinal Mathieu told in the Magazine of the Two World:

.. One had discussed a lot about this blessing. That she/it was given by the pope turned toward the Saint Peter place or toward the inside of the church, the thing, by herself, didn't have any importance, but one had attached a political significance there; toward the place, it meant that the pope aimed the arms to the Quirinal and accepted all accomplished facts, Magpie X could not be suitable to a similar interpretation, and there was not a voice to advise him a risky blessing, condemned there the advance by the example and the feelings very known of his/her/its two predecessors. He/it presented himself/itself therefore, followed of all cardinals, to the "Loggia" inside where he/it was greeted by an acclamation and an is enthusiastic, that presented the choice of the Sacred College. He/it blesses the City and the world of a soft and nice voice that went right to the heart of the crowd. Then him rentas in Vatican, to be going to kiss always in his/her/its bed the cardinal Herrera sick and go back up in his/her/its cell (38).

To this topic, the faithful secretary My Lord Brassan, witness of all these instants so dramatic, says in his/her/its deposition: When he/it advanced to give his/her/its blessing and that Saint Peter basilica appeared full of a tight crowd (gremeta), God's Servant pronounced, with a real act of will, in a strong voice, the formula of the apostolic blessing (39).

About visit in the cardinal Herrera, mentioned by the cardinal Mathieu, L.Daëlli adds these moving details:
… The pontiff comforted the venerable sick by agreeable and devout words, and gave him the apostolic blessing, while adding: "As first grace, I ask the Lord to heal you, so that you reviewed your church soon." E as the patient, confused of so much goodness and touched of an attention as delicate, mumbled of acknowledgments "I only made my duty", answered Magpie X. the pope's wish achieved itself, the cardinal Herrera, was soon robust enough to regain Valencia (40).

In the evening of this day so oppressive, My Lord Merry del Valley, as secretary of the Sacred College, presented itself at the Sovereign Pontiff, in his/her/its private room, to the third floor, the one that it occupied during the conclave, to make sign it the letters addressed to the chiefs of state, announcing them his/her/its election officially. I found the Holy Father èa his/her/its table, reciting the breviary, he/it tells. I only knew too much that he/it had to be tired after this logue day so full of évènements and I regretted to bother it. He/it welcomed me with a smile. Kneeling me to kiss him the hand, I asked it to really want to excuse me to add again to his/her/its fatigue. I knew how much he/it should feel tired and I would not have dared disturbs it, tell to him me, if it was not indispensable to send without delay these official letters, "But yes, month yes, Eminence", he/it answered amiably, and him addition immediately: "And you, are not maybe you as tired! I saw during these days how much you you êts given with ardor to your task" This unexpected answer proved a disposition of Magpie X, disposition that I so often had the opportunity to observe thereafter, the one to forget itself/themselves himself to think about the other. He/it seemed incredible to me that in equal day and after so much emotion, he/it forget itself/themselves so quickly himself to think about the other. He/it seemed incredible to me that in equal day and after so much emotion, he/it forgot himself/itself so quickly himself, and that he/it carried his/its attention not on his/her/its fatigue, but on mine… He/it asked me to indicate to him how he/it had to sign these letters and, on a small sheet of paper that he/it had before him, he/it made the test of his/her/its first papal signature: Pius Pp. X

After he/it had signed pies the letters, I asked it to give me his/her/its blessing, because my intention was to return in my small community of the ecclesiastical academy (41). astonishes these some words Apparently, the Holy Father marks its surprise by an expressive gesture and, putting his/her/its hands on my shoulder, it nearly tells me on tone of reproach: "Eminence, you want to abandon me! Us, no, remain with me., I didn't take a decision again, I don't know what I will make. For the meantime, I don't have anybody, remained with me as pro-sécrétaire of state… then, we will see. Return I this service in friend. " How to resist, to a call as touching on behalf of the Christ's Priest! Me then only to incline me before what appeared to be an invitation of Notre-Seigneur himself. His/her/its holiness encouraged me and blesses me while telling to me that it waited me for the following day in the morning (42).

About this nomination, it is interesting to collect the deposition of My Lord Pescini.

Him (Magpie X) named My Lord Merry del pro-secretary Valley of state, and he/it believed to make an act of deference thus towards the Sacred College, which, for lack of the secretary of the Consistoiriale, had elected, of his/her/its own movement, this prelate (Merry del Valley), as secretary of the conclave. This nomination was judged variously and was appreciated. Some cardinals had united like to intend spontaneously for this load, but God's Servant had dropped the auto-candidacies. The cardinal Oreglia, dean of the Sacred College, appeared offended very by the nomination of My Lord Merry del Valley, and this nomination was the main reason of this cardinal's progressive coldness with regard to the pope, who was afflicted some deeply (43).

 In the evening of August 4, forgetting itself/themselves again himself to think about the other, S.S.Pie X wanted to write, of his/her/its own hand, his/her/its former collaborator, the general priest of Venice. Here is the text of his/her/its letter: Of Vatican, August 4, 1903

Illustrissime and Révérendissime Eminence, Bressan grant already announced you by telegram that, although I was the most unworthy and most incapable of all cardinals, the divine Providence wanted to raise me on the Apostolic Seat of the Sovereign pontificate. My heart was in a hurry to tell you my feelings of quick gratitude for the admirable that you helped me during nine whole years as general priest, I would be well happy when I will be able to prove you my recognition. Guided by my quick affection for my dear children of Venice, I want, at present of the less, to keep the administration of the archdiocese, and I give you again, for it to you and in Monsignor Pantaleo, all necessary powers. I recommend myself at the same time to your prayers and to the prayers of all good, and I give you, of big of heart, to you, to my venerable clergy and to my dear people of Venice, the apostolic blessing. Your very devoted and very respectful in Christ.

Pio PP. X (44).

The brother of the Pontiff and his/her/its two sœurs, Anna and Maria, who had followed it in Venice, learned, the first, by a telegram of My Lord Bressan, the election of the cardinal Sarto. The two sœurs welcomed this news like a disaster and stayed a long time inconsolable. To someone that told to him: "Your sœurs must be very happy to your election", Magpie X, the serious face, answered: "My sœurs cried a long time, as I cried myself. »

Himself, indeed, this man to the big heart, to the soul so strong, a long time cried, the testimony of his/her/its secretaries and commensaux, My Lord Bressan, and My Lord Pescini, attest it, My Lord Pescine, that had been at Rome after the election of the patriarch of Venice, deposited:

… He/it welcomed me with an initialed natural, asking me for news of the familiar and the things of Venice, and looking after that that that one gave me to eat. Come in the evening, to his/her/its table, I can notice his/her/its dejection and his/her/its extraordinary paleness. Although he/it tried to make itself/themselves violence and to appear indifferent, he/it had lost his/its usual brio, he/it ate little or point of the all, and he/it didn't succeed in taking sleep. This first evening, I live it to cry without constraint, and by continuation I noticed that the tears came back him every time that one spoke of Venice or that he/it received people of this country (45).

It was necessary to dominate so much emotion however. Because, before even the ceremony of the coronation, took place of the audiences, to audiences of the official world, audiences of the innumerable friends or former collaborators, his/her/its priests, laic, ran from Riese, of Trévise, of Venice, of everywhere or Giuseppe Sarto had passed. To all, he/it was suitable with a courage imprints the quickest cordiality, like the most perfect dignity. The first audience, dedicated to the Diplomatic corps, put while seizing to join this "peasant's noble distinction. ", of "companion's small vicar". My Lord Merry del Valley let us the narration of this meeting:

Immediately after his/her/its election, the Saint - Father had to receive the Diplomatic corps, Mr. of Antas, ambassador of Portugal and dean of the Diplomatic corps, solicited an audience… The audience was fixed to August 6. At eleven o'clock of this same day, the ambassadors and the ministers arrived to Vatican in big uniform, accompanied by their continuation of secretaries and attachés. later, one of them confessed me that, while they climbed the big staircase of the palace, several told themselves curious i how the new pope would receive them. They believed that X magpie would be ill at ease in similar, circumstance and that he would feel embarrassed, not having the habit of the pomp of a Court ceremony, because, contrarily his/her/its famous predecessor Léon XIII, he was of modest origin, "a simple vicar of country…" I didn't attend the receipt, while not having the obligation the right. I worked in my office, in the Borgia room, when my chapelain announced to me that the Diplomatic corps also had the intention to return me visit, in my quality of pro-secrétiare, as soon as after the pope's audience… They arrived shortly after, with shine to them continuation… After the greetings of use, there was one pause, and I noticed that all seemed impressed. The conversation only continued with pain. I asked them if they were satisfied with their audience, if the Holy Father had made a speech. He/it answered me by monosyllables… Yes, they were satisfied very, yes, the Holy Father had said some words, had received them with a big cordiality. New pause… I end up feeling me ill at ease, asking me for what had happened if there had been an unpleasant incident, that that, all things considered, had caused this reserve and of exceptional seriousness. Without preamble, the minister of Prussia résolut the enigma.

"Eminence, he/it says literally, tell us therefore, that has-t him this man who attracts so much! - yes, tell us", took several other diplomats.

A few surprised, I asked them if, by chance, he/it had happened something unusual during the audience, and for what reasons they asked me a similar question.

No, nothing exceptional intervening stay. They added that the Holy Father had not maintained them a long time and that after a brief answer to the address read by their dean, it had made the tour of the room, greeting each in particular and had retired, but that it had let them "under his/her/its personality's charm (46)."

I answered merely that I didn't know His/her/its Holiness that since some days, and than me also I had been impressed by his/her/its personal seduction, without adding other explanations…

Far from weakening, this impression of deep reverence and esteem for Magpie X only made increase, with time, among the members of the Diplomatic corps. These feelings not only existed among the representatives of Catholic religion states stranger, but they were as fully shared by their colleagues without exception (47).

However, arrived to the supreme honor, the humble Pontiff keeps at the heart, with a tenderness sharpened by the sacrifice, the memory of the friends. Since the following day of his/her/its election, he/it writes to the bishop of Padua, My Lord Giuseppe Callegari that was previously his/her/its in Trévise, and that remained one of his/her/its best friends:

Illustrissime excellence and Révérendissime, put back consternation again badly, produced in me by the awful cross that weighs on my shoulders I feel the care to send to the very tender friend a loving hello. Oh! That I would like to see Your Excellence to pour out in his/her/its heart works hard it of my heart! But I don't have courage to tell to him: Come to Rome. Bathing tears this first letter written of Mount Calvary or wanted me the Lord, with a very loving kiss, I send Your excellence and to his/her/its diocesans, and to all his/her/its but the apostolic blessing. Of Vatican, August 5, 1903. His/her/its very obligated and very loving in Christ. Magpie X. pope (48).

During the days that preceded his/her/its coronation, Magpie X "continued his/her/its kind of life, having his/her/its meals with me. He/it stole neither sweets nor special food (49)". Since the following day of his/her/its elevation, he/it had received, with the most charming simplicity and his/her/its usual goodness, in the same room of the conclave, the famous Perosi maestron, his/her/its dear protégé, M.Fournari, corresponding in Rome of the newspaper The Difesa, knight Rosa, statuary religious and former friend of His/her/its Holiness, who had the permission to model the prayer enacts the Pope. This same day, he/it received, the visit of the director and the pupils of the College Lombard, or he/it descended once when he/it came to Rome. To the address that read him the superior, he/it wanted to answer some words of acknowledgments; but the emotion to seize and the secoura qu bridge that he/it can only ask for their prayers. "One imposed me a cross above my strengths. " he says (50). However, this same day, to ten hours and half, took place, in the Sixtine chapel, the solemn obedience of the cardinals, that had to end by the You Deum. X magpie returned itself of it non point in the chair to carrier but to feet, and celebrated the ritual office with big majesty.

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