Identifier: lifeofpopepiusix00shea (find matches)
Title: The life of Pope Pius IX..
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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he undergoessuch a captivity that it is utterly impossi-ble for him to exercise his pastoral author-ity with security, ease, and liberty. This grand document closes with ap-23 354 LIFE OF POPE PIUS IX. peals to all to pray for the Church ofGod amid the evils come upon it, and es-pecially for a speedy deliverance and therestoration of peace. It will ever remainas a record of the great wrongs perpe-trated on Italy by an ambitious king, andthe revolutionary ideas of which he is theinstrument, as well as of the noble firm-ness of the great Pope, and his solemnprotest in the name of God and Christian-ity CHAPTEK XIII. The Prisoner of the Vatican.—The Law ofGuarantees.—The Encyclical of May,1871, condemning it.—peters pence.—its EXI PLOYMENT. —ThE YEA RS OF PETER. —THE Twenty-fifth Anniversary of his Elec-tion and Coronation. The last remnant of the temporal powerhad been wrested from the Pope. Hispalaces, except the Vatican, were seized.Possession wTas taken of the Quirinal to
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LIFE OF POPE PITTS IX. 357 convert it into a residence for VictorEmmanuel. Convents, churches, hospitalseven were seized for barracks, governmentoffices, stables. Nothing was left to PopePius IX. but the little corvette, the Im-maculate Conception, over which his flagstill floated, and which, after cruising inthe waters of Civita Vecchia, finally tookrefuge at Toulon. The Pope is indeed atthe Vatican; but the so-called Italian gov-ernment claims that palace, with its gal-leries and treasures of art, and even thearchives of the Church. It is guarded bysoldiers of Victor Emmanuel and watchedby his police. The danger of the Popeappealing personally to his people wasdeemed so great that the guards withoutmade the windows the dead line. Everyone appearing conspicuously at a windowfound that he was at once covered by therifles of the soldiery without. Most of those who held office under thePontifical government refused to take the 358 LIFE OF POPE PIUS IX. oath of allegiance to the conquero

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