THE POPE.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2888, 7 March 1916, Page 1

THE POPE.

HIS PLEA TO AUSTRIA FOR VENICE.

STOP ZEPPELIN RAIDS

London, Feb. 24. The Times corres-po'iideint at Rome sayw tlnait Cardinal 'Meroier. ihe victim of the Germans at Mal-ines, has expressed Kit.i.sfaction regarding his interniews with the Pope, although he had mot B-ccurcd any <altcra'tion of 'the V-ntiicnin policy Tcya<rding .neutrality. Hie Holunees, he eaid, informed Oi'im that he was grieved because of tho alr-r.T,idp over Italy, which violated the prinoiplcs of warfare, and he 'had doruivnded a guarantee <if the safety of St. Mark's in Venice," and had suggested the abandonment of bonibclTopiiing in f.tio Austro-Italian war. [ibfc. iMary*s Church, in the Square of St. Mark, in Venice, is one of tho moKt ftvmous churches in the world. It is uinrivia'led for the splendour of its .ittterioir ,iils wonderful mosaics, its gorgeoua altar screen, th'ePalla o'Oro, it« ,i:labae.tor coluui'iis, and encmsited marbles. Above the principal portal stand the celebrated' four horses in gilded bronze, the only existing specimen of an ancient quadriza. Tn front of the church are three richly-decor-ated pedestals erecit-ed in 1505, and on the south side are two ancient pilasters, with Greek monograms, wl-'rih have stood there since 1256. The church is rich with art treasures and monumental memoirs of ancient history. I__ tho Square of St. Mark al<-x> stand tihe Royal Palace, the TCiint, ■tihe Palace of the Doges, and mmny otlierr Ihlistoricial buildJiigJs.]