ILLNESS OF THE POPE

North Otago Times, Volume C, Issue 13139, 21 August 1914, Page 5

ILLNESS OF THE POPE

(Per Cable.—Press Association,—Copyright) HIS CONDITION SERIOUS.,. UNCONSCIOUS SINCE NOON.. ' . " BOMB, August 110. (Morning). : His Holiness the Pope is sinking, having been unconscious since noon. , ■ .. The doctors are administering pxy-

His Holiness Pope Pius X.'J'Gftrsep'ptf' Sarto, aged 77, is the son of born at Biese, in the Venetia'ri'Province* of Treviso; was a parish' '-pviRMt 1 ' until' nearly,forty years of age;'' : h'e'!becalriei successively canon ofTreVisb'Gatliddraf, Episcopal Chancellor, Spriitlial Dii-ectoi'.' of Treviso'College, Deaiij'.ami'eventually Vicnr-General and Bi'slib|r r of'Maii l tua. In IS93■ was created-Cardinal, 1 with tire title of St. Berna'i'do* alio" Ferine, and' Patriarch of the'-ahclen't seeof Venice. Hia elcction-tb the 'Papacy' in 1903 was a complete surprise t'o the outside world, to whom his name was hardly known. His encyclicals against., socialism and the modern spivit'iii the Church have been much ing -1913 "lie was more .than once'seriously ill. -. .■ ; '" ,r ■'■ ■•■!