BENEDICT FIFTEENTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15750, 27 October 1914, Page 4

BENEDICT FIFTEENTH.

«e- . THE NEW POPE'S CAREER. [from OUR CORR!^rOS - DE\ir.] London-. September 4. The Tope of lowly birth has been succeeded by a Pontiff, also an Italian, but of noble family. Cardinal Delia Chicsa was finally elected yesterday, Cardinal Maffi having secured 30 votes in the second ballot. Numerous cardinals, it is said, voted for Cardinal Merrier, Archbishop of Malines, as a protest against German action in Belgium. Cardinal Ferrata obtained about 20 votes. Cardinal l.nreiizclli is laid up with slight indisposition, and Cardinal Seralino Vennutclli has had a fall, by which his legs were badly hurt. The customary ceremonial followed the election. The "first benediction by the new Pontiff was given inside and not outside St. Peter's.

i Ciacomo Delia Chiesa wag born at i Henna in 1854. With the exception of .Pius IX.. who -was elected Pone at the I (jo of 54, Benedict XV. is one of tbo I youngest Pontiffs of modem times, havI ing not yet completed his 60th year. He J was ordained in 1878. which implies that j lie must have passed straight from school j to liis ecclesiastical studies, and that ho ! ran have known little of the world before I his seminary days. Five years later, on May 28. 1883. when he "was still only 28, he was made one of the Cauierien Segreti Sopranumerari. a distinction which carries with it (he title of monsignore ami allows the hearer to wear the costuino of a lesser porporate. lie became at the same time, secretary to the Papal Embassy at the Spanish Court, remain in" abroad until 1887, when lie joined the household of Cardinal liampolla, then Secretary of State. Ho was promoted to more distinguished functions in the same department in 1902, and in 1907 he became Archbishop of Bologna. His admission to the Sacred College dates only from May 28 of this year, when he was created Cardinal Priest, of tlw title dei Santi Quatero Coronali in succession to the late Cardinal Respighi.

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