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Show LEO'S FIRST APPEARANCE AS POPE. The Tope's first appearance in public pub-lic to give the Papal Benediction took place immediately after his election, in the balcony inside St. Peter's between the two clocks at tho end of the church where from an early hour an anxious crowd had been waiting to hear the new Pontiff proclaimed Leo XIII, Pont if ex Maximus, the first prisoner-Pope prisoner-Pope in his own city, and the only one in the long line of the successors of St. Peter unable to give the benediction benedic-tion out in the eyes of the world, in view of that glorious horizon of the papal city and the eternal hills beyond. be-yond. But the loyalty of his children has assuaged the bitterness of his imprisonment, impris-onment, for to few of the occupants of the See of Peter in any age, has been given in the same degree of the loving homage and heartfelt devotion accorded accord-ed our prisoner-Pope in his quiet home at the Vatican. On the 3rd of March, 1S78, the final ceremonial of Leo XIII's coronation took place in the Sistine Chapel in presence of the Cardinals, prelates, papal court dignitaries and a vast assemblage of persons. After the ceremony was over the newly-elected Pope, in all the pontifical vestments and wearing the triple crown, was solemnly born through the closely-serried ranks of people, giving giv-ing his benediction to right and left and greeted at the portals for the first time by the shout of "Viva Leone XIII, Viva, il Papa-Re," which has re-echoed within with-in those walls so many times during the last twenty-two years. |