Show POPE PIUS X DIES GRIEVING OVER LAST ILLNESS BEGAN AS GREAT WAR OPENED AND AD GRIEF HAS THE END declares Ve clares that in ancient times the pope by a word might have stayed the slaughter but now he is Ini impotent potent 11 rome POPO Pope plus pius X died at thursday morning august 20 ile he had been 11 lif for several days but alarming symptoms did develop un til wednesday morning throughout tile the day ars marchia fava and amica devotee L their utmost ener energies enerst gt to stimulating their patient and keeping him alive the cardinals were notified of tile the popes grave condition and some of then them wilo who entered tho the sick room describe tile the impressive and heartrending scenes especially when the pontiff rousing himself from froin time to time tinly spoke once lie ha said in ancient times tile the pope by a word might have stayed the slaughter but now lie he Is impotent prayers were said by thousand 3 ind and tile the bells of tile the churches sounded bounded when the sacrament was exposed upon all the altars when the court leathed of the popes condition there was tile tho deepest concern king victor I 1 emmanuel personally informed queen helena and the news was colu communicated muni to the queen mother extreme unction was administered by itar mgr Zam pint sacristan to bla holl ness amid a most touching seena the sisters of the pope and his niece we were re ove overcome acome with grief cardnal cardinal merry del val knelt by the side of ils ha bed where other cardinals joined it alir the members of tile the household lieou lag 1119 prayers the dying pope in a moment of lucidity said now I 1 begin to think as the end is approaching that the almighty in ills his inexhaustible goodness wilches to spare me the horrors europe Is undergoing cardinal della delia volpe chamberlain ol 01 the church who on the popes death assumes direction of the holy bee during tile the interregnum was summoned from rom imola imi and left immediately fol foi rome A message was sent to the th popes brother angelo urging jilin him to acme to rome as quickly as possible while the popes sister signora reached the vatican before death ensued the Gl ornale ditalia dl dIl talia talla discussing th thac difficulties of holding a conclave toi foi the hie election of a pope while the world Is at war says that even if italy were among the belligerents every facility would be given the sacred college tc meet it expresses tile bellet belief that eliat a new popo pope might be chosen from among the foreign cardinals foi in it acce cardinal william van rossum it the archdiocese of utrecht the netherlands who would be re presenta tive of a neutral power the tribune says the pope was wae the victim of the war in these latter days lie he dictated a great number ot of dispatches and tried to avoid the horrors of a european war the rupture of peace broke down the last remnants of his strength that the pope was grieving deeply over dver the state of europe even to the ast was evidenced by ills his words dur ing one of his lucid intervals in it me afternoon now I 1 am forced to see lie he wills whis pored the spectacle of my own calill iren even those ano yesterday worked here with me leave for the war abandon the cassock and cowl for the soldiers uniform yesterday al though they were of different dlf terent nation nailon flit les they were ivere hero here studying in sympathetic companionship now in ill different fields they are armed against each other ready to take each others lives grief over the war in europe caused the pope much depression from the first outbreak and several days ago symptoms lymp toms appeared of the old bron hial elal affection from which the pontiff biad ad suffered times past pope plus X was born joseph sarto n italian gluseppe giuseppe Melch lovre sarto it t riese near venice june 2 1835 tie he was the child of poor peasants ile ho rose to a station considered by mil ions of people the most exalted in the world talent displayed at an early age and developed to an extraordinary legree deep piety broad human sympathy and tireless energy brought about his marvelous roar success all his ife lie he held the love of his fellow men he was tile the pope of the poor ills his grandfather was a soldier in the apal army under tinder gregory XVI ills hla ather wor worked ked in ill tile the fields and as communal som om carrier struggling to main |