Show SAVING A POPES LIFE Alexander Devine in the Manchester City News tells the following remarkable anecdote of the late Sir Harry Verney One of his famous exploits was riding across Argentina One day his attention wajdrawn to a figure lying on the road sidePfeome miles from Santiago under the shelter of a rude hut of leaves and branches Pulling up he discovered a priest who turned out to he In high condition con-dition of fever Verney obtained assistance assist-ance had the prostrate man carried to his own rooms and practically nursed him into convalescence and eventual recovery After some months of friendly intercourse and companionship the two Separated and probably never thought to meet again Many years passed so many that the majority of men had lived their lives and died but the two who had met under such striking circumstances still Irved the one Sir Harry Verney the other no less a person per-son than Pio Nono pope of Rome |