| Show THE POPE 10 AVIGNON A stating that the city council of avignon has bag offered to restore the ancient papal palace in that city with a view of inviting the pope to take up his tibi there ereg recalls the fact that avignon for a long wua was the refuse refuge of the head bead of the bromn church during the sc ac called babylonian captivity element clement V during the tormy stormy between french and italian pr prelates pre latee elates took a decided atana tor for france and finally bad to leave rome he or betat tat fished himself to in avignon in 1309 and the papal court remained there until 1876 1376 when gregole XI returned to rome but until 1413 lit it remained the seat of anti italian popes and the world witnessed the curious spectacle appo f two visible heads beada of one vehemently condemning the be other rhe abe retirement of the POPO pope to avignon in the fourteenth century was waa one of those events event which acted on the catholic world like an earthquake arth quake it rent the superstructure and prepared in deome fome measure eure the way for the reformation it to la not probable that the present pope nor ner any of his successors will voluntarily retire from the alleged gee flee of 01 st peter and repeat the experiment ol of a captivity f avignon ithe chief town of the department part ment of vaucluse Vau cluse in france it i actuated on a beautiful plain on the rhone its ita climate oli matei however to ie a contradiction of its beautiful surround i bugs as ag maybe may be judged fudged from its for or atea winds wind and sickness to avignon the proverb referd liable to the plague when it has nut the wind and plagued w with iab the wind when it he hai it if the ancient papal palace la is a complex of buildings covering more than an acre it hat has been allow d tp to decay but lately a restora tion has baa been iu ic with a view of appropriating the abe building for civic and ecclesiastical purposes |
