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Show ADRIAN VI AND PIUS X. ! In an article which he contributes to the Dublin Review 'the" Bishop of Salford, England, draws an interesting contrast between the Dutch pope, Adrian VI, and the present Holy Father. Like Adrian VI, Pope Pius X is, he points out, essentially a man of the people. Of lowly origin, by sheer force of intellectual talent, of personal virtue, of high character, he has been raised by Providence from the humblest rank to the supreme dignity on earth. The simple, frugal life and homely tastes, the dislike dis-like of unnecessary court ceremonial of the peasant's peas-ant's son of Riese, recall" those of the weaver's son of Utrecht. And if Adrian VI during his brief pontificate showed himself a true reformer, what, asks the bishop, have we not been led to expect in the way of reforms by the short period that has elapsed since the elevation of Tius X to the Papacy?. Pa-pacy?. The election of Adrian appeared to be providential. provi-dential. Ambition and the spirit of the world had found their way into high places, with the result that the Pope's humility and zeal for the faith were in strong contrast with the spirit which animated the Conclave. The morals of the period bore sad witness to the decline of faith, and Dr. Casartelli, in-dealing with the events of the time, betrays that outspoken and scrupulous love of accuracy from which the historian should never swerve. : 4 |