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Show " MEDAL FROM THE POPE. Secretary of the Catholic Order of Foresters Honored by the Pontiff. In appreciation of a speech delivered before the Federation of German Catholic Cath-olic societies of Illinois at the Auditorium Audito-rium theatre on May 19, 1D01, advocat-fing advocat-fing the restoration of the temporal power of the pope, Theodore B. Thiele, secretary of the Catholic Order of Foresters, For-esters, with offices in the. Stoclc Exchange Ex-change building, Chicago, has been presented with a silver medal by Pope Leo XIII. Tho frnnt nf thp medal slimvs n heart of Pope Leo in relief and the back the ceremony or the sacred door opening during the jubilee celebration at Rome in 1900. The letter accompanying the gift bears date of Dec. 10, 1901, and is signed by Cardinal Steinhuber. Translated Trans-lated it is as follows: "The address delivered by you in favor fa-vor of the independence of the Pope on the occasion of the meeting of the German Catholics of Illinois was sent to be by your friends, and it gives joy to my heart to be able to inform you of the good reception the same received here. When I presented it to the Holy Father and explained its contents to him, the eyes of the aged Pontiff spark-Jed, spark-Jed, and he gave expression to the sentiment sen-timent that he appreciated your words so much the more since the important question of the liberty and Independence Independ-ence of the Holy See was so little understood un-derstood in the United States, and that so many who were unable to appreciate that the head of Catholic Christendom Christen-dom should not be subject to any worldly sovereign. "What sign of appreciation ap-preciation shall I now send to the good Mr. Thiele and his friends?' said the Holy Father. ,'What shall I send -to America?' I replied. 'They would undoubtedly un-doubtedly appreciate above ,all the apostolic blessing.' 'That I send to Mr. Thiele and his associates with all my heart. replied his Holiness. But then he concluded to send,, to you, as a special sign of Ms appreciation, the medal I have now the honor and ths pleasure to send you." ;k I |