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Show POPE HURT HEALTH BY FASTING. Rome. It is feared here that the Pope is practically prac-tically ruining his health by Lenten fasting and abstinence from meat. Even the advice of his attending at-tending physicians failed to make him see that there was some danger to him in so rigid an observance ob-servance of the church laws. The Pope's sisters tried repeatedly, to remonstrate but did not succeed. suc-ceed. Several of the Cardinals who recently noticed no-ticed the enfeebled condition of the pontiff tried to persuade him to suspend the rules for himself, but the Pope would not listen to any suggestion of that kind. His physicians are in despair and are' keeping keep-ing close watch over him. |