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Show i I : LATE ZING OF SAONY. ' King George of Saxony, who died at the casfle of Pellnitz recently, distinguished distin-guished himself as a military leader. By his handling of the Saxon brigade of cavalry, he did effective work in covering the Austrian retreat at Konig-gratz, Konig-gratz, and such was his success as commander of the Twelfth Germaa army corps at the battle of Gravelotte that on the formation of the army of Meuse, under the command of. Crown Prince Albert, the leadership of the I whole Saxon army corps was entrusted 1 to him. Succeeding to his brother, the 'late King Albert, on June 19. 1S02. he had a difficult role to play. Rulivfg a Protestant population., he was a staunch Catholic. In his principle and his practice he was ever loyal to the holy see. His' arniiration for the late Pope was most earnest, and when His Holiness lay on his deathbed the king made it a point to be informed of his condition from clay to day. One of his sons, Prince Max. now a professor profes-sor at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, became ' a priest and gained fame in London by his zeal for the promotion of the welfare of the i masses. The king's fidelity to his creed ' gained him not a few enemies during the struggle in which the social democrats demo-crats secured the representation of the i Saxon constituencies, but on the whole ! his uprightness, manliness and blameless blame-less life won him the respect and esteem es-teem of his subjects, and the sympathy : felt for him on the elopenient of the crown princess with a French tutor was very genuine. The new king, his son, is a man of soldierly habits and, at the same time, of genial maimers. I London Catholic Times. |