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Show The great Vatican collection of church ornaments orna-ments and vestments contains the famous dalmatic of Leo II worn at the coronation of Charlemagne, and which has kept its magnificent coloring now for eleven hundred years, and the Crux Vatieanus given by Justinian Emperor of the East in the sixth century. A, fresco representing the Madonna and Child flanked by saints has been discovered in the Chureh of St. Bartholomeo, on an island in the Tiber, dating dat-ing from the beginning of the thirteenth century. It is admirably preserved. It is being carefully uncovered from the superimposed whitewash. Madame Emma Le Clair, a convert to the Catholic Cath-olic Church, who died recently at St. Albans, Vt.. aged eighty-two years, was the daughter of William Brown of St. Albans, who is said to have been a descendant of John Bunyan, the Protestant tinker, author of "Pilgrim's Progress." A great deal has been said and written regarding regard-ing the approaching consistory. The week in which it is to be held, the creations to be made and other details have been given to the world with what should be called marvelous accuracy, if one essential essen-tial were not absent; that is truth. Xobody knows when the consistory will be held, nor does anyone know, not even the Sacred College itself and I c!o not say this without foundation who shall be created cre-ated Cardinals, for the simple reason that Pius X keeps his secrets to himself. It is said in well-informed Roman circles that never in the history of the Vatican have secrets been so well kept as at present, a fact that shows forth a striking manifestation mani-festation of the wonderful administrative capacity of the present Pontiff; for, considering the extreme difficulty experienced in all courts to keep secret3, it is extraordinary with what dignity and ingenuity official matters of a private nature are kept in the largest court in the world. Rome Cor. Standard and Times. |