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Show THE POPE Passed Away Git Monday Last. Rome, J uly 20, 4:40 -The pope diedat 4:04 p.m. His last moments were comparatively com-paratively peaceful and painless. piweueu oy a period ot insensibility. in-sensibility. Around the bedside-, at the final moment were the cardinals, the relatives and the members of the papal court Before lapsing into unconsciousness unconscious-ness the dying pontiff feebly moved his lips, his last articulate articu-late words being those used i. , bestowing a benediction. Gradually the shadow of deafc: spread over the pontiff, his extremities ex-tremities became cold, his features fea-tures assumed the fixed rigid-it v-of v-of death and Dr. Lapponi noted, his last fluttering heart beat.-which beat.-which gradually became slowt-r and slower uutil they final v stopped. The news of the pope's death j spread rapidly throughout Rou j and caused a most profound sen-jsation. sen-jsation. The whole city is m (mourning. Pope Leo's final momeais .were marked by that same sey- . I en fcja44vaLkin j.vA, . -he was conscious, that calm intelligence in-telligence which is associated with his twenty-dye years'" pontificate. pon-tificate. His was no easy death, j An hour before Lo-dlid, tuxudcg , to Dr. Lapponi and his devotee! valet, F10 Centra, he murmured;, "The-pain I suffer is most terrible." ter-rible." Yet his p-trting word's were not of the phys:cal augmsfi that he suffered, but were whispered benedictions upon the cardinals and his nephews who knelt at the bedside, aS the last look of his almost sightless sight-less eyes was turned toward the-great the-great ivory crucifix hanging irs. the death chamber. |