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Pope Leo XIII: His Life And Work

CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER I THE POPE'S EARLY LIFE Carpineto — The Pecci family and their home — The Pope's birth and childhood 1 CHAPTER II SCHOOL DAYS In the Jesuit College — Father Ubaldini's predictions — Story of a tonsure — First Communion — A ten-year-old poet — Taking Orders — A mother's death 14 CHAPTER III STUDENT DAYS IN ROME A new Gregory of Nazianza — The first oration — The 1829 Conclave — Curious sketch of a new Pope by a future Pope — The Reverend Joachim Pecci as sportsman — Father Salvagni — First public thesis — The 1831 Conclave — The Revolution — Reporter and diplomatist — The Arcadian shepherd 27 CHAPTER IV THE PRELACY Hesitation — "Wait a moment" — Enforced repose — Arguments and competitions — Cardinal Sala — The Minor Orders — The Prelacy — Cholera — A premature will — Full Orders — The first Mass 45 CHAPTER V FROM BENEVENTO TO PERUGIA Delegate to Benevento — A province overrun with brigands — A "Resurrection" — Triumph — Delegate to Perugia — Reception of Gregory XVI — Opening of the Via Gregoriana 58 CHAPTER VI NUNCIO AT BRUSSELS A poetical effusion — Wisdom sold by a fool — His predecessor's opinion of the new Nuncio — From Rome to Brussels — An accident —

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