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and spiritual re-showing of the great unfathomable glory.
I need not say that I had no sleep — I wish the glimpse then given me might remain in my mind.”
“December 21. Feeling much better in health, I determined to take up my ‘Reminiscences’ again.
Mme. Rose passed the evening with me. She told me that Pio Nono had endorsed the Rosminian philosophy, which had had quite a following in the Church, Cardinal Hohenlohe having been very prominent in this.
When Leo XIII was elected, the Jesuits came to him and promised that he should have a Jubilee if he would take part against the Rosminian ideas, and put the books on the Index Expurgatorius, the which he promptly did. Hohenlohe is supposed to have been the real hero of the poisoning described in Zola's ‘Rome’ --his servant died after having eaten of something which had been sent from the Vatican.”
“December 25. Blessed Christmas Day!
Maud and I went to St. Peter's to get, as she said, a whiff of the mass.
We did not profit much by this, but met Edward Jackson, of Boston, and Monsignor Stanley, whom I had not seen in many years.
We had a pleasant foregathering with him.”
“In St. Peter's my mind became impressed with the immense intellectual force pledged to the upbuilding and upholding of the Church of Rome.
As this thought almost overpowered me, I remembered our dear Christ visiting the superb temple at Jerusalem and foretelling its destruction and the indestructibility of his own doctrine.”
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