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Title: The life of Pope Pius IX..
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892
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f thenineteenth century. Hence it becomes LIFE OF POPE PIUS IX. 11 necessary to picture it at once to the eyesof the faithful, that grasping the detailsin a single canvas they may regard withawe the illustrious highpriest who nowrules the Church of Grod on earth. John Mary Mastai Ferretti was bornand baptized at Sinigaglia, in the an-cient duchy of Urbino, on the 13th ofMay, 1792, when France was in the throesof that Revolution which was to convulseEurope and exercise so baleful an influ-ence over the incoming century. The Mastai family, originally from Cre-ma, in Lombardy, had for six centuriesheld a prominent position at Sinigaglia,and his father, Count Jerome, gonfalonierof the city, was the heir also of the dis-tinguished family of the Ferretti. Hismother, the Countess Catharine Solazzi,illustrated her high rank by her virtuesand sound judgment. The earliest impressions of the childwere of the new war of the World on the PIUS VI. (John- Angelo Braschi.)Born 1717.Reigned 1775-1799.
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14 LIFE OF POPE PIUS IX. Church, his uncle Andrew, the unflinch-ing bishop of Pesaro, having been impris-oned for his fidelity to the Holy See; andthe earliest special prayers taught him byhis pious mother, being offered up for thedeliverance of Pope Pius VI. when thatvenerable pontiff was a prisoner in thehands of the French. The sympathy ofhis young heart gave fervor to these pray-ers, but the pious mother had to remindhim of our Saviours prayer on the crossfor his executioners, to unfold to the mindof her son the Christian motives that re-quired him to pray for the persecutors. Thus in days when the future of reli-gion looked so gloomy, a pious motherprepared by the faithful discharge of herduties a great Pontiff for the Church. But, mother, said the boy, theseFrench who have carried off the Pope arewicked people, are they not ? And youmake me pray for them ? My son, if they are wicked we have LIFE OF POPE PIUS IX. 15 all the more reason to pray for them : butthey are not all wicke

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