Excerpt from A Memento of the Death of the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIII An expressive and condensed summary of the life of Leo XIII. Would embody two activities - labor and prayer. His morning hours were divi ded between religious exercises and the duties Of Church administration. From his daily mass and meditation he imbibed the wisdom and courage to face and solve the multitudinous issues streaming into him from his vast worldwide spiritual kingdom. His only recreation was a walk or drive in the gardens of the Vatican. For a quarter of a century his feet never crossed the threshold Of his palace except to enter his great Cathedral or pass into the adjacent park. From his living apartments his vision could look across his own city and gather into its sweep Quirinal, Colosseum and Pincian hills, with the Tiber and the Castle Of San Angelo, but foot never essayed to follow the daring Of his eye. His successor's verdict on his in. Voluntary isolation from the world of Rome and Italy is expressed tersely by the remark, Now I know how Samson must have felt. Leo XIII. Chafed endlessly within the limitations Of his enforced seclusion. TO his brother Guiseppe, who asked him if in accepting the Papacy he were not consigning himself to a living tomb, he replied, I am climbing Calvary. The head that bore the triple tiara found that it was built on a crown of thorns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.