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Title: The life of Pope Pius IX..
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892
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ure, received him with great kindness,and granted his earnest petition, saying: 22 LIFE OF POPE PIUS IX. Even this favor will we grant you, as Ibelieve that you will never for the futurebe affected by your disease. Nearly sixtyyears have elapsed to prove the accuracyof the words of Pope Pius VII. The noble young deacon accordinglyreceived priestly ordination on the 10thof April, 1819, in the chapel of the ducalpalace Doria Painfili. A love for the poor and neglected wasthe great characteristic of the young priest.Instead of seeking preferment or any fieldfor the display of his talents, he had madehis home in the Tata Giovanni asylumnear the Church of Santa Anna dei Fa-lignami (St. Anne of the Joiners), devot-ing himself to the care and maintenanceof its hundred outcast inmates. The in-struction of these forsaken boys in theircatechism and their religious duties washis task of predilection. To imprint inthe hearts of these boys the truths of re-ligion and guide them to its practice was
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PIUS IX.s FIRST MASS, APIIIL 11, 181U. LIFE OF POPE PIUS IX. 25 in his eyes the noblest of duties. ThePope whose utterances in favor -of thor-ough Catholic education have resoundedthrough the world set in his early life anexample to all. His conviction of its ne-cessity is based on his own experience asa priest. In the church, or rather chapel,of St. Anne, the young priest said his firstmass, on Easter Sunday, in the year 1819,amid the fatherless, to whom he had de-voted himself. This asylum for destitute boys, in itshomely name, Tata Giovanni, recallsits humble and zealous founder, GiovanniBorgi, a poor mason. It was for sevenyears the residence and especial chargeof the zealous priest. The young noblegloried in being permitted to carry on thework begun by the poor and illiteratemason, who, touched with the misery ofthe homeless and neglected boys, gatheredthem together to teach them at once to beuseful to man and faithful to God. There 26 LIFE OF POPE PIUS IX. they are taught the el

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