The Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...except S. and myself. But he never got up all the voyage, and I braved all on deck, without getting ill. I was the only one above.... We kept most exactly to our feuille cie route, all the way. Dr Roskell and Mr. Thompson arrived here two days after us. 2. The weather has been very unfavourable. Searle has been two days confined with a cold. On Wednesday morning the Vatican staircase fairly upset me; next morning no end of visits, &c., to me; so last night I had a bad bout of dyspnoea. 3. On Wednesday evening I had my audience of his Holiness. It was long and most kind. The Pope embraced me most affectionately, and at once went into the most urgent of my affairs. He knew that the Archbishop had just arrived with Dr. Roskell. He assured me that everything should be done as l could wish, and that he would settle everything himself. I need not now say more. We talked about many things, and at the end he ordered me to rest, and not have any anxiety, and that all would be settled. 4. Yesterday evening Barnabo came to me, as I could hardly climb to his Attic dwelling, but he brought some of its salt with him. He had seen the Archbishop the evening before, and he gave me a full account of the interview. What has completely decided matters has been the Synod. Several Bishops have written that they could not have conceived such conduct, and have intimated their feelings of the impossibility of his being ever allowed to rule supreme. This puts the question beyond that of mere Coadjutorship, to which he wishes to confine it. He did not yield a point--defended his refusal to obey Tommassetti's opinion, as he had much to oppose word torn off and he was not at Synod as Coadjutor; defended the Chapter, denied that they left the Provost alone, and said he took...