The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . rning work of audiences, fiomeight, at latest, till twelve; then retired for private occupation, rested,devoted an hour to prayer (as we leai-ned from others), drove out, andresumed public business till ten, when he took his first and only meal. To LEO XII. 745 say that it was frugal would be little ; nor could we wonder at the accreditedreport, that he would not allow his personal expenses to exceed a dollar aday, when we heard from his own lips that the dry Newfoundland stock-fish,the hacciila of Italy, was his very ordinary
The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . rning work of audiences, fiomeight, at latest, till twelve; then retired for private occupation, rested,devoted an hour to prayer (as we leai-ned from others), drove out, andresumed public business till ten, when he took his first and only meal. To LEO XII. 745 say that it was frugal would be little ; nor could we wonder at the accreditedreport, that he would not allow his personal expenses to exceed a dollar aday, when we heard from his own lips that the dry Newfoundland stock-fish,the hacciila of Italy, was his very ordinary and favorite food. This abstemiousness enabled Leo to go through functions Avliicli no otherpope in modern times has attempted, such as singing Mass at Santa MariaMaggiore on Christmas Eve, which involved fasting from the previous mid-night, at least three-and-tweuty hours ; then going to Saint AnastasiasChurch, the Station for the Mass at dawn ; after saying which, he sangthe third Mass at Saint Peters on the day itself. The Holy See was vacant forty-nine 746 LIVES OF THE POPES.
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