Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . it would cooperate inthe works for the improvement of the Tiber. The relations of the Italian Government withthe papal court have continued to be markedby occasional collisions, although the violenceof the hostility that once prevailed seems to begradually subsiding. In January ministerialdecrees were issued ordering the examinationof the management of benevolent institutions,as well as of seminaries giving instruction inviolation of the law. The episcopal seminaryat Como was closed in consequence of the re-fusal of
Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . it would cooperate inthe works for the improvement of the Tiber. The relations of the Italian Government withthe papal court have continued to be markedby occasional collisions, although the violenceof the hostility that once prevailed seems to begradually subsiding. In January ministerialdecrees were issued ordering the examinationof the management of benevolent institutions,as well as of seminaries giving instruction inviolation of the law. The episcopal seminaryat Como was closed in consequence of the re-fusal of its management to admit a Governmentinspector. March 16th, the Minister of PublicInstruction ordered the Sapienza, or PontificalUniversity in the Palazzo Altempo at Rome, tobe closed, for conferring diplomas contrary tothe law. A meeting of the OConnell Leaguewas held at Bologna, February 18th and 19th,at which measures were discussed for securingthe freedom of Roman Catholic teaching. Aletter was read from the Pope, approving theobject. In August a circular was addressed. MONT CENIS RAILWAY. by the Minister of the Interior to the prefects,prohibiting religious processions outside of thechurches, with an exceptional provision, how-ever, that the prefects might authorize a pro-cession if a request for it was made to them, bythe clergy concerned in it, a fortnight before-hand. These measures were opposed by theclergy, and protested against by the Pope. ARoman Catholic Congress met at Bologna in September, but received so much oppositionfrom the populace that the police, fearing thatdisturbances might arise, closed its sitting tem-porarily. In order to carry out the law forclosing the cloisters, the Government orderedthat all novices found in such institutions shouldreturn to their families. In October largenumbers of Spanish pilgrims visited Rome. Inhis reception of the cardinals on Christmas-eve, the Pope spoke of the repressive measuresof the Government, which he characterize
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