The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . ly door. 29. Introite portas eivs. Two pilgrims kneeling at the door. By Apervit D0MINV8 THiESAVRVM SWM. The pope opens the door. 31. VeNIT VENIA. VENITE. FELIC. novo SECVLI CONCORDES MANEANT. 32. SaTVRNIA REDDIT. PACAT. EVR. NOVI. SECUIi. FEL. IVBI. ECCIiESIA. * Saint Stephen I., created pontiff in 253, governed the Church four years and about sixmonths. CLEMENT XL 183 Innocent XII. possessed virtues -wliicli Lave illustrated the best was one of the benefactors of the Propaganda, to which ho gave fift
The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . ly door. 29. Introite portas eivs. Two pilgrims kneeling at the door. By Apervit D0MINV8 THiESAVRVM SWM. The pope opens the door. 31. VeNIT VENIA. VENITE. FELIC. novo SECVLI CONCORDES MANEANT. 32. SaTVRNIA REDDIT. PACAT. EVR. NOVI. SECUIi. FEL. IVBI. ECCIiESIA. * Saint Stephen I., created pontiff in 253, governed the Church four years and about sixmonths. CLEMENT XL 183 Innocent XII. possessed virtues -wliicli Lave illustrated the best was one of the benefactors of the Propaganda, to which ho gave fiftythousand crowns for the missions of Ethiopia, and one hundred thousandcrowns for those of China. On the day of his death he signed a decree granting forty thousandcrowns for the redemption of Christian slaves, and towards the support ofthe great hospital at Ripa Grande. This pontiff, hke some of his predecessors, had ordered that the dailyexpense of his table should not exceed three Pauls, or thirty cents. The Holy See was vacant one month and twenty-eight 247. CLEMENT XL—a. d. 1700. HERE are few epochs that present more materialfor ecclesiastical history than that eighteenth cen-tury upon which we are now entering; and there isno period which presents events more various,attacks more numerous, or shocks more rise and progress of unbeHef, the disturbancesexcited in the Church by a restless party, and thetempests of a revolution which shook all Europe,furnish an inexhaustible source of details, which ifoften afiiicting, are always curious. The ecclesiastical history of that cen-tury may be treated in three great divisions, which embrace most of thefacts of that memorable time. Those divisions, very distinctly marked andfertile in events, deserve on many accounts to fix the attention of an ob-servant writer, and that of a fi-iend of religion.* Clement XI., prior to his elevation John Francis Albani, was bom atUrbino on the 23d of July, 1649. His father was C
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