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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pius IX. And His Time by The Rev. AEneas MacDonell Dawson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license Title: Pius IX. And His Time Author: The Rev. AEneas MacDonell Dawson Release Date: June 17, 2009 [Ebook #29143] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIUS IX. AND HIS TIME*** Pius IX. And His Time By The Rev. AEneas MacDonell Dawson. London: Printed by Thos. Coffey, Catholic Record Printing House. 1880 CONTENTS Preface. Pius IX. And His Time. Footnotes PREFACE. The history of Pius IX. will always be read with interest. His Pontificate was, indeed, eventful. In no preceding age were the annals of the Church so grandly illustrated. The spiritual sovereignty, "with which," to use the words of a British statesman, "there is nothing on this earth that can at all compare," was crowned with surpassing glory. Doctrines which, hitherto, had been open to theological discussion, were ascertained and pronounced to be in accordance with the belief of all preceding Christian ages. The Church was enabled, through the labors of her Chief and the zeal of her Priesthood, to extend vastly the place of her tent. The life of Pius IX. himself was a marvel and a glory. None of his predecessors, not even Peter, attained to his length of days. On the other hand, the venerable Pontiff, and, together with him, the Catholic people, were doomed to behold and lament the loss of the time-honored patrimony of St. Peter. The Papacy, however, unlike all temporal sovereignties, was able to sustain so great a loss. More ancient than its temporal power, it still survives; "not a mere antique, but in undiminished vigor." PIUS IX. AND HIS TIME. John Mary Count Mastai Ferreti was born at Sinigaglia, on the 13th of May, 1792. At the age of twenty-two he came to Rome. Anxious to serve the Holy Father, and yet not aspiring to the priesthood, he resolved to become a me
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