ith as much love and charity as if
he had been a long while expecting them. When he was called upon to be
merry he was so; if there was a demand upon his sympathy he was equally
ready. He gave the same welcome to all: caressing the poor equally with
the rich, and wearying himself to assist all to the utmost limits of his
power. In consequence of his being so accessible and willing to receive
all comers, many went to him every day, and some continued for the space
of thirty, nay forty years, to visit him very often both morning and
evening, so that his room went by the agreeable nickname of the Home of
Christian mirth. Nay, people came to him, not only from all parts of
Italy, but from France, Spain, Germany, and all Christendom; and even the
infidels and Jews, who had ever any communication with him, revered him as
a holy man."(30) The first families of Rome, the Massimi, the
Aldobrandini, the Colonnas, the Altieri, the Vitelleschi, were his friends
and his penitents. Nobles of Poland, Grandees of Spain, Knights of Malta,
could not leave Rome without coming to him. Cardinals, Archbishops, and
Bishops were his intimates; Federigo Borromeo haunted his room and got the
name of "Father Philip's soul." The Cardinal-Archbishops of Verona and
Bologna wrote books in his honour. Pope Pius the Fourth died in his arms.
Lawyers, painters, musicians, physicians, it was the same too with them.
Baronius, Zazzara, and Ricci, left the law at his bidding, and joined his
congregation, to do its work, to write the annals of the Church, and to
die in the odour of sanctity. Palestrina had Father Philip's ministrations
in his last moments. Animuccia hung about him during life, sent him a
message after death, and was conducted by him through Purgatory to Heaven.
And who was he, I say, all the while, but an humble priest, a stranger in
Rome, with no distinction of family or letters, no claim of station or of
office, great simply in the attraction with which a Divine Power had
gifted him? and yet thus humble, thus unennobled, thus empty-handed, he
has achieved the glorious title of Apostle of Rome.

10.

Well were it for his clients and children, Gentlemen, if they could
promise themselves the very shadow of his special power, or could hope to
do a miserable fraction of the sort of work in which he was pre-eminently
skilled. But so far at least they may attempt,--to take his position, and
to use his method, and to cultivate the arts of whi