Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1887 — SIMEONL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SIMEONL

The Cardinal Who Interceded in Behalf ot Ur. McGlynn. His Eminence Giovanni Simeoni, an Italian Cardinal, was born at Paliano, in the diocese of Palestrina, July 23, 1816, and having been ordniued priest, lie was, on account of his solid learning, employed in offices of considerable importance. In 1847 he was Auditor of the Nunciature of Madrid. After some years we find him in Borne, Prefect of Studies in the Pontifical Lyceum of the Homan Seminary and

Prothonotary Apostolic Participant. For many years he was Secretary of the Congregation of the Propa anda, and as Consuiter he belongs to the Holy Homan and Universal Inquisition, to the propaganda for affairs of the Oriental Rite, to the Council for the revision of Provincial Councils and for extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs. When the Ecumenical Council of the Vatican was called Mur. Simeoni was one of the Con suiters for the Commission of Oriental Churches and Missions and for Ecclesiastical Discipline. March 15. 1875, Pius IX. created h:m a Cardinal, and on the death of Cardinal Antonelli, in 1876, he was appointed Secretary of State to Pius IX.—an office which he retained until the death of that Pontiff. He was succeeded as Secretary of State by Cardinal Francbi in 1878, when Pope Leo XIII. appointed Cardinal Simeoni Prefect of the Propaganda.