Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1902 — What the Holy Meat la [ARTICLE]

What the Holy Meat la

i The holy seat U nothing mom nor lass than a wooden chair which, according to pious tradition, was used by the iapoetle St Peter as first Christian bisbjop of Rome, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. The ancient framework of yellow oak, all worm-eaten and " decayed, Is preserved behind the tribune of the basilica of St Peter In the gigantic glided bronze church designed by Bernini, which is upheld by the four great fathers of the church—namely, Saints Chrysostom, Athanasius, Ambrose and Augustine, From the time that the. I*4lo was placed In the bronze chair by Bernini until the year 1867—that Is to Say, for a period of considerably over two centuries—no one had ever set eyes upon it But in that year, on the occasion of the eighteenth century of the martyrdom of the apostle St Peter, I 'ppe Plus IX. ordered It to be exposed for the veneration of the faithful.