[37]. Briefs, says the learned Benedictine Mabillon, De Re Diplomaticâ (lib. ii. cap. xiv.), brevi via, seu manu, remotis omnibus ambagibus, absolvuntur; quippe quæ a Pontifice, ut plurimum sponte et absque rei longa discussione conficiuntur.
[38]. We had the good fortune once to pick up at a book-sale in Rome for a few cents a rare and curious little book on this topic, which gives the very marrow of the subject in a very agreeable form: Lettera di A. L. Nuzzi, Prelato Domestico Del Sommo Pontefice Sull’ Origine ed Uso Del Nome PAPA. Padova, 1 Settembre, MDCCXCVIII.
[39]. In our last number we published an article on the works of this illustrious Catholic layman by one closely connected with him. Immediately on receiving the sad news of Dr. Marshall’s death we wrote to his friend, Mr. T. W. Allies, who will be known to our readers as the author of The Formation of Christendom, asking him to prepare for The Catholic World a more adequate notice than we had seen of one who had done so much for the Catholic cause. The result is the present article, which, though it comes after the other, will be none the less pleasing to our readers, coming from such a pen as that of Mr. Allies, and dealing as it does rather with the personal life and character than with the public work of its subject.—Ed. C. W.
[40]. The Roman Correspondent of the London Tablet, February 23, denies the truth of this “project” so far as Cardinal Manning is concerned.—Ed. C. W.
[41]. If I knew there was one fibre in my heart which was not all God’s I would instantly pluck it out.—St. Francis de Sales.
[42]. St. Francis draws many beautiful illustrations from this mythical bird. The ancients asserted that when age had exhausted the strength of the phœnix it built a funeral-pile of aromatic gums and wood on the top of some high mountain, and, ascending it when the sun was in his meridian splendor, lit the pile by the fanning of its wings, and was consumed to ashes. From these ashes sprang another phœnix.
[43]. The narrowest street in Munich; hence the name.
[44]. The name of the park in Munich.
[45]. Valley of the Inn.
[46]. These are made afresh every year on the feast of the Epiphany.