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ful accomplishment , such as learn . ing , dignity , moderation , tirm
nes ?« It is not my intention to specify all the forms of etiquette observed , * mt the ceremonies practised during the process , or at the conclusion of : the election ; two or
three , however , I must notice for reasons which will appear sufficiently obvious ; one is the custom of putting the tickets containing the votes of the cardinals on the
patina ( or communion plate ) , and then into the chalice : now , how . &mt important these votes may be , and however intimate their connection with the welfare of
tlie church , yet to apply to them the vases devoted in a peculiar laanner ^ to the most awful institutions of religion * seems to pass beyjond disrespect , and almost to h&rd&r cm profanation . The next 9 ereinony to which I have alluded * is that called the adoration
^ the # of ^ 4 it takes place almost immediately after his election , when he is placed in a chair on the altar of the Sixtine chapel , a $ d there receives the homage of the cardinals ; this ceremony is again
repeated on the high altar of St . Pfcler ' g . Now in this piece of pageantry I object not to the wtrd adoration ; no one who lujewtf Latin , or reflects upon the sense which it bears on this and on
a thousand other occasions , will cavil jRt it , though he may wish it . < $£ h < erwi * e applied . Nor do I fiod fault with the throne , he who i& at the same . time bath Pontiff
and Prince has , from lime and diatom , perhaps * a doable title to each - A distinction , But why * WwLd the * Har be made his foot , 'toed i Tiie mXimvr the htauty of
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holiness , the throne of the victim * lamb 9 the mercy-seat * bf the temple of Christianity ; why should the altar be converted into the footstool of a mortal ? I mean not , however , while J condemn this ceremony * to
extend the censure to those who practise or who tolerate it . Besides the difficulty of altering an ancient rite ( if this piece of pageantry , however , deserve that epithet ) the world is too well acquainted with the virtues of the
late Pontiffs to suspect them of want of humility . To conform to an established custom , and refer the honour to him whom they represent , the Prince of Pastors , and the Master of Apostles ,
appears perhaps to them a greater act of humility than to excite surprise , and perhaps to give offence , by an untimely and unexpected resistance . Be the motives of toleration however what
they may , the practice is not edifying to any , it is offensive to most , and of consequence , as producing some evil and no good , it ought to be suppressed . The last ceremony which Lshall notice is the following . As the
new-Pontiff advances towards the high altar of St . Peter ' s , the master of the ceremonies kneeling before him , sets fire to a small quantity of tow placed on the top of a gilt staff , and as it blazes and vanishes in smoke , thus addresses the Pope ,
Sancte Pater ! sic transit gloria mundi / This ceremony is repeated thrice . Such allusions to the * Hie su& pasett populos fidcles Carne , qui muadi sceliw pmac teilit Agnus , et fusi prctium cruoris Jptc propiliftt . Htm , Pel »
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Account of the Court and Pope of Rome . 701
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 701, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/9/
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