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Excerpt from The Popes of the Nineteenth Century
Though the reign of Pius VIII. Was brief and in itself uneventful, the period it covered was marked by two outstanding events - both of them of a revolutionary character. The first was Catholic Emancipation in England, the news of which was enthusiastically carried by Wiseman to the Pope. The English Roman Catholics resident in Rome held a festival in celebration of the event. But, according to Wiseman, the Roman populace showed no appreciation of the importance of what had been achieved, and read as though they understood not the device triumphantly emblazoned on the English College walls Emancipazione Cattolica. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
