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cardinal deposits, in a chalice on the altar, the name of his candidate. If the requisite number of votes are not found for anyone, the papers are burned, on the top of the church, the smoke of the burning ballots be ing a signal to the people outside that no election has takem place. This act is called the "scrutiny." If votes are added to those already given for one candidate, so as to

Cardinals may be either bishops, priests or deacons, but only a bishop can be crowned Pope, though even a deacon Js eligible for election. Should a deacon be elected Pope, the car dinal-dean, by virtue of his office the act ing Pope, who is at the present time Prince Louis Oreglia di Santo Stefano, bishop of Ostia and Velletri, summons the Pope-elect

GARDEN OF THE VATICAN AND ST. PETER'S.

make the requisite majority, it is said to be an election by "access." If the cardinals of two parties unite and elect a Pope, it is called an "election by compromise," and, if, by a manifest desire of the people, a cardinal is elected by acclamation, the election is said to be by "inspiration." The predecessor of Leo XIII. (Pope Pius IX.) was elected by "inspiration."

to the Sistine Chapel, in the Vatican, where he will give him priest's orders, and conse crate him bishop, observing the canonical intervals. If the Pope-elect is a priest, he is at once consecrated bishop by the cardinaldean. This consecration takes place in the Sistine Chapel, one of the most beautiful ecclesiastical buildings in the world. It is in this chapel that some of the finest specimens