DISCOURSE OF PIUS X.
We welcome with the liveliest satisfaction the sentiments of devotion and of filial love towards ourselves and this Apostolic See which you, in your own name and the name of your most beloved brethren, have manifested, to the honour of the purple to which you have been called. But in accepting your words of gratitude we must insist on saying that the illustrious virtues with which you are adorned, the zealous works which you have accomplished, and the other signal services which in different fields you have rendered to the Church, have made you entirely worthy of being included in the roll of our Sacred Senate. And it rejoices us to have, not only the hope, but the certainty, that, now that you are clad with new dignities, you will, as in the past, consecrate your genius and your force to the assistance of the Roman Pontiff in the government of the Church. If the Roman Pontiffs
