The Pope’s Flight from Rome
By W. Bailey
W. BAILEY. Bro. Andrews sends the following facts relative to your query: In 1848, the people of Rome made such demonstrations in behalf of civil liberty, that the Pope became alarmed for his own authority, and perhaps his own safety also, and he fled in disguise of footman on the carriage of a nobleman. The Romans then set up a republic. L. N. Bonaparte, at that time president of the French Republic, sent an army and besieged Rome, and after a short time took the city. Whereupon his Holiness returned to his beloved flock and re-established his fatherly government. L. N. B. kept an army of occupation in Rome till the fall of 1867, when I think the last of his soldiers were withdrawn.