18 MARCH 1922, Page 14

THE SUCCESSION OF POPES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3

Sia,—Could any of your readers tell me where to find the full text of a curious, and at one time well-known, prophecy con- cerning the succession of Popes? A motto was given for each one—that for Pius IX. was "Cross of the Cross "; that for his successor was "From the Baths of Camaldole "; for the next, "A Burning Fire "; for the late Pope, "Light in the Heavens "; and for the present one, "Pastor Angelicas." With some ingenuity each of these mottoes can be made to fit, if not to each individual Pope, then to some salient event in his reign. So far as I can remember there were to be only ten more Popes before "Peter comes and sits in his own seat."—