There is a curious hope among some Catholics about Leo
XIII. According to the " prophecy of St. Malachi," be- lieved by Catholics to be a very ancient prediction, and cer- tainly in print five or six generations ago, the symbol or key- note of Pio Nono's reign was to be crux de cruce, equiva- lent to "suffering from the Cross," which is interpreted in monasteries and such places to mean suffering from the White Cross, the emblem of the House of Savoy. The symbol for Leo XIII. was to be "Lumen de Ccelo," which may be "Light from Heaven," but may also be a light from Heaven, and be intended to describe the Pope himself. According to this prophecy, there are to be nine more Popes, and then the Advent, when, let us hope, neither Popes, nor Protests, nor newspaper articles about either, will be any more required.
