Rodrigo Borgia - Alessandro VI

His personal piety was simple, diligent, and real. He
greatly revered the Deipara, the Blessed Virgin Mary. In
her honour, He ordained the bell which rings at sunset,
sunrise, and noon, for the Angelus Domini in memory of
The Incarnation. On His death-bed, He said, "We always
"have had, and have, a singular affection for the Most
"Holy Virgin/*

In the Secret Archives of the Vatican, (merely a tech-
nical term, for they are open to all the world,) His original
acts are preserved; the veritable Briefs and Bulls which
He laboured to utter during His reign. They are bound in
one hundred and thirteen large-folio volumes, each tome
containing about ten thousand separate documents. 1 To
understand what kind of thing is a Papal Bull or Brief, the
Epistles of St. Peter, which are easily accessible, may be
mentioned- as the best examples extant : earnest disquisi-
tions, simple or scholarly, dealing authoritatively with sub-
jects the most vital. The Lord Alexander P.P. VI is re-
sponsible for more than a million of these; and He only
reigned eleven years.

The days and nights appreciably were not longer then
than now. WHERE, THEN, DID THE LORD ALEXANDER P.P.

VI FIND THE TIME TO ACCOMPLISH THE MULTIFARIOUS
TURPITUDES WITH WHICH HE HAS BEEN CHARGED?

He was the father of bastards. He was not the first or
last, plebeian, patrician, potentate, or pontiff.

He was inflexible to foes. Was ever peace assured ex-
cept by a stern martinet?

The Lord Alexander P.P. VI was a very great Prince,
a very faithful Pastor, a very human Man.