Specially, our Holy Father has
been pleased by the energy, tact, and truly well-directed zeal, with
which you have succeeded in bringing to a satisfactory conclusion
the thorny and difficult business of the Spighi property, on which
all the welfare of our well-beloved Sisters in Christ the Augustines
of St. Barnaba so greatly depends. The lady superior of that well-
deserving house is, as you are aware, the sister of his Eminence the
Cardinal Lattoli; and so signal a service rendered in that direction
is, as I need hardly tell your lordship, not likely to be
forgotten."
"It is under these circumstances that I have the great satisfaction
of having it in my power to inform your lordship, that it is the
gracious purpose of our Holy Father to mark his approbation and
satisfaction at the conduct of your illustrious lordship in this
matter, in a manner that, while it manifests to the whole world the
care of his Holiness for every portion of the dominions of the Holy
Church, will, I doubt not, be highly gratifying to yourself at the
present time, and will redound to the future glory and distinction
of your noble family. It is, in a word, the intention of the Holy
Father to confer on your lordship the Grand Cross of the Most Noble
Order of the Santo Spirito. And it is further the benignant purpose
and wish of his Holiness to present you with this most honourable
mark of his approbation with his own sovereign hand.
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