The Archive · 1924

COACHMAN WHO HAS DRIVEN FIVE POPES

Recollections of Rinaldo

Jacchini the oldest member of the Rontifieal household in the coachman, Rinaldo sturdy old man of $0, takes Pius XT. for his daily rive in the Vatican—gardens, Tacchini entered the service of Pins IX, as postillion in 1844, and was afterwards promoted to te conchioan, He likes to recall the pomp and splendour of the Papal equipages of those days, when thy Pope constantly appeared in public, and the fact that it was ho who held the reins when Pius} IX. tock his Inet drive through the slrcets of Rome on Septamber 19, 1870, the day before the Italian. troops stormed Porta: Pia, "*Jaechini has a good deal to say about hig different masters, all very unlike in character. Pius Adable in munner, though clouded was very. goud-nattred and

sadness in hig later years. Leo Rutt was cof and aristocratic, great contrast. to his. gentle, unassuming: tccessor "Plus 2 Bonediot XV. could. be quickempored at times, 'The. present Pope, for whom Jaechini has Great' admiration, never fails: to retainer, a Speak @ kind word to his aged Reproduced

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