Word: basilicas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixty thousand Italians fired with religious zeal knelt in the Basilica of St. Peter's last week and 100,000 more bared and bowed their heads under a chill driving rain outside. Signor Benito Mussolini was not present, but his daughter Edda was on her knees in a part of the Basilica usually reserved for princes of the blood. For the first time since 1870 several cabinet ministers had officially entered St. Peter's. This was possible because the Papacy and the government of Italy had just patched up their 59-year-old feud by a treaty (TIME...
...King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that Republic's independence; and to President Senior Augusto B. Leguia of Peru on the latter's 107th anniversary. ¶ In Manhattan, for Calvin Coolidge from Benito Mussolini arrived a heavy parchment-bound book, two feet square, entitled La Basilica di San Francesco d' Assisi, full of pictures of that famed church. At Cedar Island Lodge arrived four curiously wrought pieces of iron with holes punched in them. They were left by one A. H. Kellerman, 70-year-old Wisconsin farmer, who said: "Just give these to the President...
...Italians and forgetting Colum-bus." ¶After three days of lolling in bed or on the Lido beach, Mayor Walker emerged from his hotel to take the train for Rome. Said he: "I now feel like $1,000,000." ¶In Rome, the Mayor visited St. Peter's Basilica, saddened by the newly reported disaster to Rome-bound aviators, awed and impressed by the" grandeur of this edifice. Said he: "They must have passed the hat around several times to build all this." Of the catacombs, the Mayor remarked: ". . . Nice fresh tombs, 2,000 years old. . . . Wish we could...
...Next, a magnificent procession wound its way through crowded streets-towards the Coliseum, ancient centre of Paganism. In its midst, borne aloft on the shoulders of the faithful, was a huge cross. Made of wood, it contains pieces of olive trees from Gethsemane. It had been blessed in the Basilica of the Holy Cross. On a base containing a stone from Mount Calvary, it was set up in the centre of the Coliseum...
...fell appropriately to Mgr. Gromier, French Prelate, and preceded the pontifical mass. Then his Holiness, Pius XI, in snowy white, seated in the sedia gestatoria (sanctified chair) and escorted by twenty cardinals in scarlet, was borne through enormous crowds-full diplomatic corps and all other distinguished Rome-to the basilica, to venerate the newly canonized. Incense rose, heads bowed, throngs cheered...