Word: basilicas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many things a Pope can do which are denied to other men. One thing which Pope Pius XII could not do last week-so it was reported-was to get 50 extra tickets for his own coronation in St. Peter's Basilica. For before last Sunday, when the coronation was performed with pomp befitting the first such occasion since the Vatican again became a temporal state in 1929, some 71,000 tickets to St. Peter's had been distributed, and six times as many applications had been turned down...
Diplomats, nobles, ecclesiastics, ex-royalty and representatives of reigning royalty filled the stands and ramps of St. Peter's when a glittering procession moved into the Basilica. Attendants waved great ostrich-feather fans, as the frail Holy Father, deathly pale, entered seated on his high sedia gestatoria (portable throne), garbed in a vast white cope...
...body of the late Pope Pius XI, clad in a red chasuble and mitre of cloth-of-gold, lay one day last week in a triple coffin near the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. For three days before, throngs (estimated as high as 1,200,000) had ceaselessly filed past the chapel where the Pope's body lay upon a catafalque...
...tumulation (burial) of the Holy Father, a scattering of candles lit St. Peter's, in whose dim, religious light sat several thousand invited diplomats, nobles, churchmen and Vatican functionaries. The clergy of the Basilica committed Pius XI to his God with the same prayers chanted for humble sinners. Thirty-seven Cardinals gazed for the last time at the Pope's shrunken visage, then descended to St. Peter's crypt while workmen fastened down the wooden coffin-lids, soldered the leaden one. (They ran out of solder, held up the tumulation until more was found.) Finally...
...Frances Xavier Cabrini (TIME, Sept. 12). Said the Cardinal before sailing: "I am very glad to do this because I knew her very well and I buried her when she died in Chicago." Last Sunday, by precedent-breaking permission of Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica (in charge of beatification ceremonies), Cardinal Mundelein celebrated Mass during rites which gave Mother Cabrini the title "Blessed," entitled her to public veneration at her tomb in Manhattan...