Word: basilicas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the Pope intones the Te Deum of thanksgiving, while St. Peter's big bell sets all the bells of Rome's 400 churches to ringing. At the Pontifical Mass in the Basilica of St. Peter's, which ends the ceremony, the Epistle (the Book of Judith, 13:23) begins: "Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth . . . Because He hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth...
...branches of Christianity (Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic and Abyssinian) constantly interfere with each other's services and worshipers. Under Msgr. Gustav Testa, Apostolic Delegate in the Holy Land, the Roman Catholics have been working since 1939 on these plans for a basilica with beauty and elbow room...
Fitted with a mask of wax, Saint Maria's skeleton had been brought to Rome for public veneration from her home town of Nettuno, near the Anzio beachhead of World War II. The ceremony had to be moved out of the basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter...
...great Corpus Christi procession from St. Peter's Basilica Thursday of last week, before 300,000 onlookers, the corporal of Orvieto, carried aloft by robed, red-sashed Bohemian priests, moved just in front of Pius XII. It was observed that during the procession the Pope kept his eyes on the reliquary. The Communist mayor of Bolsena, wearing a tri-colored sash, was on hand...
...already tracked down a suspect. In reality, the FBI man started out much less spectacularly, going over the locked church with a magnifying glass and fingerprint powder. When he had finished, he ordered the church unlocked. Glumly, Padre Carlos Galves rounded up a group of helpers, went into the basilica to prepare for the next day's Mass...