Word: consalvi
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...century, when the first pontifical emissary was sent to Constantinople to represent the Pope at the Eastern Roman imperial court. Modern diplomacy came with the Renaissance and Reformation. In 1815, Rome's envoys achieved considerable sway in Europe when the Vatican delegate to the Congress of Vienna, Cardinal Consalvi, won a remarkable concession from the Congress: henceforth a papal nuncio (ambassador) would be the doyen of the resident diplomatic corps wherever he was accredited...
...first Secretary of State to leave Italy since Cardinal Consalvi went to Paris in 1801 to wangle a concordat out of Napoleon. Good reason had Pius XI in sending his good Pacelli across the Atlantic. Fortnight hence (Oct. 10) in Buenos Aires opens the 32nd International Eucharistic Congress, at which thousands of Catholics and scores of bishops and archbishops will join in a variety of pious acts centering around the great theme of the Eucharist. Of all the cities in which such congresses have been held, only London and Chicago are larger than Nuestra Ciudad de la Santisima Trinidad, Puerto...