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...intercession, and representatives of the Daughters of the Holy Cross. On another were President Eamon de Valera of Irish Free State, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, Princesses Germaine of Habsburg-Lorraine and Elisabeth of Bourbon-Parme. The Pope assumed the Papal throne. A Cardinal and two other prelates approached, knelt, begged thrice that Blessed Andrè Fournet be declared a saint. The Pope twice told all to pray for God's assistance, then declared the petition granted. Silver trumpets blew, all the bells of Rome rang loudly. By ancient ritual the Cardinals offered Pius XI loaves of bread, kegs...
Into the Vatican's Pilgrims' Hall a group of pilgrims from northern Italy filed devoutly and stood against the wall. When Pope Pius came in by another door, all knelt. As the Pope stood he spied a kneeling man who towered above the others. He asked the prelate at his side, ''Isn't that Primo Camera?" It was. Said the Pope, who disapproves of prizefighting. "It seems God could not enrich him physically more abundantly." When he raised his arm to bless the group, he gestured specially at Italy's heavyweight champion...
Pierrepont Burt Noyes, president of Oneida (N. Y.) Community Ltd. (silver) and his nephew knelt for 2,500 hours over a giant jigsaw puzzle 5 by 6| ft., finally fitted its 10,000 pieces into a picture of West Point Military Academy, proudly framed...
...spoke on "Why I Am Going to the Mission Field"; Nathaniel ("Nat") Noble. Yale 1928, who told "Why I Am Going into the Ministry." With them met students from 20 colleges. They walked, skated, played squash, talked. At midnight, while many another student was roistering 1932 away, they knelt in St. Paul's elaborate Gothic chapel...
...shook hands hesitantly, then suddenly embraced and knelt together by the altar...