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Most notable of the famed who previously had scaled the Valaisian Alps was the onetime Mgr. Achille Ratti, now Pope Pius...
...Italy mobilized for the relief of the stricken district. From his desk in the red brick palazzo Venezia, Il Duce ordered to the stricken district five regiments, a squadron of observation planes, and his brand new Earthquake Relief Train. From the Vatican Pope Pius sent a special nuncio, Mgr. Spirito Chiapetta. Little King Vittorio Emanuele went himself, motored from village to village. Exhausted soldiers and rescue squads, grief-stricken peasants glimpsed a pair of bright eyes and the top of His Majesty's campaign cap as the car passed, were comforted...
...Carthage will not receive the pilgrims with the splendor or the comfort which could be offered by many cities," said Mgr. Lemaitre, Archbishop of Carthage, "it will offer, on the other hand, a country which was for centuries soaked in Christian blood and an ensemble of ruins...
...Austria? Did he want to form a separate most Catholic Kingdom of united Austria and Bavaria? Did he want to indemnify the Habsburgs for property confiscated by the Austrian Republic? In Luxemburg had he visited ex-Empress Zita of Austria, as reported, and discussed with her these matters? Deftly Mgr. Seipel avoided the more contentious questions...
Four other Cardinals were named by Pope Pius XI last week to fill some of the 13 vacancies in the Sacred College: Mgr. Emanuel Gonzales Cerejeira, to be Patriarch of Lisbon; Mgr. Luigi Lavitrano, to be Archbishop of Palermo; Mgr. Carlo Minoretti, to be Archbishop of Genoa; Mgr. Joseph MacCrory to be Primate of Ireland...