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Eugenic Pacelli, Pius XII, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of the City of the Vatican, rises punctually at 6:30 every morning. He throws open the window of his bedroom (on the third floor of the Vatican Palace) looking out on St. Peter's Square, and with hands crossed, prays. His is a busy day, so this first prayer is brief. He turns back...
Audiences fall into four categories: 1) Tabular* (from 9 to 11:15) for the Cardinals and high Vatican officials through whom Pius administers the ecclesiastical and political affairs of the Church; 2) Private (11:15 to 12:15) for diplomats and other bigwigs, in the Pope's own library; 3) Special (12:15 to 12:45) for not-so-bigwigs, in one of the library's anterooms, where they must wait for the Pope to come to them; 4) Public (12:45 to 1:30 or 2) for groups of pilgrims and miscellaneous visitors...
During the early years of his pontificate, Pius XII spent as much time as he could in the Public audiences. He would wave his entourage aside, and let the people throng around him. Once he lost his ring in the crush. Another time, a woman begged him to hear her confession then & there. (The Pope did, in a secluded corner of the room.) But the strain of the war years has told on him. He finds these long public audiences tiring, especially notices the fatigue after hours of gently helping to lift visitors from their knees...
...Work." At 6 o'clock sharp Pius enters his study and a new phase of great activity. He starts with an examination of the ecclesiastical or political issues which have been laid before him by the Cardinals in the morning's Udienze di Tabella. Eight o'clock is dinner time. The meal is lighter than lunch, takes less than an hour. After dinner the Pope goes to his chapel again for 20 minutes of prayer...
...night last week, he devoted this period to typing out, on his famed white portable, a speech of welcome in Spanish-his pet language-to Uruguay's new Minister to the Holy See, Alfredo Carbonell Debali. But for the most part, Pius worked last week on a long, careful speech to be delivered at the beatification of Maria Goretti, constantly checking and consulting books and scriptures from the Vatican library to supply the many references and quotations...