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Wearing a white apron over his white robes, Pope Pius XI stood before a doorway in the portico of St. Peter's on Easter Monday. Chanting prayers, he grasped a golden trowel, pushed three gilded bricks in place, applied three pats of mortar to them. Thus did he formally close the "Holy Door" and bring to an end the "Holy Year of Human Redemption" celebrating the 1,900th anniversary of Christ's death (TIME, April 3, 1933). During the year 1,200,000 Pilgrims had come to Rome, gaining full jubilee indulgence for their sins by visiting Rome...
Only a Pope could do for an old friend what Pius XI did last week. As he was borne into vast St. Peter's on Easter Sunday to take his place upon the great throne, the Holy Father's thoughts could hark back to the 1880's when he was a young priest in Milan named Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti. In nearby Turin an old priest named Giovanni Melchior Bosco was already famed for his good works among Italian youth. The two met, were friends until Don Bosco died in 1888.* Thereafter Achille Ratti rose...
...increased to 100 voices. In the musical sections surrounding this great central act of Roman Catholic faith, such as the Kyrie Eleison, Gloria, Credo, and Agnus Dei, the choir divided, one part taking the melody, the other singing as if in orchestral accompaniment. To assist at this mass with Pius XI as celebrant, 70,000 people jampacked St. Peter's. Among them were the King & Queen of Siam, the Crown Prince of Italy, 20 other European princes, and delegations led by Alfred Ildefonse Cardinal Schuster of Milan and Augusto Cardinal Hlond of Poland. Rain pelted down during the canonization...
When the Emperor announced his choice of a wife, someone blundered by giving out the news that Pope Pius XI was considering a bargain to let Nguyen Huu Hao remain a Catholic if she gave the Church her girl children. The Holy Father is thoroughly aware of the political and religious state of affairs in Annam. It would be foolish to embarrass the French Government with any dogmatic decisions. The Christian girl may have much or little to say about what her children become. And the less the Annamites know about it the better...
...from the Pauline Chapel to St. Peter's, Pope Pius XI twiddled his thumbs for five minutes when the Papal elevator stalled between floors and kept 10,000 worshippers waiting...