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...negotiated a secret pact of union between Italy and Hungary and was clearing his decks to become Supreme Chancellor of this dual realm; 2) That he was preparing to proclaim Italy an empire and would have bandy-legged little King Vittorio Emanuele crowned Emperor by His Holiness Pope Pius XI; 3) That he planned, perhaps most sensationally of all, to become like other Prime Ministers, to exercise only a general supervision over the State. Eagerly the Fascist hierarchy waited for a definitive statement from Il Duce. It came straight as a lightning stroke: "No one will make the unpardonable mistake...
...Masserano priest sealed two bottles of wine and stipulated in his will that they should go to the Pope who brought about the settlement of the Roman dispute with Italy. Last week 1,000 pilgrims from the Masserano district journeyed to Vatican City, delivered the two bottles to Pius...
...over itself. Those who fainted were removed to a dozen handy Red Cross stations. On most lips was a question: Would the Pope ride on a resplendent podium, borne on the shoulders of twelve stalwarts? Or, as he had suggested, would he walk? Everyone hoped that he would ride. Pius XI is 72. He would have to carry the weighty monstrance containing the Host. The day was hot. Besides, riding, he could be seen better...
Behind them came the Pope Who Left the Vatican, Pius XI. He was riding?a minute figure almost immersed in a white mantle. Bareheaded because of the heat, he gazed fixedly at the Host. Around him strode a jeweled assemblage. Above him waved a velvet canopy of scarlet and gold which dispersed thick spirals of incense rising from argent censers. Behind him swayed two giant ostrich fans. As the podium was borne through the colonnade, the mass of heads turned, the air quivered with the clangor of bells, the shouts were hoarse and deafening: "Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa...
Ildefonso Schuster, son of a stalwart Swiss-German officer in the Vatican's famed Swiss Guard, is accounted an Italian Cardinal because he was born in Rome. A Benedictine, he has devoted his life to scholarship. An intimate friend of Pius XI, he reputedly earned great papal admiration by a treatise on the Council of Nicaea which he presented at the 16th centenary celebration of the Council, held in the Vatican...