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...claims of 191 are established-22 denied. The most imposing beatifications in centuries took place last week at St. Peter's. The reading of the papal decree, proclaiming these martyrs blessed, fell appropriately to Mgr. Gromier, French Prelate, and preceded the pontifical mass. Then his Holiness, Pius XI, in snowy white, seated in the sedia gestatoria (sanctified chair) and escorted by twenty cardinals in scarlet, was borne through enormous crowds-full diplomatic corps and all other distinguished Rome-to the basilica, to venerate the newly canonized. Incense rose, heads bowed, throngs cheered...
...mother, the old lady folded in silence like the fall of her quiet dress, hearing voices fade, footsteps pass; Millet's "Angelus," the bent peasants in their luminous field; the perfumed floridity of Nicholas Poussin's "Orpheus and Eurydice," Jacques Louis David's capable "Portrait of Pius VII"; "Renaul and Armide" one of the classic posturings of François Boucher, the courtier who painted ceilings with the grace of miniatures; and "1814" by Ernest Meissonier, filled with the pomp of banners, stations, mustaches, and death...
...Pope Pius XI: "As many people know, I was, before my elevation, wiry, supple. I walked many miles a day and often climbed upon the mountains. Last week I showed that I still have the use of my legs by climbing up into the Dome of St. Peter's, a feat rarely accomplished by any of my predecessors, obese or otherwise. Although a strong wind was blowing, I sat for about an hour in an armchair on the balcony, watching some workmen build the new Vatican seminary...
...Mexican Episcopate issued last week a pastoral letter signed by Archbishop Jose Maria Del Rio in which the encouragement of Pope Pius XI was extended to the Catholics of Mexico, embattled against the enforcement of the anti-religious Mexican Constitution by President Calles (TIME...
...Pope Pius XI pondered, ordered suspended recently elaborate preparations for the international congress of Catholic sport associations in Rome, because Roman Catholic processions had been jostled by Fascist youths at Mantua and Macerata. Last week Athletic Secretary Thibaudeau of the French Catholic gymnastic societies obtained an interview with the Sanc-tissimus Pater, returned to Paris, talked...