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Last Sunday, His Holiness Pope Pius XI celebrated the rites for can- onization for Sainte Thérèse, La Petite Fleur (the Little Flower), in St. Peter's Church, Rome. The ceremony began at 8 o'clock in the morning and ended at 2 o'clock in the afternoon; but long before, at 4 o'clock in the morning, street cars, taxis and private automobiles began to move a vast number of pilgrims to St. Peter's. Nearly 70,000 persons crowded into the basilica, being the greatest number that ever assembled there...
...London and His Eminence Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster,* there are no better Roman Catholics in all Britain. Yet, mirabile dicta, both declined to attend, last week, a meeting of the Catenian? Association in London. The reason was quite simple?on the program, the toast to Pope Pius XI preceded the toast to King George...
...marriage was declared valid. Le Comte appealed from the Rota to Pope Benedict XV. Trial IV. The case was laid before a Commission of the Apostolic Signatura−the supreme tribunal of the Church. Six cardinals composed the commission. They held the marriage valid. Le Comte appealed to Pope Pius...
Next day, he went to the Vatican, called on Pope Pius. For more than an hour, in private audience the two reminisced about the days when they met in Warsaw, the Pontiff as Nuncio, Paderewski as Premier of Poland, both facing a situation black as the pit, from Pole to Pole...
...Johnny Dundee's real name is Giuseppe Carriorra. He was born in Sicily. Last week, he was received by Pope Pius XI-the first time such an honor has ever been accorded a pugilist. Said Mr. Dundee (later) to reporters: "That ought to bring luck. I hope I'll knock out the next man I fight...