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...doors of the Pontiff's apartment trembled, parted, delivered up a gorgeous procession led by a canopied sedan chair on the shoulders of twelve scarlet-clad sediarii. Down vast corridors, down wide steps into the Sistine Chapel moved the procession. There the canopied chair opened and Pope Pius XI stepped out, knelt, worshipped. Entering the chair again, he had himself carried on to the entrance to the great nave of St. Peter's, his followers lowers carrying candles and chanting liturgical verses...
...three-the blows fell on a large slate tablet engraved with a golden cross. At the third blow the tablet cracked across. The door did not seem to budge. Pope Pius faced about and returned to his throne...
Later, in the chapel of the Pieta, Pius XI addressed the religious brotherhoods of Rome, entrusting to them the care of the Holy Door and explaining its significance as the symbol of the eternal door of the City of God. Said he: "We hope the words 'Glory to God and on earth, peace, good will toward men,' will come true. May this Holy Year bring peace to the mind and peace to the heart and peace to the will." Then he blessed his listeners and distributed among them jubilee med; showing the dome of St. Peter...
...carved ivory, studded with rubies, emeralds, aquamarines, lapis lazuli and engraved with solemn mottoes; a trowel, also of gold, also studded and graven; in a leather case, embossed and inlaid with gold and gems?these gifts of the episcopacy of the world were placed in the hands of Pope Pius XI. Pope Pius was pleased, elated...
Among the inscriptions on the presents was "Anno jubilaes MCMXXV", which is to say that 1925 is a Holy Year of Jubilee. On Christmas Eve, bearing his hammer and trowel according to the custom, Pope Pius will take his way to the Holy Door of St. Peter's. There he will strike upon the door with the hammer, crying out: "Open unto me the Gates of Justice." At the third stroke, masonry which has walled up the door since the last holy year (1825) will be made to crumble, the holy portal will gape. Assisted by Jubilee penitents, the Pope...