Word: podium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd jostled and babbled, stood tiptoe to see 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...
...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...
...solemnly to a bronze altar set before a tapestry of the Last Supper. Canticles were intoned by 6,000 voices. To the kneeling thousands the elevation of the host was announced by a salvo of bugles. The Pope raised his arms heavenward, thrice blessed the throng. Then, remounting the podium, he was borne into the awesome, shadowed basilica. As he passed, the dark façade blazed with torches...