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Word: triregnum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...priesthood. After mass he went next door, visited the Lateran Palace. Then back to the Vatican he went, as quietly as he had come. Next day the Pope, robed in the full majesty of his Pontificate, in cream-colored silk cloak, gold-&-silver-embroidered, crowned with the Triregnum (triple crown), closed his golden jubilee with a solemn mass in St. Peter's Basilica, where 70.000 Catholics cheered him. Then he beatified the relics of Father John Ogilvie, Scottish priest hanged by the Calvinists 300 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prisoner Emerges | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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