Word: 78th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began with what the Vatican paper, L'Osservatore Romano, called "a slight indisposition." Pius XII, close to his 78th birthday (March 2), had been afflicted with an attack of hiccups, at first sporadic, then almost incessant and accompanied by a slight fever. But he carried on through his normal day: rising at about 6, saying Mass, and working until near 2 in the morning...
...Vatican announced that Giuseppe Sarto, who as Pius X was Pope from 1903 to 1914, will be canonized next May the 78th Pope to achieve sainthood, and the first since 1712.* ¶The Rev. Hubert Thornton Trapp, vicar of London's Anglican Church of St. Mary. Magdalene, challenged the Archbishop of Canterbury to "come out into the open" about Freemasonry. Declaring in his parish magazine that "the Christians' God and the Masons' God are not one and the same . . . the two loyalties are in conflict," he announced that he would bar any clergyman...
...brief ceremony will consist of prayer by the University Preacher, a charge by the President of the Board of Overseers, a response by the new President of the University, benediction, and the singing of the 78th Palam...
...Throughout the brief installation, which consisted of a prayer, the presenting of the insignia, and President Conant's acceptance speech, there was no sound besides the speaker's voice and the crackling fire in the hearth. After the 78th Psalm had been sung by the Choir, the assembly broke up, while deans and Overseers gave a hand in removing the chairs to facilitate an approach to the long tables along the west side of the room on which the University had provided punch, tea, and sandwiches." For a half hour, Conant remained, greeting wellwishers...
...routine. He was up in the morning at 6:30, and often the light in his study above St. Peter's Square was burning at midnight. Yet Eugenio Pacelli, still as slim and erect as a brigadier in the 15th year of his reign, is also in the 78th year of his life, and so, among Rome's churchmen, the talk is of his successor...