Word: accepto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly unanimous; the cardinals lowered the canopies above their makeshift wooden thrones until all but the one over Montini were collapsed. Approaching him, Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, dean of the college, asked in Latin: "Do you accept the election canonically raising you to the post of Supreme Pontiff?" Murmured Montini: "Accepto, in nomine Domini [I accept, in the name of the Lord...
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