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...heels of the dean's letter came announcement from the Cathedral of his successor, quietly chosen long ago to bring new blood to the white fane on Washington's Mount St. Alban-Rev. Dr. Noble Cilley Powell of Baltimore. Alabama-born 45 years ago, handsome Noble Powell was an entomologist, investigating the boll weevil for the Department of Agriculture, before he went to the Uni-versity of Virginia and Virginia Theological Seminary, became a priest in 1921. As rector of St. Paul's Memorial Church near Charlottesville and Episcopal chaplain at the university, he missionized among both...
...front cover) In Castel Gandolfo last month His Holiness Pope Pius XI, much refreshed by a summer in the cool Alban Hills, summoned to his side for an hour's conference His Eminence Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Secretary of State to His Holiness, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica. What the 79-year-old Holy Father said to the austere, slim-fingered 60-year-old Prince of the Church who is his most trusted associate, no outsider knew. Next day, amid villagers' cheers and band music, the Pope returned from Castel Gandolfo to Vatican...
...worldly, 18th Century Episcopalian named George Washington first conceived the idea of a great cathedral in the U. S. capital. Late in the materialistic 19th Century The Cathedral Church of Saints Peter & Paul was begun on Washington's Mount St. Alban. Last week a stanch Presbyterian displayed two stained glass windows, designed for the National Cathedral, and executed with the simple, wholehearted reverence of the Gothic 13th Century. Already the author of 13 National Cathedral windows, Lawrence Bradford Saint made his- latest pair to flank the stairway to the crypt in the North Transept, as a memorial...
...health had anything to do with it. Last week, however, the Vatican household felt vastly relieved when at 6:30 o'clock one evening three automobiles rolled away bearing the 79-year-old Pontiff and a small retinue to Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer snuggery in the cool Alban Hills. Leaving the muggy Vatican a month earlier than usual, Pius XI planned to remain away three months, longest vacation yet scheduled...
...gestures and mobile expression (see cut), he has lately surprised groups of pilgrims by seating himself, talking at unwonted length. Vatican attendants last week looked forward to the end of heavy schedules and a good summer's rest for the Holy Father at Castel Gandolfo in the cool Alban Hills...