Word: archale
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Giuseppe Sarto became Bishop of Mantua, then Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. He was still poor, still giving away his few belongings and launching quixotic business ventures to help his flock. To one visitor he complained that a gold watch he had been given was engraved with the patri archal arms and therefore could not be pawned. When Pope Leo XIII died in 1903 and Cardinal Sarto had to go to Rome for the conclave, he did not have enough money for the railroad fare and the Catholic bank in Venice refused to lend it to him. He got his loan...
...seems advisable. Under the present regulations a person is allowed admittance to the main auditorium as soon as he arrives within the outer gate, no matter what is going on inside. As a consequence, the first half hour of the recital is accompanied be the incessant rattling of an archal lock and the resulting removal of outer garments...
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