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...Cardinal Pacelli calmly paced a corridor, reading his breviary. Then, after conversing with a colleague, he stumbled, fell headlong down a short flight of steps, arose bruised and shaken. Shortly thereafter followed a third vote, and the lengthy, ceremonial reading of the ballots. When Cardinal Pacelli, seated under his baldachin (canopy), heard his name pronounced for the 42nd successive time, he suddenly hid his face in his hands. The reading continued. The Secretary of State received 61 votes...
...consultation on a multitude of matters with Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli and the three Cardinals who now constituted his cabinet. These three were the deans, eldest in point of service, of the three orders-of Cardinals which make up the College. Sitting in a row sheltered by the same baldachin (canopy), the Camerlengo and the three deans assumed many of the qualities of a reigning Pope, were entitled to the same genuflections which a Catholic would make to the Pontiff...
Head of the Roman Catholic Church during the 18-day interregnum is the Cardinal Camerlengo. who sits during the conclave under a baldachin with the head Cardinal Bishop, Cardinal Priest and Cardinal Deacon, the four being reverenced with a genuflection as if they were one Pope. Entrusted with what remained of the old office of Minister of the Interior & Finance in the Papal States, the Cardinal Camerlengo came, during his brief rule, to appropriate some of the powers of the Cardinal Secretary of State. Modern pontiffs have united the two offices, and for many years, until his death last November...