Word: baldachins
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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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...