Word: basilicas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead of night a hearse rattled its way along the narrow streets of Rome from St. Peter's to the Basilica of St. John Lateran. Beside the hearse walked a few of the Pope's georgeous guards, a few Vatican officials. All Rome slept. The body of Pope Leo XIII was being removed, in accordance with his expressed will, to its final resting place...
...church, which lay in the province of Quebec, was destroyed in 1922 by fire ascribed to an incendiary. Money for its reconstruction was speedily obtained. Last Sunday, Louis Nazaire Cardinal Begin, Catholic Primate of Canada, laid the new basilica's cornerstone...
...Victoria Station Her Catholic Majesty was greeted by Queen Mary, other British princesses, and the Spanish Ambassador, H. E. Don Alfonzo Merry del Val, brother of Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val, Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica...
...exhibition hall devoted to the Arts are examples of weaving, needlework, lace, jewelry-"faultless taste, painstaking craftsmanship." Ecclesiastical ornament is displayed in a basilica expressly designed for that purpose- banners, books, altar carpets, stained glass, tiled floors, sanctuary lamps, "full of traditional design and symbolism but signifying little." There are interesting photographs of architectural projects as well as the architectural manifestations of the exposition itself. The art of the Theatre is more historical than contemporary in import, as Gordon Craig, Lovat Eraser and others of the modern theorists are absent. There are contemporary drawings of David Garrick, and stage designs...
...Sonata Romantica, as well as Skilton's American Indian Fantasy. The barbaric clangor of this last composition made many of his hearers forget that Yon can, when he wants to, play with such solid gravity that he has been appointed honorary organist to St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, and that he holds his active post at New York's Church of St. Francis Xavier. He showed how even the deepest-throated diapasons and most wooden bourdons can be made to sparkle under a rhythmic, bouncing, lively touch. His name is Pietro, remember...