Word: basilicas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three days later the Public Consistory was held in the Hall of Benedictions, which is above the façade of St. Peter's basilica. At 10 o'clock in the morning cheers of 'Viva il Papa announced the advent of His Holiness, who was borne into the hall in the sedia gestatoria, which was carried on the shoulders of twelve scarlet-clad sediarit...
...Catholic churches of Canada are proving suspiciously inflammable. In the last nine months the three oldest shrines in the ancient province of Quebec have been destroyed by fire-St. Anne de Beaupré noted for its miraculous cures; the Trappist monastery at Oka, and the Basilica at Quebec. The Basilica was built in 1647 and contained magnificent windows and irreplaceable historical documents. The loss...