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Sooner than the world expected (TIME, Dec. 28), on a bleak December day within a fortnight of his elevation, His Eminence Bonaventura Cardinal Cerretti, papal nuncio at Paris, got his red hat, his galerum rubrum, got it without the fanfare and spectacle so influential on the French...
Attention! The band fell into place; gendarmes along the rue de Faubourg St.-Honoré stood stark, forcibly restraining Parisians crowded against the cordons in hopes that there would fall upon them in blessing the bright eyes of Cardinal Cerretti as he sat beside His Eminence Louis-Ernest Cardinal Dubois, Archbishop of Paris, as they were trundled along in the state coach, accompanied by two squadrons of cuirassiers, to the crowning...
...Bonaventura Cerretti, Archbishop of Corinth, now apostolic nuncio in Paris, onetime auditor of the apostolic delegation...
Monday afternoon three of the nominees (Cardinal Cerretti must stay watchfully in Paris to guard the frail French-Vatican relations) were summoned to the Pope's apartments. In the antechamber a sottoguardaroba handed each his scarlet zucchetto. Capped they proceeded into the presence of His Holiness who placed on each his scarlet biretta-the four-cornered, pinched-top cap-then heard their oaths to defend conscientiously the papal bulls concerning nonalienation of the possessions of the Roman Church, nepotism, papal elections, and cardinalitial dignity. Last May 30, two Spanish prelates were elevated to the scarlet: Eustachio Ilundain y Esteban...
Later, M. Maklakov requested the Papal Nuncio. Monsignor Cerretti, to hand over the building to the Bolsheviki. It was believed that the Pope's Ambassador accepted the mission, but the report was unconfirmed. At all events, the royalist Russians removed all their papers and documents to another building before quitting the Embassy...