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Warlike Nuns? The Communist attempt to break up Budapest's Corpus Christi procession was merely an incident in a new campaign waged by Hungary's Red regime against the Roman Catholic Church since the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty over two years ago. The ostensible cause: Hungary's Bench of Bishops had refused to support an anti-Western "peace" resolution of the Partisans of Peace, an international Communist front. When a group of Hungarian nuns refused to sign the "peace" resolution, one Red paper screeched: "These warlike sisters prefer to see burned and mangled corpses rather than healthy...
Pope Urban IV, who was in Orvieto at the time taking refuge from a threatened invasion of Rome from Sicily, ordered the blood-sported corporal brought within the safety of Orvieto's walls. Inspired by the miracle (Orvietans declare), Urban IV instituted the feast of Corpus Christi. He then presented the corporal to the "good people of Orvieto who with much valor and sacrifice saved our person and protected us, thereby fully deserving the honor to protect the Lamb's blood as they saved the Lamb's vicar...
Humble Request. Mario Moretti, an Orvieto jack-of-all-trades, had the idea of exposing the reliquary to the multitudes at Rome in the Corpus Christi procession of this Holy Year. Moretti took his suggestion to Bishop Francesco Piero, who wrote to Pope Pius XII about it, was delighted when the Pope accepted the offer. In a notice posted on the cathedral walls, Orvieto's Bishop Piero announced: " ....Generously condescending to my humble request, His Holiness has granted that Orvieto's precious reliquary be carried in Rome's procession this jubilee year of 1950." Orvietans, gathered...
...great Corpus Christi procession from St. Peter's Basilica Thursday of last week, before 300,000 onlookers, the corporal of Orvieto, carried aloft by robed, red-sashed Bohemian priests, moved just in front of Pius XII. It was observed that during the procession the Pope kept his eyes on the reliquary. The Communist mayor of Bolsena, wearing a tri-colored sash, was on hand...