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...Square, began filing past his bier. There began the novemdiali, nine days of papal funeral rites, on the fourth day of which the Pope was to be immured in a triple coffin of cypress, lead and elm. His resting place, near the tomb of the Fisherman in the crypt of St. Peter's, Pius XI chose long ago, declaring: ''I also will find sweet repose in this place some...
...King, in Vienna. Last week the Nazis ordered the bodies reburied in their original graves. Official Nazi reason: "The public objects to seeing these coffins exhibited in a place of worship." Nazis forgot to mention that since the Anschluss the public has not been allowed to enter the crypt...
...That year, in London, a handsome young man named Allen Lane, 33-year-old son of an architect, quit his job in his uncle's publishing house (the famed Bodley Head) and started publishing pocket-size, paperbound Penguin books. His original capital: ?100. His publishing office: a crypt beneath a Soho church. Tables were tomb tops; storage space was empty tombs. The first six months he sold over a million copies, including such titles as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, André Maurois' Ariel, Mowrer's Germany Puts the Clock Back...
...adventurers got up into the crypt, but couldn't locate the bulb. After groping in the gloom frantically for the string, they got desperate. On top of this, each was heavily burdened with a tripod and a pair of binoculars...
Last week Devil's Advocate Natucci journeyed to a Manhattan Catholic high school named for Mother Cabrini. In a coffin in the chapel-crypt lay her body, removed there from a cemetery five years ago after being identified and reported "well-preserved" - an aid but not an essential to beatification. Last week Monsignor Natucci, his entourage and a few necessary witnesses beheld a second exhumation of Mother Cabrini. At some secret later time, the Devil's Advocate was to sever from the body a limb (which limb would not be revealed) - a "first-class" relic which he would...