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...Belgians, was unable to reach her bedside in time. When the babe was one day old he was carried on a satin pillow into the chapel of the Royal Palace where Cardinal Ascalesi, Archbishop of Naples, christened him with twelve names: Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amadeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria...
Once a stocky mountain-climber named Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI is at 77 in good health, except for a slight diabetic condition. In February he celebrated the 13th anniversary of his accession to the Chair of St. Peter. He has thus outreigned his two immediate predecessors, Benedict XV and Pius X, who respectively died after eight and eleven years in the Papacy. But Pius XI must marshal his health for many more years to equal the longevity of two other Popes of the century past, Leo XIII who lived 93 years, died in 1903 after...
...last week. As he was borne into vast St. Peter's on Easter Sunday to take his place upon the great throne, the Holy Father's thoughts could hark back to the 1880's when he was a young priest in Milan named Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti. In nearby Turin an old priest named Giovanni Melchior Bosco was already famed for his good works among Italian youth. The two met, were friends until Don Bosco died in 1888.* Thereafter Achille Ratti rose in the Church as Vatican Librarian, Apostolic Visitor to Poland, Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal...
...most casual Christian to thoughts of his Savior. Whatever material improvement the year may bring, may, after prayer, honestly be attributed by Christians to Christian faith. And once more a Holy Year will serve to remind the world that Pius XI, 261st Pope, once a mountain climber named Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, is at 75 a world figure, the hale, vigorous-minded ruler of some 300 million souls of all races. A temporal sovereign-in his 108.7-acre Vatican City, he is master of millions & millions in wealth. He said last February, "God after accepting the offerings of the shepherds...
...great Statesman-Popes, beheld the industrial and financial worlds again seething with a great unrest. In Russia the overturn had come, violently, and Mother Church had suffered there with Capitalism. Throughout the world, even Capitalists were saying, "Capitalism is not perfect. It must mend itself and mankind." Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, His Holiness Pope Pius XI, perceived that the appropriate moment again had come for Mother Church to announce her attitude towards the social scheme...