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...extant body of testimony of those who knew Pius-before-the-Vatican, Reporter Morgan adds many a revealing detail. He has twice visited Desio, the Pope's birthplace where he is still referred to as "Pope Ratti," "Cardinal Ratti" or even plain "Achille Ratti." Said a contemporary of Pius XI: "He was in every boyish prank. ... He always liked to jump. ... In a fight with my cousin, he got a bloody nose. He never forgot that. It took him a year but he gave his milk brother [son of Achille Ratti's wet-nurse] something to remember...
...From Desio, his home, and from Milan, seat of his active archbishopric, friends and relatives of Pope Pius XI came to spend Christmas with the sturdy man they had known as Achille Ratti...