Word: duringer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For 18 hours, no sign from the conclave. Then, at noon, the first sfumata-a curl of smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney -was seen. By the black smoke the watchers knew that no Pope had been elected during the two morning ballots.
With the conclave rapidly disbanding and the Vatican returnin to normal life, the Holy Father went to the luxurious apartment which he had occupied as Secretary of State and which had been considered his "cell" (given the number 13) during his conclave. He telephoned his sisters Elizabella and Giuseppina told...
Election. Extraordinary in nearly every way was the election of Pius XII. He was the first Secretary of State to be elected since the office took its present form, more than a century ago; the first Cardinal of the Curia (as distinct from an Archbishop) in a century; the first...
As a Catholic statesman, born of a noble (but not rich) Roman family which had furnished functionaries to the Holy See for two centuries, Eugenic Pacelli rose swiftly. During the World War he was Nuncio at Munich, a channel through which went many diplomatic negotiations, including Pope Benedict XV'...
"We Invite." Pius XII does not smoke, eats sparingly, drinks little wine. He has been accustomed to vacation yearly in Switzerland or in Italy's Montecatini. He keeps his lean, six-foot frame in condition by exercising in a completely equipped gymnasium in his Secretary of State's...