Word: flabelli
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...anniversary of his coronation last week the Holy Father, wearing his triple crown, was borne into St. Peter's on his sedia gestatoria. Surrounded by Swiss Guards, Noble Guards, Palatine Guards, flabelli bearers (with ostrich fans) he begged all the world to pray God for peace. Among his 35,000 listeners in St Peter's were Signora Rachele Mussolini, and a man who ran up to the sedia gestatoria, threw a paper in the Pope's lap, crying "I want grace! I want grace!" Later Pius XI inquired about the poor fellow, learned he was unemployed, ordered that everything possible...
...changed from the closed sedan to the famed sedia gestoria, the procession crossed the portico to where the papal throne had been set before the Holy Door of St. Peter's. There the Pope descended and, while all knelt, approached the throne, accompanied by two attendants holding flabelli-great ostrich-feather fans-on either side of his head. The Pope prayed, arose and proceeded up the steps leading to the Holy Door. Someone handed him his studded gold hammer (TIME, Dec. 22). He raised his hand to smite...
...Pope, dressed in full Pontifical robes-a golden mitre upon his head, a magnificent scarlet cloak embroidered in gold over his shoulders-with the gorgeous, glittering emerald ring upon his finger, rose from his sedia, and followed by two attendants who held the resplendent Flabelli-huge ostrich feather fans-at either side of his head, made his way to the throne...
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