Word: gasparri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predecessor and patron, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, Vatican Secretary of State under two popes for 15 years, framer of the Lateran Treaty between the Italian state and the Vatican, gave the young Cardinal his blessing, then retired to his stately villa (a present from Pope Pius) where he can sit in the sun, busy himself for the rest of his life with canonical law. By order of Il Duce, every public building in Italy was flag-draped to celebrate two simultaneous Catholic milestones; the first anniversary of the Lateran Treaty, the eighth anniversary of Pius XI's Pontificate...
Those wise in hierarchical ways were not surprised at the appointment of Cardinal Pacelli. Besides being the "most loved pupil" of Secretary-emeritus Gasparri, he can point to excellent Vatican connections. His father, Filippo, was Doyen of the consistorial advocates...
After several years as a member of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Affairs, he was sent by his patron, Cardinal Gasparri to Munich, where he pursued the pacific policies of Pope Benedict XV. In 1917 he conveyed the Papal Peace Note to Kaiser Wilhelm...
Next a series of reciprocal feasts was tendered to Marquis Macdonald by Cardinal Gasparri (then Papal Secretary of State), Cardinal Sincero, Cardinal Cerretti and other Princes of the Church...
Brusque, blunt, subtle in spite of his manner is Pietro Gasparri. Swarthy, stout of frame, broad of shoulder, his head is Ciceronian. His apartment in the Vatican, directly beneath the Pope's and connected with it by a private elevator, is of two rooms. His retinue includes a butler, a cook, a valet, a green parrot. In the little cemetery at Ussita, his home village, where the peasants call him "Don Pietro," his tomb is ready, inscription...