Word: gestoria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full Pontificial robes, the Pope was carried the entire length of the Church in the sedia gestoria amid scenes of emotion. Owing to the installation of a loud speaker-a great innovation for the conservative Catholic Church-His Holiness' voice was distinctly heard throughout the long service into the recesses of the basilica. Supported by all the Cardinals in Rome, including Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, who led 15,000 Americans to Rome for the event, the Pope began the mystic ceremony of making the Blessed Sister Therese, the Blessed Sainte Thérèse. Outside the Church, hundreds...
...notes of Longhi's pontifical march, blared out by six silver trumpets, apprised waiting throngs of the Holy Father's arrival in the portico. After a pause, during which the Fathed donned his white and gold mitre and 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...
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