Word: giacomo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good son Giacomo, you must promise me to finish the doors of St. Peter's as soon as possible." Each time Pope John XXIII posed for a bust during the summer of 1961, he urged Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù to get on with a Vatican commission for new bronze doors for the left-hand side of St. Peter's façade. Manzù, who comes from Bergamo, Pope John's birthplace, listened and obeyed. Last month workmen hoisted the ten-ton bronze portals into place...
...Pope to supervise the debates. One member of the quartet-Gregory Peter Agagianian -is a Curia moderate who favors a measure of church renewal. The other three are among the most vocal "progressive" members of the council-Belgium's Leo Josef Suenens, Julius Dopfner of Munich and Giacomo Ler-caro of Bologna...
There are plenty of misgivings about other cardinals who rule Italy's great archdioceses. Milan's aggressive Giovanni Montini, 65, a much-mentioned liberal with many Curia enemies, has been mercurial and indecisive as a pastoral leader. Easygoing, emotional Giacomo Lercaro, 71, of Bologna professes a deep interest in social reform, but, complains one Vatican official, "his conception of social work is giving alms." The likable Patriarch of Venice, Giovanni Urbani, 63, is thought to be excessively dependent upon his advisers...
...hours later, a representative of the Vatican sent for Piser, told him that the Pope had been particularly pleased with their conversation, and handed him a medal. Piser recognized it as a copy of the Pope's favorite medal of himself, struck by famed Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manz...
Within the college, liberal cardinals look for leadership to Bologna's Giacomo Ler-caro and Milan's Giovanni Montini. Both men have fought to clean out Communism from Italian labor unions. Best known of possible compromise choices is Agagianian, who according to Roman gossip came within a handful of votes of winning election in 1958. Then, as now, some cardinals would not vote for him out of dislike for having "a Pope with a beard." Another Roman papabile is not yet a cardinal: Archbishop Pericle Felici, 50, secretary-general of the Central Preparatory Commission for the Ecumenical Council...