Word: hyssop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sins. Then attendants washed the Pope's face, hands and feet for their anointing in the last rite: extreme unction. The Monsignor Sacristan, Alfonso de Romanis, parish priest of the Vatican, sprinkled the still room and its grave company with holy water. "Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, 0 Lord, and I shall be cleansed...
...year-old Irish Cardinal was whisked uptown to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where the bells tolled and 1,000 schoolgirls waved U. S. and Papal flags. Stepping out upon a green velvet carpet, Cardinal MacRory took from Monsignor Lavelle a crucifix, which he kissed, and a holy water hyssop, with which he sprinkled the congregation as he walked up the aisle. Wearing a scarlet ferraiuolo, the Cardinal prostrated himself in prayer at a priedieu. Then he briefly thanked the people for the "welcome you have given me, the unworthy successor of St. Patrick...