Word: lateran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Sunday Pius XI will re-open the Holy Door, while Cardinals do likewise at the basilicas of St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, St. Paul-without-the-Walls. In solemn, robed procession the Pope will move from the Vatican to the front portico of St. Peter's. Thrice he will knock, with a golden hammer, on the Holy Door. Within, Sanpietrini (St. Peter's workmen) will lower the door away. The Pope will pray while prelates sprinkle the aperture with holy water. Then all will enter, kissing the jambs as they pass. Thereafter the public may enter...
...jail in Jerusalem by an angel, went to Antioch and then, according to some Protestant and all Catholic opinion, to Rome, where during Nero's persecutions he was crucified head downwards near the spot where his basilica now stands. St. Peter's head is in St. John Lateran. His body is supposed to be in the crypt of St. Peter's, which was sacked by the Saracens in 846. The crypt has never since been reopened. Archeologists begged for a look in 1900; their request still stands. To exhume the remains of his predecessor, with appropriate ceremony...
...Dictator's completely self-effacing wife standing gracious and well dressed beside Il Duce, who seems genuinely unaware of her existence, at the marriage of their daughter Edda to Count Ciano; 2) Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, paying no visible attention as Premier Mussolini reads to him parts of the Lateran Treaty, and having to be energetically roused and instructed by a young Catholic cleric as to just where to sign the various copies of the Treaty...
Pope Pius XI pressed a key, lit an electric cross on Mt. La Verna in Tuscany to celebrate the 1929 signing of the Lateran Treaty, announced that he would create six new cardinals next month, among them the Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi. apostolic delegate...
...Pope will emerge from the Vatican June 15, for the second time since his assuming the Tiara. In the loggia of St. John Lateran, as his predecessors did until 1870, he will bless the multitude. Last week Pius XI promulgated a bill granting indulgences to those who visit the Basilicas of St. Peter's, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul-without-the-wells. "Let us collect our thoughts from the uproar of daily life during the Holy Year," said the Pope. "Let us turn to prayer and penitence for the sins committed by mankind, torn...