Word: lateran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Marchese Giulio Pacelli, son of the late Marchese Francesco Pacelli who had a hand in the negotiations leading up to the Lateran Treaty between Italy and the Vatican in 1929; and 'Signorina Piera Bombrini; in Vatican City. Officiating at the ceremony was Pope Pius XII, formerly Eugenio, Cardinal Pacelli, uncle of the groom...
...invaders. He shut himself up in the Vatican, there to remain to the end of his days. The House of Savoy moved into the Quirinal, which had belonged to the Popes. Pius IX and four of his successors, unceasingly protesting their "despoliation," remained in voluntary imprisonment until the Lateran Treaties of 1929. They and their partisans - to Roman society, "Blacks" as opposed to the "Whites" of the Court - would no more have thought of visiting the Quirinal than of going to a Methodist prayer meeting. Until last week. Then, as part of a beautifully staged "reconsecration" of the Lateran Treaties...