Word: lateran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following a private funeral attended by only his family and friends, in a cemetery at the village of Torrita Tiberina, 30 miles north of Rome, where the Moros had a country home. On Saturday the government held a televised state funeral in Rome's Cathedral of St. John Lateran to honor the man who had been Italy's Premier five times. While hundreds of Italian leaders, including Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer, and representatives of 100 countries stood in hushed silence, Pope Paul VI devoted a special prayer to his personal friend, Aldo Moro. The Pontiff asked "that...
...crowd of youthful supporters cheered wildly when Secretary-General Enrico Berlinguer, 53, the spare, introspective Sardinian who masterminded the unexpected showing, appeared on a floodlit balcony. Later, looking across a sea of red flags at a mass rally of 200,000 Communists in the Piazza of St. John Lateran, Berlinguer declared, "The political line of the Italian Communist Party promises the only valid democratic alternative to reactivate Italy. The gains of the Communist Party can only frighten the corrupt and the overbearing. They cannot frighten honest citizens...
...spiritual idea of liberation in mind, the Roman Catholic Church began its tradition of Holy Years in 1300; eventually they came to be celebrated fairly regularly every 25 years. As in past Holy Years, pilgrims to Rome who visit St. Peter's and three other basilicas-St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul Outside the Walls-will receive a papal plenary indulgence: full remission of any temporal punishment (i.e., time in purgatory) they may have earned for their sins. The influx of tourists-at least 4 million are predicted-could be a mixed blessing for Italy...
...Basilica "if it were the price to be paid to achieve [Christian] unity." According to the priest, the Pontiff made the remark in a recent private conversation in response to Javierre's own questioning. The Pope reportedly added that he could take up residence in the Lateran Palace outside the Vatican, the nominal headquarters of Popes in their capacity as Bishops of Rome...
...lawyers [May 3], was obsessed with the legal profession's lack of a counterpart for the physicians' Luke and the soldiers' George. He journeyed to Rome and put the matter before the Pope. His Holiness directed Yves to go around the Church of St. John Lateran blindfolded and, after saying certain specific prayers, grasp a saintly figure, which would become the lawyers' patron. Yves, catching hold of an image, cried: "This is our saint!" Removing his blindfold, he was horrified to find that he had laid hold of the figure of the devil under the feet...