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To see unveiled the world's largest statue of Jesus Christ, 250,000 pilgrims and nearly all the 1,447,000 inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, toiled up last week to Corcovado Mountain, nearly half a mile above the city and its great harbor. Rain dribbled dankly. In Rome...
Died. Vincenzo Cardinal Vannutelli, 93, since 1915 Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, thrice mentioned for the Papacy (at the conclaves which elected Pius X in 1903, Benedict XV in 1914, Pius XI in 1922); Papal legate to Eucharistic Congresses at London in 1908, at Montreal in 1910 (after...
Traffic congestion at Tunis and Carthage and in between was snarled. Senegalese troops, big, black upstanding men, assisted frantic local police in trying to direct the streams of vehicles and pedestrians. The Senegalese method was simple. They would club sufficient people to earth so that others could trample through the...
The pageantry was as magnificent as only Eucharistic Congresses can be? French soldiers, Zouave bands shrilling and drumming native marches, cardinals, archbishops, bishops (100), priests (4,000), natives in burnouses, 5,000 little singing children in white (many of them recent converts from Mohammedanism), Orientals, Europeans, 400 altars, 200 tons...
Father Gabriel MacDarby of the English Roman Catholic Church in Paris (St. Joseph's). Cardinal de Bourbon, Archbishop of Rouen, in the presence of a Legate of the Pope before whom a great golden cross was borne.