Word: longhi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...majestic notes of Longhi's pontifical march, blared out by six silver trumpets, apprised waiting throngs of the Holy Father's arrival in the portico. After a pause, during which the Fathed donned his white and gold mitre and changed from the closed sedan to the famed sedia gestoria, the procession crossed the portico to where the papal throne had been set before the Holy Door of St. Peter's. There the Pope descended and, while all knelt, approached the throne, accompanied by two attendants holding flabelli-great ostrich-feather fans-on either side of his head...