Word: milani
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lisieux, gathered a hushed assemblage: lean, austere Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, Camillo Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni, the Pope's protege and master of ceremonies, Count Franco Ratti, the Pope's nephew, Governor Camillo Serafini of Vatican City. The Pope's regular doctor, Dr. Aminta Milani, himself down with a high fever, left his sickbed to administer to the Pontiff a last, desperate injection of adrenalin...
Last week he came down with influenza, suffered a third serious heart attack. Since his physician, Dr. Aminta Milani, was also sick with flu. Dr. Filippo Rocchi was called. Scarcely had he arrived when the Pope became unconscious. His pulse was feeble, his heartbeat almost inaudible. As a stimulant, Dr. Rocchi gave the Pope an injection of camphor oil* and half an hour later he regained consciousness...
...frail body, however, could stand no further onslaught, and when he complained of pain in his bladder, his physicians realized that his kidneys were weakened and knew that the end was near. Dr. Milani rose from his own sickbed, administered adrenalin. But it was no use. In a short time the Pope's heart gave...
...Holy Father's pallid face was newly blotched with red, took this as a sign that his old circulatory troubles had returned. The 80-year-old Pontiff took to his bed. Once more, rumors of a serious relapse went out, the wildest being that papal Dr. Aminta Milani was telling prelates: "I would not be surprised any morning to hear the bells of St. Peter's toll out the sad news...
...Pope's observance of Easter elaborate plans had been made. A Vatican functionary detailed, in memoranda, the minimum religious acts which would be required of the Holy Father in public, and Vatican Physician Dr. Aminta Milani. unwilling to take sole responsibility, called a consultation regarding Pius XI's physical state. Vatican workers hung 50-ft. velvet curtains about the high altar of St. Peter's, erected wooden partitions on the basilica's outside balcony to cut off drafts. Within St. Peter's on Easter Sunday morning 50,000 faithful cried "Viva il Papa" when...