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...midnight, in his organ voice, the Patriarch chanted, "Christ is risen, Christ is risen," while the choir and the 7,000 took up the refrain. Light from the Patriarch's candle, touched quickly to a dozen others, spread through the nave. Gorgeous in his robes of silvered silk and wearing a pearl-and-diamond crown, the Patriarch swung his fragrant censer, blessed them...
...Romans could not have been more surprised if bronze St. Peter, stepping down from his white marble pedestal, had crossed the nave waving the Red Flag and crying "Sovietti da per tutto!" (Soviets everywhere...
...music swelled through the Gothic nave and died away. At the organ console beside the apse, a white-haired little man of 79 turned off the organ switch and gathered up his music. Dr. T. Tertius Noble, organist for three decades at Manhattan's famed St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church, had decided to give up playing in public "while I can still do a good...
...20th Presiding Bishop. None of the Most Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill's predecessors had been installed with such pomp & circumstance. Five processions of purple-robed choirboys, candle-bearers, crucifers, bishops and distinguished laymen escorted him toward the high altar. A congregation of 2,500 crowded the unfinished nave to witness the ceremonies of installation...
After a golden fanfare of trumpets from high in the nave, Pius XII, gold-mitred, red-robed, and flanked by the Swiss Guards in uniforms designed by Michelangelo, was borne through the throngs on the Sedia Gestatoria to his throne...