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...knees before the Holy Door of St. Peter's, white-mantled Pope Pius XII lifted a golden trowel. In the center of the door's threshold, he placed a dab of slaked lime with the words: "In fide et virtute Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Filii Dei Vivi [In the faith and the strength of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God]." Continuing to intone the Latin formula, he placed lime to the right and left on the threshold, then laid three bricks-one gilt and two silvered-in the mortar. Thus, a year after...
Before actually closing the Holy Door, the Pope immersed his blessed trowel in holy water, dried it on especially blessed linen. He scooped up a little mortar; picked up three small rectangular stones emblematic of the Trinity; set each carefully in place, saying: "In fide et virtute domini nostri Jesu Christi filii Dei vivi." With the second trowelful he said: "Qui apostolorum principi dixit tu es Petrus"; and with the third: "Et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam." Into a special crevice he had placed coins and medals commemorative of the Holy Year just then closed for at least another...
...Patres nostri, homines et diligentes et frugales, in silvis incognitis cum domus suas et acdem ad Deum colendum acdificavissent, meditari coeperunt quo modo pueros sibi eradirent. Quibus collegium condere volentibus; vir quidam liberalis, sapientiae studiosus Johannes Harvard, sui oblitus dono munifico effecit ut schola valeret floreretque. Hoc in faciendo vitam suam brevem ipsam et morti immatura fractam gloria immortali ornavit...
Habetisne Proctores, odiosos Virorum oppressores? Si ita, vestri Proctores euntne swaggerantes circa cum feris canibus Molossis, quos appellamus "Bull dogs?" Nostri id faciunt aliquibus temporibus, lugemus dicere. Sed non ita difficile est evadere ex illorum via Probabiliter habetis eandem idioticam systeman examinationum in qua nos gaudemus. Prope viam, quod est vestrum "Parvum Ite" simile ad, et dum estis in statu pupillari, estisne condemnati induere habitum semi-via inter bibum infantis, coloratum nigrum et adfixum tergo, et immundum pannum cujosdam coqui...
Nune valete, quoniam odimus scribere in Latino, id est ita fatigans. Habemus quoque premens engagementum cras ad Nevem Emporium, antiquam urbem Romanorum prope hoc. Sed cogitavimus ut debemus ostentare ad vos quomodo faciliter possumus exsecare nostrum Publicnm Oratorem, qui non cogi???a parva tubera sui styli Latini. Nostri respectus ad LOWELLUM qui est unum de nosfris D.C.L's, et circa optimum, ut credimus...
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