Word: nuncio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Luigi Cardinal Maglione, 67, seasoned, Fascist-hated Papal Secretary of State since 1939, longtime Vatican Nuncio to France; of neuritis and circulatory ailments; in his birthplace, Casoria, near Naples. Heavy-smoking Cardinal Maglione succeeded his schoolmate Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli as Secretary of State when Pacelli became Pope Pius XII, was so close to him that Italians punned: whenever the Pope went out without his maglione (Italian for large sweater), he caught cold...
...Russian Revolution had just begun) Pacelli went as Papal Nuncio to Munich, tried (and failed) to talk the Kaiser into a peaceful frame of mind After the Kaiser fled, Pacelli lived through the Bavarian Soviet Republic. On one occasion he faced down a band of armed revolutionaries who had broken into the Papal Embassy, intending to loot the building...
...conference city recognized neutral Argentina as a meeting ground congenial to the Fascist-minded. But opposition to the conference developed from the Argentine people, the majority of whom are sympathetic to the United Nations' cause. Neither Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello of Buenos Aires, nor the Papal Nuncio, the Most Rev. José Fietta, approved of the congress...
Died. Tommaso Pio Cardinal Boggiani, 79; in Rome. Made Bishop of Adria in 1908, he was instructed to transfer the seat of the diocese from Adria to Rovigo, was stoned as he carried out his orders. Made Papal Nuncio to Mexico in 1912, he was recalled in 1914, in the midst of the revolution. He became a Cardinal...
Died. Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, 76, Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church; in Vatican City. He succeeded Pius XI as Papal Nuncio to Poland (1921-27), negotiated the Concordat between the Vatican and the Polish Republic...