Word: pacclli
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Eugenio Cardinal Pacclli entered the Cardinals' conclave not as a cardinal but as a pope who was about to be crowned. His election to the papacy climaxes a career which was so regular and so certain in its unfolding that it almost seemed that Pacelli was fated to be Christ's Vicar on Earth. For from the moment when he was ordained, Pacelli never left the shadow of the Vatican: it was as if he was being familiarized with his destiny. And as Pope Pius XII he donned the triple crown which some said had been his for several years...
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