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...Eugenic Pacelli, Pius XII, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of the City of the Vatican, rises punctually at 6:30 every morning. He throws open the window of his bedroom (on the third floor of the Vatican Palace) looking out on St. Peter's Square, and with hands crossed, prays. His is a busy day, so this first prayer is brief. He turns back...
...evening prayers. The long day is almost over. The papal bed is large but very plain, with a black iron head and brass knobs. Several of his predecessors used the bed and Pius XI died on it. There, for the next four hours or so, Eugenic Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, sleeps until the beginning...
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...
Pius XII evidently remembered some of the things he had learned about the press when as Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli he toured the U.S. (1936). Soon after their unique session last week, newsmen heard that the Vatican would open a pressroom. The Vatican was missing no legitimate opportunity to put its case for peace before the world...
...Eight years earlier Benedict XV had made Pacelli Titular Archbishop of Sardes (an ancient See in Asia Minor...