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Before the afternoon's voting, Cardinal Pacelli calmly paced a corridor, reading his breviary. Then, after conversing with a colleague, he stumbled, fell headlong down a short flight of steps, arose bruised and shaken. Shortly thereafter followed a third vote, and the lengthy, ceremonial reading of the ballots. When Cardinal Pacelli, seated under his baldachin (canopy), heard his name pronounced for the 42nd successive time, he suddenly hid his face in his hands. The reading continued. The Secretary of State received 61 votes...
Statesman. Eugenio Pacelli as early as 1935 denounced the growing "superstition ot race and blood." Pius XI was at pains to send his closest collaborator on many missions, often by airplane-to Eucharistic Congresses in Buenos Aires in 1934 and Budapest in 1938, to Lisieux, France in 1935, to the U. S. on a transcontinental "vacation" tour in 1936.* Thanks to these farflung travels, the new Pope was known to immense numbers of people, Catholic and non-Catholic. The world saw in Pope Pius XII a Catholic linguist (he speaks nine tongues, most of them fluently); a Catholic diplomat...
...Catholic statesman, born of a noble (but not rich) Roman family which had furnished functionaries to the Holy See for two centuries, Eugenic Pacelli rose swiftly. During the World War he was Nuncio at Munich, a channel through which went many diplomatic negotiations, including Pope Benedict XV's famed peace proposals. By the time he returned to Rome in 1929 to accept his red hat, Cardinal Pacelli had arranged papal concordats with Bavaria, with Prussia. Two months later he succeeded aging Cardinal Gasparri as Secretary of State...
When Pope Pius XII (see p. 36), then Cardinal Pacelli, visited the U. S. in 1936, he was flown over 4,000 miles in a chartered plane, piloted by Captain Jack O'Brien. Last week Pilot O'Brien reminisced: "Everywhere we flew those three days and four nights, north, east or south or west, we were favored with tail winds and clear weather, and just as soon as we went through, the weather behind us closed in and conditions were unflyable. . . . I decided to catch up on my religion...
...crossing that was bumpier than anything by Stravinsky. On his arrival he told reporters a story: Long before Herr Walter changed his residence for political reasons, he conducted a series of Munich concerts attended by a music-lover who last week changed his name for religious reasons, Eugenio Pacelli. While the series was in progress, Walter's friend, Russian Pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, was imprisoned on charges of espionage. Gabrilowitsch got a message to Walter, who spoke to Pacelli, who whispered in someone's ear. In not much more time than it takes to play a Bruckner symphony, Gabrilowitsch...