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...most significant aspect of his seven years in the Vatican was his friendship with Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII. No two men could have presented a greater contrast. Thin to the point of ascetism, Pacelli towered over Spellman, whose round, beaming face invariably drew the adjective "cherubic." Yet when the chubby Yankee Irishman was consecrated a bishop in St. Peter's in 1932, he wore the same vestments that the patrician Roman had worn at his own consecration. Returning to the U.S., Spellman served as auxiliary bishop of Boston and two months after the elevation of Pius...
...dangerously fluid: "There was no followup, and experiments turned out to be mere episodes." He has been hailed as a distinguished administrator; yet his record in Milan can honestly be rated no better than fair. Appraisals of Montini range from "a great gentleman" and "a complete man" to "a Pacelli-twice over" and "a Hamlet...
...18th century English, bought by Rose Kennedy more than 30 years ago. Hung on the wall are Currier & Ives prints and a Grandma Moses. Inscribed photographs are scattered around the sitting room, in the place of honor on the baby grand piano is a framed photo of Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, who visited the Kennedys in 1936 and later became Pope Pius...
...Vatican summoned him in 1925. As first U.S.-born staff member of the State Secretariate, Spellman translated and delivered in English the first papal radio broadcast, stayed for seven years, part of that time as attache to the Vatican's secretary of state and his close friend, Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius...
...List. All of this could be classified as oldfashioned, aggressive journalism until the Pope's physician, Professor Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi-the same who offered the photos of papal calisthenics-entered the story. A mild-mannered oculist, Dr. Galeazzi-Lisi first met the Pope when he was still Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican's 54-year-old Secretary of State, suffering from eye-strain headaches, which Galeazzi-Lisi relieved. When Pacelli was made Pope, he appointed his friend Galeazzi-Lisi as archiater,* or papal physician...