Word: papal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artist in words, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, sought and gained pardon from the Vicar of Christ for an offense which has estranged the Vatican from Sofia these many years. Humbly presenting himself "as a pilgrim," Ferdinand bent his powerful big-boned frame and kissed the regally extended Papal toe. Pardoned, he wove what spells he might in the Papal ear during the half hour of audience allotted him. Then, with his handsome features wreathed in the smile of one handsomely forgiven, he quitted the Vatican, was smartly saluted by the Papal Guard...
...They whispered into the ear of Herr Stresemann. Then they shook his hand and that of his colleague, Chancellor Luther, who was also going. As Herr Stresemann clambered into his compartment, yet another pair of lips spoke quick and soft in his ear. They belonged to Monsignor Pacelli, the Papal Nuncio, who had come to whisper the deep counsel of the Vicar of Christ...
...nineteenth century, the Hapsburgs, in burgs, in procession of northern Italy, were engaged in putting down the political aspirations of the rest of the peninsula. In 1903 Francis Joseph vetoed a papal election, exercising the prerogative which his predecessors, the Holy-Roman emperors had claimed a thousand years before...
Death, the Black Pontifex, came last week to Louis Nazaire, Cardinal Begin, Archbishop of Quebec and Catholic Primate of Canada. Magnificent in scarlet stole, guarded by a detachment of the Papal Zouaves, his body lay in the chapel of his palace in Quebec while thousands of those whose souls had been in his custody passed humbly before him, one by one. Then he was carried underground...
Enrico Ratti, papal cousin in Milan, was run into by a bicyclist, suffered grievous injuries. The Supreme Pontiff at Rome was notified of the accident...