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...knees, crossed themselves, received the Pope's blessing as he passed, his left hand holding a lighted candle, his right, with two fingers extended, gesturing over the heads of his children. So passed the glorious personage gowned in white and gold,* crowned with the jeweled triple tiara, with the Papal pectoral cross hung from his neck...
...Enrico Gasparri, recently apostolic nuncio in Brazil, nephew of His Eminence Peter Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State and Camerlengo, prospective administrator of certain papal functions should the Pope...
...biretta as sign of agreement or mayhap retained it in firm objection. Who, if any, dissented from the Pope's nomination, no outsider will ever know, for each cardinal has gone through the ceremony of the "opening and closing of the mouth" as token of his silence on papal matters...
...relations) were summoned to the Pope's apartments. In the antechamber a sottoguardaroba handed each his scarlet zucchetto. Capped they proceeded into the presence of His Holiness who placed on each his scarlet biretta-the four-cornered, pinched-top cap-then heard their oaths to defend conscientiously the papal bulls concerning nonalienation of the possessions of the Roman Church, nepotism, papal elections, and cardinalitial dignity. Last May 30, two Spanish prelates were elevated to the scarlet: Eustachio Ilundain y Esteban, Archbishop of Seville, and Vincenzo Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada. The day before Cardinal Hayes' arrival, before...
...everyone knows that the Vatican is somewhat resigned to the confiscation of the Papal States by Italy; would be content if Italy would allot in fee simple, free from secular suzerainty, a narrow strip of land from Rome to the Tiber estuary, so that the Pope could have his own seaport, could travel abroad without touching Italian soil...