Word: petram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little mortar; picked up three small rectangular stones emblematic of the Trinity; set each carefully in place, saying: "In fide et virtute domini nostri Jesu Christi filii Dei vivi." With the second trowelful he said: "Qui apostolorum principi dixit tu es Petrus"; and with the third: "Et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam." Into a special crevice he had placed coins and medals commemorative of the Holy Year just then closed for at least another quarter century?until...
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