Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plain Scarlet. Meanwhile in the Papal State some 50,000 Italians were present at St Peter's and in the adjoining piazza, when Pope Pius XI celebrated a mass of "expiation, propitiation and reparation," the paramount feature of which was a mighty prayer by His Holiness that religious persecution in Russia shall cease. After the service a collection was taken up, to be used for relief among the persecuted. Since the Soviet Government maintains that no persecutions have taken place (TIME, March 10), it was this prayer and the collection which caused Pravda to refer to Pope Pius, first...