Word: pincian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small iron bench in the Pincian Hill gardens slept a holy man. His breviary had fallen from his lap to the grassy turf. Children gravely gathered beside him, for it seemed to them there could be no mistaking the man's grey hair, his glasses, his still, regular features. "Is it he?" whispered one to another...
...Down the Pincian Hill with cassock billowing behind him fled the holy one, now thoroughly alarmed. He was only a humble Benedictine monk, but so strongly did he resemble Pius XI that, unconvinced by his protests, one of the children reverently picked up and treasured the little breviary lying on the ground. In humble Roman homes it is now fully believed that the Pope's first step into the great world since his "liberation," was in the simple quality and disguise of a lowly monk and for the gentle purpose of dozing on a park bench...
Next evening she ascended the Pincian Hill, leaped off the 40-foot embankment of the sometime Borghese Gardens, landed in a net spread by Fascist police "to discourage the frequent occurrence of suicides at this place," was haled before another Fascist magistrate, clapped into jail "until morning...
When Mgr. Hayes was motoring up to the Pincian gardens to be snapped by the picture men he was so closely followed by the car containing a load of photographers that an accident occurred. The rear car hit Mgr. Hayes' car, smashing the gasoline tank. This caused a half hour's delay, and gave the photographers ample opportunity...
...first of all, parish priests in the diocese of Rome of which the Pope is Bishop.) The del Popolo church is just within the northern gate of Rome through which Mussolini's Black Shirts marched over a year ago. Above it are the pleasant gardens of the Pincian Hill. Near it are the Hotel de Russie, of restaurant fame, and Luther's Roman home...