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Died. Pietro Canonica. 90, Italian sculptor who concentrated on heads of state (Russia's Alexander II, Turkey's Kemal Pasha) and churchmen (Benedict XV, Pius XI, St. John Bosco), fashioned the new bronze doors for Allied-bombed Monte Cassino Abbey, picturing U.S. and British air forces alongside Goths and Huns as the abbey's destroyers, composed operas (Miranda, Bride of Corinth); in Rome...
...found to be contrary to Catholic faith and morals, nine cardinals review their findings. Together, the three groups form the Holy Office's book-censoring department, and on their recommendation the Pope places works on the Index of Forbidden Books. So far, John XXIII has not Indexed any; Pius XII placed 23 authors on the list, including Jean Paul Sartre, Andre Gide and Alberto Moravia...
...first U.S.-born staff member of the State Secretariate, Spellman translated and delivered in English the first papal radio broadcast, stayed for seven years, part of that time as attache to the Vatican's secretary of state and his close friend, Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius...
...special train with the coat of arms of Pius X was made up at Vatican City station. A group of 23 Vatican officials, plus government bigwigs accompanied the Pope's body on its journey. In Venice, the body of St. Pius X, enclosed in a glass coffin, was borne to a navy barge rowed to the rhythm of a drum. Followed by a procession of gondolas, the barge headed up the Grand Canal to St. Mark's, where a choir of 2,000 children and almost everyone in Venice waited...
...next month, Pius X will lie before a special altar in the basilica. Venice was only disappointed that Pope John himself had not been able to make the journey. "Without your help," he told the Vatican workers who carried the coffin of Pius X, "I hope to go alive...