Word: pummerin
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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This week it was almost finished. For the first time since 1945 the whole of the cathedral was open to the public. Although the 445-ft. Gothic spire is not yet strong enough to hold it, a new 23-ton Pummerin-a giant bell which includes fragments of the old one-was wheeled to the gate of the cathedral, after a two-day procession through the villages between Vienna and Linz, where it was cast. On Sunday, crowds packed the cathedral and the streets around it as Theodor Cardinal Innitzer celebrated a pontifical Mass at the restored high altar. From...
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