Word: ratti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extant body of testimony of those who knew Pius-before-the-Vatican, Reporter Morgan adds many a revealing detail. He has twice visited Desio, the Pope's birthplace where he is still referred to as "Pope Ratti," "Cardinal Ratti" or even plain "Achille Ratti." Said a contemporary of Pius XI: "He was in every boyish prank. ... He always liked to jump. ... In a fight with my cousin, he got a bloody nose. He never forgot that. It took him a year but he gave his milk brother [son of Achille Ratti's wet-nurse] something to remember...
...Pope's latest appointments, which bring the cardinalate to the unprecedented number of 68, two less than full strength. Cardinal-elect Mercati, 69, and Cardinal-elect Tisserant, 52, both come from that august treasure-house of learning, the Vatican Library, of which Pius XI (as Monsignor Achille Ratti) was once prefect and which he still cherishes. Giovanni Mercati is now its prefect, Eugene Tisserant its pro-prefect...
When Eugéne Tisserant was only a boy, Giovanni Mercati was making friends with Achille Ratti, then with the Ambrosian Library in Milan. Last week Vatican politicians were reminding newshawks to watch Cardinal Mercati at the conclave which must some day elect a new pope. One reason: new cardinals make good compromise candidates. Cardinal Mercati has been called the most learned prelate to be elevated to the purple in the past century. Succeeding Achille Cardinal Ratti in 1918 as prefect of the Vatican Library, Monsignor Mercati has published in U. S. and European journals many a scholarly article...
...Holiness Pius XI (Achille Ratti), Pope of the Roman Catholic Church...
...particular Marshal Foch's favorite, dapper little General Maxime Weygand, that turned the Bolsheviks from the gates of Warsaw in one of the decisive battles of modern times. Later in Warsaw he became intimate with two men destined to go far, Relief Administrator Herbert Hoover, and Mgr. Achille Ratti, who became Pope of Rome...