Word: ratti
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Once a stocky mountain-climber named Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI is at 77 in good health, except for a slight diabetic condition. In February he celebrated the 13th anniversary of his accession to the Chair of St. Peter. He has thus outreigned his two immediate predecessors, Benedict XV and Pius X, who respectively died after eight and eleven years in the Papacy. But Pius XI must marshal his health for many more years to equal the longevity of two other Popes of the century past, Leo XIII who lived 93 years, died in 1903 after...
...Governor will also reorganize his own administrative offices in four sections: 1) Secretariat; 2) Monuments, Museums and Galleries; 3) Economic Services; 4) Technical Services. High in the Technical Service will be installed the Pope's energetic nephew. Count Franco Ratti...
Married. Count Franco Ratti, nephew of Pope Pius XI, engineer, director of the Vatican City Technical Services; and Angela Maria Crespi, daughter of Tycoon-Senator Silvio Crespi of Milan; by the Pope, who had not performed a marriage ceremony for eight years; in the great Consistorial Hall of Vatican City...
...last week. As he was borne into vast St. Peter's on Easter Sunday to take his place upon the great throne, the Holy Father's thoughts could hark back to the 1880's when he was a young priest in Milan named Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti. In nearby Turin an old priest named Giovanni Melchior Bosco was already famed for his good works among Italian youth. The two met, were friends until Don Bosco died in 1888.* Thereafter Achille Ratti rose in the Church as Vatican Librarian, Apostolic Visitor to Poland, Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal...
...Christian to thoughts of his Savior. Whatever material improvement the year may bring, may, after prayer, honestly be attributed by Christians to Christian faith. And once more a Holy Year will serve to remind the world that Pius XI, 261st Pope, once a mountain climber named Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, is at 75 a world figure, the hale, vigorous-minded ruler of some 300 million souls of all races. A temporal sovereign-in his 108.7-acre Vatican City, he is master of millions & millions in wealth. He said last February, "God after accepting the offerings of the shepherds accepted those...