Word: sarto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most successful fusion of spoken and unspoken words occurs in the craggy uplands of literature, where a talented ham can jump and shout without trampling the daisies. James Mason smacks and snuffles his way through the fevered minds of Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi and the tomb-haunted bishop in Poetry of Browning (Caedmon) in a reading that can illuminate a character with a sigh...
Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto, Patriarch of Venice, summoned to Rome to help elect a new Pope after the death of Pope Leo XIII, left his desk strewn with papers, borrowed enough money for a ticket, and started for the station. His flock blocked the path. "Bless us once more," they cried. "Come back soon." Cardinal Sarto stretched out his arms. "Dead or alive," he said, "I shall come back...
This week, after 56 years, Venice finally saw its patriarch again. At that 1903 conclave, to his surprise, Giuseppe Sarto was himself elected Pope, and in 1954, 40 years after his death, he became what would have surprised him still more-a saint ("I'm no santo, I'm Sarto," he once quipped), enshrined in the Vatican. Now the Pope's body was returning through the thoughtfulness of another ex-Patriarch of Venice, Pope John XXIII, who decided to keep St. Pius X's promise...
...going to be elected Pope, he fled in consternation from his fellow cardinals. Msgr. Merry del Val, later his Secretary of State, found him in the Pauline Chapel on his knees, his head buried in his hands. "Monsignor, you can persuade them. Tell them not to vote for me," Sarto pleaded. When the commander of the Noble Guard went to take his first orders, the new Pope offered him a chair with his own hands. When the commander protested, the Pope said sadly: "It was nice to carry chairs for people. Now it's the end of all that...
...Giuseppe Sarto died at the age of 79 in August 1914, broken-hearted over the World War, which had just begun. This week, after a "process" lasting only 31 years, Giuseppe Sarto becomes the 4,394th known saint in the Roman Catholic calendar, the first Pope in 242 years to be canonized (the last: Pius V). It will be one of the most impressive Vatican occasions in years; though only recently recovered from serious illness, Pope Pius XII plans to officiate. Provision has been made for some 500,000 spectators in St. Peter's Square. From all over...