Word: sediarii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Toward sundown, the stir hushed. All was ready and the imminence pressed to reveal itself. The doors of the Pontiff's apartment trembled, parted, delivered up a gorgeous procession led by a canopied sedan chair on the shoulders of twelve scarlet-clad sediarii. Down vast corridors, down wide steps into the Sistine Chapel moved the procession. There the canopied chair opened and Pope Pius XI stepped out, knelt, worshipped. Entering the chair again, he had himself carried on to the entrance to the great nave of St. Peter's, his followers lowers carrying candles and chanting liturgical verses...
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