Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inside the Basilica, Pope Pius XI, served by only one acolyte, celebrated mass at the spot where, 50 years before, he had been, ordained to the priesthood. After mass he went next door, visited the Lateran Palace. Then back to the Vatican he went, as quietly as he had come. Next day the Pope, robed in the full majesty of his Pontificate, in cream-colored silk cloak, gold-&-silver-embroidered, crowned with the Triregnum (triple crown), closed his golden jubilee with a solemn mass in St. Peter's Basilica, where 70.000 Catholics cheered him. Then he beatified the relics...
Observers waited all last week to see what answer U. S. Protestants might make to a Vatican pronouncement of last fortnight credited to the Pope in person. Said the Pope: "Protestantism is getting more and more exhausted. . . . Behold Catholicism, which shines in the clear light, while Protestantism goes from denial to denial, rendering ever more intense in many souls that follow the invitation of truth a homesickness for returning to Catholicism...
...white, high-necked, long-sleeved, as Vatican etiquette demands. Half shrouded by a white lace mantilla, her regal head carried a proud coronet, and upon the black cordon of Malta across her bosom depended in eight strands the fabulous Pearls of Savoy, huge as pale butter balls...
Governor Serafini stepped forward. "Majesties!" he boomed. "In my capacity as Governor of Vatican City I have the high honor, in the name of my Sovereign. His Holiness Pius XI, to extend to you a welcome." They remounted their limousine...
...Duce," and the brigand-like black mustache of Cesare Maria di Vecchi, Count di Val Cismon. Italian Ambassador to the Holy See. Swiss drummers in velvet hats thumped yellow-painted drums. Swiss bandsmen blared the Italian royal anthem (the first time that such music had echoed from the Vatican's sacred walls), and followed it with the Papal hymn Inno Pontificio...