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...Decided not to distribute the medal issued annually on the Vigil of the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul (June 28) to commemorate some notable event of the past papal year. Reason: The medal approved by Pius XII several months ago showed the Pope standing in an attitude of prayer amid the ruins caused by the first U.S. bombing of Rome last July. The old medal will be melted down, a new design drawn. Rumored theme: the Pope depicted as the protector and savior of Rome...
Last week Walter Reed's Roman Catholic vigil went into its second month. Since early spring, Catholic patients have filled the chapel (it holds 200) every evening. During the service, wounded from every front repeat a prayer for peace written by Pope Benedict XV: "Dismayed by the horrors of a war which is bringing ruin to peoples and nations, we turn, 0 Jesus, to Thy most loving heart, as to our last hope. 0 God of mercy, with tears we invoke Thee to end this fearful scourge; O King of peace, we humbly implore the peace for which...
...most trying experience since his painful vigil at Gibraltar during the early hours of the African invasion. At such times the carefully controlled Eisenhower temper bends under the strain; he hates uncertainty. All he could do now was to pace around headquarters, scribble memos to himself, a set habit at such times. One of his self-memos could stand as a masterpiece of military understatement: "Now I'd like a few reports." He doodled with his pencil, barked at his aides...
Throughout the long, tense afternoon the hymns and orisons followed one another in unbroken march. The tired voice of Cardinal Ascalesi led the prayers. But no miracle occurred. At half past nine the Cardinal announced that because of army curfew regulations the vigil would have to be postponed. Departing, the people wept...
...from Prince George, B.C. flew provincial police, to begin a vigil at outpost fur sales. Soon an Indian tried to sell 16 marten pelts which had been cured not as Indians cure them, shapeless and wrinkled, but the white man's way, long and smooth. Police arrested 22-year-old Alex Prince, charged him with the double murder...