Word: xii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busiest spots in Rome since the Allies entered the city five weeks ago has been Vatican City, the only sovereign state no bigger than an 18-hole golf course. One of its busiest persons has been Pope Pius XII,* who has granted audiences to more than 25,000 United Nations servicemen & women...
...Chapel of Relics in St. Peter's Basilica housed the body of Pope Pius X, who died in 1914, reputedly of a broken heart because he was unable to prevent World War I. The body lay in state, garbed in scarlet, white and gold vestments given by Pius XII. Two papal Guards, with drawn swords, stood outside the floodlit chapel as many a British and U.S. serviceman stared through the grilled doors at the Pontiff's face and hands, blackened by mummification...
...Pius XII upset Vatican tradition, turned a new papal face to the world last week...
...Pius XII evidently remembered some of the things he had learned about the press when as Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli he toured the U.S. (1936). Soon after their unique session last week, newsmen heard that the Vatican would open a pressroom. The Vatican was missing no legitimate opportunity to put its case for peace before the world...
...fall of Rome, Pope Pius XII spoke to the College of Cardinals on a matter close to his heart. Clothing his thought in undulant papal prose, he begged the Allies to reconsider their stated war aim: unconditional surrender. Said he, in part...