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...held their hoses ready to syringe them away in case their excitement led to violence. As night fell the city's lights failed to wink on. The Vatican was blacked out too, lest its neutral and holy illumination guide airborne enemies on a raid. Inside, disheartened Pius XII knelt for an hour in his chapel in prayer. British diplomats would be evacuated by warship to Albania, thence could make their way into still neutral Greece, it was said. The Simplon-Orient Express had, of course, stopped running...
...secretary and Italy's No. 1 Jew-baiter, bitterly attacked the Vatican press. Cried Farinacci in his Cremona Regime Fasdsta: "Since September . . . Osservatore and the Holy See have had a common cause with the Allies." Last fortnight, when German troops suddenly moved into Holland and Belgium, Pope Pius XII sent messages of sympathy to Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, King Leopold of the Belgians; and Osservatore Romano, in a burst of indignation, let itself go again. That day Editor Dalla Torre printed 150,000 copies, speeded up the Vatican's little press until it almost shook apart...
...counted more that he is a strong Roman Catholic who has the earnest sympathy of Pope Pius XII; that his sister, Marie-Jose, married Crown Prince Umberto of Italy-possible checkrein to keep Benito Mussolini from jumping in on Hitler's side; that his late wife was the King of Sweden's popular niece, which is one more tug at Sweden's fearful heart; that Franklin Roosevelt called himself Leopold's "old friend" and sent a message saying the U. S. people were shocked and angry. Now it mattered that King Leopold retained Lieut. General Henri...
...many saints the Roman Catholic Church has recognized not even the wisest hagiologist knows. There are at least 3,000.* Last week Pope Pius XII recognized the first two of his reign at a four-hour canonization ceremony in vast St. Peter's, Rome. Before him knelt two cardinal-advocates, pleaders for the two saints whose visages and miracles the congregation of 40,000 beheld on great oil paintings over the high altar-Marie Euphrasia Pelletier, French foundress of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd (1796-1868), Gemma Galgani, Italian stigmatist and mystic (1878-1903). Thrice the cardinals begged...
...novelist who can swim skillfully in imaginary worlds, Hugh Walpole was hired by the Hearst press to eyewitness the funeral of Pope Pius XI and the election of Pope Pius XII. Roman Fountain is a reflective record of this experience...