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...lion, Great Britain; the cock, France; so the lamb is one of the animals symbolically peculiar to the Papal State. Last week, in one of the prettiest ceremonies of the Catholic Church, two very special lambs received the very special blessing of His Holiness Pope Pius XL...
...World's largest submarine: France's Le Surcourf, with a displacement of 3,256 tons. Largest British submarine: Xl, with a displacement of 2,700 tons...
...Masserano priest sealed two bottles of wine and stipulated in his will that they should go to the Pope who brought about the settlement of the Roman dispute with Italy. Last week 1,000 pilgrims from the Masserano district journeyed to Vatican City, delivered the two bottles to Pius XL...
Birthday. Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XL, 72; at Vatican City. He received relatives, suspended regular audiences...
...massive Mexican prelate who resembles in face the late, fundamentalist, teetotaling William Jennings Bryan, strode into the Vatican, last week, and climbed beamingly upstairs for a two-hour audience with The Most Blessed Father, Achilla Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XL The man from Mexico, Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, handed solemnly to the Supreme Pontiff a voluminous report signed by the dignitaries of the Mexican Episcopate, who are now in exile at San Antonio, Texas. The report states, as Archbishop Ruiz later revealed, that there has never been a more favorable time than the present to harmonize the strained...