Religion: Saints

Last week on Easter Sunday a canonization ceremony, for which he had been conserving his waning strength, brough aged Pope Pius XI into St. Peter's in Rome for his first public appearance this year. With his doctor hovering nearby the Holy Father sat for two-and-one-half hours on the pontifical throne, looked well, if thin, and spoke clearly. Before him knelt three consistorial lawyers, pleaders for three saints whose visages and deeds the people beheld upon great banners in St. Peter's—Andre Bobola, Polish Jesuit (1592-1657), Giovanni Leonardi Italian founder of a religious congregation (1541-1609),...

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