Religion: According to Custom

"On Wednesday, March 1, 1939, at 9:30 in the morning in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Vatican Palace, the Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinal Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte . . . will celebrate a solemn mass of the Holy Ghost. The Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals will attend it wearing their woolen robes with plain rochets and capes of violet silk with ermine fur. . . .

"On the same day at 1:30 in the afternoon the Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals . . . will enter in a procession...

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