News Scrapbook 1956-1959

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THE SAN DIEGO UNION

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Formal portrait of Pope Pius XII show him wearing white and purple

woolen cloak used during his audi- ences with visitors to the Vatican.

A 1954 picture of the leader of the Catho- lic Church shows him being cheered by

crowd as he was borne toward St. Peter's Basilica from Sistine Cliapel. The pontiff

kept to a vigorous schedule of audiences despi le frequent illnesses.

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Easter blessings always brought throngs to St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City. Here Pope Pius

bestows blessing on crowd estimated in excess of 400,000 from all parts of the world.

Pope Pius as he was carried to St. Peter's to be formally crowned pope in Match, 1939. In 1954 the

pope was forced into long confinement by grave ailment which brought him close to death.

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The future Pop<' II was 11-year-old Eugenio Pacclli when this childhood picture was made. u

.rust before close of World War I Pope Pius XII, th n Monsignor Pa-

ltalian solrli<'rs in a near Berlin, Germany.

In radio mesi-age1- the world, the pope us s the Vaticaq's own radio

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