RETURN TO VENICE
Remains Of St. Pius X (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) VENICE, April 12. St. Pope Pius X returned tonight in death to the Cathedral he did not wish to leave. A great procession of gondolas carried his remains along the Great Canal from Santa Lucia railway station to St. Mark’s Cathedral. The hour-long procession, followed by brief religious services afterwards in the Cathedral, was solemn but magnificent. St. Pius X had promised to return to Venice when —as Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto —he left the city to attend the 1903 Conclave in the Vatican.
He departed with a round-trip rail ticket. But the conclave forced a change in plans, for the Venetian Cardinal Patriarch was elected Pope. He died on August 20. 1914, without ever returning. Forty years later—on May 30. 1954—he was made a saint in one of the swiftest processes of beatification and canonisation in Roman Catholic Church history. Earlier this year Pope John XXIII. himself Cardinal Patriarch of Venice before his election as Pontiff last year, agreed to let the body of St. Pius X be moved to Venice from St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican for one month.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28869, 14 April 1959, Page 23
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192RETURN TO VENICE Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28869, 14 April 1959, Page 23
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