POPE PIUS
SEVENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY ACCLAIMED BY FORTY THOUSAND PEOPLE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright VATICAN CITY, May 31. (Received June .1, at 10 a.m.)
Forty thousando people, including 10,000 pilgrims from 22 nations, acclaimed the Pope on tho occasion of his
seventy-ninth birthday, as he was ceremonially borne to Mass at St. Peter’s. The Pope is expected to deliver an important address to a delegation of pilgrims to-night. Fascists attending High Mass wore compelled to leave their revolvers and knives at the entrance to St. Peter’s.
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Evening Star, Issue 22353, 1 June 1936, Page 9
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