BISHOP OF ROME
POPE PIUS ENTHRONED OLD CEREMONY REVIVED (Independent Cable Service.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright ROME, May 18. (Received May 19, at 10 a.m.) Pope Pius was enthroned as Bishop of Rome, reviving the ceremony which has been in abeyance for 90 years. Emerging from the confines of the Vatican, he drove through thronged and beflagged streets' to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, and celebrated Pontifical Mass. Later he blessed the crowds from the balcony.
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Evening Star, Issue 23270, 19 May 1939, Page 12
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77BISHOP OF ROME Evening Star, Issue 23270, 19 May 1939, Page 12
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