POPE ACCLAIMED
SEVENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY PILGRIMS IN VATICAN CITY ROME. May 81 A message from the Vatican City states that 40,000 people, including 10.000 pilgrims from 22 nations, acclaimed Pop<j Pius XI. on his 7i)th birthday, as he was ceremonially borne to Mass at St. Peter's. The Pope is expected to deliver an important address to tho delegation of pilgrims to-night. Fascists who attended High Mass were compolled to leave their revolvers and knives afc the entrance to St. Peter's.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22434, 2 June 1936, Page 9
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