The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-21
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 PHYSICIANS SAY

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 POPE Three SSSS Cherubinf found that the pneumonia had attacked the left lung, leaving very little hope for life.
 Immediately after the morning consultation of his physicians the Pope had a quiet spell. His respira- t1on was less irregular, and after he had expressed. a desire to rest he turned on his side and fell asleep immediately. The physicians were surprised at this turn in the case, and thought there might be some hope for His Holiness if he were able to sleep three or four hours.
 The Pope dozed from until o'clock, when a cordial was adminis- tered to him. Today being the fete day of St. Agnes, patron of Capranica College, in which he was a youthful student, the Pope asked to be shown a small statue of the saint with which the students of the college had presented him. The statue was plac- ed on the altar of the chapel, where a number of masses were said.
 The worst period for the Pope dur daybreak. He was extremely low at this time, gasping for breath and ap- parently suffering intense agony. Shortly after 7:50 o'clock the sun be- gan to peep through the nists on the Afban hills, shedding a roseate glow through the clouds The attendants and prelates who were present went to the window. one of them remark ing:
 Now it Is dawn, it brings hope"
 Shortly after eight o'clock the phy- scians gave out their bulletin an nOuncing that the Pope was worse. Then came the slight improvement to- wards nine o'clock, when it was stated His Holiness was resting easier. The cardinals then began to arrive to make their visits. Among the first were noted Cardinal Merry Del Val, Cardinal Laurent and Cardinal Van nutelli. The foraign ambassad ors, anxious for news, also began to send in requests for information on the pontifffs condition
 Cardinal Gasparri, who was with the Pope from 6:30 o'clock until g :45 met in the ante-chanlber shortly af- ter that hour all the diplomatists in Rome, who called personally for news. to the Pope's dozing spell, vorably, the Cardinal said the situa- tion unfortunately remained extremely grave.
 Throughout the night there was almost absolute silence at the Vatican with only few guards pacing up and down and here and there and various performing their tasks. The top floor, where the Pope's apart ments are, was almost deserted save for one guard on duty near the en- trance to the pontiff's chambers.
 Inside the spacious apartments there was the most intense solemnity as hour by hour the night passed, with the condition of Ills Holiness ap- parently becoming progressively worse. Each visitor who had been in pontffcal bedchamber was receiv- ed with questions as to the pontiff's state.
 Most of them simply signif1ed with 1 their hands that the condition of His Holiness was precarfous, their solemn faces additionally testifying to the 1 gravity of the pontiff's case.
 Outside the Vatican a, crowd finger | ed all night before the huge bronze | gate leading from the square of St. l Peters, every one endeavoring to | gather from the persons going in and | out of the Vatican whether His Holi- | ness was faring well or ill. Some of | the interested watchers took a posi- | ion near the Egyptian column in the | center to see if from the light in the pontiff's room they could gain any | nkling of what was going on. Then | as daylight broke, the forms of the 1 cardinals could be seen passing from 1 he adjoining rooms. |