Arizona republican., 1922-02-03
doors CLOSE.
ON NCARD|NALS.
CALLED To.
,ELECT POPE.
Fifty-Three Cardinals Enter
Secret Conclave To Re-
main Until Successor
To Benedict Is Elected
IRepubIIcan A. p. Leased Wirel

ROME, Feb. 2. - Majestic stateli-
ness attended the solemn immuring
in the Vatican today of the sacred
college, comprising for the moment
So cardinals. Every detail of the
secret rites was observed, and al
though the time fixed for the closing
in of the cardinals was $3.50 this af-
ternoon, so long was the ceremonial
that darkness had eRshrouded the
huge basilica of st. Peters and the
Vatican palaces before the doors
were finally barred and bolted, and
the preliminaries were completed for
the grave task of the election OF a
new pontiff
The 53 cardinals present in Rome
are now in the Vatican. Even Car
dinal Marini, who is suffering from
influenza, was conveyed there. He
did not participate in the ceremonies
of the afternoon, but remained In bed,
resting for tomorrow when the first
ballot will be taken.
At the huge bronze doors surveil-
lance OF those passing within was OF
the strictest nature. A giant Ger
man Swiss sergeant of the guards
allowed nobody to enter unless pro-
vided with white pass issued by
Prince Chigi. marshal Of the conclave.
To the insistence of those furnished
with passes of a different type. the
sergeant gruffly retorted in Italian;
Here I command; you can not
pass
Two privates stood at attention
ready to execute any order he might
give.
The conclave's isolation from the
world was carried out with full cere-
monial. Shortly after lunch the car
dinals met in the Pauline chapel,
where ''Veni, Creator" was sung. A
procession then formed, led by car
dfnal van Nutelli, dean of the sacred
college, passing through the sala re-
pia. to the Sistine chapel, where the
hymn was concluded. The cardinals
entered the Sistine chapel. and be-
hind closed doors the oath was taken
to maintain secrecy.
Prince Chigi, surrounded by supstl-
tute chiefs in full dress uniform win
an escort Of Swiss guards, had mean
while left his official residence ana
proceeded to the major domo's apart
ment in the Sistine chapel where ne
was admitted into the presence OF
the cardinals. There with his starr
he took the oath to maintain secrecy
and the absolute closing in or the
conclave, under penalty or excom-
munication. -,
The camerlengo, Cardinal Gasparri,
and Cardinal Bisleti, the nrst dea-
con. surrounded by an escort OF SWISS
guards and acolytes marched TO the
consistorial hall where attaches OF
the conclave, including the clerR "
the household and those who are 10
he in attendance on the cardinals as
senbled. Again the oath OF secrecy
was administered.
The masters of ceremony then pro-
ceeded throughout the sacred palaces
along the spacious halls and corrl-
dors and up the stair cases into IN
,,11rnerabIe glass s-enciosed logg1as,
carving out extra omnes, eXhort-
ing all strangers within the Natlcah
TO withdraw outside the precincts IN
which the conclave Is 10 be nelu'
Assured that all strangers had de-
-,arted they reported to Cardinal
Gasnarri that all was ready for ms
inspection. After an inspection, ne
renaired to the principal entrance
loading into the court yard Of st. Ia"
maso 10 assure that the gates were
locked and all passage was renuereu
Prince Chigi, who now took up a
nosition outside the entrance, lockeu
The double doors from without, ana
then with the captains Of the guards
at the top of the Plus x staircase:
went on watch for the duration Oh
the conclave. The camerlengo com
municated to the cardinals olllclal-
~ that they were locked In ana WITH
that the members Of the sacred coll
Iepe donned special conclave robes OF
Violet ready to begin their delio-
erations.