New Britain herald., 1929-12-20
POPE ENDS EXILE
 BY SUDDEN VISIT
 ID TREATY SCENE
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 yestments suitable to the mourning o season of Advent. Wednesdays and a Fridays of which are observed as -' days of fasting and abstinence. a. The altar at which the Pope Of 4 ticiated was the one before which
 he was ordained 50 years ago.
 Exile imposed The voluntary self-eXile of the ~ Popcs in the Vatican began in lN.o - when the troops of the first Victor :, Emmanuel took Rome in the nara ~ of the kingdom of. United Italy. ~ Plus NI, and the Italian premier ended, withdrew 10 the Vatican. ~ never thereafter 10 leav" it.
 Ills successors cmulated his cN- 2 ample, the relations with the housv . Of Savoy continuing strained until 5. recently when the present Ponli1 e Plus eI. and the Italian premier. t" Benito Mussolini, sought solution - Of what had come to be called the " Roman Question"
 ?. This solution was reached with 7 the signing in the Latcran palace February II of the so-Cdlled Later- . an treaties, establishing the Vatican and certain surrounding territory IS !" tae Vatican State or Vatican City, in which the Pope would have pra2- :, tlcally all the privileges and SOY, # ereignity Of d temporal ruler. The Pope was recognized as spiritual father of Roman Catholics the world a over and in Italy in particular, and a in addition q large monetary in- demnity was paid by the Italian government.
 a Receptions For Royalty IT On December , Pope Plus receig- :, cd the king and queen ot Italy at he Vatican, the first of the Houss = Of Savoy to set foot therein, and - the next day received the princes and princesses of the blood There was much speculation as to when he . would avail himself of the freedom r gained February 1 with restoration D of the principle of his temporal :, power, but few perhaps dreamed It
  7 tually was today.
 ~ Pope Plus NJ at = still is hale and hearty, blessed with the robust constitution he inherited from hardy 5 progenitors and perfected by ardu- . ous mountain climbing when ;t ,. younger man.
 2 On July %, last, the pope left the confines of the Vatican proper 10 s come to St. Peters square bearing : the Blessed Sacrament in eucharis- tic procession. However he still was within his own territory.
 All Buildings Pope's Property . Except for the drive across Rome today he also was in his own terri !, tory, in sense, since the J.ateran : palace and adjacent grounds have extraterritoriality under the Lateran . treaties-as have any buildings in : Italy outside the Vatican wherever the pope may happen to be.
 The pope had breakfast in q little E room at the Lateran palace and . then. accompanied" by Monsignor Ercole, visited the missionary expo . siton there. He ended his visit n , the hall where the Lateran treaties ; were signed last February by Car . dinal Gasparri and Premier Musso- |. lini,
 , Thousands Say Same Mass
 The mass said by the pontiff was the same said by thousands Of hum ble parish priests scattered over the < whole world today. Only inc acolyte attended the pontiff. The only cir . constance distinguishing the event q was the singing of the choir of the Pontitical Roman seminary and the chant of the te deum by the small - body of clergy present
 At the conclusion Of the mass the pope mounted his throne, which had been waiting 59 years for the bishop , of Rome's occupancy. and received there the homage of the cathedral chapter. Then returning to the altar he imparted the apostolic benedic- ton to all present
 Pope Nenerates Relics
 The pontiff halted to venerate the sacred relics kept at the church, which include what is purported 10 be a table of the last supper He also paused to admire memorial tablet which St, Johns chapter pre- pared in commcmoration Of his jubilee year.
 As he left the palace the rontiff was bidden farewell by Cardinal PompiIi, archpriest of the I.ateran Baslica; Monsignor Marchott Sel- Eagiani. and Monsgnor F,rcolc, di- rector of the Lateran museums. nLM|DDED 0UTD1TIITD