Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-25
POPE P|USLEAVES
EXILE IN VATICAN
Crowds Swarm to See Pom
tiff Emerge From Vatican
for Ceremony.
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master. Dohlen. In between them were
hangings of red damask.
The central tapestry. representing the
scene OF the Last supper. served as q
background to the temporary altar
erected on the topmost steps in front
OF St. Peters from which the Pope, at
the end of the procession, was to pro-
nounce his solemn eucharistic bene-
| diction.
The procession itslef began amid the
ringing of bells, but outside of these
and the overhead drone of airplanes,
the crowd maintained q reverent
| silence.
The papal gendarmes leading the
| procession halted at the head of the
steps leading down from st. Peters q
| few moments while the bells Of the
| great basilica pealed forth, echoed by
the bells of the 400 churches of Rome.
The procession began in silence while
the bells ceased momentarily and then
again took up their solemn refrain.
Each group of Seminarists In the long
| procession was preceded by a stand
ard bearer with the nag of its order
| seminarists of all races carried tall
| lighted candles whose flames fiickered
| in the wind
The procession turned to the right
I when II reached the bottom step in
| order to proceed around st. Peters
| square and returned to the famous
bronze door of the vatican palace.
The procession moved with solemn
dignity, often pausing. and sometimes
| there were~gaps between the various
sections.
Like White Wave.
All the seminarists wore white sur
plices over their colorful costumes. CIV
| ing the impression of great waves OF
white billowing from st. Peters. When
| the people In the house fronting on the
| square and on the adjacent Piazza
Rusticucci saw the procession appear
they hung out red damask cloths. The
massed bands of the italian Army
played papal anthems.
The head of the cortege reached the
middle of the square about IS min
utes after crossing the threshold of
st. Peters. The Papal Band. which
marched near the head of the line,
played until that point. when the semi
narians sang the first hymn. Then the
band struck up again.
AS the march continued there was
momentary outbreaks of confusion in
the crowd when somebody tainted.
Throngs OF people continued to arrive,
but were prevented by the procession
itself and by the lines of troops from
penetrating into the square.
Great crowds were massed in the
Piazza Rusticcucci
The Papal gendarmes, heading the
line of march, completed the circum-
ference of the square In 40 minutes.
mounted the steps of st. Peters, and
we're there reinforced by other Papal
guards.
As the seminarians completed their
h.
Basilica steps. gradually mounting to
the top.
At 7:30 pm. his holiness. kneeling
on a raised platform and absorbed in
adora ton of the sacred host. held high
before him in the oStensorium, was
well around the square in the wake of
the procession.
All the famous chimes of Rome's 400
churches broke out and rang continu-
ously from ITO pm. while the Pope
was passing around the circumference
The pontiff's emergence from St.
Peters was marked by a few minutes of
silence Immediately preceding his APP
pearance. The procession was stopped
for several minutes then in order to
permit a great crush of people to pass
through the lines Of troops from the
Piazza to st. Peters Square.
So great was the crowd that special
precautions had been taken to guard
against accidents. Heavy wooden bar
riers had been erected to prevent any
sudden surges of the spectators. while
| emergency posts of the italian Red
Cross were established to treat any OF
the spectators that might fall in.
Decorations Sober.
A note of sobriety characterized the
decorations of the houses fronting on
Gt petar'S Sniare
There was a curious absence Of papal
flags, although many hangings OF red
| damask were displayed.
The podium used by Pope Plus Is an
exact reproduction of that designed by
Bernins for Alexander VII. 1t was last
used by Plus x, in st. Peters, in 1906,
on the occasion of the sixteenth
Eucharistic Congress.
For the first time since 1870 q de-
tachment of palatine guards entered
| st. Peters and took up their stations
at the bottom of the broad steps lead
ing to the basilica.
Attendants laid the red carpet lead
| ing to the altar from which the Pope
was to bless the crowd.
The papal coat of arms was hoisted
over the last supper tapestry about 4:30
pm, by which time the crowd had
grown to nearly $4,000.
Police airplaneS hummed overhead to
keep private atrplanes. notably those of
movie camera men, from circling over
Vatican territory and particularly the
square.
Follows Old Custom.
The procession as nearly as possible
was q reproduction of the Corpus
Christi professions which the pontiTs
partook in prior to the fall of the
temporal power. A color guard of the
pontifical gendarmes opened the pro-
cession in full uniform, followed by the
colors Of the palatine guard with an
escort, heraalds with trumpets and
pealing church bells over all Rome
proclaiming its advent.
Various clerical denominations, in
GLIDING seminarians of which q num-
Der are American, we're assigned places
between the color guard and the papal
cortege proper, Of which higher Of
flcers Of the Pope's armed corps will
lead the way with chamberlains Of the
sword and cape in Spanish costume,
and the cardinals following
The Pope's emergence was made
possible by the Lateran treaty of Feb
ruary II, which established peace be-
twee the Holy See and the italian
state, and fixed st. Peters definitely
as part of a sovereign vatican state
over which his holiness exercised ex-
treme authority. The emergence from
the vatican is not emergence from the
OF lott farrffnrty