Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-01
Physician Doubts Pontiff Can Live
Until Evening After Two Rallies
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Vatican radio and press office
had prepared the waiting Cath
Ollie world yesterday for the
news of his death.
Ferdinando Cardinal Cento,
who recited prayers for the
dying at the pontiff's bedside
yesterday, said he heard the
Pope murmer then:
81 wish to be taken, away,
so / can be with Christ"
The pontiff's heart amazed
his doctors, but one of them,
Piero Mazzoni, said II doubt
if he can live until this
evening"
The Pope was breathing reg
ularly, but slowly and with diff
ficulty. His temperature rose
to 1904 degrees, the Vatican
said. But his strout heart still
beat regularly.
The Pope had suffered in
tense pain before slipping back
into inconsistencies at 3:15
am, EST, the Vatican Radio
said, but lovingly as he, him.
self said" A Vatican broad
cast said he had been given
injections against pain during
the morning.
At $3.50 am, an announce
ment in the Vatican press
office said there was no change
in the pontiff's condition.
Members of his family re-
manned with him, but visits by
cardinals and high churchmen,
which had continued through
the morning, were suspended
until late afternoon.
Many times during his early
morning consciousness, the ra-
dio said, the Pope repeated
the invocation, Jesus, Jesus -"
Raimondo Manzini, director
of the Vatican newspaper
L'Osservatore Romano, came
from the papal apartment at
5 am. EST and said the Pope
was still serene"
"He is breathing regularly,
like a clock" Mr.. Manzini said.
HE is very pale under the
oxygen mask and rests on his
bed with his arms out-stretch-
ed. He is DOING"
Viscar Weeps
Clemente Cardinal Micara,
the Pope's vicar for the city of
Rome, came out weeping from
the papal apartment.
The Pope had amazed doctors
earlier by coming out Of a
coma and remaining conscious
for more than four hours.
Later he was gripped by in
tense pain and at 7:45 am. the
Vatican announced that the
pontiff had fallen into a state
of doing and was being given
oxygen.
Thirty minutes later came
the announcement that he had
lost consciousness.
Archbishop Antonio Samore,
secretary of the Vatican con-
gregation for extraordinary af-
fairs, left the Pope's apartment
and said:
1.-The strong fiber Of the
Holy Father continues to
battle against his illness. The
Pope seems tranquil and quiet.
His breathing is regular. His
condition of doing continues,
but it is verified that he has
lost consciousness.
1.-THE Rt. Rev. Giuseppe
Cavagna, his confessor, is at
the bedside. The Pope'sI
brothers are alternating in
prayer"
For hours the Vatican radio
had remained on the air saying
the Pope was passing away and
death was imminent. 1t broad
cast bulletins on his condition
every is minutes.
Kneel in Square
Then at $50 am. the radio
announced that it felt the i'm
mediate urgency had passed.
It went off the air.
At the Vatican and in
churches around the world,
Roman Catholics did not relax
their prayers. Prelate after
prelate said mass in the studio
outside the Pope's bedroom.
Hundreds kneeled through
the night in st. Peters Square
below the Pope's window. There
had been thousands there last
night, but most had gone home
without expecting the Pope to
survive the night. Once more
the crowds swelled as the sun
came up.
Papal physicians blamed the
sudden onslaught Of peritonitis,
on top Of the Pope's stomach
condition, for yesterdays light
ming deterioration.
Only a short time before, his
doctors were voicing optimism
about signs Of improvement.
They said that hemorrhages
caused by his tumor had been
stopped.
The rallying had seemed so