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Pacelli meeting with local authorities in 1922. Pacelli's public popularity surpassed that of any German cardinal or bishop by 1929. [12]Several years after he was appointed Nuncio to Germany on 23 June 1920, and after completion of a concordat with Bavaria, Pacelli resigned as nuncio to Bavaria and was appointed first nuncio to Prussia, keeping in personal union the office of nuncio to ...
A number of other scholars replied with favourable accounts of Pius XII, including Margherita Marchione's Yours Is a Precious Witness: Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy (1997), Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace (2000) and Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII (2002); Pierre Blet's Pius XII and the Second World War ...
The papal conclave held on 1 and 2 March 1939 saw Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli elected on the third ballot to succeed Pius XI, who had died on 10 February, as pope. All 62 cardinals took part. Pacelli, who had been camerlengo and secretary of state, took the name Pius XII. The day was his 63rd birthday.
Papa Filippo Pacelli 1837-1916. Eugenio was born into a family which, for most of the 19th century, was in service to the Holy See. The Pacelli family had a long tradition of legal training. His grandfather, Marcantonio Pacelli, had been minister of finance for Pope Gregory XVI and deputy minister of the interior under Pope Pius IX from
The word consecration literally means "association with the sacred". Persons, places, or things can be consecrated, and the term is used in various ways by different groups. The origin of the word comes from the Latin stem consecrat, which means dedicated, devoted, and sacred. [1] A synonym for consecration is sanctification; its antonym is ...
In conjunction with the consecration, a whole movement linked to the Social Reign of Christ and devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was born in Spain. The consecration took place at the Cerro de los Angeles in front of the monument built a few years before, which would later be destroyed by the Republican militias during the Civil War. [29]
The music was composed in 1869 by Charles Gounod, for the celebration on 11 April 1869 of Pope Pius IX's golden jubilee of priestly ordination. The purely instrumental piece in three parts, [ 3 ] originally called "Marche pontificale" ( French for "Pontifical March"), became extremely popular from its first performance.
Missa Papae Marcelli, or Pope Marcellus Mass, is a mass sine nomine by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. It is his best-known mass, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and is regarded as an archetypal example of the complex polyphony championed by Palestrina.