YESTERYEAR

Amid all the splendour of Roman ritual, Pope Pius XII was crowned on the open Loggia above St. Peter’s in Rome before some half million cheering people. The ceremony of the Coronation, the most solemn and longest of all functions of the church, has had no equal in the annals of the church for enthusiasm and multitudes, and for the number of Royal Princes present. Pope Pius XII giving a benediction as he was borne on his Sede Gestatoria, portable throne, on the way to the Coronation Mass in St....