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PAGE 6—THE BULLETIN, December 12. 1959 "Say It With Ours" OUR NEW HADDEN S FLOWERS and GIFTS Telephone HE. 5-8374 P. O. Box 1980 1150 S. Slappey Dr. Albany, Georgia Griffin Motor Co. RAMBLER METROPOLITAN 928 Highland Avenue Albany, Georgia D. W. GARRISON IDEAL HEATING & PLUMBING CO. "CONSCIENTIOUS SERVICE" 107 FLINT AVE. — P. O. BOX 82 — PHONE 6-1584 ALBANY, GEORGIA From: POPE JOHN XXIII: An Authoritative Biography by Zsolt Aradi, Msgr. James I. Tucek and James C. O'Neill. Copy right, 1959, by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., Publishers. PART XIII FROM VENICE TO THE VATICAN A routine day dawned for the Patriarch of Venice on Monday, September 29, 1958: routine but one of the most significant in the life of Angelo Roncalli. He knew from his morning prayers, his recitation of the Breviary for the feast of Mich ael the Archangel, from his meditation and celebration of Mass that the hand of God would this day, as on all days, move all things. But this day, more than any other, the hand of God would move particularly in his regard. Four hundred miles away, at Castelgandolfo near Rome, un known to Cardinal Roncalli, the hand of God was setting the small beginnings to a drama that would continue quietly for a while and within days would burst with full impact upon the consciousness of the world. On this morning His Holiness Pope Pius XII suffered a recur rence of the attack of hiccups which had almost taken his life four years previous. Pope Pius was now an older man, overworked and weaker than he was in 1954, when the first attack came. At first there was not a great deal said. Per haps, it was thought, that this WELCOME VISITORS OPEN 7 DAYS We Raise Our Own Birds GUARANTEED TALKERS We Board Birds CAGES — FOODS MEDICINES ALL SUPPLIES RABBITS FLYING SQUIRRELS & OTHER SMALL PETS POplar 1-2261 Whispering Pines Bird Farm Hwy. 85 Off 41 S. at Howard Johnson’s would be a brief attack which would go away like the others. DEATH COMES FOR POPE PIUS The next day the news was released by one of the interna tional news wire services. At tempts were made by other ag encies to confirm the report un derstandably met with little success. This was not time for alarmism. The Pope’s doctors had tried to cut down on the number of audiences but the Holy Father ignored their pleas. The 82- year-old Pontiff had never dur ing his life enjoyed robust health. But in his late years he had amazed everyone with his driving energy and his killing schedule of work. Now it appeared that his strong will power was stub bornly driving his tired body on and on. He seemed to refuse to recognize how sick he really was. On October 6th he suffer ed a “cerebral circulatory dis turbance.” The next day he seemed to rally but on October 8th he suffered a second attack. During the hours that follow ed and until his death on Thurs day morning at 3:52 a. m., he remained totally unconscious. In Venice, Cardinal Roncalli was alterted to the seriousness of the Pope’s condition when the Patriarchal residence re ceived a telephone call from the Vatican trying to trace Venetian specialist Dr. Antonio Gasbar- rini. When he became Pope, Cardinal Roncalli appointed Dr. Gasbarrini as his personal phy sician. With the death of a pope, the College of Cardinals be comes the main government of the Church, although they may not do anything that would in fringe on the authority of the new pope. Angelo Roncalli came to Rome on October 12th. He took up residence at Domus Maria, a religious-operated hospice for pilgrims in Rome. He -took part in the daily meetings of the Cardinals and in the nine-day official mourning period for the dead pontiff. In a letter written to the rec tor of the minor seminary at Venice, Cardinal Roncalli said: “I will then say that the strongest impression of my first day in Rome was upon seeing the waxen face of the Holy Fa ther, stretched out on the cata falque in St. Peter’s before the white silk veil hid him forever from the eyes of mortals. “What is life worth if one is concerned only with appearanc es? Comfort comes not to the eyes but to the spirit which fol lows that great and luminous spirit (of the dead Pontiff) into the land of the living. It is there that we must ever direct our minds, where the light never fails. . . As for the dead Pope assumed into glory, there re mains only to continue the ac clamation “Viva il Papa” and to pray that his successor, who ever he may be, does not rep resent a solution of continuity, but progress in following the perennial youth of the Holy Church. , .” DEATH COMES FOR TWO CARDINALS By Thursday, October 16th, a week, after the death of Pius XII, 45 of the 55 living members of the College of Cardinals were in Rome or in its vicinity. The Conclave was scheduled to start on October 25th. On October 17th, Celso Card inal Costantini, the Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, died of a heart collapse. The very day the Conclave began, an other Prince of the Church died. He was Edward Cardinal Moon ey, Archbishop of Detroit, who died at the North American College in Rome after a lunch eon with his brother cardinals of New York and Los Angeles. The guessing game of “pap- abili” — likely candidates for the papacy — had been a sea sonable past time during the last years of Pope Pius’ reign. After his death it became almost an international guessing game. The press indulged heavily in speculating on who might be elected pope, what kind of a man he would be. Said the Rome daily Giornale d’ltalia, of Cardinal Roncalli: “He is the candidate of the French Card inals: Roncalli, if elected, will call himself Pius XIII.’” In general the Italian press, followed by the world press, di vided the Cardinals into two groups: the “Pacelliani” or the more conservative sector, con sisting of Cardinals who had been seminarians contemporary with Pius XII. The other section was termed “Montiniani,” those characterized by more advanc ed and modern thinking, who received their name from the supposed tendencies of Arch bishop Giovanni B. Montini of Milan. The monarchist weekly, Oggi, divided the Cardinals into right wing, left wing and cen ter.” In the speculation there was also much said about a “trans ition Pope,” a conservative of advanced age and therefore of short reign who would fill the vacancies in the College of Cardinals and serve as a bridge between two longer and more active reigns. Most often mentioned in this category were Cardinals Aloisi Masella and Roncalli. Newspa pers in general gave as the Italian “papabili” Cardinal Siri, Lercaro, Ottaviani, Aloisi Mas ella, Ruffini, Roncalli, and Mim- mi. II Messaggero of Rome said: “Roncalli is the most probable because he has never shown any very definite leaning towards groups. He is acquainted with the problems of international affairs and at 77 is the right age . . .” The independent weekly Epoca estimated Cardinal Ron calli as “the youngest of the old” and said he “has excellent diplomatic experience in his fa vor as a result of his connec tion with the nunciatures in the Balkans and in Paris.” Of all this speculation, L’Os- servatore Romano, the Vatican City daily, exhorted newsmen “not to insist on the oldest and most offensive prejudice, ac cording to which it is said that there will come out of the Con clave, not so much the new Vi car of Christ . . . but the head or the political maneuverer of party currents, of factions in the parties . . .” A PRESENTIMENT? It was during the Pre-Con clave preparations that the pa pal physician Dr. Galeazzi-Lisi was reprimanded by the Vati can officials for making dis closures to the press of the inti mate life and last illness of the Pope. At the same time his pub- Greetings And Best Wishes From MIDTOWN LANES vp’ Jjjfc % % ■ r if< e Best Wishes PATCH POTTERY AND NURSERY HAND MADE POTTERY SHRUBBERY THE WEATHERLYS, LEESBURB, GEORGIA Telephone: Albany, HE. 6-2122 lication of pictures and graphic accounts of the pope’s death were investigated by the Rome Medical Association. He was ex pelled but a court later ruled that the evidence against him must be reviewed. About this time Cardinal Roncalli was writing to Arch bishop Montini in Milan. In his letter, written from Rome, he described the coming Conclave in which he would take part as “a test of very serious ecclesi astical responsibility.” “I have a great need,” he wrote, “of the help of the saints. Therefore, I apply to one who is very near to the saints of my special devotion (buried in Milan) . . . Recom mend my soul to St. Ambrose and St. Charles Borromeo.” On the day before entering the Conclave he wrote another letter, this one to his friend Bishop Piazzi of Bergamo. The text seems to betray a pre sentiment. He wrote: “One point about my en trance into the Conclave: it is like an invocation which I make to everything dearest to_ my heart as a good Bergamasco. As I recall the many venerated and beloved images of Mary in all the dioceses, with them memory of our patron saints, the bishops, the illustrious and saintly priests, the men and women Religious of outstanding virtue — as I recall all these, my mind is comforted with the confidence in the new Pente cost which will enable us to give new vigor to the victory of truth, to what is good and to peace through t-he renewal of the Head and the reconstruction of the ecclesiastic body. “It matters little whether the new Pope is or is not from the Bergamo region. The common prayers will achieve that he be a wise and gentle leader, that he be a saint and a sancti fier . . .” THE 78TH CONCLAVE Saturday, October 25th, 51 Cardinals were assembled to begin the 78th Conclave of the Catholic Church. It was Card inal Roncalli’s first Conclave as indeed it was for most of his brother-Cardinals. Only 13 of them had entered a Conclave before. What transpired after the sin- SLAPPEY'S DAIRY Kids Love Slappey’s Milk SOUTH SLAPPEY DRIVE PHONE HE. 2-7643 "SERVING ALBANY FOR OVER 40 YEARS" ALBANY, GEORGIA RHODES, Inc. FURNITURE gle door of the Conclave was locked one can only guess. Only the participating Cardinals themselves could know how the voting went and they are sworn solemnly to secrecy. One may only construct the picture from the documents governing the order of proce dure. The rest will be known only after many, many years when it may happen that the records of the Conclave are re leased to historians. Cardinal Roncalli and his 51- brother Cardinals rose early each morning to offer Mass. Breakfast was completed in time to enter the Sistine Chapel at 9:30. After attending a Mass of the Holy Ghost and casting two ballots, they retired for lunch and returned to the Chap el at 4:00 p. m. for another two ballots. No one was present in the Chapel during the actual vot ing except the Cardinals and the few official assistants as signed by the laws governing the conduct of the Conclave. When the afternoon balloting was finished around 6:00 the Cardinals retired to their rooms to prepare for dinner. The room which had been assigned to Cardinal Roncalli was that nor mally reserved to the chief of Noble Guards. On the wall of the room hung a sign: “II Com- mendante” — The Commander. (Next issue: I Shall Be Called John) Services For Mrs. Ryan SAVANNAH—Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Mary Altick Ryan will, be held November 23rd at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. 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