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THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 ROME (GA.) PRINCESS Conclave Aides For 250 Years Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan shown officiating in the Cathedral of Christ the King during the office of the Dead which preceded a Pontifical Requiem Mass for Pope John last week. State and local dignitaries of all faiths attended the ceremonies. THE POPE’S LETTER Lively & Young Affection’ VATICAN CITY, (NC) —The flag which will fly over the Vatican while the forthcoming conclave is in session is the banner of the princely Chigi family, which has guarded the security of the sessions for 250 years. The flying of the flag is sym bolic of the great power and responsibility of the conclave’s marshal, who guards the out side door of the conclave cham bers. The marshal's authority, in those matters pertaining to his position, is above any other — even the cardinals them selves — during the election of a new pontiff. Only the newly- elected pope may command him. THE SINGLE door of the con clave area is to be guarded on the inside by the governor of the conclave, Msgr. Federico Cal- ori di Vignale, whose name is cast on the interregnum coin age of Vatican City. Guarding the outside is the marshal, a member of the Chigi family. The first conclave marshals were members of the Savelli family, who guarded the doors at papal elections in Viterbo, Pope’s Valets Get New Jobs VATICAN CITY, (NC)—Pope John's valets, the brothers Gui do and Paolo Gusso, have been given jobs at the Vatican. The brothers came here with Pope John from Venice, where he served as Patriarch before his election to the papacy. Guido Gusso has been assigned to the Apostolic Palace and Paolo Gusso to the Vatican Secreta riat of State. LEWIS PHARMACY PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE CALL US: CE 3-5353 2802 PIEDMONT ROAD , N.E. ATLANTA, GEORGIA C & S REALTY COMPANY “Specialists in Commercial and Industrial Real Estate” Suite 200 Henry Grady Bldg. Atlanta 3 Ga. Warehouses, Stores, Mfg. Plants, Acreage, Shopping Center Dev., Industrial Dev., Subdivision Dev., Insurance 524-2052 MIKE & STEVE SERTICH Italy, which lasted from 1268 to 1271. The Savelli line came to an end in 1709 and the here ditary title then passed on to the wife of the Prince Savelli of that time. She was a Chigi. Her prince son guarded the con clave of 1721, which elected Pope Innocent XIIL The 79th conclave which opens June 19 will be mar shaled by Prince Sigismondo Chigi, the son of Prince Ludo vico Chigi-Albani, who guarded also the 1958 conclave which chose Pope John. PRINCE Sigismondo w as born in Chigi Palace at Rome on December 12, 1894. His wife, the Princess Berry- Chigi, is an American born in Rome, Georgia. The Berry- family- was Eng lish and settled in Georgia in the 1700s. The Chigis, like the Savellis, art- a patrician family origi nating from Sienna. They gave to the Church various cardinals and magistrates and one pope. Blessed John of Lecceto(1300), a hermit of St. Augustine, and Blessed Juliana, alsoanAugus- tinian, were members of the family. Fabio Chigi was Pope Alexander VII. There is no rule that only members of the Chigi family may be conclave marshals. But the centuries-old traditions is one that will not easily be bro ken. Racial Justice White-Negro Job LITTLE ROCK, Ark (NC)— A priest gave separate advice to members of an integrated audience here on how they can help in the attainment of racial justice. Resist your feelings and act as you should despite the re pulsion and revulsion you may feel, Father Harold L. Cooper, S. J., advised the whites. Don’t carry a chip on your shoulder and remember you will never attain justice through injustice, he advised the Negroes. FATHER COOPER, a pro fessor of philosophy at Loyola University of the South, New Orleans, gave four lectures during a day of recollection at St. John’s Home Missions Semi nary. The Jesuit priest, author of many articles and pamphlets on interracial matters, said that only a few white persons "can do great things about the race question, but each of us in his little corner can do his pan to break down prejudice.” VATICAN CITY, (NC)— Deeply spiritual observations, warm humor and pride in the honest poverty of his family are rich ly scattered through the last letter Pope John wrote to his relatives. Dated December 3, 1961, and published in L’Osser- vatore Romano several days after the Pope's death, the let ter was addressed to his bro ther Zaverio (whom he calls by his boyhood nickname ”Se- vero") but was intended as a circular letter for the whole family. The text of the letter follows: My Dear Brother Severo, Today is the feast of your great patron—the one of your true and proper name, St. Fran cis Xavier, as our dear “Bar ba 1 ’ was named and now, hap pily, our nephew Zaverio. I think that three years have passed since I stopped writing on a typewriter, as I liked so much to do. If now I have de cided to resume the habit and to use a new typewriter that is all for me, I have done it for my 80 years, although lam still well and resume the good path still in good health, although there are a few little aches which remind me that I am 80, and not 60 or 50; and at least for now I can continue the good service of the Lord and the Holy Church. This letter, which I wanted to address to you. cear Severo,, is a voice that would reach all Alfredo, Giuseppino, Assunta, sister-in-law Catherina, your dear Maria, Virgino and Angelo Ghisleni, as to all the des cendants of our line, I wish it to be for all an expression of my always lively and always young affection. Busy as I am, as you know, in a service so important that the eyes of the whole world are turned on it, I cannot for get my beloved relatives, to whom my thoughts turn during the day. 1 am pleased that since you cannot keep up a personal cor respondence with me, you can confide everything in Msgr. (Loris) Capovilla, who is very- fond of you and to whom you can tell everything as though to me. Remember that this is one of the very few private letters that I have w ritten to anyone in my family during the past first three years of my pontificate and sympathize with me if I cannot do more, even with people of my own blood. This sacrifice which I impose on my relations with you does honor to you and me and earns more respect and affection than you could believe or imagine. Now the great demonstrations of reverence and affection for the Pope on the arrival of the 80th year are coming to an end. and I am pleased because I pre fer to the praise and good wishes of men, the charity- of the Lord who elected me to a commit ment so great that I desire Him to sustain me until the end of my life. My personal tranquility, which makes so much im pression in the world, is all in this: to be obedient as I always have, and not to de sire or pray to live even one day beyond the time when the Angel of Death will come to call and take me to Paradise, as I have faith. That does not stop me from thanking the Lord for having wanted to choose at Brusico and Colombera him who would call himself the successor of so many popes during 20 cen turies and take the name of the Vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth. Because of this call, the name Roncalli was brought to the knowledge, the sympathy and respect of all the world. You do well to remain humble, just as I have tried to do, and not to be carried away by the in sinuations and gossip of the world. The world has no in terest other than making money, enjoying life and imposing it- unfortunate events with its overbearingness. These past 80 years say to me, as to you, dear Severo, and to all ours, that what counts the most is to keep ourselves always well prepared to pass suddenly away: to assure our selves of eternal life by trust ing in the goodness of the Lord who sees all and provides all. I want to express these most intimate sentiments to you, my most dear Severo, so that you will relay them to all our most intimate relations in Colom bera, Gerole, Bonate and Medo- loago and wherever they are, whose towns I don’t even know the names of. I leave it to your discretion how you want to do it. I think that Enrica could help you, and also Don Battista. Continue to love each other, all you Roncallis, new families included, and please understand me if I cannot write to every family. Our little Giuseppe is right when he says to his bro ther the Pope: “You, who are a prisoner of luxury, you can not do all that you would like.” I would like to mention the names of those who suffer most ROME , (NC) -- St. Paul’s Episcopal church for Ameri cans here plans to put up a memorial to Pope John XXIII. It will be a set of doors, of either glass and bronze or glass and wrought Iron, to re place the wooden doors of the church on Via Nazionale. REV. WILBUR CHARLES WOODHAMS, rector of St. among us*' dear Maria; your wife, Benedetta; the good Rita, who has assured herself Para dise with her sufferings, and for you two, who have helped her with so much charity; cousin Catherina, who reminds me al ways of her and our Giovanni who looks upon us from Heaven; together with our Roncalli re lations and other kin like those who went to Milan. I know very well that you will have to undergo some mor tification at the hands of those who do not want to recognize common sense. So it is to have a Pope in the family, to whom the respectful gaze of all the world turns, and to live—his own relations—so modestly re maining in their social con dition. But then many know that the Pope, son of humble but honored people, does not forget anyone, has and shows a good heart towards all his dearest relations, and that besides, his own condition is that of almost all his ancestors, and that the honor of a pope is not to en rich his relatives, but only to assist them with charity ac cording to their needs and the conditions of each one. This is and will always be one of the most beautiful and most appreciated titles of Pope John and of his Roncalli family. Upon my death there will not be lacking that praise that so honored the sanctity of Pope Pius X: born poor and died poor. It is natural, that having reached 80 years, others also come along behind me. Courage, courage I We are in good com pany. I always keep a photo graph by my bed which has all their names written on marble, all our dead: grandfather An gelo, Barba Zaverio, our vene rated parents, Brother Giovan ni,, Sister Teresa, Ancilla, Maria and Erica. O What a beautiful chorus of souls wait and pray for us I I always think of them. To re member them in prayer gives me courage and fills me with happiness in the faithful wait to Join them altogether in ce lestial and eternal glory. John XXIII, Supreme Pontiff. Paul's, said that the doors will symbolize the door that Pope John opened to the Protestants. Scenes representing the hist oric visit of Most Rev. Geof frey Fisher, then Archbishop of Canterbury, to Pope John in 1960 and the 1961 visit of Most Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger, Presiding Bishop of the Pro testant Episcopal Church in the United States, will be etched on the doors. 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It was the shor test conclave since 1623. The first conclave or closed meeting, the longest on record, was held at Viterbo, Italy. Pope Clement IV had died there, No vember 29, 1268, and rules then in force required the meet ing had to be held where the former pope had died. The 18 cardinals present deliberated two years, nine months and two days before electing Gregory X as pope on September 1, 1271. The pope they finally elected, Gregory X, lost no time in is suing an Apostolic Constitution "Ubi Periculum,” setting forth the procedures to be followed in future elections, and stipula ting that a conclave cannot ad journ until a pope is elected. Decrees of succeeding pon tiffs retained this basic rule and added others as the times de manded. Pope Clement VII(1523 -1534) decreed that all future elections be held in Rome. Pius X (1903-1914) abolished the veto power of monarchs over papal elections following his election, after Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria sent word through Cardinal Puzvna that he did not want the election of the leading candidate, Secretary of State Cardinal Rampolla, and threat ened to use die power of veto if he were elected. In those days, some Catholic countries were allowed this veto or "Right of Exclusion”. But the incident so shocked and angered the 62 cardinals present that the new ly-elected pope decreed that ex- communication was to be pro nounced “ipso facto” against any cardinal who attempted to act for a government by cast ing a veto during a conclave. In his motu proprio "Cum Proxime,” March 1,1922, Pope Pius XI extended the interval between a pope’s death and the opening of the conclave to a maximum of 18 days. Pope Pius XII, in his apostolic constitu tion of December 8, 1945, "Va- cantis Apostolic Sedis,” re formed the entire body of rules governing the conclave. Because of the legislation decreed by Pius XI and Pius XII, the American and other cardinals living at great dis tance are now able to journey to a conclave in time to parti cipate in the voting. In 1878, at the election of Pope Leo XIII, John Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York and America's first and only car dinal then, did not arrive in time to vote, but was present for the coronation on March 3, 1878. First American cardinal to vote in a papal election was the Archbishop of Baltimore, James Cardinal Gibbons, who was present for both the elec tion and coronation of Pope St. Pius X in August 1903. At the election of Pope Bene dict XV, on September 3, 1914, John Cardinal Farley, Archbis hop of New York, was the only American present. He was tra veling in Switzerland when Pius X died on August 20, 1914. On the day after the Pope's death, Cardinal Gibbons and Boston’s William Cardinal O’Connell had sailed from New York for Naples, where they landed on September 3, the very day Pope Benedict was elected. Again no American cardinal was present for the election of Pope Plus XI on February 6, 1922. For the second time Car dinal O’Connell lost his race across the Atlantic. In his first audience with the new Pope he spoke of his disappointment, and Pius changed the regula tions, extending the time, in a new r Apostolic Constitution. But even with this extension of the time between the death of a pope and the opening of a con clave to elect another, Cardinal O’Connell nearly missed the opening of the conclave that elected Pope Pius XII on March 2, 1939. The Cardinal was in Nassau when he received word on February 10 that Pius XI had died, and had first to re turn to the U. S. by boat be fore going to Rome. Philadelphia's Archbishop Denis Cardinal Dougherty and Chicago’s Archbishop George Cardinal Mundelein had reach ed New York in time to depart on the liner Rex on February 11, reaching Rome in ample time for the election. Cardinal O’Connell arrived at Naples on the Neptunia on March 1, and hastened by auto to Rome. He was the last of the 62 Cardi nals to arrive, reaching the conclave chamber less than an hour before the doors were locked. It was the first time that three U. S. cardinals voted in a papal election. to vote, only 51 entered the 1958 conclave. Cardinal Moo ney, at age 76, died of a heart attack at the North American College on October 25, less than two hours”before the con clave opened. Cardinal Minds- zenty, Archbishop of Eszter- gom, Hungary, was unable to be present, as he was in the American Legation at Buda pest, where he still maintains asylum following the Hunga rian revolution of 1956. Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac, Archbishop of Zagreb, who died in 1960, was then confined in his native village of Krasic by the Yugoslav communist govern ment. Thomas Cardinal Tien, of Peking, now in exile, re turned to Rome from Germany in an ambulance, where he had been hospitalized following an auto accident, and arrived in time to participate in the elec tion of Pope John XXIIL When Pope John XXII was elected at the conclave of 1314 at Carpentras, France, the car dinals had deliberated 24 months. Now in the days of speedier transatlantic liners and jet planes, the trip to Rome pre sents no great problem. How ever, it is interesting to note that to get to the conclave which elected Pope John XXIII, on Oc tober 28, 1958, Francis Cardi nal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, had his difficulties of transport. When Pius XII died on October 9, 1958, Car dinal Spellman was on the high seas returning to the United States with some 600 pilgrims aboard the Greek liner Olym pia. The news came at 5 a.m. The ship veered off course to take the Cardinal to the Azores. A launch met the ship and took him to Terceira Island, whence he was flown to the Island of Santa Maria, where he caught a Portuguese plane for Lisbon, arriving there at 6 p.m. Thirty- five minutes later he was en- route by air to Rome, arriv ing there at two minutes past midnight. Detroit’s Archbishop Edward Cardinal Mooney and the Archbishop of Los Angeles, James Francis Cardinal Mc Intyre, also arrived before' the beginning of the conclave. Of the 55 cardinals eligible Where Insurance is a Profession, Not a Sideline SUTTER & McLELLAN Mortgage Guarantee Bldg. JA 5-2086 SUBSCRIBE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN *5.00 PER YEAR Mail io P. O. Box 11667 Northside Station Atlanta 5, Georgia Name ______________________ Address City State Appointment VATICAN CITY, June 10 (Fa- dio, NC)—Among the final acts of Pope John XXII I was the nomination of a new bishop in Cuba. 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