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Pius XI's body was placed in a wooden coffin, placed in a bronze casket, which was then placed in a lead casket. [127] The casket was designed by Antonio Berti. [128] Pius XI was buried in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica on 14 February 1939, in the Chapel of Saint Sebastian, close to Saint Peter's tomb. [129]
Modern popes bear the papal ferula, a staff topped by a crucifix, rather than a crozier, a bent pastoral staff styled after a shepherd's crook. The use of the papal ferula is an ancient custom, established before the thirteenth century, though some popes since that time, notably Pope Leo XIII, have used a crozier-like staff.
In 1928, it was licensed by Pope Pius XI to grant doctorates in affiliation with the Pontifical Gregorian University, independently of the commission. [5] A branch was opened in Jerusalem by Alexis Mallon SJ in 1927 [6] and received the mummy of Iret-hor-iru as a gift from Jesuits in Alexandria in 1928. [7] In 1932, the Oriental Faculty was ...
Pius XI Pius took note of persistent class warfare and political parties, which rather than pursue a disinterested search for what would best promote the common welfare, desire power and protection for some private interest, which inevitably results in injury to the citizens as a whole.
Pius XI made protests not just about the closing of these Catholic associations, but also against false and defamatory reports ordered to be published in the Italian press by Mussolini. Pius also wrote that Mussolini's regime was anti-Catholic .
Pope Pius XI instituted a new rule for setting the date for the start of a papal conclave to elect a new pope by promulgating the document Cum proxime on 1 March 1922, less than a month after his own election. The four non-European cardinals had not participated in the conclave that elected him in February.
Mortalium animos (English: The minds of mortals) is a papal encyclical promulgated in 1928 by Pope Pius XI on the subject of religious unity, condemning certain presumptions of the early ecumenical movement and confirming that the unique Church founded by Jesus Christ is the Catholic Church.
Early 1930 – The official English translation of the Pope Pius XI's encyclical on education is released. [1]1930–1933 – SoS Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli makes attempts to obtain a German treaty for protection and continued rights of the Catholic Church and her Priests in the nation with the representatives of successive German governments, which turn out ultimately unsuccessful.