"To Leave Vatican for Assisi"
A report that- the Pope vill break the tradition of the "Prisoner of the Vatican" to go on a pilgrim mage to Assisi in connexion with the seventh centenary of the death of St. Francis next year, is denied high Vatican officials, says the Daily News" Romie correspondent, According to the "Tribune," which publishes the report, this action by the Pope was to fallow message issued by Signor Mussolini on the St. Francis celebrations. Colour was lent to the story by the recert return by the Government of the former Franejscan monastery at Assisi to the Frakeisean. Order.
The report apparently arose from statement by the Pather Superior of the Assisi Monastery that if the Convent was returned to the Order the Pope would go to Assisi to pray lat the saint's tomb, The "Pribuna's" report, if true, would mean that the Pope would break the tradition in accordance with which the Pope has not appeared in public outside the Vatican and St. Peter's smog 1870. This yo. luntary imprisonment has been im= posed on themselves by the Popes 'a protest since the cessation of the temporal power, Loxpon, Jan. 9—The Marquess lof Londonderry thas resigned his office as Minister of Education in the Ulster Government. Viscount Charlement has been appointed Minister of Education and Lepder of the Senate in his place.—British Wireless: Through Renter.
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