In connection with observance of the Sacerdotal Jubilee, the Pope motored to St. John's in the Lateran at 630 o'clock this morning and celebrated Low Bass.
Following this ceremony, which with the motor trip was conducted with the utmost privacy, the Pope returned to the Vatican—United Press.
Rome, Dec. 21.
The Pope's sacerdotal jubilee celebrations were officially opened this afternoon with an elaborate thanksgiving service in the festively illuminated Cathedral of St. John where, exactly fifty years. ago, the Holy Father, as a young priest, read his first mass. The thanksgiving service was attended by the whole Diplomatic Corps, the Cardinals and the Roman nobility. After the service Archbishop Merry de Val the eucharistic tivities will eulmi forenoon when the Pope Drate mass over the Apostles' Tomb.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,
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