The Archive · 1931

PONTIFF DEDICATES COLLEGE Vatican (ity, Apr. 24

After dedicating personally the ow Propaganda Vide College on the Janiculum Hill, opposite the Vatican Grounds, His Holiness, Pope Pius. XI, returned to the Vatican at 12.55 o'clock this afternoon.

The Holy Father spent one hour and 50 minutes at the Propaganda Vide College. He prayed in. the [chapel there and visited the various the institution. before the jon ceremonies.

The presence of the Pope at the services marked only the that he has left the the Lateran Treaties The Pontiff emerged jean ang. travelled by to the -Janiculum Hilt where he was received with fitting. pomp and medieval splendour. ending the long schism between the Church and State, were signed in 1929 after negotiations which had lasted over a period of three years. The Treaties Testored nominal temporal power to the Pope and he ceased voluntary prisoner in the United Press.

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