Finally as the last ceremony and absolution was performed and as the last words of the Sistine Choir's "Exe Sum Resurrectio et Vita" and the "Requiescat" were sung, the cof iwas turned over to the "sampictrini" Jor the Basilica and by them carried fo the final resting place next to Pope Benedict XV, the predecessor of Pope At this moment, and only at this moment, every prelate and every functionary who had been in the ployment of or attached to Pope Pius was relieved of all his obligations to the dead Pontif.
The Papal master of ceremonies then signalled and the funeral. pro-Jcession dissolved anda few minutes! later, with the last torch and the last Jeandie in St. Peter's except for the hundred lamps that burn eternally. about the shrine of St, Peter, those who had participated inthe ceremony Aled out into St. Peter's Square. or mounted up to the courtyard of San Damaso in the Vatiean.—United Press.
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