Nevertheless, the Pontiff still works from fourteen to sixteen hours a day. He rejects the advice of his aides that he should reduce the daily routine, that he should rest longer each day. To some of his intimates, he has said that when the time comes he wants to die while at his work.
The Pope is unusually active for.a man of his 81 years and has stupendous energy. He still receives in private audience from four to eight persons every day before holding larger public audiences.
(He is intensely curious about almost everything that is happening in the world and when he has a visitor who talks fluently on affairs in foreign countries, the audience is likely to run far over the allotted time. As a result, his public audi ences often are late in starting—United Press.
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