Cardinal Pacelli visits Buenos Aires for the 32nd International Eucharistic Congress - Oct. 9-16, 1934
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Oct. 9-16, 1934 Cardinal Pacelli visits Buenos Aires for the 32nd International Eucharistic Congress.
L’Osservatore Romano’s coverage of Cardinal Pacelli’s arrival
Oct. 9-16, 1934 L’Osservatore Romano’s page one coverage of Cardinal Pacelli’s arrival in Buenos Aires:
Banner headline: “The Voyage of the Cardinal Legate: The Triumphal Entry of the Cardinal Legate into Buenos Aires”
Subheads: “The President of the Republic Receives Him at the Port - The Grandiose Cortege - the Cathedral - The Visit of His Excellency General Justo - Enormous Crowd, Unparalleled Spectacle”
Text: (From our correspondent) The crowd covered everything, blotting out all views of factories, wharves, boats ...
On the deck, mantled in Roman purple, the Papal Legate. Aloft in the wind, in the sun, in the homage of a people, the banner of the Authority of Peter.
An invocation: Christ the King!
Ambassador d’Estrada whispered to me with tears in his eyes: “What a precious heritage Columbus left behind.”
“The Grandiose Homage by the Metropolis”
Dateline Buenos Aires, Oct. 9, 8 p.m. local time.
For the arrival of the Cardinal Legate and the Eucharistic Mission, on the occasion of the Eucharistic Congress, the jubilant city bestowed on the august Guest a triumphal welcome...
His Excellency, Signor Presidente, also introduced to His Eminence General Martinez Pita, Rear Admiral Flabet, assigned during these days to His person.
When the introductions ended and the exchange of these first cordial greetings, the Mayor of the City advanced toward the Cardinal Legate, who, surrounded by the Mission and the Government Officials, had the President of the Republic at his side among this imposing crown of authorities. And he pronounced the following greeting:
“The City’s Greeting”
“Your Eminence! I greet in the Pontifical Legate the foremost sovereign of the world to whose spiritual power all other sovereigns bow in veneration.
“Your Eminence arrives among us in a tragic moment for the historiy of the world, due to the crises of civilization, the crises of labor, a general anxiety by which all people cry for justice, hope for peace, and must generously collaborate for that, not locking themselves into the most fatal egotisms.
“The Representative of the Pope comes at this hour like Jesus to the gates of Jerusalem.
“But Buenos Aires will know to recognize in him a gift of God himself. Buenos Aires will listen to the message of peace brought by the envoy of the Vicar of Christ the King, invoking and actualizing the peace of the Lord. This peace lies in order, in harmony, in charity. Treasures, these, that come from God: happy will be the people cuius dominus Deus eius [Latin: for whom God is Lord].
“This peace is to be found first and foremost at the Tabernacle of Christ with the prodigy of love, outdoing all miracles, which remains among us and with us, so that all peoples and all souls are a new Jerusalem that He desires to conquer.
“May we also be worthy of this saving and vivifying conquest, all the more knowing to renounce materialism in life with its destructive legacy of violence and injustices.
“Happy, therefore, I repeat, the people that understands this sweet message, the call coming from Christ, which is repeated here in You, Eminence, in the name of the Father of All.”
Source: L’Osservatore Romano, Oct. 14, 1934, p.1. Original document in Italian with headlines translated
