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Apparently, it was his favorite book when he was younger.

SGI President Daisaku Ikeda had referred to this book in speeches and articles numerous times. But the line I was expecting, and that I was reading the book to try to understand, just was not there. " " Say, fri.I was kind of disappointed in this book. The present Pope is trying to revive the old condition seemingly, but what can he do ? Even the Bull proclaiming the Jubilee laments the loss of the temporal power which would have permitted him to renew the enchantments of the Holy City." " Tell him it's just lovely as it is," said the girl on the obelisk, " and when the illuminations begin. Peter's surrounded by his Cardinals and Bishops, to the roll of drums and the roar of cannon. Ah, everything is changed since those days! The Pope used to go to St. When the Castle went over to the King the connection with the Vatican was cut off. Angelo." " Say, has the Pope got that secret passage still ?" " No, sir. There's a private way up to the Pope's apartment, and a secret passage to the Castle of St. The Cardinal Secretary of State used to live in the rooms below, opening on the grand staircase that leads from the Court of Damasus. "Yes, that is the Vatican," said the guide, pointing to a square building at the back of the colonnade, " and the apartments of the Pope are those on the third floor, just on the level of the Loggia of Eaphael. Boys and women were climbing up every possible elevation, and a bright-faced girl who had conquered a high place on the base of the obelisk was chattering down at a group of her friends who were listening to their cicerone.

To salute the coming century, and to dedicate it, in pomp and solemn ceremony, to the return of the world to the Holy Church, one and universal, the people had gathered in the great Piazza of St. In a Bull proclaiming a Jubilee the Pope had called his faithful children to Rome, and they had come from all quarters of the globe. Excerpt from book: PAET ONE-THE HOLT ROMAN EMPIRE TWENTY YEARS LATER It was the last day of the century. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to where you can read more than a million books for free.