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Show ROMAN PITiFF P fflSHjR PESCE More Than 60,000 Persons Gather in St. Peters; Impressive Im-pressive Scene. I i ROME, Feb. 7, 4:S0 p. m. There was an impressive scene in St. Peter's today when Pope Benedict intoned his prayer for peace. . The great edifice was thronged with worshipers when the pontiff, surrounded by twenty-two cardinals, mounted to the papai altar. Standing between the four richlv gilded spiral columns of the Bernini Ber-nini "canopy. Pope Benedict intoned the prayer, which was repeated by the kneeling kneel-ing multitude, whose voices echoed throughout the great temple. The prayer was to the "God of all mercies, King of Peace." ' The pope, on arriving and departing, was accorded an ovation. As he was leaving the ceremony thero were many cries of "Long live the Pope" and "Give us peice." Despite the downpour of rain at 3 o'clock this afternoon all the bejis of the 400 churches in Rome pealed out, calling the people to services to Implore the cessation ces-sation uf the war and the establishment of peace. More than 60,(KK) persons gathered gath-ered in St. Peter's. The immense basilica appeared more imposing than on. usual occasions, there being no decorations except tbe numerous candlesticks with their flickering flames on the papal altar under the colossal dome where the pope alone says mass. Before the, altar stood the great faldstool, fald-stool, which is approached by five steps, from which the pope prayed. Special places had been reserved for the members of the sacred college, the patriarchs, archbishops, bishops and diplomats, members mem-bers of the aristocracy and of the papal court and representatives of all thp re-, re-, liglous institutions. (Special Cable by Arrangement With Londun Daily Telegraph and International Xe-ws Service.) , PAHIS. Feb. 7. While the pope's peace I prayer was recited throughout France to-; to-; day, the prayers everywhere followed the recommendation of Primate Cardinal Amette In qualifying the expression "peace." Cure Madeleine of the church of Paris said: "We condemn all who would accept a patched up peace which would not leave France with complete victory. The church's first commandment is love of the home land." |