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THE PASSING OF A PONTIFF OF ROME
| Robed in full pontificals — the stole, the dalmatic, the gloves, the pallium, the ring, the chasuble, and the gold mitre — the body of Pope Benedict XV., the occupant of the Chair of S. Peter during the Great War, is here seen lying in the Throne Room of the Vatican preparatory to being borne to S. Peter's for the lying-in-state in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament |
VOTIVE OFFERING AT AN ANCIENT BRETON SHRINE
| At this ancient shrine of the Virgin Mary at Plougasnou, notable architecturally for its supporting caryatides, young Breton girls sometimes come on Ascension Day to make a votive offering, and to pray that they may have husbands. Near by is the fifteenth-century church of Saint Jean-du-Doigt, where is preserved in an ancient casket what purports to be a finger of S. John |