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Excerpt from A Year of Consolation, Vol. 2 of 2 Easter Sunday - I was not well, and missed the great climax of the holy ceremonies the Pope's blessing of the people. From the terrace of the Villa Medici, I watched the sudden gleams and slow curling clouds from the cannons of the castle of St. Angelo, which proclaimed the universal benediction. To be blessed by sound of cannon, seemed to me strange, especially by Christ's Vicar, and in Christ's name but to be blessed, at any rate, is something, and that the city and the world have been by word of Pope this day. In the evening we' drove to St. Peter's, to see the illumination, the stream of human life setting in from every avenue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.