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Another Bomb Scare In St. Peter's Basilica:
Precautions Doubled Great watchfulness on the part of workers in St. Peter's basilica is credited with preventing the explosion of an incendiary bomb found there. THE DETONATOR OF A BOMB WAS ALSO DISCOVERED.
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hidden inside the folds of a rolled -up drape near the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, halfway up the epistle side of the nave.
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With a few strokes of the pen, His Holiness Pope John XXIII affixes his signature, ti:us rra!:ing ofnc,p1 the convoking of the 21st Ecumenical Council of the Church. Second Vatican Council, only the third world council of the Catholic the
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delegates from non-Catholic churches as well as by advisers to the Gounci' Fa hers. would have been destroyed. The tiers are made of wood end many inflammable drapes arc b,ing hung around around them. The only metal now in the tiers of seats is the tubular scaffolding. Th discovery of the bomb touched off a thorough search of the basilica, which turned up the detonator minus its bomb on the steps before the papal altar which lead to a lower level. Since no attempt was made to hide the detonator, Vatican authorities believe the bomber feared discovery and left it there just to gat rid of it. He apparently took the explosive or incendiary part of the bomb with him. Explosives experts of the Italian Army were called in to examine the home-made bomb. This is the fifth re^orded bomb attempt in St. Peter's.
The last took place on the night of July 14. No one was injured, but the tomb of Pope Clement X was slightly damaged. Since the July bomb attempt, the number of plainclothesmen in the basilica has been increased and all personnel in the vast church have been put on double alert. Vatican sources said the
investigators are going on the theory that the same bomber made both attempts and that it was "a madman -probably a religious fanatic or maniac of some type." "It is possible that he has something against the forthcoming Council and is attempting to stop or postpone it," the sources said. "There is no other apparent explanation."
Red Victim Dies VATICAN CITY: It has been learned In the Vatican that Bishop Joseph Hu Joshan, C.M., of Tatchow, a pillar of the Church in China for generations, has died in a communist prison.
Vatican authorities reported that he died on August 23 at the age of 81. Ilishcp Joseph Hu was ,he last survivor of the six Chinese priests whom Pope Pius XI raised to the episcopate in 1926 to Income the first Chinese bishops of modern times. Pius XI himself consecrated the six in St. Peter's Basilica on October 28, 1926. Bishop Hu was arrested by the communist regime in September of 1955 and was released after a long stay in gaol. Then in December of 1957, the Red Chinese broadcast from Hangchow that Bishop Hu was amon,z
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a group of "counter-revialu-
tionaries" who had been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 10 to 20 years.
PRIEST DIES FitzFather Michael gerald, 40, parish priest of Lake Grace, in the dio-
cese of Bunbury, died suddenly at St. John of God Hospital, Subiaco, on Tuesday afternoon. Father Fitzgerald had been in hospital since the Bunbury priests' retreat with a heart condition. The late priest was born in Ireland on Sept. 1922; his education 1
for the priesthood was received at St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny, where was ordained on he June 8, 1947. Father Fitzgerald arrived in Perth on Aug. 31, 1948,
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SILENCE BARRIER LONDON.-Thousands of greeting cards will be posted this Christma:-, to Archbishop Joseph Beran of Prague in an attempt to break through the iron curtain of silence since his disappearnce in 1951. Amnesty, a non -religious movement founded by London Catholic lawyer Peter Benenson to free political prisoners, announced a leaflet campaign to urge people to send the cards as a demonstration to the Czechoslovak authorities of peoples' concern at his unjust imprisonment. "The cards may not reach him, but if sufficient are sent at least the government concerned will know that he is not forgotten and may be moved to take some action of leniency," the leaflets say. Amnesty asks supporters to send cards in care of the Ministry of the Interior, Prague, Czechoslovakia. The whereabouts of Archbishop Beran are unknown. Last February. Amnesty -sent former Irish Foreign Minister Sean McBride to Czechoslovakia to try to contact the prelate. Communist officials would not permit this, but told Mr. McBride the Archbishop was alive and well and living in an unidentified monastery.
and served as asat St. priest
KalMary's Cathedral, goorlie and Highgate. He Bedwas locum tenens at ford Park, Rockingham, and spent 1953 as chaplain to St. John of God
The impending Second Vatican Council called by His Holiness Pope John XXIII will The first and be the 21st such gathering in the history of the Catholic Church. seventh councils were held at Nicea in 325 and 787. Four councils were convened in Constantinople in the years 381, 553, 680-81, and 869-70. The remaining councils held in the East were those of Ephesus, 431, and Chalcedon, 451. Six councils have been convened in Rome, five at the Lateran Basilica in the years 1123, 1139, 1179, 1215 and 1512.17, and one in the Vatican, 1869-70. Two councils have been called in Lyons, 1245 and 1274, and one each at Vienne, France, 1311-12; Constance, Switzerland, 1414-18; Florence, 1431.45; and Trent, 1545-63.
Hospital. In 1954 he was appointed parish priest of Nannup and was there when the Diocese of BunHe bury was created. served as parish priest of Donnybrook in 1956 and was appointed to Lake Grace in March, 1957. Father Fitzgerald was in Ireland for long leave during part of 1959:60 Lake and returned to Grace in that year. He is survived by a brother, Patrick, and a sister, Breda, in Ireland. day morning. Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated on Thursday morning at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Bun -
bury. May he rest in peace.