Holy Ship

The Supreme Pontiff no longer rents automobiles, but last week dignitaries representing His Holiness rented the Italian steamer City of Naples.

By an unprecedented arrangement with the Italian Government she was allowed to sail under Papal register, flying the flag of the new Papal State (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929), which no ocean liner has ever flown before, and triumphantly carrying to the Eucharistic Congress at Carthage that potent Prince of the Church Alexis Henri Cardinal Lepicier, august Papal delegate. After her, under Italian flag and register, steamed the S.S. Argentina crammed with Eucharistic pilgrims.

"Carthage will not receive the pilgrims with the splendor or the comfort which could be offered by many cities," said Mgr. Lemaitre, Archbishop of Carthage, "it will offer, on the other hand, a country which was for centuries soaked in Christian blood and an ensemble of ruins."

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