Papal Notes

A Committee for the Preservation of the Faith in Palestine has been formed by members of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Its object is to "combat anti-Catholic propaganda."

The Pope forwarded a gift of money to the Bishop of Pinerole to aid the victims of a fire in a little Alpine Village. As Alpine climber, Achille Ratti knew the village well.

Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, England, received the Pope's blessing for the English pilgrimage to the Holy Land which sets out next month.

In Venice, the Vice Postulator of Beatification appeared before the Patriarch of Venice and cited 40 witnesses for the canonization of the late Pope Piux X. The parish priest of San Salvatore made depositions concerning miracles attributed to the late pontiff.

At the celebration of the anniversary of the coronation of Pope Piux XI (TIME, Feb. 21), a special tribune was erected and occupied by Queen Marie of Rumania, incognito.