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The Papal conclave of 1939 was convoked on the brink of World War II with the death of Pope Pius XI on 10 February that year in the Apostolic Palace. With all 62 living cardinals in attendance, the conclave to elect Pius' successor began on 1 March and ended a day later, on 2 March, after three ballots. The cardinals elected Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, then Camerlengo and the deceased pontiff's Secretary of State, as the new pope. He accepted the election and took the regnal name of ''Pope Pius XII''. ==Papabili and balloting== Like St. Pius X, Pope Pius XI was seen as a blunt-spoken, no-nonsense pontiff, and so the cardinals decided that they needed a soft-spoken diplomat to guide them through the forthcoming war. Among the likely contenders for the papacy were August Hlond of Gniezno-Poznań, Karl Joseph Schulte of Cologne, the Curial Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant, Ildefonso Schuster of Milan, Adeodato Giovanni Piazza of Venice, Maurilio Fossati of Turin, and Camerlengo and Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli. The prospect of a non-Italian pope (the last of which, until that point, had been Pope Adrian VI, 1522) was considered better in 1939 than in previous conclaves.〔TIME Magazine. (Death of a Pope ) 20 February 1939〕 While Cardinal Pacelli was not the only known ''Papabile'' at the Conclave he was heavily favored among the cardinals to win due to hints made by Pope Pius XI prior to his death that he favored Pacelli as his successor. On 15 December 1937, during his last consistory, Pius XI strongly hinted to the cardinals that he expected Pacelli to be his successor, saying "He is in your midst."〔"''Medius vestrum stetit quem vos nescetis''. Everybody knew what the pope meant". Domenico Cardinale Tardini, ''Pio XII'', Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, 1960, p. 105 〕 He had previously been quoted as saying: "When today the Pope dies, you'll get another one tomorrow, because the Church continues. It would be a much bigger tragedy, if Cardinal Pacelli dies, because there is only one. I pray every day, God may send another one into one of our seminaries, but as of today, there is only one in this world." During a break after the second ballot, Pacelli suffered a fall down a flight of stairs, but was only bruised.〔TIME Magazine. ("Habemus Papam" ) 13 March 1939〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Papal conclave, 1939」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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