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                                    SINGERS OF VATICAN                                     HERE FOR CONCERTS "Four soloists from the Sistine Chapel Choir of the Vatican, Rome, including the only adult male soprano and male contralto in the choir, arrived yesterday for a four months' tour of this country.  The tour was arranged by special permission of the Vatican and the Italian Government. "The soloists are Allesandro Gabrielli, soprano; Luigi Gentili, contralto; Ezio Cecchini, tenor, and Augusto Dos Santos, basso. Their accompanist is Albert Cammetti. Their tour, which has been arranged by a musical bureau, opens in Carnegie Hall, Sept. 14 [1919].  They have permission to be away from Rome until Jan. 1. They will give seventy-five concerts. "The coming of the Italian church singers is an event of great interest in musical circles, since it is the first appearance here of singers from the Sistine Choir.  This choir is composed of thirty-two choral chaplains, whose special privilege it is to appear at the ecclesiastical functions at which the Pope appears in person.  Some of the music which will be sung in America was written in the fourth century. – New York Times, Aug 20, 1919

The caption of a photo in the Evening times-Republican., August 27, 1919, Image 2 gives the name of four of the singers as Luigi Centilli, Ezio Cecchini, Don Santos Anguste and Albert Cauretti. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85049554/1919-08-27/ed-...

No "H" in Almici -- see caption on the photo.

Pope Pius X had a heart attack in 1913; perhaps this picture is related to that event.

Thanks for the information. The date inscribed in the upper right corner of the negative, 7/12/13, may indeed indicate that the photo was used in relation to Pope Pius X's heart attack in that year. We'll correct the spelling in the description when we update it.

This is Dr. Andrea Amici (not Almici or Almichi), see e.g. fultonhistory.com/newspaper%202/Auburn%20NY%20Citizen/Aub..., column 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1913-04-11/ed-... A drawing of him in 1926 in newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19261115-1...

Another photo of him from www.artarchivio.com/bacheca_esito.asp?azione=cerca&ca...:

I have taken the liberty of adding this to to our map as the Vatican City!!!

Lá Fhéile Phádraig sona daoibh go leir freisin. Gura fada buan sibh.

Paddywhack56 Go raibh maith agat a Phádraig!

pre-snakes?

圣帕特里克节快乐 from Shanghai! Is it just me or does Pope Celestine look a bit young for a Pope? oaktree_brian_1976 I would presume that this is still pre-snake banishment :-)