DLA096-0055  Transcription

Cochin Argus, [14?] March 1925

POPE’S PORTRAIT AT OXFORD.

The Bodleian Library at Oxford has now a portrait of Pope Pius XI [6690] hanging on its walls. This is a gift of the distinguished Anglo-Hungarian artist, Mr. Philip de Laszlo, to whom the Pope gave a number of sittings last year. The portrait, which is said to be an excellent likeness, represents the Pope in his house cassock.

The Bodleian is particularly interested in the present pope, whom it may claim as its most exalted student, whether of the past or the present, for His Holiness made a prolonged stay in Oxford whilst carrying out historical researches at the Bodleian.

Curiously enough, another Pius visited Bodleian, though not as a student. This was Pius II, who as Cardinal Piccolomini visited the university in the XV century whilst making an extended tour of England and Scotland.

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05/01/2008