On this day in 1939 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected pope and Pius XII begins his pontificate that lasts until 1958.
Is it a coincidence the archives on his pontificate will be unsealed, initially to a small number of scholars, on the anniversary of his election as pope.
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