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  CARDINAL 
  BISLETI 
  ANNOUNCES 
  THE 
  NAME 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  POPE 
  

  

  On 
  February 
  6, 
  1922. 
  Cardinal 
  Gaetano 
  Bisleti 
  announced 
  to 
  the 
  waiting 
  throngs 
  before 
  

   the 
  loggia 
  over 
  the 
  main 
  entrance 
  to 
  St. 
  Peter's 
  that 
  Cardinal 
  Ratti 
  of 
  Milan 
  had 
  been 
  elected 
  

   as 
  the 
  successor 
  of 
  Benedict 
  XV 
  and 
  had 
  chosen 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Pius 
  XI. 
  

  

  