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1968 - Eighty Year Old Artist Chosen For Popes Official Portrait: The Papal Secretary of State Cardinal tardini has informed 80 year old Venetian painter Felice Cardinal-that pope John XXIII has chosen him to paint the official portrait of the Pontiff, which, by long traditions is bever hung until his death-when it finds a place on the walls of the successors room. Professor CArera was born in Piedmont- but for many years has lived in venice-and is a modernist. Photo shows. Professor Felice Carera. (Credit Image: (c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans)

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19600105 Bever Chosen Eighty Felice Finds Hung Informed Lived Modernist Papal Piedmont Pontiff Popes Successors Traditions Xxiii

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