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BENEDICTION FOR FDR’S WARTIME ENVOY TO THE POPE
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PIUS XII; POPE. Document Signed, “Pius pp. XII,” granting an Apostolic
Benediction to American industrialist Myron C[harles] Taylor and friend. Signed in the
lower margin of a large printed portrait of him below a modestly calligraphed benediction.
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Vatican City, 3 July 1940
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To His Excellency Mr. Myron C. Taylor and to his worthy consort, in token of Our esteem,
and with Our prayerful good wishes that divine favor may ever attend them.”
In 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent Taylor as his personal representative to the Vatican
“upon a noble mission of peace and healing, to seek with Us ways and means of giving back to
a warring world its rightful heritage of concord,” as described by Pope Pius in his letter to
President Roosevelt dated March 16, 1940.