THE VATICAN YEAR BOOK

THE Annuario Pontificia the Vatican Year book, for next year will probably come out on January 15, three days earlier than the traditional date for its publication since the feastday of the Chair of Peter has been abolished in Rome.
This year, as usual, 6,400 copies of the book will be printed, The first copy. bound in white vellum, will be offered to the Pope, while other copies with the same binding will be sent to heads of states which have diplomatic relations with the Vatican.