POPE FRANCIS WILL BECOME FIRST KNOWN PUBLIC FIGURE TO USE LECTERN SINCE LINCOLN'S 'GETTYSBUR
- Candice Monhollan
- Sep 24, 2015
- 1 min read
PHILADELPHIA >> When Michael Jacobs, a professor at Pennsylvania College — now Gettysburg College — chose to let Edward Everett use his personal lectern for his two-hour speech, Jacobs had no idea this simple piece of wooden furniture would be used by a president and a pope almost 152 years apart.
The lectern became a piece of history when President Abraham Lincoln delivered his “Gettysburg Address” from it during the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery Nov. 19, 1863.
Since that time, only one other person is known to have used it, and that was when the “Gettysburg Address” was read from it during the 150th celebration in front of 500 people two years ago at the Union League in Philadelphia.
Now, Pope Francis will use this stand for his speech in front of Independence Hall Sept. 26 as part of the 2015 World Meeting of Families.
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