President of the Confederation
Elected for one year from the members of the Federal Council. Traditionally rotating among them. Chairs the meetings the Council and undertakes special representational duties.
... flee as
to a mother. She should be invoked. He also
gives prayers to Mary (cf. the De tabernaculis, and
Hortus rosarum, Pohl's ed., ut inf., i. also iii. 357,
vi. 219, ...