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Under virile oaks, in a natural amphitheatre in the close of the growing Cathedral of St. Peter & St. Paul on Mount St. Alban's, D.C., 20,000 churchmen gathered last week. It was the opening of the two-week General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Alban Mountains, 300 feet beneath the placid waves of the Lago di Nemi,* there are known to rest two gorgeous pleasure barges built for the mad Emperor Caligula, loaded with many of his treasures and sunk inexplicably in this volcanic lake. Last week Premier Mussolini ordered the Ministry of Public Instruction to take steps for the recovery of these galleys. Experts opined that the only feasible method will be to tunnel into the side of the extinct volcano of which the Lago di Nemi is the crater, and thus drain off the deep water which thwarted two previous attempts...
...FRED ALBAN WEIL...
...cortege proceeded directly to St. Alban's Hill, on which is situated the unfinished Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul. Beneath the apse of the Cathedral (which is completed) is the Chapel of Bethlehem, in the crypt of which Mr. Wilson was interred...
...Prince Alban Lowenstein Wertheim Freudenberg was formerly a Captain in the Hanover Uhlans. General von Reichlin-Meldegg was formerly military commander of Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Both are now Franciscan monks, having taken the vow in Munich. The distinguishing characteristic of the Franciscan order is: Imitation of the public life of Christ, especially His poverty and simplicity- "A poor and scanty use of earthly goods." Their dress is brown robe with white girdle...