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...Pope Benedict XVI canonized four new saints to the Catholic liturgy: 19th-Century Italian priest Gaetano Errico; Mary Bernard (Verena) Bütler, a Swiss nun and missionary in Latin America who died in 1924; Alfonsa of the Immaculate Conception, a nun who who died in 1946 and is the first named female saint from India; and Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán, a pious laywoman from Ecuador who died in 1869. In the Catholic faith, only God can make a saint; these four are among those who "have emerged as individuals who can light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sainthood | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

Born- To the Infanta Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugénia Christina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 26, eldest daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Alessandro Torlonio 24; a daughter, their first child; in Rome. Name: Sandra Vittoria Beatrice Maria. Born. To James Roosevelt, 28; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt: their second daughter, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sixth grandchild; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: Katharine ("Kate"). Died. Jack ("Machine Gun") McGurn, né Gebhardi, 38, reputed onetime Capone No. 1 triggerman; shot twice in the back of the head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Engaged. The Infanta Beatrix Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Christina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 25, eldest daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Alessandro Torlonia, 23, of Rome, son of Manhattan's Mrs. Elsie Moore Torlonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 19, 1934 | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

Engaged. The Infanta Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Cristina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 21, daughter of King Alfonso XIII; and Don Alvaro Antonio Carlos Felipe Fernando of Orleans, 21, son of her father's cousin; at Fontainebleau, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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