Word: ambrosian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...search for stimulants is a familiar if unwelcome specter. And the search for stimulants has not been fruitless. Last spring the resort to benzedrine was momentarily popular until "debunked" as habit-forming. This spring the answer seems to be caffein pills, which, it is claimed, are some ambrosian and utopian pick-me-ups which do every thing they should do, and nothing they should...
When Eugéne Tisserant was only a boy, Giovanni Mercati was making friends with Achille Ratti, then with the Ambrosian Library in Milan. Last week Vatican politicians were reminding newshawks to watch Cardinal Mercati at the conclave which must some day elect a new pope. One reason: new cardinals make good compromise candidates. Cardinal Mercati has been called the most learned prelate to be elevated to the purple in the past century. Succeeding Achille Cardinal Ratti in 1918 as prefect of the Vatican Library, Monsignor Mercati has published in U. S. and European journals many a scholarly article...
...Bound together in all matters of faith and by mutual recognition of the Pope as Christ's Vicar on Earth, they are: Ambrosian (Milan), Mozarabic (Spain), Chaldean, Malabar, Coptic, Abyssinian, Pure Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, Pure Greek, Italo-Greek, Georgian, Melkite, Bulgarian, Serbian, Rumanian, Russian, Ruthenian...
...Pius XI has all the distinctive attributes of mind-scholarliness, intellectuality, intelligence. The doctorates he holds in philosophy, theology and canon law he earned. When he attended the Lombard College at Rome, he and his comrade Alessandro Lualdi (later cardinal) were rated the most brilliant. Because he reorganized the Ambrosian Library in Milan and made it really useful to scholars, his friend King Vittorio Emanuele made him a Knight of the Outer of Saints Maurice & Lazarus.† His Significance. In the long list of Popes, Pius IX (1846-78) ranked as a great dogmatist. Far more important than the loss...