Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain, sat down and wrote a pastoral letter to his communicants last week...
...Papal letter which made L'Osservatore a best seller was addressed to Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster, Archbishop of Milan. His Holiness had put thunder & lightning into every sentence, thus...
...greatest daily circulation) and Excelsior which is now managed ably by his widow, the onetime Helen Browne of Chicago; and Prince Guy de Polignac, scion of France's famed, aristocratic champagne manufacturing family; in the socialite Church of Notre Dame de Grace de Passy in Paris; by the Archbishop of Reims (champagne district). To View many a splendorous gift (a portrait by Vigee-Lebrun, family busts and miniatures, a Stradivarius violin for the bride who fiddles ably) came members of the beau monde?U. S. Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge, U. S. Ambassador to Poland John North Willys...
...last minute, suspense had been terrific lest Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI should forbid Luigi Cardinal Lavitriano, Archbishop of Palermo, to officiate. Well the Holy Father knew that at this wedding there would be present those two accursed agitators for the Royalist cause in France, Editor Leon Daudet of L'Action Française and his doughty fellow editor, Charles Maurras. If they were present as guests, declared the Supreme Pontiff in his final ultimatum to Monseigneur le Due de Guise, then no Cardinal could possibly officiate...
Burton was of the genus lion, even in society. "When a princess gave him a 'high handshake' he grasped her elbow and lowered her arm. That cured her." Once an archbishop ventured to tease him about his interest in monkeys, asked if he was studying his ancestry. "Well, my lord," said Burton, "I at least have made a little progress, but what about your lordship who is descended from the angels...