Word: ascalesi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Rome to Naples, but her more fragile mother, the sad-eyed, widowed Queen Mother of the Belgians, was unable to reach her bedside in time. When the babe was one day old he was carried on a satin pillow into the chapel of the Royal Palace where Cardinal Ascalesi, Archbishop of Naples, christened him with twelve names: Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amadeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria...
...wisdom last week the Supreme Pontiff gave bishops throughout Italy "discretion"' to relax his ban in their dioceses. Instantly Antonio Cardinal Ascalesi, Archbishop of Naples, approved processions in honor of St. Anthony. Neapolitans, fit to burst for the past two weeks with suppressed eagerness to parade, were filled with...
...phials containing his blood (see cut) are among the most sacred relics of Naples Cathedral. Eighteen times a year the phials of blood miraculously liquefy. The skull has a reputation for stopping eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius. While the faithful prayed in the square last week, dour Cardinal Ascalesi, splendid in scarlet soutane and sash, held high the gold-encased skull, blessed 20,000 worshippers...
Disagreeing radically with the seismologists, Naples' dour Cardinal Ascalesi, guardian of St. Januarius' skull, insisted that the real cause of the earthquake was the indecent dresses of Neapolitan women...