Word: basilicas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Event of the week in Rome was the awful squash of 6,000 royal and titled guests at the marriage of Spanish Alfonso XIII's third son Juan, heir-pretender to the Throne, in St. Mary's Basilica to his brunette Italian cousin, Princess Marie-Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily who sobbed convulsively with streaming eyes during the ceremony. Sympathetic witnesses were that unhappy couple, sad Belgian Princess Marie-Jose and her gay Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. Once dashing Umberto was the hope of antiFascists, was said to have challenged Il Duce to a duel, never gave...
After the Council of the League of Nations had been at work on Italy and Ethiopia for a few days last week, the Holy Father Pius XI addressed 15,000 War veterans of 15 nations in the Basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls thus: "It is with inexpressible joy that, if we have well understood, we seem to see on the black horizon a rainbow of peace which seems to diffuse its rays over the world. This is peace made of justice, charity, honor, dignity and respect for all rights. It is peace which announces happiness for everybody...
...more money which enabled Brother Andre to build first a small chapel, then a bigger one, finally, with $2,000,000, to begin work on a great Oratory of St. Joseph. This building, which will eventually cost some $6,000,000, is planned as a granite and limestone cruciform basilica, topped by a 95-ft. dome. To its completed crypt go from 5,000 to 10,000 people on ordinary days, 25,000 to 50,000 on feast days. Of the cures registered and checked by physicians before and after every health-seeking visit, none is a "first class" miracle...
...titular bishop of Lisinia (Asia Minor), auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y. which includes all Long Island, is smaller (1,086,722 Catholics) only than the archdioceses of New York and Chicago. Jersey City-born, sandy-haired Bishop Kearney was ordained in 1927 in the Lateran Basilica in Rome, where he took his doctorate in theology at North American College. Save for a short time as parish priest, he engaged entirely in diocesan work, became chancellor of Brooklyn...
...bank in the world. Deposits on Jan. 1 were $507,099,644 depositors 407,863. Two million people had banked there in 100 years, had been paid dividends of $280,000,000. The bank still maintains a branch on the Bowery, though its head office is in a Byzantine basilica on 42nd St. President Henry Bruere, who did not become a banker until he was 45, is a sociologist, has been active in housing experiments on Manhattan's lower East Side...