Word: beatissimus
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...Beatissimus Pater Pius XI, content, bestowed upon His Majesty the highest decoration in the gift of His Holiness: the Order of the Golden Spur...
...Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, was reported last week from Rome to have excommunicated in the second or more serious degree** Leon Daudet (son of the famed author Alphonse Daudet) and Charles Maurras, both leading members of the French Royalist party. The excommunicated had stigmatized in their Paris newspaper, L'Action Francaise, all Republican Catholics-asserting that true Catholics are Royalists. The Pope not only excommunicated M. Daudet and M. Maurras, last week, but despatched an official rebuke to the French Cardinals Lucon (Rheims), Charost (Rennes), and Billot for upholding L'Action Francaise in various letters written by them...
Ever tactful, the Beatissimus Pater bore in mind last week taut-waisted d' Annunzio's scorn of fat men when he despatched to him a communication anent the "monastery" : ". . . I will allow you ten monks picked from among the thinnest in all Italy...