Word: benoit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Grand Duchess, now 65, took steps to ensure that the goodly inheritance of Luxembourg would go to her first son and rightful heir, Prince Jean Benoit Guillaume Marie Robert Louis Antoine Adolphe Marc d'Aviano de Nassau-Weiburg. Under an obscure 110-year-old article in the Luxembourg constitution, she swore in Prince Jean, 40, as Lieutenant of the Grand Duke. It bestows on him all the powers of the Grand Duchess as head of state, leaving Charlotte only the title-and presumably peace of mind that when she abdicates or dies, the title of Grand...
...only a Westerner but a Benedictine monk, Father J.M. Dechanet found in yoga a valuable approach to Christian prayer and practice. Last week his book, Christian Yoga (Harper; $3.75), was on U.S. bookstands, complete with nihil obstat and imprimatur. Father Dechanet, 54, now prior of the Monastery of Saint-Benoit at Kansenia in the new Congo republic, has already found a following for his ideas in France among Christians who admire the physical and psychological disciplines of the East without accepting its negative and impersonal theology...