Word: cardinale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In 1951, a French priest named Marc Oraison was awarded the highest possible mark at Paris' Institut Catholique for a doctoral thesis entitled Christian Life and Problems of Sexuality. After it was published as a book, Abbe Oraison was summoned to the Holy Office at the Vatican, where, he...
In Rome, Christina's world was soon hemmed in with intrigue. With the help of France's Cardinal Mazarin she sought to occupy the throne of Naples. When her plans were betrayed by her Italian equerry, Giovanni Monaldeschi, she had him murdered while she coolly waited in the...
Today's top-responsibility middle-ager might say with Shakespeare's Henry V at dawn of the Battle of Agincourt: "The day, my friends, and all things wait for me." Whether the hand holds the scalpel (Dr. Michael DeBakey, 57) or the baton (Leonard Bernstein, 48), it is...
No Yankees. There is no end to anecdotes about Romy. When a fire swept through a Catholic hospital in Centralia, Ill., killing a number of patients, he is said to have called up the nun in charge, passed himself off as a representative of the cardinal's office, kept...
Never Too Exuberant. Finally, in 1627 a commission from a cardinal made Poussin's name. King Louis XIII pressured him into returning to paint for the glory of France. Under the orders of Cardinal Richelieu, Poussin was pestered with jobs to do what he called "mere bagatelles"-fireplaces, frontispiece...