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Choice of Assisi as the scene of the wedding was made entirely by Princess Giovanna. St. Francis is her patron saint, she is actually a Tertiary or lay sister...
...make the wedding possible, last minute concessions were made by the Bulgarian Government which, three weeks ago, was still demanding that the prospective eldest heir male of their King & Queen should be reared Bulgarian Orthodox. As Princess Giovanna is Roman Catholic, the Vatican continued to insist that all her prospective children be reared Roman Catholic, finally won this point last week...
Franciscan order.* In the refectory, brown-robed friars reminded each other last week that years ago-when Princess Maria, little sister of Princess Giovanna, was desperately ill, Giovanna had come to Assisi to make her novena, had sworn that if Maria recovered she, Giovanna, would be married at the tomb of St. Francis under the walls made glorious by Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337), greatest of "primitive" mural painters...
Because one church was not enough to honor the meekest of medieval men, the gothic builders of Assisi built two churches to St. Francis, one on top of the other. Princess Giovanna decreed last week that her marriage should take place not in the larger, airier upper church, but in the lower, holier one beneath, whose high altar covers the saint's tomb...
Prime Minister Benito Mussolini hastily canceled an engagement to speak in Rome on Oct. 25, promised to be in Assisi on the day set by Princess Giovanna. For Il Duce, obedient to Royalty though he may have seemed last week, the marriage is a great personal triumph. He has now lined up Bulgaria with Albania and Hungary in the "iron ring" of pro-Italian nations he is slowly forging around Italy's No. 1 Balkan enemy, Yugoslavia...